FEAR! REPORT!! OBEY!!!

[catsidhe]

Stasi Press Advertisement
Originally uploaded by catsidhe

I see they're playing these again.



Plus ça change, plus ç'est la même chose. Hail Eris.

Comments

[pearl]

The real pleasure is in the big posters, when you can more clearly read the examples of suspicious behaviour. My favourite was along the lines of 'they didn't show up for work today and their phone number was disconnected,'

I must be some sort of trusting person for not automatically thinking 'terrorism!'

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

Did you notice how I made this version more accurate?

[pearl]

Mmmhmmm.

I remember one of the activist-focused groups on campus made their own, A3 sized versions, but I can't for the life of me remember if it was about the terrorism hotline, or if it was about something else. I remember being impressed though.

And on a lot of trains, when these ads were on the inside, they were similarly defaced.

(Not that I'm implying you hadn't realised other people have done similar things! Just... rambling.)

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Heh. Break the bonds of trust indeed.

Is the line "keep the information flowing" part of the original or your mash up? It would be excruciatingly ironic if it was original, given the Internet censorship they're pushing at the moment...

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

That part is entirely original and untouched.

Irony was taken and staked out over an anthill decades ago.

[omnot.livejournal.com]

The original makes me quail and fume all at once. (Does that make me a seamed quail?)

Yours is much better. So much so that, with your permission, I will make large, glossy prints of it to put up in public places.

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

Go nuts.

[sjl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw one on the way to work, and immediately started thinking about printing out carefully sized stickers to place over the original. Sooooo tempted...