Let's Do a Guerilla Photo Campaign With Posters in Cities to Show War

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS BECAUSE OF BRAIN SCIENCE.
We need to re-sensitize the public to the reality of war with SCIENCE.
Use your printer and put 8 1/2 x 11 photos everywhere you can!

All these photos that have leaked have had a HUGE IMPACT on previously shielded public opinion. This happened during Vietnam and helped end the war. We can utilize the same human reactions to seeing people hurt that terrorists and warmongers use to affect people without harming people, just showing people who have already been harmed in photos. Remember the child in Vietnam with her clothes napalmed off? Or the photos of police dogs turned on black civil rights marchers in 1963?

I suggest that we make posters of the people killed and hurt by the neocon wars and put them up all over the place-cities, subways, parks, schools, concert halls, museums, restaurants, etc.

When humans see another human in pain, the parts of our brain that register stress go off in sympathy.

This is probably the result of millions of years of evolution as a 'pack animal.' Another human's face might warn us of bad or poisenous food or other elements hostile to physical survival.

Consequently, when we can actually see other people we sympathize with them. Physically. Whether we want to or not, it's in our genes.

That's why the Pentagon learned from Vietnam not to let Americans see the results of war on human beings or they wouldn't allow it.

The photo leaks of coffins and Abu Ghraib show the power of the 'out of sight out of mind' principle.

That's why secrecy and anonymity leads to atrocity.

Don't forget the photo of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand.
GET THE PICTURE?

but add the caption "Don't say you didn't know"

like the dead children, the man and woman with their heads blown off, lying so peacefully on the ground, the father beseaching heaven over the body of his child.

Of course none of these has any sex. Maybe that's why there's no "scandal" about them.

I like your idea.

The one with a white-bearded grandfatherly type Iraqi looking down at the beautiful but dead 5 year-old looking little girl in his arms with her foot almost ripped off.

I saw this as an anti-war poster on the street with the caption
'This is not our enemy'

Powerful stuff. C'mon-we all have printers and can cover this country with the reality the media almost never shows us.

Section 802 of the Patriot Act, which defines "domestic terrorism" to include "acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws" if they "appear to be intended . . . to influence the policy of government by intimidation or coercion," and if they "occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States."

Kick for the weekend crowd.

Fire up your printers and starting informing the world around you with those pictures worth a thousand words...