Drop Your Pants For The MOON THE BALLOON Protest

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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/07/30/10311216-sun.html

'Moon the Balloon' protest planned at U.S. border
By TYLER KULA, Sun Media
The Sarnia Observer

Sarnia, Ont. -- A Sarnia man is planning a “moon the balloon” demonstration to protest the surveillance camera a private security company has aimed at Sarnia from a dirigible hovering 1,000 feet over Port Huron, Michigan.

“Canadians are known for their sense of humour about stuff and I think a good old touch of mass mooning is the way to deal with this,” said Eli Martin, a 49-year-old city musician.

Martin, a former teacher, said the 50-foot surveillance balloon launched last week shows a lack of respect for Canadian sovereignty.

Willing participants are invited to Centennial Park on Aug. 15 for a co-ordinated mooning of the aircraft at 5 p.m., said Martin, who plans to videotape the protest and post it on YouTube.

“No cheeks will be turned away.”...

[RandomThoughts]

1. Sounds like a bad idea, people that interpret things in a religious way

Sometimes think of that action from the perspective of

Isaiah 20:4
so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

They just think the people doing it are bad and often think on that verse. In most cases it is over interpretation. It is also in much of TV with different meaning, but some always find that context to it. I don't worry about people who over interpret irrelevantly out of context, but it happens. If the attempt is to raise an awareness of the issue, immediately losing a part of the people a group is trying to show the problem too, does not make alot of sense.

It is possible many of the things like that are planned by people that know it is offensive to many people.

Also some people consider nudity offensive, so the protest also lose people that consider public nakedness not the best way to act.

Basically it usually is not a good idea to embarrass someones own cause in an attempt to make a point. unless it is in humility and not in a way that makes a group look bad to many people. It allows them to label a group within a context of another group. It would seem better to try and avoid things that let people label a group as bad, especially for little effect. There are better ways to protest such things, bring pictures of the metaphorical nakedness of the opposition for instance.


On the topic of the cameras.
I think there are to many security cameras, and private sector ones ask the question of why people would give the authority to monitor people with cameras, to people that by the rules of their companies, do not act first for the good of society.