Marc Ecko Tags Air Force One

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

So I came upon Marc Ecko’s StillFree.com earlier, with the following video

Marc Ecko explaining himself, not so eloquently:

At first glance, one would think this is real, and Ecko is truly making some political statement. But after further contemplation, I was wondering why this wasn’t all over the news, so I decided to to investigate. A Yahoo search result directed me to this page. I went back to stillfree.com, clicked on the legal disclaimer, and discovered this:

You, the viewer of the preceeding are hereby advised that the video does not depict a real event. It is intended for the sole, limited and express purpose of entertainment and to induce you, the viewer of the video, to think critically about freedom of expression and speech and the government’s responses to the same. Therefore, and by reason of the foregoing, the producers, creators and distributors of this video hereby verily certify that the foregoing fictionalization and dramatization was not real.

Ecko is an idiot. What’s the whole point of his political statement? He claims it is about free speech and expression, and that is the reason he tagged Air Force One. Had he actually done it (highly unlikely), I would have given him much more respect, dispite the fact that I diagree with him. But theres no purpose in this, aside from stirring up some free publicity for him and his brand. If anything, I think it takes away from his credibility and turns him into another wannabe free speech advocate.