Explain this anti-protest sign to me

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I was just browsing an online album of photos taken during the protests in New York yesterday. http://www.lisawhiteman.com/hfiles/photoalbum/rnc/rncframeset.html

I came across this photo of an anti-protester. What is the point he is trying to make with his "content rich" sign? Jesus is an arms dealer? :confused:

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I think the top of the sign is cut off. There may be another word up there that clears all this up. I can think of a lot of things that might grammatically make sense (most of them with four letters), but the collage of weaponry remains a mystery.
 
the full sign says "support president bush...trust jesus"
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After all, GWB is just following what jesus says to do, right? simply put, it's sarcastic.

edit: picture found by google's image search.
 
Isn't "anti-protestor" a redundancy? Surely a protestor is by definition against something...

Or is he against protesting? Kind of a hypocrite then, isn't he?

:D
 
Like all short slogans, the more you think about it, the more possible interpretations you can imagine. Perhaps it's supposed to mean "Support Bush...and trust Jesus to sort out all the mess that results."
 
TragicMonkey said:
Like all short slogans, the more you think about it, the more possible interpretations you can imagine. Perhaps it's supposed to mean "Support Bush...and trust Jesus to sort out all the mess that results."
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"Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out."

Oh, wait, we weren't supposed to be harping on Viet Nam.
 
Trust Jesus but carry a big stick cuz Jesus might not really be able to help after all.

:dl:
 
glsunder said:
After all, GWB is just following what jesus says to do, right? simply put, it's sarcastic.
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It's not sarcastic because the person carrying it is pro-Bush.

I found a mention of it in a news story here:
The marchers were met with spirited, if limited, opposition. A large group confronted people on the sidewalks holding pro-Bush signs, for example, and heated exchanges took place. Ruben Israel, who was holding a sign that read: “Support President Bush — Trust Jesus,” at one point was surrounded by angry marchers at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 34th Street.

“The Big Apple is rotten, and all of you are lunatics,” said the Los Angeles man, who described himself as a “right-wing conservative Christian.” He began shouting “Trust Jesus!” to marchers, who responded with the chant: “Who would Jesus bomb?”
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And here is the same guy with the same sign protesting at the DNC. And here. And this commentary on Ruben Israel and his sign is pretty funny:
That man breaks the sound barrier of crazy, and I salute his courage to be that insane in public.
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:D
 
"It's not sarcastic because the person carrying it is pro-Bush."

You're right. His sign made total sense from an anti-bush point of view.
 
I love the links with the posters proclaiming that Jesus and God hate sodomy and other sins.

The best definition of "hate" you're ever going to come across is from Spinoza: Hate is an emotion of pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause.

So the omnipotent, eternal God feels pain when he sees sodomy? Not so omnipotent, is he, if he can feel pain...?

There is something external to the infinite and eternal God? You mean something exists that is separate from God?

Just picking some religious, philosophical, and logical nits. Back to politics. :D
 
One of these days I plan to go to a rally on a topic that I think is utterly asinine and/or is beating a dead horse. With me, will be a big, blank sign.

As soon as I have the inclination to find a rally that meets those criteria I'm going to do it.

Alternately, I should have gone to the conventions and tried to piss both sides off. (Both the protesters and the anti-protesters)
 
LostAngeles said:
One of these days I plan to go to a rally on a topic that I think is utterly asinine and/or is beating a dead horse. With me, will be a big, blank sign.
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Upcoming Nationwide Actions Page

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Los Angeles Pro Israel Rally

Sunday 12 September 2004

L.A. Pro Israel Rally

Sun 9/12, 1-3 pm. Please bring water, we provide flags and signs. Show your love and support of Israel. We will also be fund raising for: OneFamily---helping Victims of Terror and their families in Israel. Corner of Wilshire and Veteran in Westwood, Los Angeles, Suzanne Davidson, 818-395-0414, Jewish, The L.A. Pro Israel Rally Committee
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I think a blank protest sign would be absolutely perfect at a Braille rally.
BTW, upcoming is a Braille rally, where the rally written instructions are translated into Braille, and local disadvantaged kids are used as navigators.
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Edited to add: Just imagine people trying to "read" it...
 
Luke T. said:
Upcoming Nationwide Actions Page

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Los Angeles Pro Israel Rally
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Scared the hell out of me when I read the location and not that date, as it's by my work and I have to go through that intersection to get home. It's a popular place for protests as it's the location of the Federal Building, about a mile away from UCLA campus, across from VA hospital and by National Guard base.

Needless to say I was stuck in traffic quite a bit before the Iraq war and there are still protesters there daily holding up such signs as "Bush lied, impeach now" and pictures of dead babies while handing out anti-bush bumper stickers.
 
BPSCG said:
"Kill 'em all. Let God sort 'em out."

Oh, wait, we weren't supposed to be harping on Viet Nam.
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Actually that slogan goes back to Oliver Cromwell in the form "Kill them all, the Lord will know His own." He was talking about the Irish.

As for the sign, I'd say the guy just didn't think it through.

Much like the sign often seen on the other side:

TRUTH ==>
<== BUSH

The idea is that "Bush" and "Truth" are in opposite directions, but the initial subliminal impression is to associate "Bush" with "Truth". Not well thought out at all.
 
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