If you’re a British citizen with a vivid imagination, a glance at the 2012 London Olympic festivities could have you branded a trafficker of child pornography.
This week, her majesty’s lawmen passed the Coroners and Justice Bill 2009. An omnibus bill, the Coroners Bill affected many aspects of the British legal system. Most notably, it potentially criminalized the acts of the British design team that submitted their London 2012 Olympic Logo in the style of a cartoon character performing fellatio on the city of London.
Thanks to Coroners and Justice, any person found in possession of an indecent cartoon image of a child is subject to “..a term of imprisonment not exceeding 3 years. By extension, British officials have also criminalized the act of merely possessing such material, as it now makes all website owners (and visitors) who proliferated the logo hypothetically subject to jail time in Britain and/or Northern Ireland.
According to Limey Legislators, once the seed of corruption enters one’s head via the Intrawebs, this evil, pernicious, meme will fully infect one’s entire outlook on life, children, and the triple jump. Once the unsuspecting internet browsers mind is tainted by the LAist’s interpretation of the logo as “Lisa Simpson giving a blowjob,” the innocent bystander can no longer see the image as anything else, including a jazzed up font portraying the numbers 2,0,1,2.
Well done there. Those lads have certainly struck a blow against the corruption of children everywhere — hypothetical, Rorshachian, cartoon children, in any case.
