A new look at our political detainees

Warning: Some of the photos below are explicit and shocking. But, then again, so is our treatment of political prisoners on President Bush's watch. Anyway, proceed accordingly.

Chris Jordan, a Photoshop political activist (I just made that up - I don't know what else to call him), does some amazing work. I've posted about him before, but his latest creation and political statement is a pretty powerful one.

From his Website:

Constitution, 2008
8 x 25 feet in five panels

Depicts 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror.

You can often catch his work in full scale at different appearances around the country. He currently doesn't have any a appearances listed, but check back to his site often. It's worth it.

(Click any of the photos below for a larger view)

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A closer view...



Close-up of actual Abu Ghraib photos...

Again, as the election approaches, let's not forget what has happened in our name at Guantánamo Bay, in Iraq and elsewhere; all permitted to happen by the Bush administration and its enablers, a list which John McCain sits atop of.