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@Oliver Schick
There are bound to be officers of the law who will get neither the allusion to the original nor the joke and take it completely literally. I hope that I'm wrong, of course. I have to admit that I also don't find the mere inversion of the original slogan particularly funny. I can't think of anything better, though.
I find it incredible how afraid the mere mention of the t-word makes people. When we ran into trouble at Gatwick on the last Brighton overnighter, I remember the police officers' scared reaction when the t-word was even mentioned--and I was only asking whether they thought we were terrorists, as the reason they advanced for their behaviour was clearly not the real reason, just the legal mechanism they were proposing to use to evict us.
(I then also asked if they thought we were anti-airport protesters, which, judging from their reaction, wasn't far off terrorism--but they denied it again, of course, with the exception of one junior officer who was a bit more sensible and seemed to be the only one to realise that he wouldn't be giving away a state secret if he admitted it.)