I have been inspired by a great blog and a comment on my own blog. Looking at the 'Church Of Hate' blog (find on my friends list or @ http://churchofhate.blog.co.uk ) I was rather taken with the idea of purposefully breaking the new anti terror laws on supposedly condoning or inciting terrorism in order to demonstrate both their amoral and impractical nature.
Reading graemephillipsuk's comment on yesterday's post, 'who are you', a specific way to do this came to mind. The sheer hypocrisy apparent in our definition of the word terrorism is just so frustrating and I found myself beset with the soon-to-be-illegal-image of a T-shirt baring the stark logo: WE ARE TERRORISTS TOO across a Union Jack.
One possible drawback to this specific thought is that it may alienate too many people in the mainstream and in fact increase support for the governments new measures, the wider idea, however, is still sound. What we need is a simple graphic, possibly a slogan but better an image, the publication and distribution of which would be utterly and clearly in breach of the new laws.
Something humorous would probably be most effective in avoiding the pitfall mentioned above and something very stark and simple could be posted on blogs, printed on flyers and T-shirts, (that iron-on T-shirt printer paper is a really cheap and easy way to make up T's,) and stencilled just about anywhere.
What I'm asking of you guys today is to have a think about it and let me know if you have any ideas. It has to be simple, funny and highly illegal under the new laws. At best it might make some small difference to the state of our nation, at worst it'll be a bit of laugh.
Some of you guys on my friends list are creative types, artists, writers, designers, and others are politically minded, but whoever you are, friend, blogger, visitor and wherever you're coming from, surely between us we can come up with something great. We have nothing to lose so come on, let's do this thing! ![]()
PS Please feel free to leave comments with your ideas or email me any graphics you come up with, (check my profile for my email address,) do remember though that whatever you come up with may end up being widely copied and distributed for free.
