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Now You Can Shoot an Iraqi from the Comfort of Your Own Home Computer
It's not just a video game. A performance artist has been holed up in Chicago with a webcam and paintball gun trained on him. Right now Wafaa Bilal is out (late lunch?), leaving just a bedroom splattered with paint, so Web snipers are aiming for the plant instead. It's a statement on that American combination of high-tech trigger-happiness and apathy toward Iraqis. I was going to suggest Bilal was inspired by this technology, "computer-assisted remote hunting." But it's much worse. According to his bio, Bilal grew up in Iraq, and his 21-year-old brother still there was recently killed by stray American gunfire. Maybe he's trying to heal by reenacting the trauma, as they say. Black humor heals all wounds.
Thank you for the tip, Goode.
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There is no reference to him being Iraqi, and on NPR he said that he did not want visitors to know that he was.
So try again with the Americans hate Iraqis line.
And I do not understand how this means that people disregard him as he wants people to shoot at him.
Posted by: John on 05/25/07 at 6:04 AM
Look, if you put an American guy in there with an automated paint gun, the American guy will also get shot. Not only that, but people all over the world shoot - not just Americans.
Posted by: Paul on 05/26/07 at 4:06 PM
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I can't get the gun to work. F&*^ing frustrating!
Posted by: Ryan on 05/24/07 at 2:58 PM