HP related bumper sticker

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Heidi Tandy <lists at h...> 
wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 5:20pm, thekrenz wrote:
> > I saw the oddest thing yesterday...It was a bumper sticker that
> looked like a standard US political banner.  It read "Republicans 
for
> Voldemort".  It took me by surprise, but I wondered where you would
> find something like that...any thoughts from the group?  (I don't
> really WANT one of them...just looking for some comments.)

I remember the very real hooro sxpressed in a chatroom when the 
word "Mudblood" was used.  It apparantly had assumed all the 
emotional force of th "N-word".  I think that, analogously, 
a "Republicans for Voldemort bumper sticker is a clever but cruel  
item, much as a "Republicans for Hitler" would be.

I believe in free speech.  We Americans have indulged in political 
vituperation since the time of Hamilton and Jefferson.  I think that 
vile attacks will rebound back on the perpetrators, in a backlash of 
the inherently fair American citizen.  I do believe, however, that 
the maker of this sticker is not merely being clever.  You might just 
as well have a bumpersticker, "Percy flip flops too-- vote Kerry" 
or "They said Pettigrew was a hero too-- vote Kerry".  Do these not 
raise sronger feelings in you, the HP fan, than you would otherwise 
expect?

Haggridd