The sour smile of the hooded man icon

Have you ever wondered who the man under the hood is?
Is he a torturer getting tortured as part of a karmic payment plan?
Is he a poor bastard who simply got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Have you ever thought that it doesn't matter?
That systematic violence is eternally repackaged?
That torture is a virulent virus that keeps replicating itself across ideologies, nations and time?

Have you ever tasted a sour smile thinking this guy is thinking a thousand and none thoughts as he stands hodded in fear, not knowing he has become an icon?

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(From top: 1. the original; 2. source; 3. source; 4. sent in by Enrique Bordes; 5. source)

June 30, 2004 | 09:09 PM
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