Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Do The Math.


The guy who put up this sign, "Liar Tap", just wrote in to tell me that this one:

was still up after six days. The sign cost me about fifty cents in materials, took about an hour to paint, if that, and by now has probably been read close to a million times, if not more.





If you can think of a more effective way to spread a message, let me know.

2 comments:

Freewayblogger said...

Hi Benjammin, and thanks for your enthusiasm and ambition, keep me posted on how it goes. Although I feature large signs on the site, small signs give by far more bang for the buck, and I'd encourage you to try a couple while planning your magnum opus. Even Curtis LeMay had to learn how to fly first:

http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2005/12/as-easy-as-it-gets.html

In general, I'm trying to get people to go for the numbers: smaller, easy to make and post signs on several freeways as a matter of habit as opposed to large, spectacular and labor-intensive signs like you're describing. Not that there's anything wrong with going big and bold... I'm not in the habit of telling people not to speak out... but the paradigm of the left so far has been to organize a lot of people either for banner-drops, demonstrations or vigils, with the unintended consequence of leaving the individual feeling powerless without a whole lot of other people working with them. This has hurt us, I believe, badly.

If you're planning to stand by a large sign, do two things first: call your local ACLU or National Lawyer's Guild and have a chat with them. They're great people and there to help American citizens with precisely these sorts of situations. Your choice of beginning with "Free Speech: Use it or lose it." is a good one. When cops come and you do whatever they say, right or wrong, they can't touch you. If you decide to make a stand, you've chosen the appropriate text to stand by.

Again, best of luck and keep me posted, but do give some thought to at least doing a couple of runs of smaller signs using guerrilla placement... it's a hell of a lot of fun. Peace, Scarlet

Dan said...

What's "Liar Tap" mean?