This would I think restrict the written use of the term, but not infringe on its verbal usage. Say it loud, say it proud, use a megaphone, and attract a crowd. No banners though.
http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something ... g-campaign
It's on licence from some other agency, whether that is supposed to explain its legally imposed restrictions on use.
Most predictable "Orwellian Big Brother NWO Surveillance Society Police State Martial Law" garbled hysteria, and FEMA DHS camps and mass graves responses from the eyes wide open truth chasing brigade.
But it could be less sinister; there was a TV contest show, called Catchphrase. Complete with its own catchphrase, "if you see it, say it", or "say what you see".
What I would describe as pre-gif gif's were shown on a screen to contestants, and the first to correctly guess the "saying" it was representative of,won a toaster, or a yacht. Or most likely nothing, as is my suspicion regarding such things.
Is there a game afoot? If so, I could an example be found for today, from any major news delivery service. Well.............
'Knocked a cyclist off his bike. I have right of way, he doesn't even pay road tax': Trainee accountant's boastful tweet sparks police probe
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ead_module
Writing under the name @emmaway20, she tweeted: ‘Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier – I have right of way he doesn’t even pay road tax! #bloodycyclists’.
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@ Emma Way. What do I win? I actually need a new toaster, been using my grill for ages.
Ha ha, I suppose. Perhaps a slight regional accent would illuminate the jape, but the perversion of @ to aht, or out, and 'Out emma way' would have been an appropriate vocal warning for the hapless cyclist, who surprisingly seems un-bloodied and without a shaggy dog story*.
Like the fostered dogs that came from Cleveland kidnap house, or the live-on-screen reuniting of owner and pet dog after the tornado*.
That is if I remember correctly. In the past couple of days I have watched more CNN than all previous perusals combined, and have become enthralled by the psychedelic ant farm vibe. Chasing my high, I found this on their webshite:
"Trust your memory? Maybe you shouldn't"
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/18/healt ... index.html
"It was pretty exciting to watch these normal, healthy individuals pick up on the suggestions in our interviews, and pick up the false information that we fed them," Loftus says.
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Thrilling indeed, the vague notion of the existence of this Doctor Loftus is cleared up with a stunning publicity shot:
Sometime Loftus worries about crossing into unethical territory -- like when she created false memories in military personnel who were training to survive as prisoners of war. When the study published, she feared "we were going to basically be giving (our enemies) a recipe for how to do bad things to other people and then contaminate their memory." (same article)
Worry worry, the verb for disturbing sheep, the truth-chasers themselves being the intended flock.
For the even more main of mainstream audiences, there is of course the 'hatchet job' (of a story) story where Islamic terrorism, Help For Heroes, and complete abandonment of reason feature heavily.
I am surprised to see a reference to my first thought, Terror Trials, when Woolwich was mentioned, there has/is numerous so-called plots and incidents of the most terrifying and terrible terror that have terminated at Woolwich Crown Court.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-0 ... ial-center
"An attack with a knife and cleaver that left one a man described as a British soldier dead in southeast London struck at the heart of an area that’s become the center of terrorism trials in the U.K."
Video footage broadcast by ITV News showed a black man, his hands covered in blood and holding a cleaver and a knife, speaking after the attack. “Your people will never be safe,” he said. “Remove your government, they don’t care about you.” The man apologized that women had to witness the incident. “In our lands, our women see the same,” he said.
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I suppose his strong London accent is testimony to the sophistication of Muslim terror cells active in the U.K. and the effort to assimilate into society include vocal coaching.
'Our lands' must reference somewhere in the Middle East, or these days Africa.
Al Shish Kebab is already being mentioned, but any hopes that the black guys skin colour might make the fake blood all over his hands less ridiculous are dashed.
Nearby Army barracks are 200+ years old, in the aftermath of 200+ mile an hour tornado and 200+ (regular media ref) Boston Weak story.
Tenuous, but tenacious by repetition, it's not uncommon to see broader connections to U.S. and U.K. themes.
Atlantic Mirror.
While the UK police were shooting these terrorists, the FBI were shooting one too.
While Apple CEO gets a US Congress 'grilling' (my toaster) Google exec faces inquiry by UK MP's with both 'stories' being about corporate tax avoidance.
Is there a pissing contest underway?
Single house collapse, Sheffield, UK.
Whole town collapse Moore (indeed) OK (OK, yes, i get it)
Both feature a 'legs sticking out' personal story oft repeated.
And in regard to the Oklahoma 'job' has anyone else noticed the Red Green Blue that seems to be the only colours, except for a single yellow rebel, that clothing or cars are allowed to be in the area? Plain signal variety, I think signal is the correct term, like a poster paint hue.
Sky has three of its most heinous faces 'on scene', who last night were sending reports from the (self declared) same location. Facing in different directions, maybe, but following the same line.
Hero teachers, fund raisers galore, the live-to-air shaggy dog* discovery and the many many references to 'residents' "not knowing where they are", and the 'almost identical' path of destruction to the most recent previous tornado - that received not even 1% of the same level of coverage, in the UK anyway, that this invent is - personally this is now filed under the bulging 'nonsense' heading.
Just now, on BBC, this question was put to some talking head "do the Boston, and now London, attacks raise fears in regard to Lone Wolf terrorism". Priceless. If the problem with that question is not evident, you need to sit alone and think, a task that the presence of another person will not interfere with.
*A Shaggy Dog Story is a plot with a high level of build-up and complicating action, only to be resolved with an anti-climax or ironic reversal, usually one that makes the entire story meaningless.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... gyDogStory
Perfect.
The most despicable thing is they can never be trusted to even report any real event without exploiting and manipulating everything they possibly can. Never let any opportunity for propaganda reinforcement go to waste, is obviously their "prime directive". 
