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Edited by Mary Lou Seymour. To subscribe or unsubscribe to this
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October 24th, 2002
Simon Jester returns
Just in time for Halloween and its scary follow-up, Election Day ...
Simon Jester has returned!
Those of you who remember the Liberty Round Table's Simon
Jester project of several years ago can skip the rest of this article
and go directly to Simon's new site to get started! Simon has
several new ideas to get your brain back into "gremlin mode,"
including an email campaign specially designed for Halloween.
For those who weren't around for SJ's last appearance, a brief
explanation is in order. Based on the little devil created by Robert
A. Heinlein in the sci-fi classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress,"
Simon Jester was the clever creation of a group of Loonies (lunar
revolutionaries) fomenting rebellion. "Simon" tormented the lunar
government with catchy little jokes, ditties, poems, slogans and
cartoons, always signing his work with a little cartoon image of a
grinning devil. Several years ago, the Knights of Non-Aggression at
Liberty Round Table adopted SJ and started spreading the liberty
meme, planting the seeds of liberty and signing their work with the
SJ logo.
SJ is back ... and better than ever. Realizing that busy activists
may not have time to think up their own "liberty slogans" or may
not have the artistic skills to format cards, flyers and posters, the
SJ website offers a "starter kit" to download SJ business cards,
sticky labels and, just in time for November 5th, election signs
("Why settle for the lesser of two evils") and "democracy" fliers.
The card and sticker sets carry catchy freedom oriented quotes
and slogans to get started -- "Writing to Washington won't help;
he's dead!" "When only the police have guns, it's called a police
state." "Fear of government is the second step to wisdom." They're
all set up to print on standard Avery business card and shipping
label forms. You can also download blank cards with the SJ logo
and put in quotes and slogans of your choice.
The SJ campaign is designed for a "cell of one," but if every time
your "cell of one" does a Simon Jesterish activity, you add the SJ
logo, it gives the appearance of a widespread organized
"resistence" ... without the bother (or danger) of going to meetings,
deciding on projects by consensus or vote, etc.
If enough people start spreading the SJ "meme," soon the logo
itself will stand as a comment on any attack on freedom: a
government building, alphabet soup agency vehicle, political sign
for a particularly statist politico, etc. (Of course, if you put a logo or
sticker on private property, you should consider whether the owner
might not appreciate it.)
How will we know if we're succeeding? Well,if any of you see a SJ
card, logo, etc. and you know that YOU didn't put it there, that'll be
a clue ... remember the peace sign in the 60s?
For ideas on where to put the posters, cards, fliers etc., see "What
to Do with this Stuff" at the SJ website for pointers and let your
imagination be your guide. No one knows YOUR community like
you do ... plant the seeds there as only you know how to. This
includes your "cyber community" ... SJ also has ASCII "cyber
logos" to add to emails ... for an example, look at my signature on
this column!)
Several of the "anonymous" past actions we've discussed in the
Action of the Week can easily be used in our "freedom gremlin"
project, by simply adding the SJ logo, such as posting liberty
oriented cartoons (If I Can't Dance) or sharing freedom oriented
books.
This week, let's each download some SJ materials to carry with us
in our backpacks or purses and spread judiciously through our
communities. Let's get started making the SJ logo as prevalent as
the peace sign in the 60s ... with, hopefully, the same pervasive
effect in changing our culture.
Til next week
For freedom!
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Mary Lou
Links:
o Simon Jester Website
http://www.free-market.net/rd/783208387.html
o Bush-Bashing Email Campaign
http://www.free-market.net/rd/475665969.html
o Liberty Round Table
http://www.free-market.net/rd/886543064.html
o What to do with this stuff
http://www.free-market.net/rd/365946314.html
o If I Can't Dance
http://www.free-market.net/features/list-archives/activism/msg00048.html
o Release a freedom book into the wild
http://www.free-market.net/features/list-archives/activism/msg00065.html
o Action of the Week archive
http://www.free-market.net/features/list-archives/activism/maillist.html
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