Moral Outreach Society
Protecting American Family Values Since 1989
Because Decency Matters
It Has Reached Arizona
In February I wrote to you about a sticker I found on a lamppost on Northampton Street. I was careful, at the time, not to overstate the situation. I described what I saw. I noted my concern. I acknowledged that one sticker on one lamppost, while troubling, was not by itself proof of organized distribution. I am a methodical man. I do not draw conclusions before I have evidence.
I have evidence.
Three days ago I received correspondence from a reader whose name I am withholding out of respect for their privacy — a courtesy, I will note, that the individuals behind this campaign have not seen fit to extend to the communities whose property they are decorating. This reader is located in Arizona. They had seen my February missive. They recognized the sticker in the photograph I described because they had, themselves, observed one affixed to the rear window of a Jeep Grand Cherokee in a parking lot.
They photographed it. They sent it to me. I am posting it here because the public has a right to see what is happening.
Look at it. There it sits. Same grinning reptile. Same cheerful font. Pressed onto the glass of a vehicle in a state that is approximately two thousand miles from the lamppost on Northampton Street where this began. I do not know how it got there. I am forming a theory.
What I find most instructive about this photograph is not the sticker itself but its placement. Rear window, driver's side, just above the license plate. Visible to every vehicle that follows that Jeep through every intersection, every school zone, every neighborhood in whatever Arizona community this person calls home. The driver of that Jeep may not have put it there themselves. They may have acquired a vehicle that already bore this marking. Or they may have done it willingly, which raises a different set of questions I am not prepared to answer in print.
Either way, the sticker is there. Arizona has it now. Pennsylvania had it in February. I have no reason to believe those are the only two states.
I said in my first missive that this is how it begins. I want to revise that statement. This is not how it begins. This is how it continues. It began — as I have documented at considerable personal cost — in 1992. We stopped it then. Or we believed we had stopped it. What I am looking at in this photograph suggests that the stopping was incomplete.
To the reader in Arizona who sent this: your vigilance is noted. Your name is safe with us. If you observe further activity, please continue to write.
To everyone else: the contact form is on this website. Use it. We are keeping records. We have always kept records. The difference now is that the records are becoming interesting.
Vigilantly yours,
Gerald P. Whitmore
Director of Community Standards, Moral Outreach Society
Easton, Pennsylvania — Est. 1989
Editorial Note
The MOS has received two additional reports of sticker sightings since Missive No. 001 was published. Mr. Whitmore is reviewing them. He will write when he is ready.