Freedom is in Peril

The Keep Calm and Carry on image is cur­rently iconic again — it’s on posters, T-shirts, you name it. A sym­bol of Britain’s dogged per­sist­ence dur­ing times of crisis.

How­ever, as an art­icle in the Guard­ian points out, it wasn’t the first of these posters. There was an earlier one, one that again rings true for a dif­fer­ent reason.

Free­dom is in Peril

Freedoms are in peril — but this time, mainly from gov­ern­ments, busi­nesses, and the stu­pid enforce­ment of rules by pub­lic ser­vants. People like the Open Rights Group do what they can, but there hasn’t been an attention-grabbing thing that could raise the issue into the pub­lic conciousness.

Could “Free­dom is in Peril” posters, tees and so on be that iconic image for those cam­paign­ing against the encroach­ment of our civil liber­ties? I think it’s worth a go.