Unicef Ad

Lindz928 · #1 10-12-2005, 12:13 PM

I think by now, most people have seen this picture of a Unicef ad. I just thought I would see what everyone thought of it. I personally find it kind of excessive, but maybe someone can make a good point for it.

ETA:

AP - Tue Oct 11,10:29 AM ET
- In this photo of a poster provided by Unicef on Tuesday Oct. 11, 2005, the cartoon Smurfs and their village are seen being bombed by airplanes. The recent advertising campaign by Unicef, both in print and on television, is intended to teach schoolchildren about the horrors of war. The title in French at left bottom reads 'Don't let war deystroy the world of children'. (AP Photo/Unicef/IMPS/Peyo)

Rudey · #2 10-12-2005, 12:16 PM

I want to see more Smurf blood and torn Smurf limbs before I give my approval.

-Rudey

dzrose93 · #3 10-12-2005, 12:19 PM

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Originally posted by Rudey
I want to see more Smurf blood and torn Smurf limbs before I give my approval.

-Rudey

Won't happen. Apparently, UNICEF wanted more graphic images but whoever owns the rights to the Smurfs cartoons said no.

valkyrie · #4 10-12-2005, 12:20 PM

I think it's absolutely bizarre.

33girl · #5 10-12-2005, 12:28 PM

All that does is crack me up laughing.

Lindz928 · #6 10-12-2005, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by dzrose93
Won't happen. Apparently, UNICEF wanted more graphic images but whoever owns the rights to the Smurfs cartoons said no.

Wow. And Unicef doesn't think that kids seeing cartoons like that would have any kind of impact on them?

dzrose93 · #7 10-12-2005, 01:04 PM

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Originally posted by Lindz928
Wow. And Unicef doesn't think that kids seeing cartoons like that would have any kind of impact on them?

From the article I read, UNICEF is showing the ads on TV after 9 PM in Europe and positioning the campaign to run during adult shows. Not saying that will keep the kiddos from seeing the commercials, but that's what they're trying to do to prevent it.

DeltAlum · #8 10-12-2005, 01:18 PM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
I think it's absolutely bizarre.

I'll agree with that, and add that I think it's a real bad idea.

hoosier · #9 10-12-2005, 05:24 PM

Maybe UNICEF will put the posters on the sides of the trucks they buy for foreign armies.

I'd support them more if they occasionally bought the US a few army trucks or small missles.

copacabana · #10 10-12-2005, 06:10 PM

Weird.

Exquisite5 · #11 10-12-2005, 07:15 PM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
I think it's absolutely bizarre.

ditto

moe.ron · #12 10-13-2005, 07:11 AM

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Originally posted by hoosier
Maybe UNICEF will put the posters on the sides of the trucks they buy for foreign armies.

I'd support them more if they occasionally bought the US a few army trucks or small missles.

Link?

tinydancer · #13 10-13-2005, 08:48 AM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
I'll agree with that, and add that I think it's a real bad idea.

And I'll agree with you.

hoosier · #14 10-13-2005, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by moe.ron
Link?

http://www.getusout.org/artman/publish/article_71.shtml

"UNICEF has been an enthusiastic proponent of aid to totalitarian communist regimes from its very beginning. In fact, it has lavished millions of dollars on some of America's and the Free World's worst enemies. In a May 1975 column entitled "UNICEF Aided Vietnam Fall," Detroit News columnist Robert Heinl exposed UNICEF's treachery in aiding the bloody-handed Ho Chi Minh:

"Last fall, when you gave the kids trick-or-treat money for UNICEF or ordered UNICEF Christmas cards, did it occur that you, and behind you, the U.S. Government, were bankrolling the Communist takeover of South Vietnam? Well, you were.

"... UNICEF collected and disbursed a total of $13,649,433 for its Indochina children's programs .... Of this eight-figure sum, $8,976,587 went to Communist recipients: $6,313,130 directly to Hanoi and $1,975,567 more -- via Haiphong and Hanoi, of course -- to the Viet Cong ....

"These UNICEF funds did not reach the Vietnamese children in the form of vaccines, food, or school materials -- which came as no surprise to those familiar with the Viet communists' penchant for slaughtering children in the most grisly fashions imaginable, as a form of terrorism to cow peasants into submission. As Heinl reported, the shipments "consisted primarily of trucks, bulldozers, heavy engineer construction equipment, and construction tools and materials," which were "precisely the materials most needed for support of continued warmaking." As Heinl so aptly put it, the UNICEF gambit was "a trick you might say, on the American public; a treat for Ho Chi Minh." "

http://www.theinterim.com/2002/dec/02antilife.html

http://boortz.com/nuze/200501/01032005.html

http://www.globalwitness.org/campaig...s/illegal.html

Honeykiss1974 · #15 10-13-2005, 04:21 PM

This ad just makes me want to go and watch The Smurfs.