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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park. ... Source: weirdnews.about.com --- 5 days ago
Waterboarding Thrill Ride at Coney Island: Steve Powers created a Coney Island attraction called the "Waterboard Thrill Ride." It's not really a ride, it's more of a peep show. And it turns one of the most controversial topics of the day, and plays it for satire ... Source: www.reuters.com --- 22 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 13 days ago
NEW YORK -- Slip a dollar into a slot in the 'Waterboard Thrill Ride,' and watch through bars as a man in a hooded sweatshirt pours water into the nose and mouth of another man in an orange jumpsuit convulsing against his restraints. ... Source: www.reuters.com --- 23 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 13 days ago
NEW YORK -- Slip a dollar into a slot in the 'Waterboard Thrill Ride,' and watch through bars as a man in a hooded sweatshirt pours water into the nose and mouth of another man in an orange jumpsuit convulsing against his restraints. ... Source: blogs.usatoday.com --- 23 days ago
The newest sideshow in Coney Island, N.Y., includes a graphic depiction of the controversial interrogation technique known as Waterboarding. Here's how The New York Times describes the Waterboard Thrill Ride: A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood drawn... ... Source: gizmodo.com --- 22 days ago
There's a new exhibit at Coney Island that's fun for the whole family: the "Waterboard Thrill Ride." Greeted by Spongebob exuding “It don’t Gitmo better!" you walk in to peer through bars at dude in a dark sweats leaning over another guy in an orange suit, his face wrapped in a towel. Slip a dollar into the machine, and for 15 seconds, "Dark Hood" pours water into Orange Jumpsuit's nose and mouth while he convulses. I think there might be some sort of political and cultural commentary going on—something about the U.S. and torture and calling it a thrill ride and people paying to see it at a carnival. Anyways! The artist who created the animatronic exhibit, Steve Powers, actually wanted to do a Waterboarding exhibit with real people—he'd be waterboarded first, then perform it on a volunteer, who would do it to the next guy and so on. But pseudo-drowning robots is obviously safer, and maybe a touch less controversial—after all, do androids dream of electric freedom? [ NYT via BoingBoing ] ... Source: www.cbc.ca --- 7 days ago
An Algerian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has accused guards of using a form of Waterboarding on him during interrogation, his lawyer said Friday. ... Source: blogs.abc.net.au --- 22 days ago
SpongeBob Squarepants is bizarre enough on his own, but throw in a little Waterboarding and he becomes downright frightening. ... Source: www.npr.org --- 13 days ago
It might not be surprising that Waterboarding, the controversial interrogation technique that simulates drowning, would become the subject of satire. But it was shocking to many when artist Steve Powers created an attraction called the Waterboard Thrill Ride. ... Source: images.contactmusic.com --- 21 days ago
Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants features in a new art installation which portrays the Waterboarding torture method.The Waterboarding Thrill Ride, an ... ... Source: gawker.com --- 23 days ago
“It don’t Gitmo better!" [ Times ] ... Source: www.newsvine.com --- 22 days ago
Artist Steve Powers has opened the new "Waterboard Thrill Ride" at Coney Island in New York. ... Source: www.metro.co.uk --- 21 days ago
A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but an amusement park. ...
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The latest attraction at New York's Coney Island depicts the horror of Waterboarding. CNN's Jeanne Moos takes a look. ...
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Nickelodeon character SpongeBob SquarePants features in a new art installation which portrays the Waterboarding torture method. ... Source: www.flatheadbeacon.com --- 21 days ago
Good morning; on this date in 1974 Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency. Stillwater Landing Music Gathering kicks off outside Olney this weekend. A radon specialist talks about ways to detect the gas. Warren Miller witnesses a root canal for a Labrador retriever. Dick Cheney's coming to town! American Indian plaintiffs are entitled to $455 million in the "Cobell" lawsuit. Ted Turner's bison dying of anthrax. And a Brooklyn artist depicts Waterboarding at a Coney Island attraction. ... Find more results for Waterboarding on RSSMicro.com |
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National Public Radio is always on the lookout for satire against conservatives. On Saturday morning’s Weekend Edition, NPR reporter-slash- pagan witch Margot Adler chronicled how left-wing artist Steve Powers constructed a Coney Island booth called "The Waterboard Thrill Ride." NPR loved the story enough to transcribe it for the website and give it top billing. The first issue that arises is how quickly Nickelodeon’s lawyers will go to court to get him to remove SpongeBob SquarePants from the enhanced-interrogation satire (photo from NPR). Is SpongeBob now supposed to be into bondage and masochism? Adler reports: Powers took over an old photo studio near the Coney Island Side Show. There's a picture on the wall of someone who is tied down and looks a lot like SpongeBob SquarePants. "It don't Gitmo better" is painted above the picture, a reference to the Guantanamo Bay prison. You climb three cinder block steps up to a small window with prison bars, where you can peer into a cell. If you deposit a dollar in a slot, two robotic figures come to life for 15 seconds. An interrogator in black pours a kettle of water into the mouth of a "prisoner" in an orange jumpsuit who is tied down. The orange-suited robot convulses as the water is poured into its mouth. Some thought the satire wasn't very funny, so Adler found someone to compare America to the Third Reich: Some people are not impressed. "I thought it would be funnier, more satiric ...