"Sarah Para Bellum" still turning heads

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We first ran across Sarah Para Bellum, an outstanding work of poster art, at the artist's Out of Order blog, and posted about it here back in November of last year. It seems the spellbinding poster of Sarah Palin with a Remington 870 in place of Rosie the Riveter's rivet gun is still turning heads and making liberals even more unhinged. Irwin Greenstein wrote about it at Shotgun Life, and his article is cross-posted at All Right Magazine:

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A man who goes only by the name of Dale has cast Sarah Palin as the lost daughter of the World War II heroine, Rosie the Riveter – but with a twist.

Norman Rockwell’s classic 1943 Saturday Evening Post cover of Rosie shows a rivet gun in the lap of our plucky aircraft assembly-line worker during her lunch break. Dale has replaced it with a Remington 870 pump shotgun.

Dale explained in an email to us…

"I replaced Rosie’s rivet gun with a Remington 870 12 gauge pump action shotgun, affectionately known as a 'street sweeper' by law enforcement and military users. This classic weapon has a proud history for the defense minded everywhere and to my mind exemplified Palin’s unflagging support for our second amendment rights and preparedness to clean up the country while defending against all enemies foreign and domestic. A call to vigilance, not violence."

Dale calls his stunning poster, Sarah Para Bellum, inspired by the Latin maxim si vispacem, para bellum: “If you wish for peace, prepare for war.”

The full article is well worth the read, and you can find it here and here.

- JP