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V.21 No.31 | 8/2/2012
 

Feature

Shoot.

Guns, drug cartels, federal agents and the apocalypse collide in a Deming firearms store

By Margaret Wright

It was an overcast winter day when Mexican President Felipe Calderón stood at the main international crossing in Ciudad Juárez and unveiled a massive sign aimed at the U.S. side of the border. It made for a dramatic photo opportunity. A white sheet billowed behind billboard-sized letters fashioned from the twisted remains of guns that Calderón said were confiscated by law enforcement. They spelled out the words “No More Weapons.”

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Only God Can Judge Me

I ain't wearin' no suit.

Geoffrey Plant  [ Mon Apr 30 2012 10:00 AM ]
"What if someone else is wearing the same thing?"
"What if someone else is wearing the same thing?"

Passing the metro courthouse on my way to work this morning it was hard not to notice a dude, obviously heading for the courthouse, wearing the shirt pictured on the right. His had a cross on it, but otherwise the shirt was identical.

Was his message -obviously intended for whichever judge would be dealing with him- aligned with that of Lil' Wayne, whose lyrics to "Nightmares From the Bottom" include the line "Only God can judge me, I don't need a jury" and therefore a kind of anarcho-christian "fuck you" to America's legal system? Or was this court-appearance apparel an existential comment on the meaninglessness of earthly actions (and consequences) more along the lines of Tupac's "Only God Can Judge Me," which gained more meaning with the death of the song's lyricist?

Either way I bet the judge sees one of these shirts every bloody day.

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