2 September 2013

Election poster vandalism in the inner north

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I travelled to Dickson Saturday morning from Lyneham to see a variety of election posters set up intact along Mouat Street.

However, travelling the same route on Sunday morning, I noticed that Simon Sheik’s posters were slashed or defaced.

The other posters remained intact.

Anyone else have a similar story of vandalism whether of the Greens’ posters or other parties’ posters?

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Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Some bright spark a couple weeks ago had spray painted over Simon sheiks signs changing abbot proof the senate to Arab proof the senate. Then on the other sign just a large stabs pray painted across it.

Idiots.

One man’s political sign vandal is another man’s political commentator…

BimboGeek said :

I’m just blown away by darkfalz’s sex appeal. Only the most attractive people would make a derogatory comment like that about a candidate’s goofy smile.

I respect Darkfalz for using Simon Sheikh’s real name and not demeaning his/her position with “smart” name calling. Not that I agree with (possibly) anything that Darkfalz has posted. Still, respect.

Spotted today: a TaMS-look-alike man in a fluoro vest with a rubbish spike and a ute removing the sign of one candidate, leaving the others behind.

To be fair, we didn’t turn around to see if the man walked from his ute to the other signs and took the signs of the other parties.

I retract all slurs on the local teenagers.

Spotted in Belconnen today – TaMS worker removing one party’s sign from somewhere that looked perfectly legal. It wasn’t the biggest sign. It wasn’t out there alone.

To be fair, we just assumes it was a TaMS contractor by the flouro vest, rubbish spike and ute. Also to be fair, I didn’t hang around to watch to see if he returned

I’m just blown away by darkfalz’s sex appeal. Only the most attractive people would make a derogatory comment like that about a candidate’s goofy smile.

Postalgeek said :

Darkfalz said :

I saw a horrible, grotesque picture drawn on one poster. Then I realised it was just Simon Sheikh.

Geez, you must have blown a big cloud of dust off that joke.

I thought it was pretty funny.

Darkfalz said :

I saw a horrible, grotesque picture drawn on one poster. Then I realised it was just Simon Sheikh.

Geez, you must have blown a big cloud of dust off that joke.

I saw a horrible, grotesque picture drawn on one poster. Then I realised it was just Simon Sheikh.

Mysteryman said :

Deref said :

Obviously the Greens have someone terrified that they might succeed. They must be doing something right.

Or, and far more likely, people are just sick of their propaganda littered all over the place. It’s an eyesore and many people feel we can do without it. I don’t blame Canberrans for the urge to want to destroy and deface campaign/propaganda signs.

+1

I was amused this morning that 104.7’s traffic report around 8am included the news that the GDE was moving slow due to people rubbernecking at the person on foot who was kicking over election material.

Well played, Canberra.

Don’t know if they’re still up. But the signs with Zed eating a dick on Streeton drive are amusing.

Deref said :

Obviously the Greens have someone terrified that they might succeed. They must be doing something right.

Or, and far more likely, people are just sick of their propaganda littered all over the place. It’s an eyesore and many people feel we can do without it. I don’t blame Canberrans for the urge to want to destroy and deface campaign/propaganda signs.

Frankly if I had that much time on my hands I’d just pull them out all together. Don’t be bothered just defacing them, they’re a waste of resources in my eyes. If I want to vote for you, no amount of cardboard on the side of the road is going to tell me otherwise. Bring on Sunday morning I say!

Posters are a way of candidates feeling like they’re doing something without the unpleasantness of actually talking to the voting public.

Standing around shopping centres is nearly as good, only with the occasional danger someone will want to talk to them.

I don’t mind TAMS going around removing posters that impair traffic views etc, but slashing or writing racial comments on a poster (see the other RIOT ACT item on Simon Shiek’s poster and ‘Arab Proofing’ the senate) is disturbing.

Alternatively, there may be no conspiracy or teenagers. Just zealous TaMS rangers.

In the outer north, everyone’s signs were removed over the weekend, except for Andrew Leigh’s smaller posters. The Green’s and Katter’s posters had been replaced by lunchtime.

Election posters usually have a life-expectancy of about a week. The Greens should be happy theirs lasted so long.

Holden Caulfield said :

I saw a poster with a fetching Mexican-style moustache on Kate Lundy’s face. IIRC it was heading towards the city on the GDE.

The same mo is on a slew of Elizabeth Lee posters on Horse Park Drive. That and Zed with sunnies, and the Rise Up! party all rockin’ pipes.

Obviously the Greens have someone terrified that they might succeed. They must be doing something right.

On Saturday morning I noticed a whole heap of signs were missing along Drakeford Drive and Johnson Drive. When I drove along there, the only ones remaining were for the Greens.

How can people who do this not realise that their actions reflect badly on other parties?

So, Liberal/Labor supporters are the type of people who try to undermine the machinery of democracy? Great – that really makes me want to vote for their candidates (not).

I am fascinated by the thought process at work here. This person has decided that the golden rule does not apply in this situation, that there is some greater principle than basic empathy. This is ethically valid in a utilitarian context where the individual is forced to be unpleasant to one person for the good of many (eg a judge doesn’t let prisoners free just because he would want to go free if accused).

Apparently letting individuals choose their own leaders does not suit the utalitarian goal? So this person thinks he knows better than everyone else and is afraid of the power of the people. What a narcissistic whacko!!

This is fun; who else wants to play amateur psychiatric profiler?

The Liberals are doing it. That’s what my 7 year old stepson told me today.

Holden Caulfield said :

I saw a poster with a fetching Mexican-style moustache on Kate Lundy’s face. IIRC it was heading towards the city on the GDE.

Almost every poster on Horse Park Dr of every political persuasion has a candidate with a moustache drawn on, one is smoking a pipe. I think they have better things to do (or more people to annoy) than defacing their opponents posters..

I’ve seen a bunch of racist defacing of Simon Sheikh’s signs as well. I called the office and they said they have volunteers who go out and replace them regularly – sounds like it’s been going on a lot.

Same on Belconnen Way (between the GDE & ANU). The Simon Sheik signs were fine on Saturday, but on Sunday at about midday I saw a guy replacing slashed signs. Signs for the other parties appeared to be fine (maybe already replaced?).

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd7:40 pm 02 Sep 13

Some bright spark a couple weeks ago had spray painted over Simon sheiks signs changing abbot proof the senate to Arab proof the senate. Then on the other sign just a large stabs pray painted across it.

Idiots.

Holden Caulfield6:38 pm 02 Sep 13

I saw a poster with a fetching Mexican-style moustache on Kate Lundy’s face. IIRC it was heading towards the city on the GDE.

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