And uh… no easily identifiable tattoos?
I’m guessing the intention here is that they’re fake, marker drawn ones. Still not great, but I’d think the artist who made this would at least understand that much if they understood rules like no phone, no pics, no talking to pigs.
That makes sense. But then again, the mom seems to be proudly showing off some unique tattoos herself, like that Opel gender sign, so it might run in the family.
As a tangent this is what has always irritated me with movements like the pro- legalization of weed.
I work 9-5 make good money and have 3 kids. I’m north of 40. I am not the same as the Billy bong pothead everyone sees at every rally because people like me stay the fuck away.
There are many of us that do not want to announce ourselves that are in the system actively working to change it for the better of everyone. Tattoos and a torn jacket do not make a punk.
Billy bong pothead is probably also working full time and just as likely to have kids as anyone.
What’s the problem that you’re getting at? People dressing different? Expression of counter culture?
Exactly, people can see me and have no idea that I’m an anarchist. Like, mad respect to those who have political tattoos, my wife has a subtle one even, but I don’t even have any non political ones. It makes people not notice that the things I’m saying are anarchy.
Yeah, that’s a good rule of thumb. But in a huge group of anarchists i don’t know if the anarchist symbol is particularly identifiable.
For real tho, if you’re out protesting it’s probably a good idea to cover your tattoos.
The commonality of symbol itself isn’t necessarily the point. If you have one that is easily identifiable (such as the anarchy sybmol) and the location is readily apparent, say on your left arm on your elbow, then that’s enough for them to go with to help with ID the person. While there may be plenty of the symbol around, the odds of a person of a certain age/sex/color having that same symbol in the same spot is pretty close to zero.
Late edit: if you want to fool visual identification via tattoos, get fake tattoos that are visible and then remove them.
What’s the deal with tattoos? I’m somewhat interested in getting some, but I don’t want to get them if they’ll make things more risky in the future. Then again, at an action you should be in black pants and long sleeve shirt with gloves and a mask, so maybe it doesn’t matter all that much as long as you cover them?
Cover them, and don’t get arrested, because if you get arrested, they will strip you naked in order to force you to shower and make note of any tattoos you didn’t divulge in booking.
What are the repercussions of them being noted after arrest? Is the main thing that you’re at higher risk if the tattoos are easily visible and there’s a warrant for your arrest in the future?
And cover any identifiable tattoos.
Get some fake tattoos and put a rock in your shoe too.
Don’t wear any clothes you wear elsewhere or bought in a way that can be tracked back to you.
I don’t remember where I read it, but apparently the rock in shoe thing doesn’t work all that well.
Holy shit I actually did tell my daughter not to bring her phone to the protest.
May I know what’s the reason to not bring your phone? Is it due to concerns of being tracked?
Yes. Even when your phone is powered down, some models still ping cell towers. If it pings one, they know your distance to the tower. If it pings two, both towers know your distance, and the overlapping circles would reveal two positions coordinates, one of which you were at. With some contextual information, it’s easy to know/prove which one you were at.
If it pings 3 towers, your exact location, and unique identifying information sucha as your phone’s IMEI is revealed. So don’t bring a cell.
Corporates are even bold enough to brand this as a nice to have feature, they call it “find my device” I think? But we can totally trust them to keep this data absolutely private and secure ! /s
Surprised to see nobody has mentioned Banksy’s “Mother and Anarchist”, this is pretty close to it.
There’s no way this isn’t a reference to that. The mom is essentially just traced over.
Fun /s facts i learned recently about Banksy:
- intentionally does art near low income neighborhoods, thus gentrifying them to all hell
- he built a hotel 4 miles away from the Gaza Strip that trivialized everything Palestine was going through for the past 78 years, and told a story of how the genocide is “a nuanced and debatable issue”
i actually know people like this, i love my life