SUPREME COUP
ROBBY STAVEN | 07.04.2003 00:55
This is one of a series of collage images recently shown in New Haven, Connecticut, US and carried through the streets of Washington DC. The strongest influence to these works are the unnamed thousands who have expressed political opinion through the rapid form of free speech that is collage. Please feel free to copy and distribute.
SUPREME COUP Pictured from left to right are Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia, William H. Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, and Anthony M. Kennedy, the majority in the Bush vs. Gore decision.
During the presidential election of 2000 in Florida, there was ample evidence that eligible voter roles were purged by Florida's Secretary of State and Bush campaign manager. These purge lists were clearly biased to disenfranchise Democrat voting minorities. Also evident were massive inconsistencies in the quality and performance of voting methods and equipment which ultimately left many votes uncounted; not incorrectly counted or recounted as popularly believed, but never counted even once. Although the Bush campaign lacked "standing to sue" for constitutional equal protection in Florida, they brought their case to the Supreme Court where allies to their campaign were in the majority. Some of these allies had family members actively involved in the election and some of these allies had publicly expressed bias, prior to the arrival of Bush vs. Gore. These five members of the Supreme Court halted the vote counting and issued an unsigned opinion labeled "per curiam", although this label and lack of signature is traditionally reserved for unanimous decisions; not the case here. The opinion was worded only to apply to this particular case, uprooting the concept of precedent as the progressive evolutionary mechanism of our legal system. This decision did not uphold Constitutional principals and was applicable to only one person; George W. Bush.
Attorney Vincent Bugliosi wrote that, "No technical true crime was committed here by the five conservative Justices only because no Congress ever dreamed of enacting a statute making it a crime to steal a presidential election."
Pictured below is the White House with gray scales inverted and the number 5 burned into the lawn.
ROBBY STAVEN