This bumper sticker has got to be one of the most righteously gutsy designs that I’ve seen in a long time: Oppose the Troops – Violence is Immoral.
Hoo baby.
It’s got a point, doesn’t it? You know it does, but this bumper sticker makes you feel uncomfortable, right? I mean, saying that you don’t support the troops is, in the current political climate, like saying that you’ve decided not to breathe any more. It’s ideological suicide… or at least it’s purported to be.
After all, how could you oppose the troops? They’re fighting and dying to protect our freedoms from… uh… well… from… They’re not really fighting to protect our freedoms, are they? On the contrary, it’s the war that the “troops” fight that is being used as an excuse to destroy American freedom.
Do you support the troops when they shoot to kill? Do you really? Do you support them occupying someone else’s country? Do you? Do you support the troops in the way that they obey whatever other people tell them to do, no matter how outrageous? Do you support them in Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay?
Are you really okay with what the troops are doing? Do you really support them?
Hey, you’re not running for public office, and I doubt that you will any time soon. What have you got to lose. Go on ahead and oppose the troops. You know it’s the right thing to do.
