More Deep Compassion for o Our War Dead and Their Greiving Families from the Left

Once more folks, we are blessed by a perfect example of exactly what Liberals and Democrats mean when they claim to be the party of compassion.

Once more we see that they don't care how much emotional hurt they inflict on the families of our fallen American heroes, as long as they can use them to promote their political agenda.

States crack down on soldier T-shirts

By PAUL DAVENPORT
Associated Press Writer
Thu May 17, 4:53 PM ET

PHOENIX - Incensed by the sale of anti-war T-shirts and other paraphernalia emblazoned with the names and pictures of America's military dead, some states are outlawing the commercial use of the fallen without the permission of their families.

Despite serious questions of constitutionality, Oklahoma and Louisiana enacted such laws last year, and the governors of Texas and Florida have legislation waiting on their desks. Arizona lawmakers are on the verge of approving a similar measure.

"You should have some rights to your own name and your own legacy, particularly if you're a deceased veteran," said state Sen. Jim Waring, a Republican who sponsored the Arizona bill. "Celebrities have that. Why shouldn't our soldiers have that?"

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Margy Bons, a Phoenix-area woman whose Marine reservist son, Sgt. Michael A. Marzano, was killed by an insurgent bomb in Iraq in 2005, said he believed in his mission.

"My son was not duped into going to war," she said. "I'm angry that somebody can use somebody else's name for their political beliefs without permission."

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Frazier said he has sold a couple of thousand shirts through his Web site, http://www.carryabigsticker.com, since 2005 and regards it as more of a political statement than a moneymaker. He said the shirts, which sell for $20 to $22, are expensive to produce.

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"You can't make some irrational distinctions and stop some people and not others without a really good reason," said Paul Bender, an Arizona State University professor and a top Justice Department official in the Clinton administration.

Bender said the shirts are clearly a political statement: "He's not advertising anything on the T-shirts

First, let's deal with the outright lies being put forward by Mr. Frazier and Mr. Bender.

Mr. Frazier claims that the shirts he is selling for $20-$22, are expensive to produce. I have direct experience in this and what he is calling expensive amounts at most to $6.00 or $8.00 at the very most. Those figures are probably high, very possibly double his cost, depending on how many of them he has pre-printed, but ltet's be generous and go with that figure, add to that "free shipping" at a cost of about $1.50-$2.00/shirt and we come up with a nice round figure of a per shirt cost of %10.00.

That means that these "couple of thousand" shirts which he claims "as more of a political statement than a moneymaker," have a profit margin of 100%. By my math, that means if by a "couple of thousand" he means say 2300 shirts, he has made a net profit of $23,000.00 ( and possibly as much as $31,000.00) from the names of our deceased war heroes.

Sounds like a really good money maker to me.

So now we come to the claim of Mr. Paul Bender who, being a "top justice official in the Clinton administration knows something about corruption and about lying, that "the shirts are clearly a political statement: "He's not advertising anything on the T-shirts."

I don't know Paul, but it looks like at the very bottom-right of the list of names on the back of the shirt, he has his website and/or a copyright listed. To my mind that is advertising, and it is undeniable that Mr. Frazier is making a pretty fair profit off of the names of our war dead.

Perhaps if Mr. Frazier was selling these shirts at cost, or if he was donating all of the proceeds to say...a fund for helping the families of these fallen heroes, or for helping the recovery of our injured returning soldiers, than he might have the right to claim it as a "political statement," but the fact remains that he is pocketing this blood money for his own selfish purposes.

Now I'm all for free enterprise and capitalism, but not on the backs of our war dead. And not at the expense of the emotional well-being of their bereaved back here at home. This comes very close to war-profiteering.

Of course we all know from the Dianne Feinstein corruption scandal that Liberals are not averse to war profiteering. She stands as a shining beacon of that despicable practice.

So I am forced toask my Liberal friends, where is this compassion we hear so much about from your loud,rude, and far too often crude voices? Huh? What's that? I'm sorry, I can't quite hear you.

Oh! You're saying that you know that this would ordinarily be considered a perfect example of hypocrisy, but that Liberals can't be guilty of hypocrisy because they are serving a higher moral goal. The ends justifies the means...Oh yeah, I forgot.

What this guy is doing is detestable and simply continues to demonstrate the complete amorality and lack of real compassion which exemplifies the Democrat Party and the Liberals who control it.

Dianne Feinstein is morally outraged at the dismissal of a few U.S. Attornies by an administration that was well within its rights to do so, but she has no qualms about building a $24 million dollar estate with the money her husband made off of contracts she directed to his companies.

Yep, typical Liberal.

Messr. Bender and Frazier see nothing wrong with making a few bucks off of the lives of our war dead, as long as it promotes their anti-war, anti-military, anti-American agenda.

Yep, typical Liberals.

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