"Support USA Troops"

[Oddboy]

I just got spam from "SupportUSATroops@excitingmail.com"

I think it's serious, which just makes it funnier.



Show Your American Patriotism & Support with High-Quality Shirts!

(Hurry, supplies are very limited & they are going FAST!)

http://www.excitingemail.com/creative/support/support_full.gif">

[Mudcrab]

I'm surprised they're not enforced by law! Seeing as you can get arrested for wearing a t-shirt with "Give peace a chance" on it.

Nice patriotic t-shirt this:

http://www.alternativetentacles.com/product.php?product=458&sd=wzOrudaiKIf8abkeyvz">Business as usual

[HiEx]

Nothing wrong with supporting US troops, just wish they would stop shooting the British troops.

HiEx

[Mudcrab]

Indeed!!

I just don't get this "Support the troops" thing. I don't see exactly how we can 'support' them. I've certainly nothing against anyone in the military, more the politics that force them into it.

Anyway, let's hope it's over soon before everyone's killed by friendly fire.

[Oddboy]

Doug, you can support them by buying a t-shirt...

Presumably the profits go straight into guns and ammunition.

[Mudcrab]

Do you get UK one's?

[Wils]

As I can't upload from work, the back print of this t-shirt's in your Yahoo inbox, Oddboy. :)

[Oddboy]

Hope this works:http://us.f214.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter/support_back.jpg?box=Inbox&MsgId=8466_2914315_9886_1065_46502_0_1090_67836_3373663070&bodyPart=2.2&filename=support_back.jpg&tnef=&YY=36903&order=down&sort=">

[Wils]

Apparently not. Don't worry, I'll send it home and upload it later. Not that it's really worth it. :)

[W. R. Logan]

>I just don't get this "Support the troops" thing. I don't see exactly how we can 'support' them. I've certainly nothing against anyone in the military, more the politics that force them into it.

Many a squaddie couldn?t give a stuff what the ?folks? back home think. Even with 24 hour tv and so that people can ?feel? what its like to take part in a war the average person has no idea what its like.

I know that I never gave people back in the UK any thought or consideration, I was to busy watching my own arse and the people around me to worry about what someone sat behind a desk was thinking.

When someones pointing a gun at you you don?t worry about how many people at home are wearing t-shirts.

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.

[Art]

I think their for the benefit of the kind of American who feels anyone not covered in flags should be deported to cam X-ray/fears deportation to camp X-Ray should they be seen to be insufficiently patriotic.

[Wils]

Now I'm home, here's the back print.http://www.btinternet.com/~mr_fingers/support_back.jpg">

[JamieB]

If you're looking to get yer war on, Micah Wright (writer of Stormwatch: Team Achilles) has a load of great 'remixed' US propaganda posters on his website...

Link: http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html" target="_blank">Micah's Website

[Mudcrab]

> When someones pointing a gun at you you don?t worry about how many people at home are wearing t-shirts.

Very true. It's police back home that enforce that one. In America at least, not here.

Anyway, before I sound like I'm talking out my arse, this is the story I'm on about:

Associated Press story:


ALBANY, N.Y. - A man was charged with trespassing in a mall after he refused to take off a T-shirt that said "Peace on Earth" and "Give peace a chance."

Mall security approached Stephen Downs, 61, and his 31-year-old son, Roger, on Monday night after they were spotted wearing the T-shirts at Crossgates Mall in a suburb of Albany, the men said.

The two said they were asked to remove the shirts made at a store there, or leave the mall. They refused.

The guards returned with a police officer who repeated the ultimatum. The son took his T-shirt off, but the father refused.

"'I said, `All right then, arrest me if you have to,'" Downs said. "So that's what they did. They put the handcuffs on and took me away."

Downs pleaded innocent to the charges Monday night. The New York Civil Liberties Union said it would help with his case if asked.

Police Chief James Murley said his officers were just responding to a complaint by mall security.

"We don't care what they have on their shirts, but they were asked to leave the property, and it's private property," Murley said.

A mall spokeswoman did not return calls Tuesday seeking comment.

Monday's arrest came less than three months after about 20 peace activists wearing similar T-shirts were told to leave by mall security and police. There were no arrests

[McNulty]

Sorry, but that's going too far. Getting arrested for wearing a pro-peace t-shirt is just wrong.