Sounds like another Banksy.
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Sounds like another Banksy.
When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble?
When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it? Amos 3:6
Originally Posted by twomp
I think this picture symbolizes it best.
Indeed.
I guess those colors do run--probably made in China.
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
LMAO!
My guess is someone painted the flags with red and blue "disappearing ink" and then slipped them into the supply chain. One morning they hoist them up, and 20 minutes into the sun, nothing but white.
ETA: just read the rest of the thread. Looks like a handful of people walked down the bridge and physically replaced them. I still like my idea though lol!
Last edited by GunnyFreedom; 07-23-2014 at 03:56 PM.
Next time,,, maybe
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
Cop Probe Breach
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
"Investigators are going through social media to see if anyone is claiming responsibility for the stunt."
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
Someone switched the flags on their bridge to white flags.
I really don't get the breach hysteria.
Actually I say their bridge out of respect. It may have been sold off our used as collateral for all of the money that being counterfeited and printed up. Does their stingyness give them away?
Last edited by Carson; 07-24-2014 at 06:47 PM.
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I don't really think there is a bunch of hysteria, just the hyperfocused 15 minutes typical to the modern news cycle.
They just announced their solution to this problem: MORE CAMERAS!I think this picture symbolizes it best.
London is the most camera dense area on the planet. Guess how many crimes or terrorist acts have been prevented or incidents "solved" by all those cameras...
NONE!
Really, what do cameras do but remember the event. You know, terrorism porn. Sure, the Boston bombing... the feds crowdsourced that and re-assigned hundreds of agents and it took forever to ID 2 people. So yeah, toss some more hay on that optical haystack.
pssst kid, could I interest you in some video surveillance footage of bigfoot...
Yeah police state! NOT!
-t
Last edited by tangent4ronpaul; 07-24-2014 at 10:19 PM.
It's probably too late for it but after reading that I kinda feel like trolling them. "Man who's never been anywhere near NY suspected in flag stunt"
Security Crackdown After Brooklyn Bridge White Flag Stunt
http://reason.com/blog/2014/07/25/se...rooklyn-bridge
The terrorists won. Do Americans realize that yet?Remember the halcyon days in America before the advent of the pervasive surveillance state with NSA snoops combing through our phone calls and emails; license plate cameras on every corner; top secret no-fly lists from which there is no escape; all enforced by armored police eager to ignore the tattered privacy protections of the Fourth Amendment? In those better days, the stunt in which some rapscallions placed white flags atop the Brooklyn bridge would have occasioned grumbling from the authorities that would have amounted to: "Dern kids. Get off my lawn."
The Gothamist is reporting how the police are using all of the tools of modern forensic science including DNA databases to track down the cell of white flag scofflaws:
Yes, obviously.Sources tell the NY Post that the zip ties used to fasten the aluminum pans over the lights atop the towers have DNA evidence on them. Now investigators are running the DNA evidence through their vast database of DNA, and it's only a matter of time before a heavily-armed SWAT team crashes through your ceiling due to a data entry error. Look, there's a red laser beam on your forehead right now!
Also from the tabloid of record: "Investigators are also scouring social media, pulling phone logs and running hundreds of license plates, police sources said. They are tracking down all calls made from the bridge around the time the flags were replaced early Tuesday... Investigators were pulled from homicide, counterterrorism, intel and transit to hunt down the infiltrators..." Hey, whatever it takes to bring these skateboarding teenagers to justice.
In other white flag news, the city is beefing up security not only on the Brooklyn Bridge but on all other potential terrorist targets. "The NYPD has already implemented increased security measures on the Brooklyn Bridge, and multiple agencies are collaborating with the police on further measures that will increase the safety of this and other key facilities," First Deputy Mayor Anthony Shorris said in a statement. The NYPD doesn't think the white flags were related to terrorism, but the incident did expose glaring flaws in the city's security theater apparatus. The solution, obviously, is more security theater.
Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
so much for police state
I thought the People were the Terrorists? Oh, misinterpretation of "Terrorist"...
1776 > 1984
The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.
The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide
Belief, Money, and Violence are the three ways all people are controlled
hmmmm...
Anyone know a good NASCAR pit crew...
-t
police state fail. and the coward won't step up to take credit.
Unless it was the police state who did it so they can usher in permanent check points?
“The spirits of darkness are now among us. We have to be on guard so that we may realize what is happening when we encounter them and gain a real idea of where they are to be found. The most dangerous thing you can do in the immediate future will be to give yourself up unconsciously to the influences which are definitely present.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
Probably just the D.A.M.E kids out on a training exercise...
-t
That would make this False Flag a False Flag.
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
maybe we should all start flying white flags...i like those clip-on type for the car...
Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
Ron Paul 2004
Registered Ron Paul supporter # 2202
It's all about Freedom
-t
i believe these posters are in every police department...
Yes, they realize it.
They are happy about it.
why didn't I think of that?
German Artists Claim Responsibility for Brooklyn Bridge Stunt
http://reason.com/24-7/2014/08/13/ge...onsibility-for
They want their flags back. LOL They embarrassed the cops, who were allegedly "onto them" so they'll probably be prosecuted.Two German artists have claimed responsibility for hoisting white flags on New York's Brooklyn Bridge last month in place of official US flags.
The act was a celebration of public art in the "global centre of creativity", the Berlin-based pair said.
It also marked the anniversary of the death in 1926 of the bridge's German-born architect, John August Roebling.
The overnight stunt mystified police and exposed security flaws. Police said they were looking into the claims.
Officials earlier said they would not treat the act as a joke or statement.
[...]
Done with respect
In a statement, the Berlin-based artists Mischa Leinkauf and Mattias Wermke said White American Flags was an art project, the latest in a series taking place in urban environments.
[...]
Speculation raged on social media about who was behind the act and its symbolism - with supposed suspects ranging from cyclists to aliens.
However some posters pointed to the work of US artist Jasper Johns, whose White Flag painting belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/brooklyn-br...ry?id=24965032
"Ball is in their court," the law enforcement source said. "They are realizing we are onto them and now they're making overtures" to at least return the flags.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said today that the police are still looking over their video surveillance tapes and they will have the final decision whether or not to prosecute.
"I am going to leave it to the NYPD to answer in specific. If they have violated the law, of course they should be prosecuted," de Blasio said.
The artists have a history of daring performance art that has shown them scaling buildings and bridges across the globe and if the Brooklyn Bridge stunt is true, it's not their first "performance" on the Brooklyn Bridge. The duo has pictures on their website showing balloons that they "installed" on the cables of the bridge in 2007.
Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.
--Albert J. Nock
Pfffft...weaksauce.Two German artists have claimed responsibility for hoisting white flags on New York's Brooklyn Bridge last month in place of official US flags.
The act was a celebration of public art in the "global centre of creativity", the Berlin-based pair said.
Was hoping it wouldn't have turned out to be some meaningless bull$#@!...
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