The Gnome Liberation Front

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The paper examines the legitimacy of the Gnome Liberation Front (GLF) as a political party. The writer discusses how the tone of the website is a combined parody of political correctness rhetoric, speaking of oppressed minorities such as the short gnomes, and fringe liberation front rhetoric about liberating these tiny ceramic people. The writer further compares the GLF to the movie "Fight Club" with an attitude of creating an "in-joke" amongst a group of members, for private self-glorification. The writer concludes that the GLF uses situationist-style techniques and methods to accomplish what are, to the eyes of the world, uncertain goals.

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"Even the GLF website domain of 'internet-trash' suggests a parody. Although there is photographic evidence of 'real' rescue activities of garden gnomes, this could just as easily take the form of a montage of staged shots. The blatantly false "Gnomes on the Roam" section, which superimposes gnome shots upon real-world images, seems to confirm this idea and increases the reader's suspicions that this is not a real organization of any serious intent. However, the 2000 news story "Garden Gnome Liberation Front strikes Paris show" by the respectable news organization CNN ultimately belies the web-surfer's initial suspicions."

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