yay! saw u with it on the day :P thx alot shoudl prove usefull

is this a footballer?
if it is its not particullary [excuse the spelling]good
and its offensive
bloody millionairs keep good people every saturday in fact everyday from thinking about how badly they are treatyed by the state
working class game dont be so fuckin stupid if you go to games your just makin rich fuckers richer
go to the park and play!!!!
oh shit im ranting again
and i dont know its even a footballer
hey ive just been told who it is
well FUCK HIM whats he ever done for peace movments or any good cause millionaire prick

Sorry you feel offended but I fear you miss the point totally. To begin with it’s not a real picture it’s been made up as an attempt to wake people up. You have to try to see this in the context of the country as a whole. It’s not about preaching to the converted it’s about reaching out to the masses and without mass support we will never get our message of peace out and nothing will change.

Yes, David Beckham is a millionaire who hasn’t done anything for the peace movement at all, that’s one of the reasons I choose him. Like it or not, Beckham has mass social appeal and exposure. Every single week 65,000 people turn up at Old Trafford to see him play and millions of people watch him on television, his icon status is that powerful. The London peace march on the 13th October attracted between 20 and 50 thousand people, depending which figures you go on, with hardly any media coverage at all. This is a sad fact of life and something we need to fight.

I’d been thinking about doing a poster for some three weeks which caught the mass publics imagination. I was watching the England vs Greece game a week last Saturday, along with the other 20 million viewers, and I saw David Beckham play out of his skin and earn England a place in the World Cup finals. He scored in the very last minute and as he raced to his adoring fans I just knew that if he lifted up his shirt to reveal a ‘no war’ message underneath he’d have changed the course of history. He would have done more for the peace movement in this country than Gandhi ever did. I know that’s sad but it’s true, the impact that such a statement would have had on this country would have been colossal . Of course he didn’t do it because he’s a fuck off rich footballer sponsored by a capitalist system that abusers third world countries for it’s own financial greed. He didn’t have the golden balls to do it at such an opportune moment in history, so I did it for him.

If we want to change peoples views we have to begin by connecting with them. You might not like what football stands for, neither do I, but it has massive populist support in this country and throughout a large part of the world. The big exception to this being USA. People who follow football know what shit David Beckham has had to put up with in the last four years in terms of the personal abuse and the hatred that’s been thrown at him. Granted he’s not starving like 50% of the worlds population but we all have our own struggles to overcome. Regarding the wealth he gets out of football, it seems to me that lots of other people are making millions off his back and it’s the system that stinks not particularly his own self interest. If you’ve got a talent and you see lots of other people making millions out of that talent then it’s only natural to want a bigger slice of the cake, unfortunately the cake is that big that it makes most of us feel sick thinking about it. It’s not his fault, it’s the people who control football and the capitalist system that’s to blame. In lots of ways he’s actually a good role model to young people, he isn’t a pisshead like so many other British footballers and he plays with a passion that money could never inspire.

The poster might not have connected with you but I’m hopeful it’ll connect with thousands of others. And ‘at the end of the day’ it’s all about getting the message of peace across to as many people as possible.

Sorry again, if it offended you. That was never my intention.

if you're having problems seeing the poster visit
www.saveitasajpeg.freeserve.co.uk/beckhampeace.htm
hope you like it and feel free to use

i'll get the hang of this sooner or later

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