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It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler

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    It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler

    An advert showing a close-up picture of Tony Blair with a barcode on his top lip was not offensive, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.

    The advert appeared in The Guardian newspaper with the strapline: "ID cards have worked well in Europe before." Eight people complained that they thought the barcode made Blair resemble Hitler.
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11...ir_not_hitler/

    Freedom for speech etc !!!


    #2
    I particularly like this bit:

    They said the ad was intended to be insulting to Tony Blair but argued that insulting a politician was unlikely to offend.
    About right...

    Older and ...well, just older!!

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      #3
      It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler
      Yes. Well we pretty much live in a totalitarian society where the populace is coerced to support New Labour and where those intolerant of liberal ideals are branded as outcasts.

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        #4
        It's rather good, actually.

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          #5
          What is saddest is the complainers thought they'd get anywhere by making a complaint, and then all the public money wasted on generating a ruling. Couldn't they hire a temp to hit a "return to sender and tell them not to be such a pillock" button?
          Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
          threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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            #6
            Well, if Hitler was alive (and Blakey from On The Buses is a strong candidate), he'd be suing for defamation of character.

            I mean, imagine, who would want to look like TB, for crikey's sake ?
            Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

            C.S. Lewis

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              #7
              Originally posted by Ardesco
              It is OK to make a poster that shows BLiar looking like hitler

              Yes. Next!
              "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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