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- ninjasavant
hi, I've been feeling a bit political lately so I want to do something but figure I should start small. Here's my idea, let me know what you think:
I live in the San Francisco area and down the street from my house is a Planned Parenthood. As such every weekend there are these religious types protesting abortion outside their office. That's all well and good, its their right to disagree and do whatever useless thing they want to show it. My problem is that they use these graphic and disgusting pictures of aborted fetuses on all of their signs to shock people.
It makes me sick. Not only is it absolutely disgusting, its not even true. The pictures they use are of late term abortions which aren't even legal in the states so they are using false information for shock value to "prove" a point. I hate them.
So here's my plan. I want to get very graphic pictures of war. Children being mutilated, people being killed, that kind of stuff and stand across the street with those pictures on signs that say things like: "War: Abortion God Gets Behind" and "Killing your own is for god-forsaken foreigners". I haven't really worked out what they could say but that's the idea. The hope is I will disgust them into leaving. Protesting the war isn't exactly the goal (I think symbolic protest is a tool for keeping people from uprising) but I'm using it for the purpose of making the other protesters leave PP alone.
My roommate is a law student so hes researching the legal side of things. Sorry for the long post. What do you guys think?
- nocomply0
I think you need to do it and post pics.
- GreedoLives0
i had this punk buddy in art school that would make giant swastica signs and go counterprotest at the clinics. he'd goosestep in front of the protesters and give them the 'heil hitler' salute.
Got himself in the paper a couple times that way.
- Mimio0
Prepare for a fight, those people get nasty. Have you considered making chalk outlines of dead adult bodys on the place where they protest? maybe chalk outlines of bombs next to dead protestors? or maybe a billboard with a bomb falling. or maybe convert their protest area into a modern war zone.
- acescence0
i think standing with them rather than across the street would piss them off much more. it would dilute their focus trying to get rid of you whilst simultaneously protesting pp.
- harlequino0
i had this punk buddy in art school that would make giant swastica signs and go counterprotest at the clinics. he'd goosestep in front of the protesters and give them the 'heil hitler' salute.
Got himself in the paper a couple times that way.
GreedoLives
(Mar 30 06, 08:44)Coffee just came out my nose, because I was imagining John Cleese, for some reason, goose stepping with swatikas.
I don't think John ever did that. Although he oggse stepped on Fawlty Towers once.
- metallegwill0
just dress up in a monkey suit and throw poop at them
- ninjasavant0
I've spent a while thinking about this. When I was little, my mom used to bring me to those protests (I was raised Baptist). I've since become a Buddhist and what my fascist brother calls a liberal idiot. I know what they're capable of so I don't want to sink to the level of the mob. I just want to stand quietly across the street with the signs pointed directly at them so they can see the war that a majority of the religious right sponsors. That way they shouldn't have the chance to villianize me and the cops won't hassle me. Conflict will only fuel their resolve.
- Rand0
the rapture will clean the scum off the streets
- ninjasavant0
And take Kirk Cameron and Mel Gibson, everybody wins!
- acescence0
one day, a rain will come...
- Sven_sk0
rad idea. you should throw rotten tomatoes at them too.
- Mimio0
Good luck anyways. I hope you're heard.
- harlequino0
I think the war protest idea, while good, might overshadow your intentions. It will wind up being about the war.
How something really absurd and equally offensive? Think: Fetus pinatas.
Or, Make signs that are very much FOR abortion. Not pro-choice, but pro-abortion as an alternative population control solution. Get extreme. Be actively in support of killing off children. In the womb, out of the womb, doesn't matter. Go nuts!
- ninjasavant0
thanks harlequino, you have started my plans for "phase 2"
:)
- e_b_c0
Go as an anti abortion protester and find out where the majority go to church. I assume most will come from the same congregation. The next weekend, take your war protest to their place of worship. Carry signs that say "Postpartum abortion" on top of war photos.
Granted, it's a little eye-for-an-eye.
- blastofv0
interesting intentions for sure, but aren't you essentialy just planning on protesting the protests of other protesters? seems kind of futile, even though I agree with you 100%. is it really worth the time and effort?
I'm anti-religious-nut just like you, but it definitely won't make them leave, so you might find yourself banging your head against the wall
- _salisae_0
One kind of ugliness alone is incapable of being represented conformably to nature without destroying all aesthetic delight and consequently artistic beauty, namely, that which excites disgust.
- e_b_c0
better yet!
get the same signs they have and point them back at them. there are few things as annoying as someone who embraces what you find deplorable.
- lowimpakt0
I don't understand the premise of your protest - your slogans don't make a counter argument.
why not just steal their signs.