Michael Stone looks mental to me..........
Baldoni XXV <baldoniXXV
out mental.
I reckon if Stone did not come from Northern Ireland he would still get
involved in shite.
Is Stone a patriot or a lunatic ?
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38845000/jpg/_38845165_stone238.jpg
http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2006/stone.jpg
Politicians, journalists and photographers who were in the Stormont
parliament building on 24 November watching Michael Stone, the loyalist
murderer, come crashing through the revolving doors armed to the teeth
with bombs, a knife and a handgun, might have imagined it was a genuine
“attack”. As he yelled “No surrender!” and was wrestled to the ground
by security personnel, naive bystanders may have thought they were
witnessing a Protestant nutter bent on their imminent destruction.
How wrong can you be? The truth, as revealed on Tuesday in Belfast’s
High Court where Stone is applying for bail while facing charges of
attempting to murder Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, is more subtle.
His defence lawyer, Arthur Harvey QC, claimed, with an admirably
straight face, that the incident was not intended to hurt anyone, but
was “a piece of performance art replicating a terrorist attack”.
Stone had written to Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain, and Sir
Hugh Orde, Ulster’s Chief Constable, pointing out that he was
performing an “unfinished work” called Never Say Never – a
confrontational item designed to highlight the need for political
stability in Ulster by embodying “the spectre of our troubled past”. He
obligingly traced the influences on his no-holds-barred style to
Picasso’s Guernica, and to the journalist Eamonn McCann, who once moved
into a Londonderry building to protest against the war in Iraq.
This explanation diverges sharply from his stated aim, on the day
itself, of killing Adams and McGuinness in the debating chamber
because, he yelled, “These sectarian bigots are unworthy to hold
political power in Northern Ireland.” He didn’t mention it was an Art
Thing at the time. Yet if we look at the scene on 24 November, it’s
clear that Stone is in a tradition of aesthetic display, in which the
artist becomes the artwork.
His flung-out arms suggest both Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross,
but also Sebastian Horsley, the art-terrorist, who had himself
crucified (he called it “method painting”) in the Philippines.
Though he is more scary than Gilbert & George, the original
performance artists, Stone’s insistence on his function as symbol and
emblem recalls the pair’s Singing Sculpture (1970) in which, painted as
gold statues, they sang “Underneath the Arches” for four hours at a
stretch. Stone’s work is more vivid and his vocalisings (“IRA
fascists!” fortissimo) offer a briefer but no less moving synaesthetic
grace-note.
And one cannot contemplate his manhandling by a male and a female guard
without recalling the artist Jeff Koons’s objectification of his sex
life with La Cicciolina – although Koons’ work has admittedly a more
dreamily romantic tone. Stone’s use of mixed media and everyday
materials (homemade explosives, gun, fireworks powder) shows
imagination.
If Tracey Emin could be nominated for the Turner Prize for her
conceptual piece My Bed, there should be nothing to stop Mr Stone
entering the whole scene of disarray in the Stormont lobby – the
scattered bombs, the horizontal security men, the fleeing politicians –
as his own artfully-contrived masterpiece.
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Count Baldoni
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> Stone was on TV again last night and I reckon the man is nuts, out and
> out mental.
He's hewn from the same stone as many of your ideology. Asking if he is
patriot or lunatic is more insightful of your mentality than anything Stone
did. Flaky and Boho will be along soon to offer their enlightened comment
on the psychopathic wing.