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Does French D-Day ‘Art Installation’ Desecrate Omaha Beach?

Does French D Day Art Installation Desecrate Omaha Beach?

An installation of 1,000 casts of Russian, German and American combat helmets of WWII which also represent turtles, to denounce global violence, created by French artist Rachid Khimoune, is seen on Omaha Beach in Colleville sur Mer, western France, Sunday, June 5, 2011 at the eve of the D-Day Anniversary. (AP Photo/Vincent Michel)

Yep, that’s a combination of a combat helmet merged with a sea turtle. And yes, a huge number of the turtles were spread across Omaha Beach today. Why? Well here is the AP version:

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) — French artist Rachid Khimoune has installed 1,000 sculptures shaped like sea turtles on Omaha Beach to mark the 67th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Does French D Day Art Installation Desecrate Omaha Beach?

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The turtles’ “shells” are molded from American, Russian and German combat helmets, sprouting flippers and long-necked heads. The sculptures were arranged Sunday along the sandy expanses of Omaha Beach — where the Allies won a pivotal victory against the Nazis.

Some 215,000 Allied soldiers, and roughly as many Germans, were killed or wounded during D-Day and the ensuing nearly three months it took to secure the capture of Normandy.

A French artist of Berber origin, Khimoune is a sculptor, painter and video artist whose work often features everyday objects.

But the never-not-insightful blogger Zombie is asking the key question: “How could the French government countenance this art installation, which manages to be both juvenile and deeply insulting at the same time?”

Good question!

Does French D Day Art Installation Desecrate Omaha Beach?

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More Zombie:

I ask you: So, would the artist prefer that the Allies had refrained from committing any icky violence and instead not invaded Normandy, so as to preserve peace? In which case, France would to this day be calledFrankenreich, the western province of Greater Germany?

I mean, OK, sure, stupid artists make stupid art making stupid points all the time. But the French government gave permission for this particular statement to be made on Omaha Beach on the anniversary of D-Day.

The ghosts of 10,000 men who sacrificed their lives that day to save France all say “You’re welcome!” in unison.

Does French D Day Art Installation Desecrate Omaha Beach?

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Making it worse, Zombie has discovered that the Omaha Beach desecration is not an isolated incident for this artist.  You’ll want to see that picture, and read a key passage Zombie has selected from George Orwell by clicking right here.

For what it’s worth, I have a video of Khimoune playing with his turtles on location but before you hit play on the video…click the Zombie link (here it is again) to see the still picture first.  Then you can play the video to be even more disgusted:

And for the record here is the posed still picture of the artist looking quite proud of his creation:

Does French D Day Art Installation Desecrate Omaha Beach?

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  • TRUK62
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:32pm

    Man… the French suck so bad! What a bunch of douch bags. And look at that punk sitting amongst his friggin’ turtles. I hope he trips on one and ends up with one hanging out of his XXX.

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  • parkerbilt
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:30pm

    I would like to meet this gentleman with my Dad’s M-1 in my possession. Seriously. When do we finally say enough is enough.

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  • MrButcher
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:29pm

    What else does art do if not to confront sacred ideas and draw atttention to and question to them?

    This, somewhat, works.

    It calls into question the American importance to the French Resistence, the cult of Churchill and foolishness of, then, perceived Nazi military-prowess.

    If this battle had went the other way we wouldn’t see this art/expression.

    Think on this thought.

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    • RLTW
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:36pm

      “If this battle had went the other way we wouldn’t see this art/expression.”

      Yes if that were the case we’d have seen many more dead throughout the world, either way it would have been progressive art in your mind I suppose.

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  • West2012
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:28pm

    I only wish the blood shed those many years ago would ooze up thru the sand and color all of those hideous white insults scarlet red like the water was on June 6th all of those years ago. Brave men died on that very beach so this numbskull could make a statement…

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    • CatB
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:01am

      I agree… white ..isn’t that the color of the French Flag in WWII .. except for the brave CIVILIANS who fought in the resistance?

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  • freedom4ever
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:27pm

    All I can say is that I’m thankful my dad isn’t around to see this! He was part of the invasion and my heart goes out to the ones still alive who are insulted by this so called artist! France needs to send apology letters to every serviceman who took part on d-day and beg for forgiveness!!

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  • JJBlazeReader
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:25pm

    ..

    Shameful.

    Someone ask Obama if the French are still our greatest ally.

    How can the French government allow such a disgraceful display on a field of valor.

    The French government owes us an apology.

    Scratch that, we should demand they officially apologize for this!

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:53pm

      ..
      There comes a time to speak up. I am calling the French Embassy tomorrow morning to let them know how they have dishonored the brave soldiers who died on that beach and France should apologize to the United States.

      Telephone for the French Press office is (202) 944-6000.

      http://www.ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article414

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:47am

      @Reader — thanks, I’ve sent a short email to their site. I would encourage other Blaze readers who are offended to do the same — keep it short and polite. Thanks y’all!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:21am

      You’re all so sensitive.always looking for apologies from others.What’ s past is past, if you did the right thing fighting the nazi‘s that’s its own reward.The french can be grateful but they are not your slaves and don’t owe you anything least of all accommadating your thin skinned -can’t -take -any criticism- from others- american mind set.You love pointing fingers at others and making demands on others to prove some loyalty to you.For people who brag about how you invented the idea of independance and individuality etc, you sure love to dictate to other what they should think about everything and how they should be just like you.The french go about their business and are not answerable to you.[irrespective of what happened 60 years ago].Americans never apologize to any one for anything yet you love demanding apologies from others.The french just go about living their authentic lives not looking to aopologize or demand apologies from others.l[secure in their frenchness]live and let live!.

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  • Mirimichi
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:25pm

    Artists are non-thinkers. They just think they are the smartest people.

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  • Classical Liberal
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:25pm

    Amazing what can be callled art today. Can’t say I like what he did here, not sure if it offends me though.

    Sometimes a plaque with prayer inscribed is the most appropriate memorial for those who perished in for the sake of liberty.

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  • NeoKong
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:20pm

    Oh come on….
    I understand the point of what might be enormous disrespect for the soldiers who died to liberate France. But liberate they did and now they have the freedom to be complete butt holes as they should. Let’s be blunt. The French were never known for their respect of foreigners.

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  • axel@25
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:19pm

    So, this moron thinks there were German troops storming the beaches along withe the Allies?

    A frog’s butt may be watertight, but I think I could still jam a turtle up his.

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  • godhatesacoward
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:13pm

    not that many russians at Normandy. but they sure as he!! decimated em’ later that winter!

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  • Freedom_wins
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:11pm

    I guess that the world would have been much more peaceful under Nazi Germany.

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  • His Lamb is Satanic
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:11pm

    Obama beach.

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  • Southern Rebel
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:11pm

    Moron….err…pardon me. Le Moron!!
    I guess ‘Vive le Liberte’ is officially, ‘Vive le socialist’. Le peace? Next time, we’ll all stand by and laugh when the french people want our assistance.

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    • AZfreeman
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:40pm

      Do ya’ think the French ever read the story of the “Sheppard boy who cried wolf”?
      Or….would they even understand the message of the story?

      Never again! ….rf

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:08am

      a hundred years from now we’ll be socialist too.just like we now drink wine we’ll be a nanny state like the french.Hypercapitalism is a greedy pyramid scheme which may have served us well in the past is no longer good for a post industrial world.Though inventiveness may suffer, it will do us good to throw off our puritanical work ethic and become more like the europeans who enjoy life more[you call it feminised males but it's really knowing how to live].

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    • Furious American
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:16am

      We can’t all be socialists! Someone has to pay for it or socialism fails just like everywhere its been tried.

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    • saranda
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:25pm

      @azfreeman – You response suggests you do not understand the story of the boy crying wolf. France did not cry wolf, they were being occupied which means there was a wolf. The little boy made up the wolf and thus was left helpless when one did appear.

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  • JJStryder
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:10pm

    How great the freedom won by men willing to give the full measure of devotion to a country of strangers.
    They are now free to act as silly as they want. We just don’t have to listen or watch their blithering idiocy. It is truly meaningless.
    Unlike the heroics of the men who stormed that beach.

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  • EZDOZIT
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:10pm

    Their is no one more feminine than a french man.

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  • Greg8812
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:10pm

    I have been to Omaha beach and the American Cemetery there. It is one of the most solemn, respectful and eerily beautiful places on Earth. Being and American and the grandson of a courageous man who was there on D-day I find this truly offensive. I Understand the Artist desire to bring attention to world violence but this was the absolutely wrong venue.

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  • Orth. Jewish Conservative
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:09pm

    its so sad, how someone can dedigrate those heroes in such ugly fashion.

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    • starman70
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:50am

      It just shows how much the French appreciate the fact that we, the British, Canadians and forces from other countries put their lives on the line for them. Had it not been for the concerted efforts of the allied forces, the official language of France would now be German. The French have and always will be a bunch of clowns. I think that Obummer should move to France. He and his ethos would fit right in to the French scheme of world politics.

      By the way, I have one French Army rifle for sale, NEVER FIRED, DROPPED ONLY ONCE.

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  • PhantomsPhorever
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:08pm

    But see, the thing is, it’s really REALLY…BAD art. No harm, no fowl, no talent.

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  • Hula Calhoun
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:07pm

    Another reason to hate the French. After all, they obviously have no appreciation for the fact that we saved them from the same Na zis that they let walk into their country.

    Regarding the picture that shows one turtle climbing onto another turtle…I really don’t want to go there.

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  • SkipSloan
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:07pm

    Typical.

    Why didn’t the French Government stop him?
    Has the French Government ever stopped anyone???

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    • rgranger
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:50am

      They started to, but then they surrendered instead.

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  • ronmorgen
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:07pm

    That’s ugly Art. My mother is an artist, her paintings are beautiful.

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  • southernORcobra
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:02pm

    I can understand the american and german helmets but russian? some one needs to give this guy a history lesson

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    • the hawk
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:15pm

      diddo !

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    • CaughtNTheCrosshairs
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:29pm

      Just curious, what history lesson? The USSR didn‘t fight on D’Day? They didn’t fight against the Germans? I mean, I agree that this guy is an idiot, and his art definitely lacks in definition. But, what history lesson?

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    • jcannon98188
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:43am

      News Flash: The Russians were fighting on the Eastern Front. They had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with D-Day. D-Day was the June 6th Invasion of Normandy. The Russians were no where near Normandy. They were still fighting the Eastern Front at this time.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:26am

      Wait til you find out what is in the U S history books in a few more years!!!!

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:00am

      We killed millions too.The muslims believe they are independance fighters too.They are fighting to liberate their homelands from our unjust intrusions there of propping up brutal tyrants and placing military bases there as well as supporting racist israeli policies[settlement expansions,etc].When it was in our interests to kill innocent men women and children we did so without batting an eye.At the end of the day we rewarded the communist russians[for winning the war] by giving them half of europe which became totalitarian anyway.maybe if we had done more talking and less fighting we could have prevented the deaths of over 50 million people.You can call that a good war if you want to ,it’s not like we even prevented the holocaust;maybe more talking would have.

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    • MemphisViking
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Typical blind liberal, thinks we can reason with every psycho that wants to destroy us. Talking didn’t prevent Hitler from trying to conquer Europe, how do you figure it could have prevented the Holocaust?

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    • DRINKTEA
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:21pm

      please learn history before making stupid untrue comments, those are not opinions they are inccorect facts Rose-Ellen, you are just wrong, period

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  • RedheadTexan
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:01pm

    We should have left those cheese eating surrender monkeys to their fate.

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    • Ovedya
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:40am

      Best post EVER!

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    • USAMEDIC3008
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:58am

      CROSSHAIRS
      your right Germany invaded Russia befor D Day It was not the USSR yet.
      No I dont like what this so called artass is doing…..
      How ever Freedom Is why the U.S. has went to war Starting in 1776, the freedom to exersise FREE WILL
      To believe In God or not To do good or evil etc. The only way I WE can have freedom .respect
      If I cannot respect your freedom your free will Why should I expect you to respect mine When we
      restrict one mans freefom we diminish freedom for all .
      I wont go all the way back to 1776 ,I could but wont, My Grandfather served with the ALL AMERCIAN
      DIV. WW1 . My Father landed at UTAH beach .stayed to the end and in 1950 went to Korea for
      14 mos I knew them both well enough to say Thay would not like it either but he has the Freedom
      to be as stupid as he wants to be
      You all may think me stupid But I also believe when one man freedom is taken we all have lost A little

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:53am

      They won ww1.You win some you lose some.and the rest of europe was also occupied.just because you fought the nazi’s doesnt mean the french now become your slaves from here on end and have to agree with your policies and wars.and that normandy invasion was tantamount to a suicide mission[as you disingenuously critiques the muslims for their suicide missions].The french din’t owe you anything.And the russians are the ones who won ww2.americans hate the french cause they wouldn’t tolerate american military bases in their country after the war.how dare they! And JFK back when he was a senator berated them for being in vietnam and as soon as they left ,the americans went in.The media hates them because they don’t hate arabs yet are authentic enough to protect their culture [hence they can ban burqua's without being hated by muslims].as nietszche said about them;they’re the only civilized people in europe.

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    • teddrunk
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:37am

      Say Rose Ellen, there’s one big difference between a Muslim suicide mission, and the landings at Normandy. The landings at Normandy were to stop an army that protected a government that exterminated millions. Muslim suicide missions, kill women and children.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:24am

      “We should have left those cheese eating surrender monkeys to their fate.”
      Appreciate the sentiment, but realistically, not to have invaded France in 1944 might have meant facing the Soviets across the English Channel rather than in Central Europe, and waging the Cold War on much less favorable terms than turned out to be the case.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:36am

      revisionist anti-french media [fox hates the french cause they dont hate arabs] propaganda.The rest of europe was also nazi occupied or were themselves pro nazi regimes.only the french are called surrender monkeys though.had they had no resistance and been totally occupied like other countries i guess they would not be called surrender monkeys then.
      and that normandy invasion was a suicide mission but when reminded of that fact the anti mislim bigots change the subject and tell us why they were willing to send americans on suicide missions;the evil was so great that it was just and right to have suidcide missions.Then the criticism of muslims suicide missions switches to how their cause is unjust.of course that’s in the eye of the beholder;they believe they are fighting for independance from american and israeli agressors.one man’s suicide mission[normandy] is another man’s barbarity[ muslim suicide missions].of course our bombs murdered more civilians then any muslim suicide bomber ever did!

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    • DRINKTEA
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:15pm

      @USAMEDIC3008 YES! you are correct, however tastless and stupid and offensive this “art exhibit” is, he has the right to do it. I agree with you 100% and I also agree with everyone that wishes to make it known that you consider it tasteless, stupid and offensive.

      @rose-ellen
      you seriously need a history lesson, to say the Russians won WWII is idiotic and completely false. It was joint effort by the US, Britain and Russia and lead by the US. The Russians could not have invaded from the East with out US air superiority. It was the relentless bombing by mass produced American planes the weakend Germany enough to allow an invasion.
      Your other comment is almost TOO STUPID TO REPLY TO.. BUT.. I WILL you said “that normandy invasion was tantamount to a suicide mission[as you disingenuously critiques the muslims for their suicide missions].” So what you are saying is that you equate the sacrifice that thousands of soldiers, not just Americans, made on D-Day to rid Europe of an oppressive, genocidal maniac dictator, is somehow equal to that of a muslim terriorist blowing up innocent civilians, mostly women and childern, in a fish market. Hmm that is what you just said right? Stop embarassing yorself by posting here unless you can think rationally. The quote you made in another post about apologist – except for Obama you won’t hear Americans apologize, but name one instance where we have demanded it of another–ONE, we are the originators of live and let live, not t

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    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:05pm

      Fret not about this maggot and his collection of turtles. On YT, look up Sabaton – Primo Victoria and find the video of the song to footage from Saving Private Ryan. You’ll see and hear how it was done.

      The French have no proper appreciation of their mortality, and how closer they came to being a permanent adjunct to Nazi Germany. No matter, the arrogant are the first to get blindsided, and the first to be laughed at for their foolishness. Such is life, such is fate…such is old-world comedy. I won’t shed a tear when they become an oppressive fundamentalist state much as the bulk of Europe is headed toward.

      Rose, you seem to be fixated on the thought that America is at fault for something here, and that we are fated to be destroyed by our strengths. I think otherwise: America has been the breeding ground and main purveyor of the past two economic/scientific singularities, and the third such singularity should be within the next couple of decades. Given the drastic nature of such changes, and what is likely coming, I have no fear we will become a socialist state. More to the point, I have a feeling the next great paradigm will finally annihilate the last vestiges of the perverse and inherently ineffective socialist / communist / globalist ideas. There is no room in humanity’s future for centralized corruption and collectivist crippling of the common man, woman, and child; true progress will annihilate any such barriers.

      I’ll let you sweat what the singularities

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  • sing it out
    Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:00pm

    That is so ridiculous.

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:17pm

      In whose eyes is this called art?

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    • JoeBtfsplk
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:20pm

      Maybe the French are pissed at Obama for leaving them jointly holding the helm of NATO forces.

      France is pissed at America for following the loser Obama over the cliff?

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    • 82dAirborne
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:25pm

      This makes me sick.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:59pm

      I bet that this guy is mad at the USA because we went over there and probably kept the germans from doing vile things to his grandmothers, mother, and any other female and maybe even male relatives. He probably thinks that the germans should have done whatever they wanted with them and he‘s upset that his father or grandfather or something like that wasn’t german because of forced rape of family?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:08am

      French artist Rachid Khimoune
      ———-
      Oh lookie, a moozie
      Now why am I not surprised

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    • Wayner
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:25am

      What???? No French helmets to represent their great sacifice on D Day? Ohhh that’s right… they had already gotten their sissy asses kicked. And I’ve never heard of Russian participation on Normandy.

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    • Rightsofman
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:35am

      Its the FRENCH for Gods sake!!!

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    • Elena2010
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:38am

      Stupid muslim “Frog”! Next time, I say we let the Germans do as they please w/the Frogs!

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    • ManThong
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:41am

      He‘s not an artist he’s a cretin and he needs to go broke making another 45,000 of those insults to represent the invasion as Omaha Beach saw 50,000 of the 160,000 total on D-Day.

      Or at least make another 4,000 to represent the 5,000 Allied soldiers that died that day alone.

      Turtles.. That idiot frog wouldn‘t be alive today or he’d be speaking German if wasn’t for those men whose memory he has desecrated.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:47am

      I wonder if the french got the idea from the administration as one more good insult to our finest.

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    • cause420
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:56am

      Symbolism fer a slow, yet progressing, war for global governance… A disrepectful act of dishonoring those who sacrificed their life to liberate France from the Nazis…

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:59am

      Poor taste!!

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    • dr_funk
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:00am

      Its not art, its vandalism.

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    • paperpushermj
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:05am

      FYI third picture down shows Soviet style helmet humping GI helmet.

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    • grandma7
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:37am

      This is disgraceful!!

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:43am

      Ah, more insults from the Satanic Cultists Islamics… BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW. BRING OUR MONEY HOME. NOT ANOTHER DIME TO PALESTINE, or anywhere else. DRILL FOR OIL like crazy here and in the meantime, every American can cut their oil use by 30% if we just try…car pool, plan our trips etc. – use public transportation … CAR POOL CAR POOL also share cars 1 car between a couple of famlies (one car payment, 1 insurance, etc) AMERICANS are brilliant …that‘s why we’re in AMERICA.

      SOB SISTERS and ONE WORLDERS: LEAVE
      BRING OUR TROOPS AND OUR MONEY HOME. BUILD A HIGH WALL. I used to think Pat Buchannan was nuts, not any more. I didn’t know that 85 % of the bloody state department was bloody liberals…NO wonder we have this mess…no guts/no respect….. WE ARE NOT BORROWING MONEY to GIVE AWAY…especially to the (bad wordx5) same people we are borrowing it from!!! WHAT IDIOT thought that would be okay.

      COME

      ON

      2012

      PS: for those of you who understand the number 7: 700 AD the muslim Cult took form; 1400 the USA was discovered and the King James Bible was printed…2100…. ?????

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    • LegionOfOne
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:48am

      You know, sometimes I think these people could have profited from some the German invasion. At least if they got some real blood in their veins, they might grow some balls and pride as well.

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    • jhonjhonson1
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:34am

      Here’s a little french to describe this so called artist “DOUCHE”

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:41am

      Careful Blazers,
      The Kabyle people of Algeria are some of the most anti-Islamist people you’ll find. I don’t know his religion, but this guy’s probably not Muslim.
      And another thing about art. The creator may have his idiotic ideas about what the death of so many brave soldiers fighting for freedom might mean, but we don’t have to buy them.
      I’ve been at Omaha Beach, and let me tell you, it’s a pretty wide expanse of beach. Seeing a thousand white helmets there (my imagination can filter out the turtle part) would actually go along way toward helping my mind come to grips with, and bring to life the immense human sacrifice and cost that occurred on that beach on that day in a selfless effort to push back totalitarianism, and secure liberty. I refuse Khimoune’s own interpretation, and turn it on its ear, and thank God for those deaths and for the necessary global violence that stopped Hitler. May we be willing to rise to the challenge if, God forbid, another enemy of freedom ever gain so much entrenched influence.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:16am

      This is a big slap in the face and a fine example of French rudeness(which is world famous) If not for those allied Soldiers France wouldn’t exist and he be speaking German right now.

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    • drago
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:23am

      @sicboy
      Huh? Are you able to say anything coherent? Moron…….

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    • De minimus
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:59am

      It isn’t art, it’s propaganda.

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    • dakz
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:02am

      Sicboy
      Posted on June 5, 2011 at 11:20pm

      Why is the Blaze ignoring the story about Rick Perry and the forced injections of young girls. And how did Perry become a millionaire while holding office???

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      Because unlike you, I am sure that the researchers at TB understand how to use the internet to find out what is truth and what is a lie. It took me all of 30 seconds to find the story you are talking about on PolitiFact who gave it a rating of “Pants on Fire” meaning it is a HUGE lie.

      Think for yourself. Do your own research.

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    • Miami
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:23am

      Typical frog mentality, to reduce their liberators to slow mindless turtles. The great difference those giants on that beach knew their mortality and still went forth into a hail of fire that few could understand in the world of replay.

      True Heroes have lost their luster fore the glare of HD and Blue-ray. Which have reframed history and events to fit an agenda. The only thing is history has no interpretation or agenda but hard facts and reality no matter the shading or tilt of the lenses…

      Frogs live to diminish and humiliate the sacrifice those bushwah Americans. Reducing them to creepers in the muck.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:30am

      This is typical of the Blaze.

      So many intriguing and serious stories to cover, such as the sneak attack on the 2nd Amendment by Obama with Operation Gunrunner and Fast and Furious, and how Adam Gadahn- CIA agent, is now calling for random shootings, as the Obama anti-gun agenda merges with CIA-sponsored false-flag terror.

      They carry the water for Obama because he is a warmongering liberal (a neocon) and they are neocons. They’re so happy to see the anti-war left silenced by Obama and his warmongering. The neocons want 3 more wars to go with the 3-4 we gave going already. They want total chaos WW3 so their cronies can get rich lending us the money to destroy ourself.

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    • Miami
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:47am

      Brasil2520

      Ignorance has no skin color or race and hatred comes in all shades. Ideologies‘ of warmongers and power hungry elite leaders who believe they could live other people’s lives better than they could is no new idea. History did not start at the creation of United States and slavery did not start in the south but goes back to the beginning of known history.

      As a Cuban born American, It is my understanding that race is not the impediment of a person but their ideology “IS”

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:07am

      Perhaps Rachid would have been happier had the Nazis succeeded in their quest for world domination instead. Sprechen Sie Deutsch, Mr. Khimoune?

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    • John 3:16
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:24am

      If the french people had any integrity they would never allow this. They better hope they don’t need American Patriots to save their pansy as*es ever again.

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    • APatriotFirst
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:30am

      Any bets on that late at night, these turtles will begin to disappear? The French govt. may not like USA, but the French people do.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:05am

      ..
      Update:

      I called this morning to express my disappointment with the art display. First question I was asked if I was with an American newspaper. I said no just an American citizen calling about the display and how it dishonors the American soldiers who died on that beach to liberate their country. I was then told that no one was available they were all in meetings.

      I have now sent an e-mail. I was polite on the phone call and in the e-mail but emphasized that the display dishonors those who blood was shed on their behalf.

      At least France will know that there are some Americans who are offended by this display.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:19am

      ..
      sorry posted in wrong place

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    • drphil69
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:42pm

      Gee, the French promoting surrender, what a surprise….

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    • Lotus503
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Is our government-funded NEA paying for it?

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:06pm

      And what would the French know about duty, honor, and sacrifice…..a country with 1 million military rifles for sale “that have never been fired and only dropped once?”

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    • fifthgenmick
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:47pm

      Shame on the French for sanctioning this exhibit, and shame on anybody who buys into this shite–it’s self-imposed ignorance.

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    • dizzyinthedark
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:02pm

      I find this disgusting and disrepectful. Apology please.

      Yep and somehow Johnny Depp loves everything about the French–go figure!

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    • old white guy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:22pm

      come on, their french don’t ya know.

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    • EnoughBS
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:43pm

      Rachid who?!

      I am not surprised by these French idiots.. If they haven’t gotten it through their thick skulls in 70+ years- they never will.

      I am more than honored by our soldiers- those living and dead. I’ll definitely have to go celebrate the anniversary by visiting the DDay museum in Nola this weekend.

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    • BonnieC3
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:05pm

      As an art major and now professional artist for 27 years… I said it years ago and I’ll say it again, 99% of “modern” art is what people who want to be artists but have no talent do. My art classes in college were full of people like this. And the professors went right along with it so they would appear “cool” with it all. The art community has for a long time been totally engrossed in it. The emperor is wearing no clothes…when will somebody point it out? Until then we will have more of this type of junk.
      This is disgusting. It isn’t art and it is offensive.

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    • patriot308
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:00pm

      French army rifle for sale…. never fired….. dropped once.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:07pm

      One thing’s for sure:

      Blazers don‘t know what art is but they do know what they’re told not to like!

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    • Disnylv
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:57pm

      Makes me sick that this would be allowed

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    • Rumplestiltskin
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:19pm

      I piss on this douchebag so-called “artist” and anyone who supports this type of garbage. One would expect gratitude from a people who are constantly begging Americans to bail their asses out when the feces strikes the rotating oscillator.
      Do you know why the Champs d’ Elysee is lined with trees???
      So the Germans can march in the shade…

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    • Miami
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:33pm

      CaptainKook
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:07pm
      One thing’s for sure:

      Blazers don‘t know what art is but they do know what they’re told not to like!

      CaptainQuack

      Unlike you I think for myself

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    • Route 66
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:55pm

      Russian helmets?
      Was Russia at the beaches on D day?
      No, the russians had an eastern front fighting the Nazi’s.

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