‘Freedom lover’ behind ‘Obama Joker’ posters
Sunday, August 30th, 2009
The Toronto Star picked up the phone and called Alex Jones? +1 for doing their job and taking note of one of the fastest growing social protest movements in the US, by name, and in a balanced manner. Incidentally, this journal has read reports that some do not understand the poster, or view its message as confused. Let StatismWatch be your guide to meme interpretation: The Joker is a villain. The explicit message is – Obama (or, if you prefer, his policies) are villainous. If you’re not sure why one earth one might think that, there’s a small selection of this most recent administration’s calumny documented below. He’s backed and run by Wall Street and it’s hard to see much daylight between his policies and those of his equally villainous predecessor. Perhaps Alex Jones’ movie The Obama Deception makes the case best. Watch it here for free.
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Danielle Wong, Toronto Star
August 30, 2009
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| A viral “Obama Joker” poster campaign last month calls for people to put up as many posters of U.S. President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s villainous character from the Batman epic The Dark Knight as possible in public and to post videos on YouTube. |
If you’re offended by the startling images of U.S. President Barack Obama smeared with clown makeup posted around Toronto, American libertarian radio talk show host and “alternative news” blogger Alex Jones says brace yourself.
“People are getting more aggressive because they realize being nice isn’t getting them anywhere,” said Jones, 35. “This is just the beginning.”
The self-proclaimed “freedom lover” from Austin, Tex., who runs American website infowars.com, launched a viral “Obama Joker” poster campaign last month, calling for people to put up as many posters of Obama as Heath Ledger’s villainous character from the Batman epic The Dark Knight as possible and to post videos on YouTube.
While Canadians have been known to be more moderate in critiquing their political leaders, the in-your-face poster campaign appears to have caught on around the city, with the placards plastered along University Ave.
A radical plan to raise £100 billion by privatising the motorway network has been presented to the three main political parties by NM Rothschild, the influential investment bank.