actually, a board like that drives me even further left.

Because if it weren't for our awesome war on terror/terrorism/ferngully/Iraq, EVERY DAY WOULD BE 9/11.

if this doesn't qualify as political necrophilia, fucking the corpses of about 3,000 peoople, i don't know what is.

how about we put up billboards reminding people of the date in August 2001 when Bush ignored the report about "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the United States"?

Or a billboard reminding everyone how those 3,000 peeps families are still waiting for their victim conpensation fund...

Another such curious billboard has recently been actualized, courtesy of "Concerned Citizens for a Better America," here in Seattle, in SODO, approximately across the street from the John Stanford Re-Education Center, between Howard Schultz's big box bunker and the Metro tunnel tracks.

Only this one has a quote from Winston Churchill, some such blather about The Price of Freedom which I forget at the moment (I was hurried at that moment). And, yes, the billboard is very, very cherry red.

Or one with just the word "remember" and a picture of shrub reading "My Pet Goat".

Remember the Maine!

This is completely disrespectful to the people who died that day.

When you cast your vote, remember what an incompetent fucktard the current white house occupant is....

...and what a wet, sloppy blowjob McCain has been giving him in Congress.

Rudy's back? Cool! I miss him almost as much as Mitt.

That makes me want to barf.

Holy shit, I thought this was in rural Ohio, but it's at Western and Denny!? Jihad!!!

Can anyone verify the location of on of these? I want to climb up there and add my two cents.

I saw that billboard. It reminded me that Bush ignored the reports, never caught Bin Laden, and attacked the neighbor instead-by, err, mistake. Since then they've used our countries fears and sorrows over 9/11 to commit countless horrors. Yeah, I remember.

Go Obama.

Damn right I'll remember. I'll remember that Bush ignored all the warnings leading up to that day, and I'll remember the incredible damage that he and the Republicans did immediately afterward. I'll remember a botched war in Afghanistan, an utter fuck-up in Iraq, the scrapping of essential civil rights protections, torture, fear, and 8 long years of utter incompetence. I hope everyone else remembers as well.

Please, somebody with artistic skill... climb the ladder and get witty. Big Brother is Watching you.

"When you cast your vote, worry that Diebold is sending it off into cyberspace, uncounted, with no paper trail."

Liberals need to start turning Conservative rhetoric back against them. Remind people that 9/11 happened while a Republican was in power.

There's another one by the same group near Greenwood that says, "If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it's free."

I'm guessing it's the same group that does all the pro-lfe signs down 15th Ave. NW. They had a lot of billboards about how to say "Merry CHRISTmas, NOT Happy Holidays" a couple of months ago.

"It'll take an Obama to find and capture Osama!"

ummm, ok.

It's insane that the conservatives have so hijacked the dialogue on this that you automatically know what they mean from that kind of statement. Because on the surface, the statement itself is not absurd. I will be remembering that day when I vote (no choice there), and that will cause me to vote for someone who would have done the right thing, as opposed to someone who has the knee-jerk reaction that more war forever and ever will somehow keep us safe.

The billboard is right where Denny turns into Elliot Ave W. I think it is on the Northwest Work Lofts roof, or in the vicinity.

"Republicans Let Bin Laden Go Free"

"Republicans Invaded the Wrong Country, Killing 600,000 Innocent Moslems."

"McCain: 100 Years in Iraq"

"McCain: Helped Bush Lie Us Into War."

Yup.

The difference is Republicans and their supporters actually go put up the billboards while on our side we just talk about putting up billboards or beg for some dude to crawl up their and scribble on theirs, which would only help them spread their message on TV news, if you think about it.

We are the backbone we seek? Apparently not in the billboard wars.

All good comments, Strangerfolkies, but I'm guessing that Dan Salvage's (sic)original point (kudos!) in outing the Rape 9/11 billboard was to raise the question:

Who is bankrolling these billboards?

Is it perhaps some local, well-heeled, alleged liberal who is in fact a closeted right-wing wacko who desperately needs to be outed?

Howard Schultz? Maria Cantwell? Eddie Vedder? Sally Clark?

To quote the still-lovely-after-all-these-years David Byrne:

"Who, who is it, who, who is it, who, who is it, who?"

Just remember, Freepers are always ready to chime in. Some scary shit, as with every Free Republic thread...

@25
In an ideal world there would be no billboards. A tagged-up, changed beyond recognition billboard IS a progressive billboard.

Billboards cost money, unPC. You wanna pay for one? Unless we go with Strath's idea.

Strath et al,

Remember, only YOU can initiate detournement:

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/detourn.htm

Signed,

Smokey the Situationist

i'm not sure how this would make people vote Republican...The Republican's were in power when this happened and 9/11 led to the current war which is now incredibly unpopular.

i do. that's why i don't vote for republicans. dumbasses.

There's another one up on Lake City Way ... something about universal health care and no free lunch. Whatever.

The weirdest thing to me about this group is that they have no web presence. Their name just shows up in random comment threads.

@31--id believe that if they hadnt voted again for Bush again in 2004--and yes, even if the GOP stole Ohio, it was because it close enough for them to do so and instead should have been a decisive Democratic victory.

The only hope this time is to run a strong Democratic candidate AND to repel the GOP Smear Machine and Swiftboat gangs.

The Dems should NOT run away from 9-11. With Bin Laden still at large, with Al-Qaeda in Iraq (when it wasn't before), with Afghanistan starting to go to hell... the security issue has turned against the GOP... IF the Dems can skillfully and articulately make the case.

The old election standby for the challenger used to ask "Are you better off now than you were four (or eight) years ago?" (Worked for Reagan.)

Now it's "Are you feeling safer now than you did eight years ago?"

I almost respect their honesty on this one. Better than the stupid little code words they normally use.

When I cast my vote, I'm going to remember March 19, 2003.

Wow. It's all over the place. I also saw a commercial in passing this morning about wiretaps. "We need to strengthen our security against the terrorists who want to destroy our freedom" or something like that. It ended with "Make Congress do its job!"

Is it November yet?

Any lobbyist group with "concerned" in their name is the devil

Remember the Reichstag. Burned 75 years ago yesterday!

54-40 or FIGHT!

http://abcotv.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/25/klock_billboard_2.jpg

here's a video about the klock billboard above:

http://www.click2houston.com/news/15407246/detail.html

All that billboard really needs is
--Sincerely, My Pet Goat
at the bottom.

see also: The Billboard Liberation Front