World TV Turnoff Week

(Toronto) Anti-TV activists this week will be using remote controls to turn off other people's televisions as part of their annual TV Turnoff Week. The radical leftist groups Adbusters, Britain's White Dot, and the TV Turnoff Network are behind the mischief. The stated goal is to remove television from public spaces.

"We are going to be going into pubs and either turning off the TV and leaving information or asking people, 'I just turned off the television. Did you notice?'" White Dot spokesperson David Burke told Agence France-Presse in London.

"People may think it is intrusive for an anti-television campaigner to go into a [bar] and turn off the television, but a lot of people find the television intrusive."

Frankly, I'd like to see these leftist loons show up at one of the "social clubs" in Queens or Brooklyn and turn the television off. I sense they would only do it once.

TV Turnoff Week events are also planned in other countries and they encompass picnics, concerts, and art. The whole scheme seems to be: make trouble and have a party. It would be nice if they just had their party and left everyone else alone.

Whatever happened to "live and let live" and "mind your own damn business?"