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Written by To The Point News
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Friday, 04 June 2010 |
On May 29, 1943, with the outcome of World War II still very much in doubt,,
the cover of the Saturday Evening Post was a Norman Rockwell painting that
quickly became an iconic expression of America's
determination to defeat a deadly enemy.
It was a painting of a woman - an aircraft assembly-line
worker with a rivet gun in her lap taking a lunch break: Rosie
the Riveter:
While there was a real life Rosie - Rose Will Monroe from
Somerset, Kentucky, who worked in a Ford factory in Ypsilanti, Michigan
building B-29 and B-24 bombers - Rockwell took for his inspiration
Michelangelo's painting of the prophet Isaiah on the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel:
A modern-day Rockwell who goes by the single name of "Dale"
has now given us a new iconic expression of America's
determination to defeat the deadly enemy she faces today: Sarah
Para Bellum:
"I
was trying to relate how Sarah Palin fit into the Rosie the Riveter mold," Dale
says. "Rosie the Riveter was a testament to the women who helped the war effort
by working in the factories. And Sarah Palin is trying to uphold the traditions
of traditional America,
which I think is something worth saving."
The
"para bellum," he notes, refers to the famous Roman proverb Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want
peace, prepare for war. And if you point
out that para bellum by itself means
"prepare for war," Dale will just raise his eyebrows.
He
explains his iconography. Rosie's rivet
gun is replaced with a Remington 870 12-gauge pump action shotgun called the
"street-sweeper" by riot-control police and military. Dale says:
"This
classic weapon has a proud history for the defense-minded everywhere and to my
mind exemplifies Palin's unflagging support for our second amendment rights and
preparedness to clean up the country while defending against all enemies
foreign and domestic. A call to vigilance, not violence."
Dale
replaced the air hose of Rosie's rivet gun with the diamond-back rattlesnake of
the American Revolution's Don't Tread On
Me" flag. Rosie's buttons and pins
are replaced with Sarah's saying "Drill, baby, drill," "Choose Life," "Reagan,"
and "Judges 4" (in
the latter, Dale seems to be comparing Sarah to Deborah in the Old Testament).
Instead
of an oil rag sticking out of Rosie's pocket, Sarah has a copy of the
Constitution and a Bible. Instead of a
sandwich, Sarah is holding the Blackberry on which she writes her Facebook
entries, such as the famous one she wrote on ObamaCare's "Death Panels."
Instead
of a lunchbox with Rosie's name, Sarah has an ammo box. Instead of Rosie's feet stomping on a copy of
Hitler's Mein Kampf, Sarah's are
stomping on Saul Alinsky's Rules for
Radicals.
The
one big difference is on purpose.
Rockwell's Rosie is looking away from you. Dale's Sarah is looking directly at you,
right in your eye. Dale explains that as
Rockwell was inspired by Michelangelo, so was he:
"I
wanted to show determination, and for the model of that I went back to
Michelangelo. I wanted to get the
expression of David at the moment of decision to fight Goliath or not."
This
Michelangelo's David looking right at
Goliath just as he has decided to kill the giant bastard:
Now
look at Sarah Para Bellum's expression.
Saddle up, America. Get ready to ride with Sarah.
[Note: you can order a poster of Sarah Para Bellum
at Zazzle.]
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