The Vigilant Lens

“We tortured some folks”

August 1, 2014

tags: art, CIA, Homeland Security, john yoo, journalism, Obama, photography, torture

…and goodnight everybody!

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Not One

August 1, 2014

tags: art, Gaza, Gitmo, Iraq, Jim McDermott, NDAA, Patriot Act, Patty Murray, photography, Photojournalism, war profiteering

by The Vigilant Lens

zero is a number.
zero is also the number of wars, patriot acts and torture prisons that
liberal democrats patty murray and jim mcdermott have fought to stop before
boeing went and cashed the checks.
zero. zilch.
absolutamente none.

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Lockheed Reads The Stranger When Wars are Over

July 31, 2014

tags: Alternative Newspapers, democrats, Gaza, Liberal wars, Lockheed Martin, Love Poem, photography, the Stranger, voters, Yemen

by The Vigilant Lens

love is working for the weekend
still,
because i need to buy you the things it takes
to keep you iPhone’d and in tattoos.

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your local Fusion Center fears hashtagged words

July 30, 2014

tags: apartheid, art, Digital Spoken Word, Erin Currier, freedom, Gaza, Homeland Security, photography, poetry, Tipper Gore

by The Vigilant Lens

we can’t get to #Gaza
without having voted for Iran-Contra.
we couldn’t have gotten a #GITMO
without voting for #NAFTA.
voting for #palin was like voting for #reagan who would have voted for #obama.
#bush had a better #lockbox than #al…
#Vietghanistan-#Detroit,
#NSA, #BofA and the #Lakota