Other “Liberation Fronts”

by on February 16, 2009 · 11 comments

Savvy TLF Readers probably realize that the TLF was preceded by the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.  I suspect neither group has much of a sense of humor (although I’m glad to see from their Wikipedia pages that neither organization appears to have actually killed anyone, despite their use of terrorist tactics).

A TLF reader just called my attention to another group that most definitely does have a sense of humor:  the Beard Liberation Front.  I also discovered the The Hamster Liberation Front through Google.  Then there’s the classic People’s Liberation Front of Judea (or is it the Judean People’s Liberation Front?) from Monty Python’s The Life of Brian:

 

Fight on, comrades!

  • Stephen

    My wireless network is called the “East Georgetown Liberation Front.”

  • http://techliberation.com/author/berinszoka/ Berin Szoka

    Classic. Perhaps I'll start the North Shaw Liberation Front.

  • Mike

    In order to become more culturally relevant in the 21st Century, the Mason Dixon Militia has renamed itself the Cresap Liberation Front.

  • leviramsey

    Perhaps more relevant to issues covered in this blog, there is also the Penguin Liberation Front, which provides packages of open source software that, due to varying legal reasons in different countries, is not included in Linux distributions (e.g. the patent status of the MP3 algorithm, or the legality of cryptography, etc.).

  • http://techliberation.com/author/berinszoka/ Berin Szoka

    In case anyone else is wondering what Mike is talking about, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresap's_War

  • http://techliberation.com/author/berinszoka/ Berin Szoka

    Gee, thanks for pointing out how irrelevant and silly my examples were! ;)

    But seriously: I love the penguin-in-arms icon.

  • Timon

    “The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People's Front….

    And the People's Front of Judea, splitters!

    What? We're the People's Front of Judea!

    Oh, I thought we were the Popular Front.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

  • Timon

    “The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People's Front….

    And the People's Front of Judea, splitters!

    What? We're the People's Front of Judea!

    Oh, I thought we were the Popular Front.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

  • http://techliberation.com/author/berinszoka/ Berin Szoka

    In case anyone else is wondering what Mike is talking about, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cresap's_War

  • http://techliberation.com/author/berinszoka/ Berin Szoka

    Gee, thanks for pointing out how irrelevant and silly my examples were! ;)

    But seriously: I love the penguin-in-arms icon.

  • Timon

    “The only people we hate more than the Romans are the Judean People's Front….

    And the People's Front of Judea, splitters!

    What? We're the People's Front of Judea!

    Oh, I thought we were the Popular Front.”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

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