In light of the recent high-profile muck-up of monumental proportions, the “Fast & Furious” operation, I think the ATF is going to need a little bit of a facelift for public-relations purposes. So here’s what I propose: Let’s have a new flag for the ATF with a more appropriate logo on it that makes them seem more down-to-Earth and relatable. So here is my idea for the logo on the flag:
Have an overweight red-neck guy in a plaid flannel shirt and ATF baseball cap holding up a bottle of Jack Daniel’s in one hand, smoking a huge cigar that he’s holding clenched between his teeth in his grinning mouth, and holding up a huge handgun in his other hand, where his arms are being held up and out to each side, so he’s in a spread-eagle position with his arms, with the bottle and gun being held up about face-level on both sides. So he is making a “Whoo-hoo!”-type of expression on his face while holding the stuff up, and the bottle, the cigar, and the gun, are in the proper order for “Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms”, and it says across the flag, underneath the guy’s arms and face, at about stomach-level: “ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, AND FIREARMS: THREE GREAT THINGS THAT GO GREAT TOGETHER!”
Now that would be a great, appropriate, and memorable logo/flag for the ATF! And I hope they’ll adopt it soon! (And hey, maybe it will create enough buzz to get us all to forget about this absolute colossal cluster-fuck: “Fast & Furious”!) And if they need to adjust it to their full name, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, they could just add a bomb-vest on the guy, right over his flannel shirt! And then it would say: "Four great things that go great together!" (And hey: with a logo like this, instead of that bureaucratic logo they've got now, when some major screw-up like "Fast & Furious" happens next time, people will just look at that "yahoo"-looking guy in the logo, and it won't seem like such a surprise or disappointment: it will just appear normal and expected!)
