Picture of the Day
(Supporters of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stage a protest rally against the Iraqi government and U.S. military after Friday prayers in Baghdad's Sadr City April 11, 2008. (REUTERS/Kareem Raheem))
posted by mikevotes at
7:52 AM
2 Comments:
...so what is that yellow thing? A balloon? A banner catching the wind? The side of some kind of vehicle? Is it huge, or just foregrounded in some way?
Who's got the facilities to print a banner 6 feet high?
And what about the message? It's written in English, so it's clearly for English speakers, but how do we interpret 'Masonic government'? Does it mean the American government, or the Iraqi puppet government, or both?
And these guys in the matching shirts ~ a coincidence of some kind, or is it a Sadr-ist group uniform?
This image is confusing. And I haven't see this photo anywhere else. Is there more info you can give us?
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r8r, at 3:47 PM
All I really have is the caption, but it's a reuters photo of the rally in Sadr City after Friday prayers (focused on the top Sadr aide who was killed.)
It looks to me like a balloon to me, which would mean that the message is probably just a sheet of printer paper put there by who knows.
And, yeah it's in English, and that's part of the weirdness of it.
That's why I put it up, because it's so weird. We have the anti-Illuminati people here, I was just surprised to see that the anti-masonic paranoia had somehow found its way into a Sadr City protest.
It's like the time I put up the photo of the insurgent in the Ramones shirt. Just a really weird cultural cross that caught my eye.
No great message, just a weird photo I came across on the wires.
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mikevotes, at 3:58 PM
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