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Gregory Cartelli – The Present Danger is Ended – Artist's Statement – May 2012 The Present Danger Is Ended traces the emotional and physical landscape of the early 21st century wherein the fears of the post 9/11 world have coalesced into an idle hyperawareness. There is a stillness and malaise in the United States that hearkens back to the paranoia of the cold war era. An enclavic attitude persists from when suburbs were designed to be self-sufficient fortress communities and highways were built to allow for the influx of military troops into cities, as well as the exodus of their inhabitants. This hyperawareness is embodied in technological advances that only serve to remove us from the present day. The images in this project emerge from the junction of paranoia, futurism, and preservation. We are swathing ourselves in protective material designed to keep out what we have brought into being. Niche businesses manufacture clothing designed to ward away wi-fi and cell phone radiation from our bodies. We have begun to manufacture our worlds, to keep them hermetically sealed from the dangers outside their perimeters. This aspect of our world conjures up an Eden, but one of mediocrity - of stasis. There is neither fall nor temptation here, only rigor and maintenance. This vision brings to mind past utopic attempts, each with its own plan for the future. The Biosphere, Sealand, Arcosanti, old bunkers and discontented citizens forming fictional states and micro nations, exemplify the idea of world building. It is a type of freedom, an escape, but it is delimiting to suddenly become so small. Because we are attempting to commit ourselves to memory while projecting ourselves into the future, we end up stranded in-between the two, waiting for the next threat to emerge.

When the word "law" is juxtaposed with the word "religion," an American lawyer today is apt to think immediately of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution with its double protection against any governmental interference in "the free exercise" of religion on the one hand and against any governmental "establishment" of religion on the other. From the standpoint of contemporary American constitutional law, religion has become the personal and private affair of individual citizens or groups of citizens. Indeed, in recent decades our courts, in interpreting the "free exercise" clause, have gone far toward immunizing individual and group activities from governmental control, whether federal or state, whenever they are considered by the persons engaging in them to be of a religious character; and at the same time, under the "establishment" clause the courts have struck down most forms even of indirect governmental support of religion, whether federal or state.

The report discusses the committee on foreign Investment in the United States and the aim of this program is to make attracting foreign investment as important a component of U.S. foreign policy as promoting exports.

"January 1992." ; Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. ; At head of title: 102d Congress, 2d session. Committee print. ; Mode of access: Internet.

At head of title: 90th Congress, 2d session. Joint committee print. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Serial no. J-109-39." ; Shipping list no.: 2006-0179-P. ; Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche. ; "Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary." ; Mode of access: Internet.