RighteousRichey
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Greetings, Righteous Richey! It sounds like you’re doing some Happy Warrior work there! Great idea and I may join on the action in my area. Some Friendly Pro Tips: I would give the activist group a more fitting name and call them Street Salvagers instead of Street Pirates, since the activists aren’t looting anyone of anything in their possession, but instead they are removing Left Behind junk. Piracy is more the speed of ancient European Divine Right Monarchs and today’s Somali Practitioners of The Religion of Peace and Compassion™. Secularists should be better people than that. Also, cleaning the environment of junk religious signage needs to be part of a larger effort of to clean city streets of all junk and garbage, a bitter necessity in today’s “Progressive” U.S. cities. Clean-up crews could include signs aimed at motorists saying: “There’s Only One World and One Life! Make It Better Than You Found It!” Some signs along the highways are really high up on the poles and trees. For those signs, the safe thing to do is to call the utility companies and let them know where they are and let the professionals with climbing spikes and bucket trucks take these signs down. Maybe also be on the scene with your own hand-held signs telling motorists that: “Thinking Saves Better Than Jesus!” Religious assholes may risk their own lives putting these signs high up on poles and trees, but supporters of Reason do things with rational precaution and live to practice activism in the future. As for myself, my own personal project is disposing of junk religious litter-ature that people leave in the store where I work against private property rights, against management consent, and against the door signs forbidding all solicitation. The First Amendment and Natural Right of free expression applies only to your own time, Dime, and private property and those of the willing, not anyone else’s. I also politely but firmly remind customers of this when they attempt to personally give me religious litter-ature either at my checkout line or in the parking lot. I’ve written about incidents like this before elsewhere on the Forum. Recently, one religious asshole actually snuck behind a Door Greeter and slipped a brochure in the Door Greeter’s work vest pocket! Myself, I practiced Social Distancing of two arm’s length with strangers as a self-defense measure years before the Woo Flu. Slipping me litter-ature behind my back would get them one warning and their litter-ature torn up in front of them! If they persist in staying less than two arm’s length, they may have a serious problem on their hands. Anywho, keep up the great work, Righteous Richey! Keep America (And The Rest of The Natural Universe) Beautiful! (and For Your Own Good Above All!) 🗽👍🏻
I’ll admit I don’t think “Atheist Street Salvagers” sounds bad & what you mentioned about the pirates name sort of makes sense, but personally I still prefer Atheist Street Pirates. Some people like it, some don’t, but I still think it sounds cool.
Regarding all bandit signs, I actually do remove other variations of illegally placed bandit signs from time to time, I just prioritize the religious propaganda signs since that’s the main focus & we don’t update those on the map, plus there are less of the religious signs than there are of the business marketing signs so it’s often easier & requires much less time & effort to mostly focus on the religious propaganda.
And you’re right, some of these signs are high up on power poles & trees, so for those, the safe thing to do is buy a 30 foot Docapole & wack that shit down yourself 🤘🏴☠️
You can report these signs to local officials like code enforcement, there is nothing wrong with that & in fact it’s a good idea that we encourage people to do & sometimes code enforcement will remove them, but from my experience, often times they consider it lower priority & don’t remove them depending on the city & state you report it in & even when they do remove it, their response time is usually pretty slow so it’s easier, faster & less of a hassle to just take them down yourself, which if you have a Docapole is very easy & does not require jeopardizing your safety 👍🦺
“Removing illegally placed religious propaganda” OK, but how do I know what is illegal?
If the sign is on public property, such as the side of the highway or interstate, a power pole, or a street sign like a stop sign, yield sign etc. then it is illegally placed & you can remove it.
If the sign is on private property, such as a person’s front yard or on the lawn of a church property, then it is legal & you should not remove it, otherwise you can be charged with theft and/or vandalism. Power poles technically belong to the power companies, which are warning against posting all bandit signs of any kind on them, religious or not, all over the United States because of the potential safety hazards leftover staples & nails cause line workers who have to climb the power poles to do their job.
https://www.meeker.coop/power-poles-are-not-bulletin-boards/
I’ve removed many of these signs in front of police officers & state patrols & they never say anything to me or give me any trouble
