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Pierce yourself for peace…
Blog Guy, I’m sick and tired of the violence all around me, and I want to do something to protest it. What’s a good idea?
Well, you could get a tattoo, like these people in Cuba protesting violence.
No, see, you don’t understand. Why would I go through something involving pain if I want to protest violence?
Ah, I see your point. Then maybe you should get a body piercing, instead, like some of these other protesters. Maybe your navel, or nose, or tongue, or…
No! That’s even worse! I’m anti-violence. I want something peaceful….
Right, now I get it. How about cutting off your leg with a hacksaw?
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A woman reacts as she has an object pierced and placed in her navel during the No Violence festival in Havana November 21, 2009. Brother Saiz, an association of young Cuban artists, organized the festival and used tattoos and body piercing to draw people’s attention to gender violence issues.
An artist tattoos on a man’s back during the No Violence festival in Havana November 21, 2009.
A man has an image of the late rebel hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara tattooed on his body during the No Violence festival in Havana November 21, 2009.
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I would sooooooo love a tattoo… and I am perfectly non violent… No piercings for me tho.. had a tough time piercing my ears… and thats all the piercing I am gonna do.. evver!
whats wrong with her showing her tounge like that? even a donkey has a smaller tongue than hers.. thats a disgusting tongue she has.. and ernesto?????? non-violent??
Che as a “No Violence” symbol? That’s like Robert Basler as a pro bullfighting symbol.
well if you’re christian, you should know that tattoo and body piercing is something that we must not have. It’s a sin!
Thanks Yoshua, now I have to increase my meds. Again.
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Nice! I have a Che tattoo as well.”Che Guevara is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom, we will always honor his memory.” — NELSON MANDELA
In his book Che Guevara: A Biography, Daniel James writes that Che himself admitted to ordering “several thousand” executions during the first year of the Castro regime. Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA operative who helped track him down in Bolivia and was the last person to question him, says that Che during his final talk, admitted to “a couple thousand” executions. But he shrugged them off as all being of “imperialist spies and CIA agents.”
Does no one read “Animal Farm” anymore? A tattoo of a murderer to promote peace? Well, I guess one way to promote peace is to kill all of your enemies….
How about this tattoo?http://www.collegehumor.com/pictu re:1708498A firefighter’s 9/11 tribute tattoo.