Domestic Enemies: the Reconquista
“The maroon-colored five-story building spread like a malignancy between the feet of soaring glass and steel office towers in downtown San Diego. Most people hated the grim prison-like appearance of the Federal Building, but Bullard loved it. Its forbidding appearance instilled a healthy dose of fear into those unfortunates commanded to enter it on official business. In front of the main entrance foyer, in the middle of an enclosed quadrangle, was quite possibly the most hideous piece of publi...c sculpture ever commissioned, anywhere or anytime. This was an angular black steel pinnacle, leaning over precariously, and tapering to a needle sharp point at the end of its fifty-foot length. Bullard liked to imagine screaming tax delinquents being thrown down and impaled on its brutally cruel tip, to slowly perish like insects stabbed by an entomologist’s pin. (Of course, he kept these private thoughts strictly to himself.) Today his staff had scheduled a half hour of “community outreach.”MoreLess
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