Invaders Media | INSERT COIN Size 40cm x 50cm x 8cm #Neon frame With over 250 #wars since #WWII the Military-Industrial Complex seen growth. Bolstered by The Cold War budget of £8 Trillion dollars, The has War on Drugs at well over $1 trillion dollars and The War on Terror budget about to smash through $6 Trillion #dollars to date. With no end in sight, is nobody #asking who’s #playing and who is paying? And there are plenty of ways to pay… The #GlobalPeaceIndex calculated that in 2012 #violence cost $9,460,000,000,000; that’s 11% of gross world product. #Conflict doesn’t just affect the area of conflict, it affects everyone. “Of all the evils to public liberty, #war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of #armies; from these proceed #debts and #taxes. Armies, debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the #dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its #influence in dealing out offices, honours, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its #freedom in the midst of continual warfare.” - James Madison Political Observations, Apr. 20, 1795 - the fourth #President of the United States (1809–1817). "#Dictatorship naturally arises out of #democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and #slavery out of the most extreme #liberty." - #Plato 428 B.C. A person that thinks I just paint #guns and #bullets is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that is closer to what I intended; each #Invader is made of fired bullets, signed, numbered and a surplus or illicit #weapon is #destroyed. #onelessgun #gunneutral #art https://www.instagram.com/p/BztBsjyFg2t/?igshid=17yzwc3ny7lrx