“NOT EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE: Crushing the scorpion of anarchy but sparing the octopus of monopoly”, Artist William A. Rogers, published in Harper’s Weekly, January 21, 1888.

(Snark: Seems kind of apt, given the Occupy movement and response to it. Some things don’t change.)

Image source: Railroad Cartoons Home, http://sophia.smith.edu/~maldrich/topics/political_influence/1888harpersjan21.htm (accessed 12-11-2011)

“Union-busting, 1950s (or early 1960s)”

[VA: I have no words]

[VA: I’ve lost who submitted this, I thought the information would be ‘stuck’ to the post, but apparently I was wrong. If it was you, and you want your name/website associated, please contact me via “Ask” button.]

Know your communist enemy

“I was amazed when I discovered your website because it reminded me of a picture that I found campy—but still evocative—even when I was in high school.  It is something that /should/ be shared with the world, and where better than a website devoted to octopodes in politics.”  

[VA: …snip…]

[Submitted by: Kevin Deegan-Krause (http://www.pozorblog.com)]

[VA: Source is “Know Your Communist Enemy” p.3 in Robert B. Watts (1977), “Our Freedom Documents”, The Supreme Council, Washington]

“Shanghai Trader”

“Found this an old issue of Dragon Magazine (#136, August 1988). Don’t know anything about the actual game, alas.”

Submitted by: Richard Pilbeam 

[VA: see The Mongolian Octopus - Phil May and “Yellow Peril”]

“Old policies! Old values! No future!” - 2002 via State Library of Victoria

Howard Government refers to Australian Federal Government. They were re-elected.

They introduced several policies such as removing student union fees (that supported a whole raft of services such as counsellors, advocacy for students etc as well as social events) while massively increasing university fees, and making universities more reliant on business for funding.

(Source: maybestreet)