Matthew Rothschild: Judge Sides with Maker of “Bush Lied” T-Shirt

[marmar]

from The Progressive:



Judge Sides with Maker of “Bush Lied” T-Shirt
By Matthew Rothschild, August 22, 2008



You’ve probably seen the T-shirt around.

On the front, in huge capital letters, are the words “Bush Lied.” And on the back, also huge, the words, “They Died.”

In tiny type, on both sides, are the names of all of the U.S. soldiers who have fallen in Iraq.

Dan Frazier of Flagstaff is the maker of the shirts, and you can find them at his website, carryabigsticker.com.

“My idea was to show dramatically the toll that the war was taking,” he said. At the time of the original shirt, 1,600 U.S. soldiers had died, and he couldn’t get all of the names on a bumper sticker, so he opted for a T-shirt.

“It didn’t sell very well,” Frazier said. “It was kind of a flop, actually.”

He even thought about discontinuing the shirts.

But then some state legislators, urged on by family members of fallen soldiers, got the idea into their heads to essentially ban the shirt. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/mag/wx0822b08.html

[Cleita]

1. So much for First Amendment rights.

Yet, I'm sure it's the very same people who defend the mainstream media's First Amendment rights to lie about everything that could make the criminal Bush administration look bad and present it as the truth.