Juxtapositions: London Riots & Civil Disobedience

[Cramulus]

(split from political cartoon thread)

I'm making images which pair up quotes about the riots with imagery from libya or american civil disobedience.




the spark for this image was an idea from my buddy Aestetix:

In light of how the media seems to treat civil disobedience today, it seems worthwhile to look at praised examples of protests in American history and rewrite the headlines to how they would show up in modern mainstream news.

Example, Rosa Parks: "She wouldn't get off the bus when the conductor told her to. She prevented dozens of regular people from getting home to their families. Why couldn't she follow the rules like everyone else?"

[Cramulus]

[Cramulus]

[Scribbly]

I love it! 

Something like this, maybe?

[Cramulus]

yep, you exactly nailed it  

and the boston tea party is the perfect subject

[Adios]

I like where this is going.

[Doktor Howl]

Thread of the decade.

[Cain]

Hazel Blears is a fine one to talk about discipline and avenues, incidentally.  One would think throwing a hissy fit and trying to get a civil servant fired for appearing in the paper with another party's MP would be seen as...petty and vindictive.

Also, it needs to be pointed out somewhere that MPs have been looting the country for decades (via the expenses scandal) and so have the bankers, and only a few MPs have gone to prison, and no bankers.  But the looters have been processed through the system with incredible speed and efficiency.

[Adios]

Hazel Blears is a fine one to talk about discipline and avenues, incidentally.  One would think throwing a hissy fit and trying to get a civil servant fired for appearing in the paper with another party's MP would be seen as...petty and vindictive.

Also, it needs to be pointed out somewhere that MPs have been looting the country for decades (via the expenses scandal) and so have the bankers, and only a few MPs have gone to prison, and no bankers.  But the looters have been processed through the system with incredible speed and efficiency.

Gangs have always protected their turf against interlopers.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This thread is win!

[Doktor Howl]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

[East Coast Hustle]

Fucking LOVE this thread.

uber- to you, Cram.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

More please.

[Jenne]

Thread of the decade.

This thread is win!

Fucking LOVE this thread.

uber- to you, Cram.

More please.

AWESOMENESS to the MAX.

Since I was just in Wash, DC...and went to some Civil War battlefields...strikes home quite a bit.