{"article":{"id":262745,"heading":"John Dingler's &quot;Ten Prosecuted Whistleblowers","author":"John Dingler, MFA","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:57","modified":"2014-01-11 20:57:07","last_modified":"Sun, 12 Jan 2014 03:57:07","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>ARTIST&rsquo;S STATEMENT <br>  <br> I am outraged by the corrupting influence of private wealth in political campaigns; It negates the one person one vote promise, giving more weight to the one vote backed by unlimited wealth, diminishing the weight of the vote cast by the normal citizen.  <br><br> Those who donate the most, write the laws used to prosecute those who exercise their freedom to blow the whistle. So I decided to produce a series of ten works which I titled Ten Prosecuted Whistleblowers.  <br><br> Big government charged each with espionage when all merely informed the public about corruption and crimes. Chelsea Manning, for example, was tortured and imprisoned for exposing multiple Pentagon murders. <br><br> To show that big money stifled their freedoms, I enclose them in design motifs -- cornices, acanthus, text, numbers, scrolls -- found on paper currency which help determine the overall shape and design. &micro; <br>  <br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"vanax@mail.com","link":"http:\/\/www.johndinglerart.com\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Work inspired by what I learned at Occupy Riverside and at the 28ers","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agee_4_-_for_email.jpgecw0fl.jpg","filesize":"292.2 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2014\/01\/262745.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agee_4_-_for_email.jpgecw0fl.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agee_4_-_for_email.jpgecw0fl.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2014\/01\/agee_4_-_for_email.jpgecw0fl.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[{"id":262746,"heading":"Whistleblower Philip Agee","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/assange_5_-_for_email.jpg7zj2v5.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/assange_5_-_for_email.jpg7zj2v5.jpg"}},{"id":262747,"heading":"Whistleblower Thomas Drake","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/drake_3_-_for_email.jpgcq4rxa.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/drake_3_-_for_email.jpgcq4rxa.jpg"}},{"id":262748,"heading":"Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ellsberg_5_-_for_email.jpgkwba0z.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ellsberg_5_-_for_email.jpgkwba0z.jpg"}},{"id":262749,"heading":"Whistleblower Jeremy Hammond","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hammond_7_-_for_email.jpgwg8sjh.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/hammond_7_-_for_email.jpgwg8sjh.jpg"}},{"id":262750,"heading":"Whistleblower John Kiriakou","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kiriakou_3_-_for_email.jpguceni7.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/kiriakou_3_-_for_email.jpguceni7.jpg"}},{"id":262751,"heading":"Whistleblower Chelsea (Bradley) Manning","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manning_4_-_for_email.jpgcn7cd3.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/manning_4_-_for_email.jpgcn7cd3.jpg"}},{"id":262752,"heading":"Whistleblower Edward Snowden","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/snowden_6_-_for_email.jpg8uxims.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/snowden_6_-_for_email.jpg8uxims.jpg"}},{"id":262753,"heading":"Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sterling_7b_-_for_email.jpgcinami.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sterling_7b_-_for_email.jpgcinami.jpg"}},{"id":262754,"heading":"Whistleblower Aaaron Swartz","article":"","author":"John Dingler, MFA","parent_id":262745,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","modified":"2014-01-10 04:09:58","fileurl":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swartz_4_-_for_email.jpgwzhxqp.jpg","image":{"original":"http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/\/uploads\/2014\/01\/swartz_4_-_for_email.jpgwzhxqp.jpg"}}],"comments":[]}