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Article: Bombs and bare-faced cheek
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 16, 2008
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I confess that I honked like a goose when I read that Michael
Stone, the loyalist who attacked Stormont in 2006, had pleaded not
guilty on the grounds that it was a piece of performance art. This
wasn't an entirely seemly response to an assault that that might
have - had Stone's stated intentions been achieved - resulted in
several deaths, including those of Gerry Adams and Martin
McGuinness. But I couldn't help it. It was the barefaced audacity of
the tactic that got to me, and its inadvertently pointed commentary
on the public standing of contemporary art.
The point about his defence is that it just teeters on the edge
of credibility. You blink as you take it in, and for just an instant ...
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