Editrix's Note: Today is Election Day across the US, and if you need a reminder on why it's important to vote and be active in government, Bobby Fisher is gonna give you a reason here. The info he's spittin finds its origins on Alex Jones' Info Wars, and while wacky right wing conspiracy theorists are not our standard source material, the FBI handout found on the site demands debate, and if anyone can spark one, it's Bobby. Feel free to share your own thoughts in the comments. You can see a larger version of the FBI handout here.
By Bobby Fisher
Philadelphia tattoo parlors, from the hood establishments in the West to the gentrified, hippy, hipster tap shops on Market Street, are being enlisted in Big Brother's plans to make the country free of those with contradictory viewpoints, hostile ideas and, seemingly, any politically relevant ink. A joint directive issued by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (anyone else find it sad that "justice" needs "assistance?") tells tattooists in the shadow of the Liberty Bell under what circumstances to report on their customers.
The handout ranges from the utterly ridiculous (individuals missing hands) to the mildly ridiculous (those that alter their appearance from visit to visit; we're speaking about people who get tattoos -- people who choose to permanently alter their appearance -- and the government is worried about getting your hair trimmed) to the downright asinine (recipients who want their tattoos in easily concealed places). It's all an indication of a government initiative that is out of touch with the people it is tracking. It's Orwellian and inefficiently broad.
By the conditions set forth in the marching orders, both your boy Bobby and Needles and Sins' own Commander in Chief, Lady M, would be under investigation. After all, her tattoos conceal for work reasons, and I am missing a hand, having had it surgically removed and replaced with a pen that writes in beauty and wit.
By the conditions set forth in the marching orders, both your boy Bobby and Needles and Sins' own Commander in Chief, Lady M, would be under investigation. After all, her tattoos conceal for work reasons, and I am missing a hand, having had it surgically removed and replaced with a pen that writes in beauty and wit.
While many tattooists claim to be bowing out of their drafted duties, Bobby Bonafides Fisher would like to offer an alternative: Report. Report. Report. Give them every single individual who matches the descriptions they provided. From the soccer mom who gets a star on her foot to the corporate exec with his family crest on his forearm. Who is to say that a shamrock tattoo is not some sort of Irish supremacist gang insignia or that a Betty Boop on your buttcrack is not a symbol for a radicalized feminist sect ready to explode this male-dominated country back to the days when Sheba ruled the Nile?
Report! Let them drown in sea of paper-work. Let them hire more and more and more and more analysts until Philadelphia scratch shops single-handedly slow the great Recession.
And, when the government wants to do their investigation right, Bobby Fisher and Lady M will gladly take that government money on some consulting style gig.
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UPDATE: NY tattoo artists have contacted us to say that they have also been give these flyers by the FBI. It's not limited to PA.
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UPDATE: NY tattoo artists have contacted us to say that they have also been give these flyers by the FBI. It's not limited to PA.
I bet someone somewhere with an obssession for the Illuminati and the New World Order will be posting a link to this as yet more proof of their ever increasing quest for control.............
Johnny, that's Alex Jones in a nut shell. ;)
Here are some comments on the post from Facebook and Twitter:
Gary:
"Other then I'm paying for this shit as a tax payer, I actually find it very amusing...... I can finally turn in all those dude bro's with the matching barb-wire arm bands :) Seriously, talk about completely missing the mark and grasping at straws.
The insists on only paying in cash part is most hilarious considering 99% of tattoo shops only take cash.
I remember the days when there was actual intelligence in the intelligence community."
The Lizardman:
"Per my twitter response, most tattoo artists I know fit almost all of these criteria but I am really going to be wating to see how the investigation of the nations fraternities ands sororities turns out since they are worried about groups getting the same tattoo (not to mention vacationing soccer moms on the loose)...perhaps I should apply to work deep cover for the FBI inside the body modification industry."
I was also told that NY artists have also been approached by the FBI with this handout.
Does this mean we can turn in everyone with a generic tribal butterfly lower back tattoos?
yes, rowan. yes it does. heheh
its about time bigBrother came to the body art community...
...and it sucks!
but hey, maybe they'll bag some nazis!!
I left America 10 years ago to pursue a tattooing career in a foreign land. I look back at my country and think, "What the hell has happened to that place?!"
I mean seriously, is this some kind of April fool's joke? Have they gone completely batshit insane?
I got 2 hours work last Tuesday, and I fit a few of those suspicious descriptions:
Actually, my WIFE insisted I pay cash-we rarely use credit cards.
I had shaved since the first session (it was warmer and my face itched, and I don't think I'll grow a beard this winter.)
Is, "You know, Ed, I really don't believe in god." an extreme religious statement?
Am I in trouble?
The feds also came by my rural tattoo shop in NJ. They had stressed the term " one percenters" refering to outlaw biker culture. Which is not listed on the memo. At the end of the Memo it says" this is has been compiled from a review of terrorist events over several years" I wonder what kind of information they have that would lead them to this? or are they just looking for scape goats? This is very much like the Stasi .
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out --
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
You mentioned some interesting points, I was actually referred here by a friend of mine. Defaintely good info.