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Bureaucrash Ops

HQ — Thu, 3 May 2007 00:41:15 -0700

Crashers fight an information war against the enemies of freedom either by themselves (solo) or with a cell. Bureaucrats and their statist cheerleaders have been winning battle after battle by dominating popular culture with statist messages and creative activism. We will not reclaim our rights until our we do the same with our message of freedom.

Future battles will be tough. The enemy is highly financed and organized. The government funds their propaganda by taxing the people we are attempting to free. Statist organizations are at an advantage because they don't let the truth get in the way of their expansionist agenda and have little regard for property rights.

We have our own advantages because, unlike the slow bureaucracy, we can move with speed and agility to clog popular culture with pro-freedom / anti-statism statistics, symbols, slogans and images. Crashers answer to no one except their own conscience.

Bureaucrash is dedicated to the idea of creative activism that makes others question their assumptions on political and social issues. The tools for fighting the information war can take almost any form.

The Ministry of Operations's job is to assist you in fighting this information war and to ensure that you are well armed. Whether you are involved as a solo activist or a member of a cell group we are here to help you.

There are crashers in Venezuela and they have taken to the streets

Jason — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:35:29 -0700

Bureaucrash & La Baf Crash the Yes Men

Jason — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:21:01 -0700

On Wednesday, July 11th pro-state and pro-liberty culture jammers went head to head outside the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. On the side of statism was the Yes Men, a clever group of post-modern "identity correctors" who have targeted the Heritage Foundation, the World Trade Organization, McDonald's, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. On the side of freedom was your beloved Bureaucrash and our french friends at La Baf who were fortunately in town. Sometimes we may agree with the Yes Men but when anyone strays into targeting libertarian groups and ideas it's going to end up badly for them as long as Bureaucrash is around. And they were reminded of this as they left.

On Monday the Yes Men came to the Competitive Enterprise Institute representing themselves as a video production company working on a successor to the famous "Free to Choose" television series. CEI has a policy of talking to anyone about limited government and free-markets but one policy expert smelled a rat and after a few minutes detective work he discovered that he had just spent some quality time with the Yes Men. CEI then called other organizations and found out that they were currently filming at another organization and that the next day they were scheduled to be at the Cato Institute. So we set the trap.

The plan was to wait for them to get ejected from Cato with crashers waiting for them on the streets. As a homage to the Yes Men, who like to wear costumes from time to time, your dutiful crashers dressed as an Indian chief, court jester, Pilgrim, Santa and a construction worker. We told them that we were the "No Men and we say no to the state!" before baptizing them as capitalists with a lot of glitter. They were good sports about it and after we suggested that it was unwise to mess with libertarians they took off.

ELSEWHERE:

Just Say No…to The Yes Men at CEI's Open Market Blog

Bureaucrash featuring la BAF crash les Yes Men at La Baf

Bureaucrash Demands Debate at New York Concert

HQ — Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:59:48 -0700

Al Gore’s “Live Earth” international jamboree was a truly global endeavor with a truly global carbon footprint. The organizers emphasized emissions would be offset through a Mozambique tree-planting project. I wonder how many trees this would take, though. To transport the horde of star musicians, powerful Lear and Gulfstream jets flew approximately 223,623 miles - about nine times the Earth’s circumference. And a one-hour flight in a Gulfstream jet burns as much fuel as driving your family car for a year. The concert at Wembley stadium in London alone produced 59 tons of trash. The parking-lot of New Jersey’s Giants Stadium resembled a venue for college tailgate, full of youngsters who cheered for the environment with beer bottles and hot dogs.

It took a 4-hour bus-ride, a train and another shuttle bus for the Bureaucrash team to get from D.C. to New York and hear Ludacris yell, “I wanna lick you from your head to your toes,” in between prattling by Leonardo Di Caprio and Rachel Weisz about how the time to act is now. There might have been the occasional flower-dressed hippie in the audience, but the majority seemed to care about the performers much more than about the environmental propaganda. Gore’s solemn calls resonated poorly with a guy close to my seat, who was nonchalantly throwing around peanut shells and never brought the packaging to the recycle bins. In addition to global warming, Melissa Etheridge haphazardly commented on politics (“I remember when we had a president who was a criminal”) and expressed disappointment as to why flying cars had not spread by the year 2000. Who would not take her seriously? Forget about science. Disregard the fact that researchers have not come up with a consensus on whether glboal warming is a serious problem and to what extent it is driven by anthropogenic activities. Musicians know best: Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist Flea prophesied that “The climate change situation is the No. 1 problem facing humanity,” and Chester Bennington of the rock-rap band Linkin Park has argued that following Gore’s agenda is costless. A high school kid would have had the same credibility to address the topic. It is one thing to have celebrities directing attention to the factual evidence about the situation in Africa (the Live 8 in 2005), and it is entirely different to use them as mouthpieces to promote Al Gore’s scare-them-green agenda.

Sheryl Crowe, whose music was a backgrounder for a 4×4 Outback SUV commercial, and Madonna, whose annual carbon foot print is estimated to be 100 times that of the average Briton, demanded awareness of global warming. This is not surprising - if green is the new black, it is in the self-interest of musicians to demand selflessness from the audience, hoping to get some positive publicity out of the latest fad. To think otherwise would be naïve. Rather than dig deeply into the supposed impact of “Live Earth”, the global media devoted equal if not more coverage to enumerating the singers and attending celebrities, commenting on who said the f-word when, and revealing that Madonna’s charity fund owns shares in Alcoa and the Ford Motor Company. Surprise, surprise. Political activist Bob Geldof, who was the mastermind behind Live 8, labeled the event accurately: “It was just an enormous pop concert for the umpteenth time.”

An enormous pop concert with less impact than expected, that is. The broadcast on BBC1 attracted less than a third of the fans who tuned in for the Diana concert on June 2. More people watched the Formula 1 Grand Prix and the Wimbledon men’s singles final on Sunday. These statistics are actually encouraging: maybe people are already so concerned about global warming that they chose 1) not to pollute the environment by attending the event, or 2) switch off their TV sets to save energy, rather than deal with all the posturing and the claptrap.

CRASH'D: Michael Moore's Sicko

Jason — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:10:59 -0700

Free-Market advocates from Americans for Prosperity and the Moving Picture Institute joined forces with Bureaucrash to protest the DC movie premier. The VIP list that walked the red carpet was a who's who od statism. Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters and of course, Michael Moore were there to support transferring more money and freedom from you to Washington DC. There was even a special guest: Fidel Castro! Too bad he wasn't allowed inside the theater. Instead he lauded the virtues of mandatory universal health care: waiting lists, lack of proper treatments and filthy hospitals.

Our merry band of activists were there telling passerbys that "SOCIALISM KILLS" and that "GUARANTEED HEALTHCARE [is a] GUARANTEED FAILURE." Michael Moore asked a reporter what we were protesting and was told "that you're a socialist." Indeed.

ELSEWHERE: Free Market Cure & Americans for Prosperity

Crash of the Premiere of Michael Moore's New Film

Jason — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:08:39 -0700

Operation Eminent Domination

Jason — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:07:23 -0700

Approximately 35 crashers showed up on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. to protest the recent Kelo decision denied people a right to their own property. Crashers sang parody songs, dressed up like the Supreme Reapers (a cross between the grim reaper and Supreme Court Justices), Someone made a house for the purpose of street theater and the night before activists had a sign making party. The network worked just as it should but unfortunately our protest was stopped half way through when the Capitol was evacuated due to a wayward airplane.

Free Kareem

Jason — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:23:31 -0700

The view from the Free Kareem rally today in Washington, DC. More photos here. The DC event was just one of many held around the world.

Africans in DC: Kick Bob Mugabe to the Curb

Prof. Scammington — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:10:22 -0700

I formed part of Team Bureaucrash on Friday while Crasher Mercalic took some great video footage of the anti-Mugabe rally in front of the Zimbabwean Embassy on New Hampshire Avenue. As it turns out, it wasn’t just us here in DC who are fed up with the statist thug. Edinburgh University is being pressured to revoke an honorary doctorate they bestowed on Mugabe 23 years ago, as is the University of Massachusetts, which gave him an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1986.

DC Cell

International Day of Action to Free Kareem

HQ — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:00:00 -0800

On February 15th Crashers and other free-speech advocates from around the world rallied in support of Abdelkareem Soliman Amer, a 22 year old blogger, who is in prison because Egyptian authorities didn't like what he had to say. Specifically, he is charged with "Defaming the President of Egypt" and "Highlighting inappropriate aspects that harm the reputation of Egypt and spreading them to the public." He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.

The "Free Kareem Rally" was held at the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau on Thursday, February 15th at Noon. We handed out fliers and held signs while talking to people walking by.

----- More Free Kareem Resources -----
DC Coalition for Blog Freedom

FreeKareem.org
Kareem's Blog

The Previous DC Event and news coverage by the Daily Star Egypt

Worldwide Free Kareem Amer Rallies on Facebook

FLASHBACK: Free Kareem Event at the Egyptian Cultural Center