Posters and T-Shirts at Tea Party, Town Hall, and 9-12 Rallies Help Convey Important Political Messages and Themes.· Posters and T-Shirts have become essential political tools for political rallies such as Tea-Parties, Town Halls and 9-12 Rallies.
Posters
and T-Shirts at Tea Party, Town Hall, and 9-12 Rallies Help Convey Important
Political Messages and Themes.·
By Jim
Wrenn, Editor.
April 1, 2010--
In addition to hand-made signs, the display of artistic posters and T-shirts at Tea Party, Town
Hall, and 9-12 Rallies help convey important political messages and
themes. Posters and T-shirts that are eye-catching and clever without
being offensive can help overpower the inevitable presence of offensive posters
because in a free country it's virtually impossible for responsible citizens
to prevent irresponsible people from attending large events and displaying
offensive material in doing so. The greater the number of inoffensive
hand-made signs and artistic posters and T-shirts, the greater the effect of
overpowering the presence of a few offensive posters, signs or t-shirts.
Click image above for link to poster
Political waterboarding as ObamaCare therapy for the
Pre-Existing Condtion of "Tea-Party Syndrome"
This leads to the question, "What do you mean by 'offensive' or
'inoffensive'?" To understand what I mean by
"offensive," click
here or scroll down to view that part of this commentary.
To illustrate the kinds of signs/posters/T-shirts I
think are not offensive, I've included in this commentary
descriptions of (and links to) illustrative examples. I've also included
displays of (and links to) several examples (one of which are
mine). The example at the right mocks ObamaCare supporters'
attacks on ObamaCare opponents for pointing out that ObamaCare supporters made
false claims about the nature, scope and time of implementation of prohibitions
against insurance companies denying coverage for pre-existing conditions
existing at the time applicants first apply for coverage-- i.e., the
equivalent of condemning fire-insurance companies for wanting to deny coverage
for a fire already raging at the time the applicant sought to obtain fire
insurance for the property already being consumed by fire. Given the
pedal-to-the-metal attacks by ObamaCare supporters on ObamaCare opponents for
exposing false claims by supporters, this poster makes it clear the kind of
"pre-existing condition" to which "ObamaCare" would apply as
well as an illustration of the kind of political "treatment" ObamaCare
would offer to persons "afflicted" with such "pre-existing
condition"-- i.e., the "tea-party syndrome."
The "Enlist in the IRS" poster to the left draws attention to the fact
that ObamaCare designates the IRS as the agency to enforce the ObamaCare
requirement that everyone acquire "health care" coverage approved
under criteria to be promulgated by faceless federal bureaucrats. This
aspect of ObamaCare ought to bury the needle on the anger meter of anyone who
values freedom. It's mind-boggling that we've reached a point in
America when political leaders think it's constitutional for the federal
government to dictate to private citizens the type of "health-care"
insurance they must acquire.
Click image above for link to poster
In contrast to Bush 43, who dismissed unrelentingly hateful and
violence-inciting attacks on him as "free speech," the Obama
Administration is as thin-skinned as any other group of leftists,
progressives, Marxists or socialists. They attempt to demonize
opponents and critics as "haters" and
"bigots."
Click image above for link to poster
And the Obama Administration is not simply waging political warfare against
critics, it's also waging an unrelenting "moral" crusade against
"profit" and "corporate" America. Even worse, Obama
considers the American constitutional concept of imposing limitations on
government in favor of individual rights to be flawed because it "fails to
say what the government must do for you," which
comments you can hear in his own words here. Perhaps the
greatest threat to freedom is empowering government to do "good," which
encourages empowered officials to view their powers as boundless and to view recalcitrance of
their "subjects" to bend their behavior towards the will of the
leaders as subversion.
Click image above for link to poster
Few people can understand this as well as those who have lived under such a
system. One such person is Oleg Atbashian, who emigrated from Ukraine to
the United States shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union. His
website, which is one of the most popular on the internet, is ThePeoplesCube.Com,
which depicts how collectivists view themselves and the sweating masses for whom
they feel contempt while nevertheless professing boundless compassion for
them. Today, April 1, 2010, is the five-year anniversary of the
Cube. Oleg
also writes for the Pajamas Media. He's written extensively
about how the trends in the United States are taking us in the direction of the
statist system from which he so gladly departed for freedom in the United
States. Anyone who knows Oleg knows that he understands American culture
and American history far, far better than a large majority of natural-born
American college graduates today. As one who has been privileged to be his
friend, I stand in awe such knowledge and insights on his part.
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Obama's "apology" tour set a record in blaming the greatest number of
the world's problems on the United .States. It was stock, off-the-shelf,
leftist, progressive propaganda. He utterly failed (until his speech
accepting the Nobel Prize-- for
which I gave him credit) to give credit to the United States for
having been the most stabilizing force in the world against tyranny for the
second half of the Twentieth Century. I also give him 3/4 credit for
having made a 3/4 correct decision in providing General McChrystal 3/4 of the
number of additional troops he requested for Afghanistan. I give him
credit for what appears to have been an increasingly effective utilization of
Predator drones over Pakistan and Afghanistan to hasten jihadist leaders' appointments with "72 virgins
in heaven."
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But he remains most sensitive to his opponents' characterization of his
political philosophy as fundamentally socialist and Marxist in nature. Why
is he so sensitive to such characterization? Because, as the old saying
goes, the truth hurts. He (like most on the American left) thinks
socialism failed in the Soviet Union simply because it wasn't done well rather
than because it's a fundamentally flawed political concept at war with the very
nature of freedom and liberty our Constitution guarantees. He and they are utopian socialists at heart.
Another form of utopianism he and the left embrace is what I first termed "pantheopianism"
back in the year 2000. "Pantheopianism" is the worship of nature
(pantheism) with the zealotry of utopians-- hence, "pantheopianism."
It's the religion of Global Warming masquerading as "indisputable
science." But what they contend to be beyond scientific debate is
nothing more than the basis for their crusade for
leftists/progressives/Marxists/Socialists to prescribe down to the most mundane
detail how the sweating masses should lead their lives.
Finally, to
illustrate what I mean by "offensive," this commentary does not display, or
provide links to, such posters/T-shirts (and
some don't even have the decency to wear t-shirts). Instead, it
provides links to sites which display them for the sole purpose of identifying
them as examples of offensive signs/posters/T-shirts-- For examples, go
here (to see the hate-themes of the left, scroll-down past the
pictures from the recent tea-party rally in Harry Reid's home town of
Searchlight, Nevada).
Jim is a proud descendant of 18th Century criminal exiles from England who swam to the Outer Banks when the British ship taking them to a Georgia penal colony sank in a storm near Cape Hatteras. Having the prescience to prevent their descendants from becoming "TarHeels," they immediately migrated to Virginia, where, within just a few generations they worked their way up into poverty. Jim's grandfather was the first in the family tree to see the distant horizons, but his career was cut short by severe injuries he sustained when a cousin cut down the tree.
After a brief stint in the Amry (ours) following graduation from law school, he began his legal career in the state bureaucracy but was never able to break into the federal bureaucracy. Several years later, he entered the private practice of law and co-founded a small law publishing company. Later, finding the publishing of small laws unstimulating and finding his private practice too private to be lucrative, he began writing political satire/commentary. His greatest vice is taking himself too seriously.
Although he regularly teaches Continuing Legal Education courses to lawyers, he's too-often available through he Rubber Chicken Speakers Bureau to speak on politics, satire, etc., at luncheons, dinners, root canals, funerals, etc. His speaking fees are so outrageously high they border on criminal price-gouging, but as a free-market advocate, he defends his fees on the higher moral ground of charging whatever the traffic will bear. For more information (surely more than one would want or need), go to www.PoliSat.Com.