Shirts with dead troops' names would be banned

Capitol Media Services ^ | Howard Fischer

[SandRat]

PHOENIX — State lawmakers voted Monday to approve a law blocking the sale of anti-war T-shirts with the names of dead soldiers on them — a measure one media lawyer says is "unconstitutional about three or four different ways."

The Senate agreed to make it punishable by up to a year in jail to use the names of deceased soldiers to help sell goods. The 28-0 vote sends SB 1014 to Gov. Janet Napolitano for her signature. The measure also would let families go to court to stop the sales and collect damages.

Dan Frazer, a Flagstaff businessman who is selling the T-shirts that caused all the fuss, said he doesn't intend to stop selling the $20 shirts even if Napolitano signs the measure. He said it's an illegal infringement on his First Amendment rights.

[dirtboy]

The Senate agreed to make it punishable by up to a year in jail to use the names of deceased soldiers to help sell goods.

These idiots just outlawed paintings of the Vietnam Wall.

[microgood]

What a bunch of morons. This will get struck down by the first judge it reaches.

[Hodar]

Dan Frazer, a Flagstaff businessman who is selling the T-shirts that caused all the fuss, said he doesn't intend to stop selling the $20 shirts even if Napolitano signs the measure. He said it's an illegal infringement on his First Amendment rights.

And he's 100% correct, as long as he doesn't denigrate the soldier's names he's committing no slander. Simply listing the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for Iraq is, nor should be a crime.

[Doctor Raoul]

Dan Frazer is a grave robbing ghoul. He's stealing the goodwill and sympathy intended for the fallen. He's an out and out bastard.

There were at last count about 6 months ago, 500 families at Fort Hood that did not want the names of their loved ones used in this manner. I hope one of them gets to spit in his eye someday.

What the media NEVER reported about Cindy Sheehan's Crawford gang at Camp Crazy was that over 75 of the crosses she set up outside Bush's ranch were picked up by a family mamber of the fallen and removed.

The Crawford Police and the County Sherif made the arrangments and accompanied the families they went out to Camp Crazy to do that. That the families of the fallen needed to be protected from the "peace activists" is an abomination.

The first parent who tried to remove their son's name had to go back and back and back before Cindy Sheehan stopped replacing that cross. And she wants respect for her loss?

[Perdogg]

I agree.

[Doctor Raoul]

See psot #5

[Doctor Raoul]

Someone call the Fashion Police on Mr Frazerf...

[Doctor Raoul]

"Who Would Jesus Bomb?

I would hope it would be you Dan, for asking such a dumb ass question.

[Hodar]

This man may be a ghoul; but nonetheless, the right exists.

We either have a Constitution, or we do not. Either we have a Bill of Rights, or we do not. This man may be scum, but if simply printing a name is a crime; then we need to arrest every historian who ever put pen to paper, and then arrest those responsible for most war memorials in this great land of ours.

[Doctor Raoul]

Too bad this kind of stupidity isn't painful.
It's why there no limits on "stupid".

[newroark]

“as long as he doesn’t denigrate the soldier’s names he’s committing no slander”

Not the least reason for which is, one cannot slander the dead.

[hophead]

The US Constitution means nothing to these fools.

[microgood]

It's not illegal for a politician to push a bill that is unconstitutional. Maybe these politicians are just trying to make a statement against the shirt manufacturers.

I would agree if it was just some sort of statement but this has criminal penalties tied to it which means the taxpayers now have to pay to defend this in court and possibly attorney fees once it is struck down. It may not be illegal (even though members take an oath to defend the constitution) but it is irresponsible.

[Doctor Raoul]

MLK is a publlic figure, but use his image without forking over the $$$ and you're toast.

We make it illegal to give out the names of rape victims, out of concern for their wellbeing. Why not the these families?

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

If he is making a buck off someones name, he should be forced to pay a royalty. He should be required to get permission from the soldiers family.

[BallyBill]

2 wrongs don’t make a right.

[sapper1975]

If I see anyone wearing a shirt with any of my friends’ names on it and it’s being used to undermine a mission they believed in, I think I’m going to have a major issue with it.

[cookcounty]

""Who Would Jesus Bomb? "

Hitler, for starters.