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Giuliani On
Robert Lederman's
Protest Art

by Robert Lederman
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net
April 8, 2002

[BACKGROUND: As part of an ongoing Federal lawsuit, Lederman et al v Giuliani, the former Mayor and a number of his top aides and associates were subpoenaed on 3/1/2002 to appear for depositions. In response the Mayor's lawyers want the court to issue an order of protection preventing Giuliani and his associates from having to face these depositions. Among their claims is that there is "nothing to suggest"that Giuliani targeted Lederman or was particularly interested in his protest art.
Here are mainstream media quotes on the issue.
Decide for yourself.....]

[NOTE: All the Giuliani-as-Hitler portraits and signs as well as all of the "Arrest Giuliani"; "Impeach Giuliani"; "Giuliani = Police State"; "Fooliani"; "Crueliani"; "Jailiani",; "Giulianus"and "Adolf Giuliani"signs referred in these quotes to were made by Robert Lederman. In many of the newspaper photographs accompanying these quotes, Lederman is seen carrying them or his signature is visible on the paintings carried by other protestors. With the exception of the arrest inside the Criminal court at #346 Broadway, all of Robert Lederman's arrests included in Lederman et al v Giuliani specifically involve displaying these signs and slogans while demonstrating. Hundreds of these paintings and signs were confiscated by police officials during the course of this lawsuit and were never returned, yet, not one case was ever prosecuted or resulted in a plea bargain. The quotations below are a representative sample of the many hundreds of similar ones which exist. Aside from the newspaper quotes, the Giuliani signs appeared on U.S. television networks many hundreds of times in the past eight years.
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Newsweek 4/5/99

Rudy on the Record Question:
"Are you personally stung by those signs at the demonstrations that say 'Adolf Giuliani'?"

Mayor Giuliani: "Five years ago I might have cried over it. And now I just feel that this is a crazy exaggeration that we've allowed, and that our media coverage is selective... You cover Susan Sarandon. But [the police and the rest of the city] see the Adolf Hitler signs, the comparisons to the president of Yugoslavia. These [demonstrators] are getting arrested, some knowingly, some unknowingly, under that banner."

N.Y. Daily News 10/25/1998

"I take a different view of someone comparing me to Adolf Hitler than when someone calls me a jerk."-Mayor Giuliani

NY Times Sunday March 28, 1999

After Meeting Mayor Vows
Major Changes for Police

But the Mayor repeated his anger over signs and chants at the post-Diallo protests that liken him to Adolf Hitler.

"The comparisons to Hitler, Adolf Hitler, and fascism have to stop, because they're sick, perverted, and they do affect some people,"he said. "Invocations of Adolf Hitler are despicable no matter who it is. Nobody should participate in it, and nobody should do it.

NY Times 3/30/99

Indictments of 4 Officers in the
Diallo Killing Are Due Tuesday

The Mayor, for his part, sought to balance his remarks on the protests by expressing his sympathy for the Diallo family, his support for the Police Department and his anger at the personal attacks against him. He complained that several protesters held aloft signs that compared him to Adolf Hitler and the Police Department to the Ku Klux Klan. "As the Police Department has made substantial changes in the way in which it behaves, not only in the last month or two but over the last five years,"Mayor Giuliani said, "I'd ask people to acknowledge that and then to make the similar kinds of changes in their behavior. Not stand with people who try to pretend that the Police Department is the KKK, not engage in general bashing of the Police Department, stop the invocations of Hitler and Nazism and fascism, all this exaggerated hate rhetoric. It has an impact."

4/1/99 New York Times

The Mayor:
In Honoring an Officer,
an Impassioned Plea

In reference to the protests outside Police Headquarters in Manhattan and the Bronx courthouse, the Mayor continued: "And it's about time to stop carrying signs pretending that they are racist. It's about time to stop carrying signs equating them to the K.K.K., and it's about time to stop invocations of Adolf Hitler about our Police Department.

Daily News 4/1/99

The Mayor Rails Vs. Cop Bashers

His voice choking with emotion and his fists clenched for emphasis, Mayor Giuliani yesterday demanded "respect and understanding"for his cops in the fiercest speech he has delivered since the killing of Amadou Diallo...Giuliani urged protesters to lay down their "racist signs"and begged New Yorkers to stop second-guessing the NYPD. "...And it's about time to stop carrying signs that invoke Adolf Hitler about our police."As he stood at the red-brick stationhouse, Giuliani attacked police "bashers"as "the worst elements in society."

NY POST 4/16/99

10,000 Rally For 'justice'

He also blasted the anti-cop and anti-mayor sentiment. "I think the negative part is that many of the signs ... are highly offensive and racist in nature ... There was a sign that had the New York Police Department shield with a Nazi swastika superimposed over it. There were signs using rather broadly the term racist and invocations to Hitler, to some of the things that are going on in the Balkans ..."Giuliani complained.

NY Post 4/17/99

Rudy Blasts Diallo Marchers
Who Compared Him To Hitler

On his weekly WABC radio show, Giuliani blasted the demonstrators who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge carrying signs comparing him to Adolf Hitler, and the NYPD to the Ku Klux Klan. The mayor also blasted the media for not asking "how could people participate in a march like this, how could people speak to a group like this, that carried signs like that? "Unfortunately, no one is being held to account for joining in or associating with a march that had hate signs like that,"Giuliani said.

Quotes Identifying Robert Lederman
As The Creator Of The Giuliani Signs
And As A ProminentCritic
Of The Mayor's

NY Times 4/8/2000

Demonstrators of Old Spread Their
Message in a New Era of Protest

Robert Lederman, 49, a street artist who has protested for years against Mayor Giuliani's policies, often arrives with dozens of placards caricaturing the mayor as Hitler, complete with the Fuhrer's mustache.

Daily News 10/3/99

Courts Thwart Hizzoner's Tactics

"I guess the mayor doesn't like the paintings I do of him as Adolf Hitler,"said Lederman, whose mustachioed portrayals of the mayor pop up regularly at rallies critical of the city.

Village Voice 3/28/2000

Why Safir Must Resign
by former NYPD detective,
Frank Serpico

An example of this harassment is the arrest not once but more than 40 times of street artist Robert Lederman, merely for expressing his First Amendment rights. Giuliani did not like the artists' caricature of him as Adolf Hitler. All charges against him were subsequently dismissed.

NY Post 8/11/2001

Court:
Permit Art Without Permit

Since the troubles erupted with Giuliani, some of Lederman's work, using acrylic and cardboard, has reflected his disdain for the mayor. There are postcards and paintings featuring Hizzoner as a ghoulish-looking Hitler with captions such as "Adolf Jailiani,""Zero Tolerance for Arts"and "It's disgusting - Giuli-anus.

Jewish Week 5/7/99

His Artwork Raises A Fuehrer

In a vastly unpopular view even among some of the mayor's staunchest public critics, Lederman insists the Hitler comparison is not hyperbolic...The signs, which Lederman distributed to the protestors, were panned by Jewish leaders.

Newsday 10/5/99

'Sensation' Show Is Rank
With Smut and Cruelty

Then there's Robert Lederman, who has art of his own. Enraged by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decision to suspend city funding for the museum, he holds aloft two signs: "Giuli-anus"features a caricature of the mayor with a piece of plastic novelty poop glued to his forehead; "Fooliani"depicts him as a one-man insane clown posse.

NY Newsday 3/30/2001

City's Gatekeepers of Decency?

Rudy supporters may police tax-funded museums "Robert Lederman, a Manhattan man who began sketching political art of the mayor with a Hitler mustache after the city's 1995 arrests of sidewalk art vendors, called the art panel "ludicrous.""If it wasn't so ludicrous, it would be just comical-but unfortunately we've known from watching Giuliani for nearly eight years that he's not kidding,"Lederman said.

5/9/98 Washington Post

An exhibit of the mayor's photographs opened today at a downtown Manhattan gallery, displaying 23 of his color and black-and-white pictures taken over the last two years. Panning the exhibit altogether were the sidewalk protesters, who are fighting a city requirement that they need permits to sell artwork in parks and in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Since his first day in office, Giuliani has been waging a war on artists and artists' rights,"said painter and printmaker Robert Lederman. "He's doing this show purely to change his image, posing as an artist in the arts capital of the world."

Washington Post 3/20/2000

Capitol Police, 0
Speech Activist, 2

Lederman's quarrel with Capitol Police was fairly mild compared with his ongoing spat with New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R). He fought Giuliani in the courts over the right of artists to sell their works on the streets without a license. He won that battle, but his criticism of Giuliani hasn't stopped, and Lederman frequently has been arrested at protests of the mayor's policies. He has painted portraits that depict Giuliani as Hitler or Satan.

Washington Post 6/4/98

Mayor's on a Roll
Vendors Aren't Buying

At today's rally, which attracted about 400 vendors, street artists, and a smattering of taxi drivers, the mayor was described as: "Crueliani,""Jailiani,"and "Stalag Gholiani". Many of the protesting street artists have had their artwork confiscated this year by police after they displayed it without a permit in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue. Lederman said police have confiscated his paintings of the mayor on more than 30 occasions. He said there is one that particularly attracts the confiscatory enthusiasm of the cops: "It says 'Giuliani Equals Police State.'"

NY Times June 26, 1998

Mayor Abandons Plan
to Ban Sidewalk Vendors

The rules for food vendors will also affect street artists. Robert Lederman, a leader of the artists who has called for Mr. Giuliani's impeachment, said he was alarmed by all of the solutions being considered by the Council. Each, he asserted, would lead to the replacement of today's vendors with well-financed companies that could afford to buy the newly rationed right to sell on the sidewalk. "For the past 100 years, vendors have been poor immigrants who were struggling to establish themselves", Mr. Lederman said. "Anybody could get their start on the street. Now we're headed toward the privatization of public space".

NY Times 7/9/98
Metro Matters:

Charter Panel,
Adding Insult to Revision?

Robert Lederman, by his own account SoHo's most frequently arrested street artist, said: "I would like to offer my condolences to this distinguished panel. You do a great deal of damage to your own reputations by participating in it..."Eleven of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's 12 appointees had shown up for the hearing and they sat through it all impassively, never posing a single question, never challenging a single statement and, at least as far as this columnist could discern, never taking a single note.

Newsday, 10/10/99

Bugged by Spraying

The loudest protests heard during the city's recent campaign of insecticide spraying came from the city's tiny Green Party and the artist-agitator Robert Lederman.

From: http://www.thefire.org/offsite/abc_061201.html
TRANSCRIPT ABC NEWS 3/23/2000
hosted by John Stossel

Free Speech In America

[Note: a video of the one hour show is also available. The Giuliani portraits and this interview opened the show.]

1ST MAN Giuliani is a danger to America.

2ND MAN He's trying to tamper with the American constitution.

JOHN STOSSEL (VO) Giuliani wouldn't talk to us about this. But, to give the mayor his due, the city is in great shape today. Crime's been cut in half. And the streets, where fewer people are screaming at us, are more pleasant. Most people like what Giuliani did. But some, like Robert Lederman, suggest it's not worth the cost.

ROBERT LEDERMAN Real quality of life is not about not being bothered. It's about civil liberties. It's about freedom of speech.

JOHN STOSSEL (VO) Lederman's a street artist who sells these pictures portraying Giuliani as Hitler, making New York into a police state. For doing this, says Lederman, he's been arrested dozens of times.

ROBERT LEDERMAN You're arresting me for what, exactly?

3RD MAN Blocking the sidewalk.

JOHN STOSSEL (VO) Officials say he was arrested for things like disorderly conduct, not for his artwork. But Lederman claims the cops told him it was because of his speech.

ROBERT LEDERMAN While they're putting the handcuffs on me, they're saying, 'Hey, you know, we're really sorry, Rob, but we know you didn't do anything illegal, but that's our orders.'

JOHN STOSSEL (VO) Police wouldn't even comment on that. Now, Giuliani attributes much of the improvement in quality of life in New York to his enforcing laws, which had long been ignored. Laws against vagrancy, aggressive panhandling, against the squeegee men who wash your car windows, whether you want them washed or not. Lederman and others argue that those activities are forms of free speech, too. So, Giuliani had no right to curtail them, either. You know, people are happy that people aren't stopping us on the streets, saying, 'Spare change? Spare change?' We like that. And you're kind of like that. You're spreading your stuff around you.

ROBERT LEDERMAN Actually, I'm taking up about two inches of the sidewalk on my own car. But to answer what you're saying...

JOHN STOSSEL People like what Giuliani did.

ROBERT LEDERMAN People like what Hitler did. Does that make it right? The only reason I'm being arrested is because of the content of my message.

JOHN STOSSEL (VO) The danger is that, if government decides when people may speak, that could lead to tyranny.

ROBERT LEDERMAN If you're going to criticize elected officials, you need freedom of speech. Because they command the police, they influence the courts. They're in a position to stop you from criticizing them."

Ny Post Editorials And Op-eds On Robert Lederman's Giuliani Paintings And Signs

NY Post Editorial 6/16/98

Demonizing Rudy Giuliani

We'll say it simply: Just because people don't like Rudy Giuliani doesn't give them license to compare him to Adolf Hitler. The Hitler analogy is something that seems to amuse many people in this city. Cutesy stories have been written and published in the past week about an art installation on Madison Avenue called No York in which the mayor is depicted with a Hitler moustache. This image was first bandied about by an obnoxious twerp who claims to represent a group called A.R.T.I.S.T. - but which really ought to be called M.O.R.O.N. - who is outraged that the mayor attempted to enforce plainly written statutes regarding sidewalk clutter in front of the Metropolitan Museum. For this, the twerp (whose name we shall never again use because he deserves no more public mention) imagines that Rudy Giuliani deserves comparison with the personification of evil in this century...As the New York Times' gleeful seizure of the "bunker"story indicates, you don't have to be a cabbie, a vendor or a M.O.R.O.N. to issue forth such repulsive opinions.

N.Y. Post 8/20/98

EDITORIAL:
FREE SPEECH
OR
FREE EXHIBITION SPACE?

Thanks to Mayor Giuliani's quality-of-life program, New Yorkers no longer have to step over quite so many vagrants in order to enjoy the greenery of New York's parks or the aesthetic stimulation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Unfortunately, thanks to Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Lucy Billings, they might now find themselves navigating their way around hordes of self-described "artists"who think it's appropriate to liken politicians the y oppose to Hitler.

NY POST editorial 5/17/98

The Artist Hustle

The so-called artists who have been demonstrating outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art believe that their daubings and scratchings should be treated in the same way books are. Fair enough. But they also want an unlimited right to sell their product outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on a plaza that belongs to the Parks Department. The Artist Vendor Permit system, which, incidentally, was suggested by the ACLU, has been going since 1995. Every month 85 percent of applicants get a license, and both congestion and scuffles between rival artist-vendors are avoided. But when the Parks Department extended this reasonable system to the Metropolitan plaza earlier this year, a bunch of artist-activists who call themselves "Artists' Response to Illegal State Tactics"(yes, the acronym is ARTIST) went beserk. They held noisy demonstrations, displayed drawings of the mayor as Adolf Hitler, and made other ludicrous and offensive comparisons - including likening themselves to the democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. Then they defied the permit system and were accordingly arrested.

NY Post Editorial 3/20/99

THE GIULIANI PILE-ON

That, of course, is why Sharpton & Co. are marching against the mayor and don't even mention Bronx DA Robert Johnson, who is in charge of the investigation and whose grand jury is hearing the evidence. That's why the signs carried by those same demonstrators don't refer to Diallo but instead outrageously compare the mayor to Adolf Hitler and call for his arrest.

NY Post 3/31/99
By John Podhoretz

They're After Rudy,
Not Justice

And there's nothing a member of the liberal Establishment hates as much as a conservative anti-Establishmentarian. That's why he so enrages his foes, to the point that they happily march alongside caricatures depicting him as Hitler. That's why, in the interest of discrediting him, they are willing to make common cause with Al Sharpton, whom they would ordinarily revile.

NY Post 3/31/99

Al's 'civil-rights Coalition':
a Travesty Of Dr. King's Dream

In effect, King practiced the philosophy of personal suffering and of love. I dare say that he would have denounced those bigoted signs and banners equating the NYPD with the KKK, and depicting the mayor as ''Adolf Giuliani.'' Did the Rev. Sharpton protest those signs? Did any of the Jewish leaders or other white liberals who stood with him to rightly decry police brutality also demand that those carrying such calumny not be allowed to distract from a message of reconciliation?

Newspaper Quotes On Mayor Giuliani 'targeting' Opponents

NY Times 9/30/99

Master Image Spinner at the Center of a Web

Giuliani's PR consultant Howard Rubinstein "It is not a good idea to be on the wrong side of Giuliani. You are better off negotiating a solution than being a warrior."

NY Times 10/10/99

Common Perception:
The Mayor Will Get You for That

"The Mayor tends to take those who disagree with him as enemies to be punished,"Martin McLaughlin, a lobbyist for the cultural institutions, wrote in an E-mail circulated among museum directors...Yet many people whose livelihoods depend on City Hall say they are growing weary of the Mayor's get-even act... These grumblers, who, out of fear, demand anonymity, include builders, directors of nonprofit agencies and business leaders of nearly every stripe. "Intimidation is his full-time operating style,"said a prominent businessman who says he likes the Mayor and raises money for him, but is afraid to be even mildly critical of him in public. .."It was instant, naked retaliation,"said a state official familiar with the project. "Without question, it is the way City Hall works. In the case of the city's cultural institutions, many of which are in city-owned buildings or depend on city money for daily operations, several museum directors said privately that they took so long to criticize the Mayor because they were afraid he would punish them. "You can feel the fear and intimidation that is out there because this is an administration that engages in retribution constantly,"said Councilman Stephen DiBrienza, a Brooklyn Democrat who last year sponsored a homeless shelter bill that the Mayor did not like. Some of the Mayor's most ardent supporters, business leaders who say that his achievements in reducing crime and cleaning up the city are historically significant, are often just as afraid of him as his harshest critics...One businessman said developers were afraid to speak ill of the Mayor, even privately, for fear that word would get back to him. Similarly, the director of a private nonprofit agency that depends on the city said that she and dozens of her peers have concluded that the only way to protect the poor people they serve is never to say anything in public that the Mayor might not like.

NY Times 3/23/2002
By Robert F. Worth

Taxi Drivers Win a First Amendment Round Against the City "A federal judge ruled yesterday that city officials violated the First Amendment nearly four years ago when they blocked a demonstration in which taxi drivers planned to flood the Queensboro Bridge and Broadway with their cars during the morning rush hour. The ruling, by Judge William H. Pauley III of United States District Court in Manhattan, stated that the city's decision to disrupt the planned demonstration, on May 21, 1998, was motivated by retaliation for a one-day strike the taxi drivers had organized earlier that month, and not by concerns about traffic and safety, as the city's lawyers claimed.

Quotes On Giuliani
Abusing The Legal System
To 'target' Opponents

Daily News 10/14/99

City Lawyers
Let Public Down

The Giuliani administration has plunged into one legal morass after another. Courts have ruled against the city in its campaigns against street artists, demonstrators at City Hall, taxi drivers staging protests, marchers in Harlem and advertisers on buses...Even more troubling than this pattern of skirting and breaking the law is the apparent lack of concern about it in city government. City officials often respond to other branches of government - or members of the public who voice disagreement - with ad hominem attacks that convey a basic contempt for our system of government. Judges who rule against the city can expect scathing name-calling, like the invective the mayor heaped on the judges who heard the Million Youth March case. Private groups that have disputes with the city are, in effect, placed on an enemies list. This attitude sends a message that rules are made to be broken - or at least manipulated beyond recognition. Opponents are to be destroyed, not simply defeated.

Associated Press December 2, 1999

NYC Mayor
Hot Topic at Law Schools

Move over, Thomas Jefferson. The hottest topic at some law schools these days is New York City's Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, who's been sued two dozen times on First Amendment grounds and lost nearly every case. ``Lately it seems as if I could teach a First Amendment course just on Mayor Giuliani,'' mused Amy Adler, a professor at New York University School of Law. Professors say their favorite cases include Giuliani's attempt to cut the Brooklyn Museum of Art's funding after it displayed a painting of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung. There's also the mayor's attempt to stop New York magazine from buying ad space on city buses following its campaign poking fun at him, and the mayor's efforts to deny permits for demonstrations by groups ranging from taxi drivers to the Ku Klux Klan. ``It's important in any area of the law to try to show students that what they're learning is relevant,'' said Michael Dorff, a Columbia Law School professor. ``The beauty of living in New York is that the mayor is constantly generating classroom hypotheticals.'' ``He's like an archetype of the figure that the First Amendment was kind of aimed at protecting us from -- the government official out of control,'' said Bruce Miller, a professor at Western New England College of Law in Springfield, Mass...Jeffrey M. Shaman, a professor at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, says he uses the Giuliani cases ``to talk about the idea that offensiveness of speech is not a reason to restrict it. And we use it to talk about the tendency of some governmental officials to overreach their authority and try to regulate speech they don't like.'' Norman Siegel, the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union and party to many anti-Giuliani lawsuits, has a more blunt assessment. "The reason why I think professors are teaching Giuliani 101, in effect, is that this is a clear example of government abuse of authority,'' he said.

NY Times May 23, 1999
by BRUCE LAMBERT

The Giuliani Way:
Sue and Be Sued,
and
Sometimes Win by Losing

Most people dread going to court, but not Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He has repeatedly demonstrated during his five years at City Hall that he loves a legal battle. The Mayor has sued people ranging from street artists to President Clinton, to cite two cases he appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court. He won the suit against the President but lost his case against the artists. More often than not, Giuliani loses. Why, then, does he sue -- and get sued -- so often? Both supporters and critics cite several reasons, including his contentious style, reluctance to compromise on his policies, and his prior career as a prosecutor....Giuliani not only files lawsuits, but critics say he also provokes suits against his administration by refusing to reach compromises, or by withholding information that previous mayors made available as a matter of course...When the Mayor fails to get his way, he often voices contempt for the courts. Ordered to permit a march against police brutality, he scoffed at "the imperial Federal court"and said judges "think they're put here by God."He has scorned rulings as "idiotic,""not honest"and "the product of the Democratic machine."Some accuse Giuliani of trying to intimidate the judiciary. In 1997, the City Bar Association's president, Michael A. Cardozo, warned against attempts "to bully the courts."...Giuliani has altered the Corporation Counsel's traditional semiautonomy, critics say. In the past, the counsel advised top city officials and helped settle disputes. Now, critics say, Giuliani acts as his own counsel and uses that office against other officials...Giuliani often says, "I was a practicing lawyer for a lot longer than I was Mayor."In deciding the car-seizure policy, he said, "I spent two hours reading law books and statutes myself -- my real profession is being a lawyer."The Corporation Counsel under Dinkins, Victor A. Kovner, said of Giuliani: "Unlike his predecessors, this is a man who still thinks he is a practicing lawyer. But it's the courts who decide what the law is, not the Mayor."The critics say that Giuliani often forces litigation even when he has little chance of winning. "They use the courts with enormous frequency, not so much to test legal issues, but as a weapon,"said Eric Lane, the director of the 1989 City Charter commission and a law professor at Hofstra. Public Advocate Mark Green, who had to sue to get police brutality records, said: "The City's poor win-loss record results from a client who insists on bringing losing cases because he wants to exhaust, stall or intimidate critics. Even when he loses legally, he may have so delayed the march or investigation that he wins tactically.

NYPD Spokesperson Marilyn Mode
On Giuliani 'targeting' Robert Lederman

Jewish Week , 5/7/99

Police department spokeswoman Marilyn Mode called that claim [that I was targeted] "delusional. He has been given summonses several times for disorderly conduct. It's pathetic that he's so intent on trying to attract attention to himself."

Corporation Counsel Robin Binder
On Giuliani 'targeting' Robert Lederman

Robert Lederman, who frequently depicted Mayor Giuliani in a Hitler caricature, believes that the law enforcement action taken against him was subjectively motivated by malice on the part of the Giuliani administration...nor can plaintiffs provide any evidence tending to suggest that the enforcement actions taken against Lederman were the result of a mayoral directive of any sort. Plaintiffs cannot use the discovery process to harass Mayor Giuliani and other members of his administration simply because Robert Lederman claims, without support, that there was some sort of vendetta against him.

To a Directory of Mr.Lederman's Essays

Robert Lederman is an artist, writer and activist and is also the President of the street artist advocacy group, A.R.T.I.S.T.
Click here for an archive of A.R.T.I.S.T. related news articles on the Freedom Forum website

His essays and Op-Eds have appeared in hundreds of alternative publications as well as the Daily News, Penthouse, Africa Sun Times, Street News and The Shadow.
Lederman was falsely arrested 41 times for his anti-Giuliani activities and was never convicted of any of the charges. As a result of the arrests, he's won four Federal lawsuits and overturned three laws.
He is best known for having created hundreds of paintings of Mayor Giuliani as a Hitler like dictator which were carried in demonstrations throughout the eight years of the Giuliani administration. Images of his paintings and articles about his arrests and lawsuits have appeared on all of the major television networks hundreds of times as well as frequently appearing in the NY Times, Daily News, NY Post, Newsday, Newsweek, People, The Washington Post, LA Times and NY Magazine.

Robert Lederman,
President of A.R.T.I.S.T.
(Artists' Response To Illegal State Tactics)
robert.lederman@worldnet.att.net

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