Civil disobedience: Fuch Trump

Two days ago I posted here about the large handmade TRUMP sign, near the cabin where I'm presently living, which I thought needed a new paint job, shall we say.

Then I unposted it yesterday.

Between posting and unposting I received an unexpected amount of positive, thoughtful response to the proposition I'd made (in the blog I unposted) to re-paint the TRUMP sign, so much so that I've re-considered the matter and am posting again.

The situation: in an alfalfa field/horse pasture just down the road there's a large, handpainted sign with the word, TRUMP painted in bright red. The sign is approximately 5' x 15' and enjoys huge visibility, located as it is, right beside the road to the east gate of Yellowstone National Park. The park opened this past Friday, May 5th, and the road is now briskly traveled by vacationers who've come from virtually every corner of the world to see Old Faithful and friends.

The sign is deeply offensive to me, the word TRUMP as repellent as if it were the word HITLER, and I am thinking of re-painting it by adding the word FUCK or the letter F, or some other sign or symbol that would indicate my political opposition to our current President and his administration of troglodytes. I've been doing so much thinking about it that I taken the step of purchasing a can of bright blue spray paint, and am prepared to take action soon by light of the full moon: for how could I not take advantage of an opportunity that's fallen so directly into my lap?

However, there are at least two dilemmas to reckon with: 1) the sign is on private property and, if I was to be apprehended in the act of re-painting the sign I could be in danger of violating the law and 2) if I do re-paint the sign, what language do I use?

Regarding #1: I consulted HD Thoreau, American oracle of political action, author of Civil Disobedience--a book by the way as timely as ever, perhaps more so now than when Thoreau wrote it (1849, in response to slavery and the Mexican-American War) a book that book clubs all over the country should be reading: Thoreau gives me permission to freshen up the sign: ..."it is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think is right..."

Regarding #2: the word FUCK, the word I'd like to use, the word that seems just right for the times, commensurate in its value and power to the pumped-up vulgarity of the referent, may be too loaded a word to use in the sign's re-painting. How, for instance, would my grandchildren (ages 6-9) now old enough to read and react to such a word should they see it on a roadside sign while traveling on a family vacation to a national park? And if FUCK, as in FUCK TRUMP, is too strong a word, what word, sign, or symbol could I use to re-paint the sign that would register not only my political discontent, but also the disgust I feel at having my space invaded by its present message.

If nothing else, thinking through this issue, to the extent that I've thought it through, has revealed how little thinking I really do, making me a possible equal to those who elected TRUMP, having done very little thinking themselves. 

Exempt from this criticism are all those readers of the original blog--the now unposted blog of two days ago--from whom I received such thoughtul, creative comments on the TRUMP sign opportunity. One reader suggested pink paintballs, which can be bought at Wal-Mart; another suggested the No-Smoking symbol rather than the word FUCK; another that the letter F be used, imposed over the word TRUMP; still another had the idea of solid-blue spray paint be sprayed over the letter T of TRUMP, thereby making the sign read, RUMP. One reader even went so far to suggest I seek out the property owner and express my displeasure, asking him to either remove the sign or paint over it himself, but this correspondent has never lived in Wyoming and doesn't understand the local ethos.

Perhaps the solution is to write, FUCH on the TRUMP sign. It might get the message across, fewer would be offended, and the Germans could be blamed.