Activists ticketed for putting Snowden bust on NYC monument [View all]
Source: AP
By JENNIFER PELTZ
NEW YORK (AP) — Two activists who put a bust of Edward Snowden on a Revolutionary War memorial were ticketed and got their confiscated sculpture back Wednesday, saying they felt the episode had sparked conversation about freedom.
Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider had tried to stay anonymous after the 4-foot-tall, 100-pound likeness of the exiled National Security Agency secret-leaker briefly appeared last month on a monument in a Brooklyn park.
But after the summonses made their names public record, they told The Associated Press they'd spent a year planning their unauthorized artistic statement, enlisted a sculptor to craft it and aimed to place Snowden's disclosures of government surveillance in the context of revolutionary values of liberty.
"The ideal that Snowden seemed to be fighting for with his actions seemed to be in line with the ideals the revolutionaries, who might also have been called traitors, were fighting for," Tider said by phone.
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FILE - This April 6, 2015, file photo provided by ANIMALNewYork shows a bust of the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden which was snuck overnight into Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park, in New York. Attorney Ronald Kuby, the lawyer for the mystery artists who affixed the bust of Edward Snowden to the New York park's war monument, says they've been ticketed but not criminally charged. Kuby says the three got summonses for being in a park after hours, a non-criminal violation. (Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork via AP, File)
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