Wanted For Sedition

Many, many years ago a poster hung in my apartment in New York City. The poster was done by Art Young, I believe in 1917. It was promoted and carried around by one of the great radicals that I knew and admired, Ammon Hennacy. The poster is below and depicts Jesus as being wanted for his strange and at times radical beliefs, for hanging out with the poor and down and outs, for agitating.

I was reminded of this poster as I listened to and watched a tape of Rush Limbaugh criticizing Pope Francis as a Marxist and for questioning an economy that leaves many suffering. Francis talked about the idolatry of money, etc. What he said really wasn't that radical, but he said it pretty clearly and with passion.

Art Young, the cartoonist, writer and artist started out as a republican but became a well known socialist writing for The Masses and other leftist publications.