Detroit Robocop Statue: Make It Happen

Popular Support for Detroit Robocop Statue Grows

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Detroit has given the world many things: Motown, the Big Three, The Kills, The White Stripes... and m*therf*cking Robocop. A Twitter user called MT wondered if the city would erect a statue to celebrate the cyborg cop; after all, Philadelphia has a statue of Rocky. The Mayor said no, but others in the city said yes. Artist Jerry Paffendorf has taken up the fight, and a kickstarter campaign to fund the Robocop statue has raised over $22,000 as of this writing. Arch-geek Harry Knowles is also onboard.Would you buy that for a dollar?

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Though Detroit may fall afoul of the separation of church and state because filmmaker Paul Verhoeven conceived Robocop as an American "Jesus with a gun", a Robocop statue would probably be in the clear, since roughly 0% of moviegoers got that message.

Come on: Alex Murphy got blown away by Clarence Boddicker and turned into a law-enforcement cyborg for you! The least you could do is honor his memory.

I urged Bing to think twice before dismissing the idea:

Seriously, though. There are echoes of OCP in everyday life: Taser-happy cops killing tourists and old ladies. Full-body scanners with questionable health effects foisted upon us in the name of "security". Anti-theft car flamethrowers, and a pop-culture obsession with the suffering of others. For a tongue-in-cheek societal parody, Robocop was oddly prescient.

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