{"id":7419,"date":"2011-08-23T17:10:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=7419"},"modified":"2011-08-23T17:10:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T17:10:19","slug":"what-should-be-done-with-the-gadaffi-golden-fist-crushing-american-jet-statue-from-his-tripoli-compound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/what-should-be-done-with-the-gadaffi-golden-fist-crushing-american-jet-statue-from-his-tripoli-compound\/","title":{"rendered":"What should be done with the Gadaffi Golden Fist Crushing American Jet Statue from his Tripoli compound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_7420\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound.jpg\" alt=\"What should be done with the Gadaffi Golden Fist American Jet Statue\" title=\"gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gadaffi-golden-fist-american-jet-statue-tripoli-compound-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What should be done with the Gadaffi Golden Fist American Jet Sculpture?<\/p><\/div>Delighted to see the approaching end of the Gadaffi regime, and having offered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/22\/re-naming-green-martyrs-square-in-tripoli\/\">an urban landscape idea<\/a> yesterday, I am wondering how garden designers could help today. One idea is to invite suggestions for what to do with Gadaffi&#8217;s respond <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fist_Crushing_a_U.S._Fighter_Plane_Sculpture\">Golden Fist Crushing American Jet Statue<\/a> (the Bab al-Azizyah Tripoli compound, where it stands, was stormed a few hous ago). The thinking behind my suggestion is (1) it was a pity that so many statues of Marx and Lenin were destroyed when the Soviet Union fell (2) I like the way London handled a similar problem, by putting a statue of Charles I at one end of Whitehall and a statue of the man who secured the removal of his head (Oliver Cromwell) at the other end of Whitehall (3) history&#8217;s monsters should be reviled but not forgotten.<br \/>\nSo my suggestion is to place Gadaffi&#8217;s Golden Fist American Jet Statue in a garden, to show it is harmless, and to treat it as a rejected  toy viewed by frightened children. They would be adult-size plastic scultpures, to symbolise the fact that dictators are plastic-ey overgrown kids.  Other ideas welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Garden image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/susan402\/2835867669\/sizes\/o\/in\/photostream\/\">susan402<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delighted to see the approaching end of the Gadaffi regime, and having offered an urban landscape idea yesterday, I am wondering how garden designers could help today. One idea is to invite suggestions for what to do with Gadaffi&#8217;s respond Golden Fist Crushing American Jet Statue (the Bab al-Azizyah Tripoli compound, where it stands, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}