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Have a Political Bumper Sticker? The FBI Might Be Snapping Photos of You (muckrock.com)
v3rgEz writes: Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of Food Not Bombs, the peace organization that seeks to democratically divert military spending into free food for the needy. But as documents recently obtained by MuckRock show, even such tepid support as a bumper sticker for the outspoken anti-violence organization could land you in FBI files. Read on for yet another example of how the FBI puts war protesters, Juggalos, and animal rights activists in the same category as organized crime and terrorist groups.
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The car photo in the story has dozens of bumper stickers plastered over the back; it's hardly a single political bumper sticker. The person wanted to get noticed and should not be surprised to have someone take a pic of his car--or, if the FBI is there, to have them grab a picture for file art. If you're out investigating and see something that sticks out that much, wouldn't you take a picture of it?
Time to slap stickers on random people's cars in parking lots.
Enjoy the increased signal to noise ratio mister FBI man!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
A while back I saw a study about bumper stickers and traffic tickets. You're more likely to get a traffic ticket if you have an anti-police ("I shot the pig!") or pro-crime ("Legalized pot forever!") on the rear bumper. You're less likely to get a traffic ticket for having bumper stickers on the front bumper. Go figure.
I'll put this bumper sticker on the left side of my car:
"Attention FBI: This car best photographed from the right side."
and on the right side of my car:
"Attention FBI: This car best photographed from the left side."
Then put some other nutty bumper stickers in between, and wait for the fun to start!
People who had Ron Paul bumper stickers were placed on DHS watch lists, which we all know gets shared with everyone else _including_ the FBI (Remember fusion centers right?). It only takes 1 of something to get you on a list, and like TFA demonstrates simply following a particular band like ICP will get you labelled and placed on a list.
Oh, and to be perfectly clear, we _KNOW_ that people were put on lists for being Ron Paul supporters. It took years for people to get removed and of course the Government "claims" that they don't do that any more. If you believe the Government.. well, you are beyond help.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
The president is near?
I've found, purely by instinct, a way to deal with passive-aggressive Vegans. I threw a party several years ago, and had no idea that the date of a guy I had known from a previous job, was a hard-core vegan. Things had already gone wrong (kitchen set off the smoke alarm, and a neighbor's dog had gotten into the yard. . .), when she loudly complained that there were no Vegan Entrees.
I opened the back door, pointed to the lawn, and told her to graze to her heart's content. . .
When she stomped out, I got a small ovation from the other attendees. . . (grin)
I know, those people with the "Coexist" and "Bark less, wag more" bumper stickers are SUCH aggressive assholes, am I right?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I remember reading about this study this years ago, it shows that people with more bumper stickers are more likely to be involved in road rage incidents. The theory is, people who personalize their vehicle tend to view the vehicle as their own private space, even when on the public roads. Because they are in their own private space, they literally do feel that they own the road.
http://www.nature.com/news/200...
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
We can sit around and poke fun at vegans, Juggalos, PETA, and all the other groups that are super easy to/we love to hate. That's precisely why this article is propaganda, as you shouldn't think for a second that "political statements" like being pro-encryption, rooting for Apple, anti-authoritarian, or against a police state doesn't also land you on the same lists.
It's fun to joke around and all, but allowing any ridiculous-yet-innocuous activities be branded as terrorism just opens the door for the totalitarians to brand any common sense political leanings the same way. You know, I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Juggalo...or whatever.
I suppose I could get on the FBI's good side by adding a 'Lavrentiy Beria for US Attorney General' sticker.
Have gnu, will travel.
...Karl Marx himself wrote approvingly of the yankee aggression in Horace Greeley's newspaper.
It appears that the AC is correct:
Karl Marx ... took Alexander Stephens, the vice president of the Confederacy, at his word when Stephens proclaimed what Southern secession was really all about. Wrote Marx:
The question of the principle of the American Civil War is answered by the battle slogan with which the South broke the peace. Stephens ... declared in the secession Congress, that what essentially distinguished the Constitution hatched at Montgomery from the Constitution of the Washingtons and Jeffersons was that for now for the first time slavery was recognized as institution for good in itself, and as the foundation of the whole state edifice, whereas the revolutionary fathers, men steeped in the prejudices of the eighteenth century, had treated slavery as an evil imported from England and to be eliminated in the course of time.
Marx continued:
The cultivation of the Southern export articles, cotton, tobacco, sugar, etc., carried on by slaves, is only renumerative as long as it is conducted with large gangs of slaves, on a mass scale and on wide expanses of a naturally fertile soil, which requires only simple labor. Intensive cultivation, which depends less on fertility of the soil than on investment of capital, intelligence and energy of labor, is contrary to the nature of slavery.
Please mod the AC's post Informative. Thanks.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Your ilk who want to shut everyone up who disagrees with your progressive, anti-human agenda by branding them as racists?
I'm not trying to shut you up. I have no problem with you going up to a group of young black men and calling them {church bells]. If they beat your sorry ass to a pulp, don't come crying to me about how your First Amendment right got infringed. You started a fight by opening your mouth, pay the price for your freedom.
Free speech shouldn't have "consequences", that's authoritarian speak for not having the right to free speech.
Free speech has consequences. If it didn't, no one would die to protect it.
Trying to keep cats on a diet without meat is abuse, potentially fatal. The only way to have a cat thrive on a vegan diet is to use all parts of the vegan, for different nutritional values.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes