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awe-some. wish I'd been there. the audio track thing was also a cool idea, though I wonder if the effigies' silence wouldn't have been more effective, & ironic.. also whoever made the tapes apparently didn't know that "wrought" is the past tense (though it allows for the 'Rot' pun), and while the alliteration & assonance in "We knew not what we would wrought" is impressive, it's as clumsy as the cover-up that seems to be taking place over this 'stunt' KS On 02/04/2008, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > A note from the Gothics News Service: > > From Washington, D.C. it was barely, if at all, reported this morning that someone, or a group, had hung a bright red laundry line, elevated between the Capitol Dome and the upper floor of the Washington Monument. Against the sunrise, it was possible to make out the figures of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfolitz, Feith, and a few other architects of the invasion, war and occupation in Iraq. Ceremonially spaced apart by several feet, each figure was strung up and hung upside down from his or her heels. The laundry line was motorized in such away that the figures wheeled back and forth, up and down the mall, the ties of the men flapping in the breeze. Apparently, digital speakers were placed inside each figure. Those looking up from the mall could hear a cacophony of voices. "Forgive us. Forgive us. We knew not what we would wrought." After that, they went on trying to explain themselves. > > The variously, quickly assembled crowds below, yelled back up, "Rot, Rot, Rot." > > Apparently it was an April Fools stunt. As quickly as they realized what was happening, Snipers from Homeland Security – stationed on the tops of surrounding institutions - severed the rope with a couple of careful shots. The figures came down to the lawn in a crumbling crash. Security personnel were seen throwing the remains as quickly as possible into a suddenly convenient dumpster. No arrests in the incident have yet to be made. > > Apparently most news organizations have honored the White House's request for a news blackout. The official memo was rumored to say, "…This Government has no intention of permitting the use of effigies, and the implications of either lynching or torture to be part of our national media or dialog…" > > > > >