Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Banned T-Shirts

Visit Carry A Big Sticker and check out their anti-war t-shirts that have been banned in six states. According to the company:

The three shirts on this page feature the names of troops killed in Iraq. List of names is preceded by larger text that reads "4,058 U.S. Troops Who Died in Iraq from March 20, 2003 Through April 30, 2008." List of  fallen is in alphabetical order.  Six states have passed legislation aimed at outlawing the sale of these shirts (Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Washington and Arizona). Similar legislation has been proposed in Michigan and Maryland. Federal legislation is also pending. The shirts are also the target of a $40 billion class-action lawsuit.  We  continue to sell these shirts in all 50 states and will do so until the troops come home or they throw us in jail, whichever comes first.


I have a banned t-shirt from several years ago that features a variation of the U.S. Forestry Service emblem ... with the big pine tree sawn down. They sued the company, and lost. The judge in that case basically said, "If you don't want people to satirize your organization like that, don't do things that inspire them to do so."

I wish Carry A Big Sticker the same luck. If you don't want to be criticized for wasting soldiers' lives, stop doing it.
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  • 5 comments
markdeniz

markdeniz

June 27 2008, 17:18:20 UTC 13 years ago

I have one called U.S. on Tour, which has a list on the back of all the countries the U.S. have 'saved' and the number of dead resulting from that.
ysabetwordsmith

ysabetwordsmith

June 27 2008, 17:23:34 UTC 13 years ago

Ooo ... bullseye.
browngirl

browngirl

June 27 2008, 18:21:45 UTC 13 years ago

*makes a note of Carry a Big Sticker, and hopes for them*
arielstarshadow

arielstarshadow

June 27 2008, 18:59:13 UTC 13 years ago

I think at least part of the problem is that the company didn't get permission from the deceased soldiers' families to use their names. I seem to remember hearing one news report that said some families weren't at all pleased to find T-shirts being produced with the names of their sons/daughters/spouses on them.

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