tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post4702976270997419520..comments2024-03-27T11:39:51.114-07:00Comments on Clean Up City of St. Augustine, Florida: City, SAAA Plein Air Art Competition, Deny Visual Artists "Breathing Space?"Ed Slavinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-22210065403328904922017-04-15T10:12:31.005-07:002017-04-15T10:12:31.005-07:00Thank you. I agree with Warren. Awfully snooty t...Thank you. I agree with Warren. Awfully snooty to disdain the rights of artists to display and sell their art. How gauche and louche of SAAA to include that as an extralegal "rule" when it is perfectly legal for artists to do so. SAAA is in danger of being run by what President Jed Bartlett of "The West Wing" would call "The Ignorant Tight-ass Club." Artists have a constitutional right to sell their art. Artists have a right to make a living. <br /><br />Who is it who supposes that unless an artist is paying rent (or exorbitant commissions to a gallery) that they can't make a living in this town? This view in the realm of BOLESIAN UnAmerican Activities in St. Augustine, Philistinism that belongs in the dustbins of history. <br /><br />Venceremos! <br /><br />SEE Y'ALL ON APRIL 22, 2017 AT THE PLEIN AIR PAINT-IN at the Plaza de la Constitucion (Slave Market Square) and along St. George Street.<br /><br />Artistic freedom -- WE WILL WIN!Ed Slavinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00298486886820876739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-34923193431953302632017-04-15T08:53:18.424-07:002017-04-15T08:53:18.424-07:00Anonymous; businesses in Saint Augustine exist at ...Anonymous; businesses in Saint Augustine exist at the pleasure of a hijacked government that has destroyed the local now scam 'rule of law'. They deserve to be BOYCOTTED rather than be free of the illegal and immoral prior restraint you wish to shackle artists with.<br /><br />http://saintaugdog.com/sadissues/issue1/1visualindex.html<br /><br />When you ban the sale of speech you at the same time ban the affirmative speech of approval expressed by the buyer of that speech with his payment of money for that speech.<br /><br />Even the hijacked rule of law upholds the right of an artist to sell his visual art.<br /><br />http://ncac.org/resource/celli-v-city-of-st-augustine<br /><br />The $45 dollar entry fee is also an immoral impediment to participation meant to weed out the less fortunate.<br /><br />One of the more pronounced symptoms of Xtrevilism is that those suffering from the disease consider themselves to be normal in a deeply abnormal society. Their humanity has been so thoroughly silenced at an early age that they embrace their aberrant behaviors with a cavalier disregard for the rights of others.Warren Cellihttp://saintaugdog.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25979735.post-65772853576111019592017-04-14T18:09:39.651-07:002017-04-14T18:09:39.651-07:00I agree ...they shouldn't be allowed to sell t...I agree ...they shouldn't be allowed to sell their works...big difference between art and business. Now I may not agree with enacting many off limit areas but i haven't seen evidence of the issue...can you post a map off the off limit areas?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com