Outrage over ads depicting Blair as Hitler

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Outrage over ads depicting Blair as Hitler


25th September 2006

Controversial: The advert showing Tony Blair with a bar code moustache.


Tony Blair is being compared to Hitler in an advertising campaign against ID cards.

The advert - sponsored by the Lib-Dem party and Labour MP Diane Abbott, and supported by Blur's lead singer Damon Albarn - is running in newspapers and on billboards and shows a photo of the Prime Minister with a barcode on his lip like the Nazi leader's moustache. The caption reads: "ID cards have worked well in Europe before." Campaign group NO2ID is behind the advert. It said today: "Blair is not Hitler. But he is building the tools of totalitarianism." Labour's Lord Janner, a leading Jewish parliamentarian, said the advert was "monstrous".

He said: "Hitler was a mass murderer and to make any comparison between him and Tony Blair is stupid and unacceptable."


dailymail.co.uk

 

[DurkaDurka]

RE: Outrage over ads depi

Are people actually upset about this in the UK?

 

[janbrit]

I'm not, i like controversy

 

[DurkaDurka]

RE: Outrage over ads depi

I think it's pretty ammusing. Tony looks rather dashing with his barcode moustache.

 

[janbrit]

Exactly, maybe he'll grow one now?

 

[Colpy]

Well, I suppose.....

Personally, I think just about any form of protest against mandatory ID cards is acceptable.....up to and including assasination......

And I'm not kidding.

 

[janbrit]

Well, i'm not against the protest don't get me wrong. Mocking politicians I always enjoy regardless

 

[jimmoyer]

Usually I don't like such comparisons of Hitler to
Tony Blair, but this one seems to have some class,
parody, humor, cleverness.

Makes a good point.

 

[janbrit]

comparisons to Hitler are are always a cheap shot, but Tony does wear thta moustache well

 

[Hotshot]

If you Brit's are upset about that, get a life. If you are in the public eye, you are subject to criticism, especially if you are Bushinski's puppydog.

 

[fuzzylogix]

Ha Ha---Let's scan him.

 

[Gonzo]

I think depicting Blair as Hitler diminishes how evil Hitler was.

 

[I think not]

Well, I suppose.....

Personally, I think just about any form of protest against mandatory ID cards is acceptable.....up to and including assasination......

And I'm not kidding.

Bingo

and....

I think depicting Blair as Hitler diminishes how evil Hitler was.

Bingo.

 

[Zzarchov]

I'll have you know thats comparing Blair to Charlie Chaplin.

 

[maepaulino]

I'm not, i like controversy

hehehe I like it as well, I think it suits him much

 

[Karlin]

Connection to Nazi literature

Blair's unapologetic allegiance to Bush gives credibility to the bar-code moustache. Bush's family had direct dealings with Hitler, could have stopped his war machine cold by not selling him petrol [fuel], and these proud Americans made big bucks from selling Hitler planes and tanks and so on.

The words and phrases of Nazism that Bush uses are telling too -
Homeland
Patriot
Surveil your neighbors

The Bush Family Fortune has increased its value dramatically over the past 7 years, mostly from the war profiteering.. Hmmmmm - I wonder about Blair's personal fortune?

 

[gopher]

this is more convincing:

 

[Hotshot]

this is more convincing:

I like this one even better!!!