Also beware, these apparently have razor blades inside of them do anyone who tries to take them off gets injured.

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    unlikely to be illegal, the razor blades thing is an old fash trick but I haven’t heard any cases of it happening with these yet? Better yet make a “murdered palestinian children poster” and slap it up over these, much less likely to become someones stupid photo op

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        Yes, when you take these down, they will use this as ammunition to legitimize their deranged claims of antisemitism, etc about people who are opposed to genocide.

        Even if they don’t see you doing it, they will make videos about how they posted a sign and then it was removed. They don’t need to catch you to pretend that they are martyrs.

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            Not sure. My first instinct is also to take them down, but I figure videos and pictures that can be used as much more damaging and lasting forms of propaganda are something I shouldn’t give them the opportunity to gather from me.

            It’s fucking dumb, but it’s the game that’s played and its successfully used to demonize leftists.

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        a photo op/opportunity

        That opposition to the zionist entity is being misdirected toward ostensibly ‘peaceful’ claims of releasing prisoners should be noted. Shout and tear down islamophobic propaganda yes, but all you’re doing here is pulling down posters of kidnapped kids, which is exactly what the posters are designed to do.

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    Remove them after dark and using a tool like a knife to do the first few steps.

    It’s generally legal so long as it isn’t private property.

    PS legality is for dweebs so if someone you know is thinking of removing signs from private property, tell them that cool kids wear black bloc-ish clothes when doing so and do it after dark and when people aren’t around.

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    A school by me put up a ton of chairs, I guess however many captives, with signs to “Bring them back!” in the big shared green space

    But yeah, pro Palestine protests are effectively banned. Freeze peach and all that

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    doesn’t matter, they’re duct taped to a tree they’re gonna fall off 2 seconds into the next rainstorm.

    It is most likely legal to remove since they are attached to trees in the strip of land (apparently called a “road verge”?) that is public property. Where I live, the property line extends to the sidewalk and everything beyond that belongs to the city and the homeowner gets an easement in exchange for maintaining it. So campaign signs can legally be removed from medians and road verges, but not off private property.

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    1. This looks like a really shoddy posting job. Duct tape on a sheet protector, and attaching it to tree bark? They even obstructed the headline “kidnapped”. That could be taken down in 5 seconds.

    2. I’d be really surprised if there are any cameras trained on it.

    3. The razor blade trick works with wheatpasting on solid flat-ish surfaces. It doesn’t work so well on rounded wood or tree bark.

    4. In a public place like this there’s nothing favoring the person who posted it. It’s not on their property; there is no legal consequence to taking it down.

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    Booby traps are illegal, so removing it definitely isn’t. You’re not even allowed to booby trap your own private property. If someone gets hurt from a booby trap the victim hold the responsibly party liable for their damages and injuries. Not to mention the environmental hazard, razor blades to hurt people, pets, and animals. Special kind of scum to force people and animals to have to deal with razorblades in their local parks when inevitably weather disintegrates them and the posters are never retrieved.

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    I was wondering why there was a spike in “piece of shit tries to rip down missing person poster” in all the right wing shithole subreddits.

    The fact that it was just propoganda to stir up sympathy for a genocide instead of actual missing person poster makes entirely too much sense.

    Also if you’re worried about razor blades just set it on fire