Right-wing extremist rock fest in Germany infiltrated by Trojan t-shirt!

[thewayne]

This is awesome! With a skull-and-crossbones logo and the message "Hardcore Rebels - National and Free," some 250 black T-shirts given away at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival were quickly snapped up. But there was more to the tough-looking image than met the eye.

Once the rightist rockers washed their new shirts, they were dismayed to find an entirely different message: "If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism." The offer, complete with contact information, came from a group called Exit Deutschland, which helps people get out of the neo-Nazi scene.

The article has before/after pix of what the shirts looked like. I love it!

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,779446,00.html

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/08/11/0118214/Right-Wing-German-Extremists-Tricked-By-Trojan-Shirts

Comments

[silveradept]

That's brilliant! Too bad they only did a batch of 250.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Well, they weren't selling the shirts, so there would be definite limits to how many you could make and distribute.

But it's an awesome project nonetheless.

[silveradept]

And now, having seen it, how many of our corporate manufacturers are going to try and do something similar?