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This is no artist picture...it's a documentary one that - in my honest and poor opinion - let us know something more about a place.....therefore it fullfills TE's idea of "showing the world through images".

Since the guy on the picture is not what people would say "a nice guy" I decided to add this shot to my theme Don't forget or turn your head! TE is also this! where my other milestones are gathered.

ok..the guy on the picture is Nasrallah, Libanese leader of Hezbollah (the God's party) and his face (along with Hezbollah's logo behind him) was reproduced on a magnet.
A MAGNET?? yes...one of those gadget you usually buy on travel and than put on the kitchen.

just like a popstar...
just like a sport hero....
just like a comic character...a Mickey Mouse
just like an holy image taken from some sanctuary.

THAT'S WHY I TITLED THIS SHOT "EVIL'S TROJAN HORSE".

I didn't like to see that...I didn't like because I was so happy to discover Syria like a pleasant place, to know lots of pleasant people and I was happy to see that this country was far away from being "a terrorist country"...as the texas ranger (the one who left in November) used to say.

Nothing against Syrian People....but this is a subtile Goebbels-like propaganda.
This man spreads hate in his country....and such a gadget turns him into a familiar funny character....a reliable image to look at with sympathy, with a smile.

there's plenty of evil's trojan horses...that always look different...but they are aiming at the same destructive goal!

some examples???

.....we painted the failed Painter from Branau to be a good medicine against Weimar Republic chaos...and you know what we got.

...we have being painting the URSS like the Messenger of equality, the bright knight rescuing the masses of desperates....and you know what the wonderful achievements of Real Socialism.....

....we painted America as the land of freedom....but USA has made some b...hits as well....

....this magnet paints this man like a friendly smiling person....like an old uncle ....although he's guiding a "state into a state" and he's getting fiancial support from another nice guy (who talked this week in Geneva and is expceted to use planing to use nuclear weapons against another country as soon as he gets them)

don't you think this is quite frightening?

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