WWII-era Propaganda Posters (image intensive)--where are ours?

various | 1941-1945 | United States of America

[armymarinemom]

OUTSTANDING !! The party commends your actions, Freeprade !!

Thanks

[jamaly]

WOW!

[PzGr43]

Image: Arab horseman
Image: "Everything you need to know about Islam in 40 minutes"

I would avoid using positive images of Araby, such as the horsemen (think Lawrence of Arabia) when going for negative images of our Islamic enemies. Something like the cartoon imagery of Hitler as used by the Allied propaganda effort would be more useful. We may need to rally conservative Pro-West Arab/Islamic opinion to our cause and these are the sort of images we should reserve for that purpose.

[AgThorn]

[AgThorn]

Now THAT Uncle Sam was intentionally created to look like Dubya, correct?

[AgThorn]

Her?

[MissAmericanPie]

That America is dead and gone, we are too occupied with international opinion, which is always anti-American.

To prop up Germany's economy we threw them the ability to build conventional subs by shutting down our industry here in the USofA. Then when we need to sell conventional subs to Taiwan the Germans thumb their nose at us.

Followed by sending their "Minister of Defense" to China to discuss how to stop us from building our MDS. With friends like Germany and France, who needs enemies? And why do we care what they think, and why do we fear the development of the E.U. and feel we need to compete by making all of the Western Hemisphere one entity, as is Bush's agenda?

No, the America that these posters represent has been dead nd gone for some time now as far as government goes.

[blackie]

I got that you don't like what I post ~ where are your posters ~ or are you just in this conversation to complain?

[ppaul]

BUMP

[ppaul]

UPGRADE FOR 2005:

Just take the swastika off the boot and write "ACLU."

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Court enters debate over display of Commandments

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON The Ten Commandments are a recurring symbol in American government: carved into granite monuments at state capitols, framed on the walls of county buildings and painted on murals at courthouses. At the U.S. Supreme Court, a depiction of Moses holding the Commandments is etched into marble, part of a frieze on history's great lawgivers.

		This 6-foot-tall granite monument at the state Capitol sparked a legal challenge in Texas.
		Austin American-Statesman

But in a nation that prohibits government from endorsing religion, do some public displays of the Commandments the principles of behavior for Christians and Jews violate the Constitution? It's a legal question that has been brewing for years, and one that now is the focus of a national debate over religion's role in government.

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in two cases that test whether displays of the Commandments on public property are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The disputes come from Texas and Kentucky, where federal courts have issued conflicting rulings. (Analysis: Court unlikely to make more historic moves)

In the Kentucky case, however, a federal court ordered McCreary and Pulaski counties to take down framed copies of the Ten Commandments that had been put up in their courthouses in 1999. The court said the displays were blatantly religious and therefore unconstitutional even after officials twice added other documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta.

The cases have drawn intense interest from across the nation. Sixty "friend of the court" briefs have been filed by groups representing religious interests, civil libertarians, historians and state governments. This morning's hearing is expected to draw long lines for the few visitors' seats in the ornate courtroom.

The disputes come to the court three years after an Alabama judge, Roy Moore, gained national attention by installing a 5,300-pound granite monument depicting the Commandments in the state's judicial building in Montgomery. Moore's defiance of a federal court order to remove the monument cost him his job as chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court.

The monument was wheeled away in 2003. Many of the issues raised by Moore's efforts haven't gone away, however.

Some evangelical Christians are casting the debate over the Commandments as a significant part of their increasingly aggressive efforts to have government recognize religion. That's led to a backlash by the ACLU, atheists and others who say the efforts by evangelicals threaten America's secular heritage.

[PzGr43]

>I got that you don't like what I post ~ where are your >posters ~ or are you just in this conversation to complain?
>

Oh dear oh dear ...

Read what I wrote again. The message refers to one poster.

The 'criticism' is a 'criticism' in that it refers to an adjustment of focus, not a contradiction. Come back to me if there is something you do not understand.

Just in case ...

I did like every thing you posted. I liked it a lot. I even liked the poster to which my message referred, but thought that it sent the wrong signal.

[Calpernia]

Bump

[blackie]

Thanks. ;)

[timestax]

bump

[Boazo]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

And this one is for the queers:

That poster was aimed at factory workers, many of whom were probably perfectly "normal" young women.

[Petronski]

Check your sarcasmeter, apparently it's jammed.

[Boazo]

Your right, it does look queer.

[SaveTheChief]

Month too late bump!

[Petronski]

Heh heh heh. I missed that the first time. LOL