Ben Garrison
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About
Ben Garrison is a libertarian political cartoon artist known for creating illustrations about United States political corruption and various conspiracy theories, who has been the subject of a troll campaign by users of 4chan's /pol/ (politics) board who have attempted to frame him as a Nazi sympathizer.
Online History
On December 15th, 2006, Garrison launched the Garrison Graphics blog on Blogspot.[3]
Cartoon Defacement
On August 22nd, 2010 Garrison released a cartoon titled "The March of Tyranny" on his personal blog,[2] featuring a walking Illuminati pyramid with a Democrat left leg and a Republican right leg (shown below).
"My cartoon […] shows how the banking and corporate masters (crony capitalist fascists) control both major parties behind the scenes. They keep us distracted with left vs. right while giving us the illusion that voting for one of the other parties will solve things. It won't."
An edited variation of the comic began circulating on 4chan featuring the antisemitic Happy Merchant illustration superimposed over the pyramid (shown below).
On May 22nd, 2011, Garrison published a blog post titled "GRRR-ALERT!",[1] claiming that an "unknown cretin" was defacing his web cartoons with depictions of "offensive Jewish stereotypes." Following this, many of Garrison's cartoons were subsequently altered to depict Garrison as a Nazi (shown below).
On April 19th, 2013, a page for Garrison was launched on Encyclopedia Dramatica,[5] which refers to Garrison as a member of Stormfront and credits him with creating antisemitic and racists cartoons. On April 9th, 2014, a page for Garrison was created on the wiki site Metapedia, which notes that his cartoons have been altered into antisemitic parodies. On December 28th, 2014, the 8chan Twitter[6] feed posted a DMCA notice sent from Garrison ordering the take down of several cartoon defacements (shown below).
Legal Fund
On December 8th, 2014, Garrison launched a page on GoFundMe[8] to support his legal fund to pursue legal action about sites like 4chan and Reddit for not removing "libel" against him.
8chan Thread
On April 28th, 2015, Garrison answered questions in a thread on the /pol/ board on 8chan (shown below). That evening, Garrison published a post on his personal blog[7] confirming he had commented on the image board.
Fox 10 Prank
On the same day, YouTuber MisterMetokur uploaded a recording of a Fox News affiliate's live coverage of the Baltimore riots, in which the news anchors read several message from 4chan's /pol/ board referencing Ben Garrison, Baneposting, jet fuel can't melt steel beams: and other Internet memes (shown below).
Search Interest
Know Your Meme Store
External References
[1] Wordpress – GRRR-Alert
[2] Blogspot – The March of Tyranny
[3] Blogspot – Rogue Cartoonist
[4] Metapedia – Ben Garrison
[5] Encyclopedia Dramatica – Ben Garrison
[8] GoFundMe via Wayback Machine – Help Ben Garrison Legal Fund
Top Comments
TillsterRulz
Apr 30, 2015 at 08:34AM EDT
Gaphiltfish
Apr 30, 2015 at 01:03PM EDT