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Re: Farid Parhad
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Thursday, July 14 2005, 21:52:22 (CEST)
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Maggie wrote:
>"..I make the sculpture I want to make and worry about selling them later."
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>I like that immensely. It's the only time the piece comes out the way you want it. Any other time there are elements in the piece that are attached to someone's strings.

...Helen Nimrod was great that way...she called to ask if I could make masks of Assyrian kings...I said masks were too limiting...I'd thought of doing their portraits...she asked how much...I told her...and she sent the money. Helen was very very wealthy but she was not an easy touch by any means..as everyone assumed...I even had the thugs of ZOWAA come to me asking to be introduced to her so they could "save" their people...fat chance. Those sculptures were the only ones initiated by her...the rest she has I made and then showed her...except for the Assyrian weapons which were a gift of appreciation to her.
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>"...this is a piece dear to my heart that I put off doing for years...it's of the Allaha-Ashur...the fellow in the feathered skirt and wings drawing a bow...it's the third version...over the last 18 months...this time it came out as I wanted."
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>I can't wait to see it. I hope someday you'll sculpt the pantheon Alaha Ashur created. It is just as important that the attributes of Alaha Ashur be visible to us and to the world. It is difficult for Assyrianism to be whole today until we unfold all of it.

..do you mean those emblems aroud the neck? Or do you mean the other gods.
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>"..I'd thought of going to this year's convention in Boston to display it but it won't be done in time..besides they'd just try to have me arrested again..as they tried in Chicago and San Jose...when it's finished and cast I'll post a photo here."
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>Please let us know if you do go to the convention. We will form a human shield around you, maybe even arrest the "Nimrods".

...I never wanted to disrupt anything...at the Chicago convention I tried to get a petition signed so we could appeal to the Arts Committe to override Nimrod's veto...but the local people, Alladin Khamis, another great leader, who owns a gas station...at their helm took the materials when I wasn't looking.

..I'd received written authorization from the AANF to have a room to myself to display the sculpture when their security chief and two others came in to say I'd have to take everything down...I told them I wouldn't and said if they touched a sculpture of mine I'd sue their asses off...they called Hotel Sceurity who apologized profusely but said the convention WAS their affair and they had the right to ask me to leave...I still refused..."carry me out" sez I. The cops were called next...they were as puzzled as the security people..I showed my permission to be there signed by the president of the AANF...to which the head goon said..."so vat..hee is not GOT"!

The cops said they could only arrest me if someone swore out a citizen's complaint...two goons said they would be glad to...by then a crowd had formed..it was crowded in there...Jackie swam through to see what was what...furious at them all she and I marched down to where the delegates were holding their closed door meetings and she demanded of the president that this nonsense be stopped...I asked to present my case...they allowed me to and said they'd let me know about the petition..mind you the Fedration gave ten grand of OUR money to the project...

The next day I happened to see the two goons...one was the security chief of the Fedration..I told them they should be careful about arresting people...that I could have sued them for it as I had express permission to be there...the security chief, a grair, blew up...said he was going to go into the room and destroy all my sculptures, then they said they'd put me in the hospital etc...yelling in the lobby of the Chicago Hilton with my children there...I didn't say anything...went to the house phone and called security...they came and I said I'd been physically threatened by these two...the police came, but by then our heroes had ducked down the stairs...by then Sargon, the porn store owner president of this GREAT NATION and his sweating delegates were gathered all around...the police seemed hesitant to get involved..and then their chief showed up..he'd had a belly-full of these minor national thugs from some incidents already...he took down their names and said they'd search for them..that as far as the Chicago police were concerned a physical threat had been made..and he took me to see the head for all security telling him that if I had further problems he was to let them know and they'd be there on the double...later Khamis approached me asking if I would please not press charges as the two heroes of Assyria were hiding upstairs and he needed them to run the convention...I said I'd drop the complaint IF he arranged a meeting where we could face each other...it was arranged and we met in a conferrence room...I explained that all I was trying to do was get a monument, paid for by Assyrians and welcomed by an American city installed..that's all. That I was running up against entrenched interests who wanted to stop me and would say and do anything.

When I was done and just to show what these thugs are made of...the head of security, grair, came up to me and wanted to HUG ME...I begged off but agreed to shake his hand...and this is the guy who was gonna deck me hours earlier...I shook my head recalling the scene they'd created in front of everybody..and all for nothing..."did you think I was SERIOUS"? he said...of course he'd been serious..just ashamed that it all backfired on him when HE ran. They also invited me out to dinner with them but I declined....I'm picky about that sort of thing..besides these were devout Christians, the worst enemy Assyrians EVER had.

There was peace for the next two days until the final meeting when they elect new officers...they still hadn't said if I could circulate the petition and time was running out..the last banquet was my only chance...I invited myself into their meeting room, walked down and sat on the edge of the stage...Sargon was droning about something...I motioned to him that I needed one last chance but he indicated his watch as if to say there was no time...I walked over to one their people and said I was going up on stage and would push Sargon out of the way...I said if one of them raised a finger..I'd call the police who were just waiting for a good reason...things were whispered in Sargon's ear and he found the time to allow me to speak...I told them the deal..and told them to FORGET it...and left.

The last morning we were in the hotel coffee shop for breakfast when I saw hotel chief of security at a table by himself...I went over to thank him and apologize for the trouble we'd caused..he stood up, shook hands and said not at all...that he was delighted at the way I'd conducted myself and the entire event..meaning I'd used their own stupidity as the best weapon against them without losing my temper once or coming near it..these guys NEVER realize that they not only create their enemies but hand over to them all the clubs and knives and blunt instruments needed to knock them silly.



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