Local Chevy 'A Political Force to be Reckoned With'
BOULDER, Colorado, April 4, 2002-
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A local man's Chevy Blazer has become so politically active that some experts believe that the world is actually becoming a better place because of it. |
"Mr. Redlock's car has become a political force to be reckoned with," said Jerome Stein, Political Science Teaching Assistant at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "And he's just such a cool, really far-out guy."
Stein points to the recent closing of the ozone hole, minimum wage increases in numerous third-world countries, and the withdrawel of American troops from the middle-east as examples of Redlock's Chevy at work. "Although I can't give all the credit to Jeff," said Stein. "Bono did a lot too."
Still, not all experts are so sure that bumper stickers are an effective means of fostering political change. Stein's colleague, fellow teaching assistant Bryan Jurggensen, presents another possibility. "Jeff is a total dick. He acts like just because he has a 'Legalize It' sticker, you know, it's going to get legal. No. No way. Direct, violent action against government buildings, services, and representatives is the only way to change 'America Inc.', man. How could anyone be so naive?"
When asked for his thoughts on the issue, Redlocke himself said, "You know, in democracy, we all have this like, perogative to like, do what each of us can do. We all have gifts, and we need to take, like, responsibility for those gifts and use them to make the world a little bit better. It's like, Martin Luthor King had a gift for public speaking, you know, speaking to the public, and with the public, and like, at the public, and he used that gift to change the world. Bob Dylan had a gift for music, and he ended the Vietnam f-ing War. I have bumper stickers on my car, and it's like the same thing. The world's getting better."
Redlocke didn't immediately understand his ability to do good, however. "My early stuff... well, I was a lot younger then. The stickers were just about having a good time. I'd say everything from 'My Vulcan half does not speculate, Captian, but my human half says PARTY!' through 'I Miss Jerry', that was my early, pre-politico period. My first attempt at actually changing the way people who see me on the road think was 'Calvin pissing on the words NUCLEAR POWER'. Then I got my Darwin Fish and everything just kind of snowballed.
"Some consider me a sort of a, Sting-esq revolutionary," Redlocke went on, "and some don't take my crusade seriously. They just don't see, and they'll probably never see, how putting simplistic slogans on the back of my car can be considered, you know, valid, or, worth the time. But to them I just say, 'hey, man, the world is getting better, right?'"