Sales Using Dead Troops' Names Stir Ire

Boston Globe ^ | May 18, 2007 | Paul Davenport, AP

[RDTF]

PHOENIX -- Incensed by the sale of antiwar 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 Senator Jim Waring, a Republican who sponsored the Arizona bill. "Celebrities have that. Why shouldn't our soldiers have that?"

The bills were prompted largely by pleas from families upset that their loved ones' names and photos were being used on phone cards, body armor, and other products.

In many cases, the target of their ire is Dan Frazier, a Flagstaff man who sells T-shirts online that list the names of 3,155 military personnel killed in Iraq. The shirts bear slogans such as "Bush Lied -- They Died" and "Support Our Remaining Troops -- Bring the Rest Home Alive."

Margy Bons, a Phoenix-area woman whose Marine reservist son, Sergeant 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."

Frazier, 41, said he will not relent.

"I'm providing a valuable service to people to help show the enormity of the cost of war," he said.

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[BenLurkin]

More evidence, as if any were needed, that America’s enemies (foreign and domestic) love death.

We love life.

[vietvet67]

Nothing more than making money off of our fallen heroes.

Disgusting..

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Frazier is a waste of food and resources that could be better utilized on a human being who is NOT a F**KING scumbag...

[ExpatCanuck]

"I'm providing a valuable service to people to help show the enormity of the cost of war," he said.

Someone should help Frazier learn the enormity of the cost of being an *sshole.

[Edgerunner]

"I'm providing a valuable service to people to help show the enormity of the cost of war," he said.

If he thinks this war is bad, wait till he sees what his siding with the enemy will bring. Not only our solders being killed, be people like us and him being killed HERE.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

http://carryabigsticker.com/bush_lied_shirt.htm#money

This guy has posted a long letter on his site...what a wanker

[Gondring]

Wow! He's on this list right after Jeffrey Dahmer, between Hitler and Stalin!

Osama bin Laden
Torquemada
Ghengis Khan
Ilse Koch
Juan Peron
Saddam Hussein
Idi Amin
Mithridates of Pontus
Ivan the Terrible
Caligula
Adolf Hitler
Jeffrey Dahmer
Dan R. Frazier
Iosef Stalin
Jomo Kenyatta
Attila the Hun
Mao Zedong
Vlad Dracula
Elizabeth Báthory
Pol Pot
Benito Mussolini
Ayatollah Khomeini

[Gondring]

Someone should help Frazier learn the enormity of the cost of being an *sshole.

I hope he gets lots of letters at dan@CarryaBigSticker.com explaining this.

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

Lol...what an assclown....

I guess with folks like Cindy SHeenan who has made a cottage industry out of it, what do you expect....

[pray4liberty]

I’m not one to believe in frivolous lawsuits, but if I was one of those mothers, I’d sue Dan Frazier for every penny he has.

[ts005495]

This jerk has an ebay store with the shirts posted...

Including - Bush Lied, Kippling, and more...with the soldier’s names.

http://stores.ebay.com/CarryaBigSticker

His Email is dan@carryabigsticker.com

Please go to ebay, it does violate their terms and agreements. Please report the listing.

Go to the bottom of each listing.

Click - Report this item.

Select the following...

1) Prohibbited Banned Items
2) Offensive and Potentially Offensive Items
3) Items Produces By, or linked to disasterous / tragic events.

Click Continue

You then need to click on email / contact us and report the listing... Just clicking continue does not send the item to violations.

I appreciate the message, but using the names is crossing the line. The soldiers died for freedom, not for his enterprise. Fox News reported him selling over 66,000 dollars worth of these shirts in the past year.
More then an average soldier.

I don’t have family or even a friend on the list (yet) and I do believe in Freedom of speech. So speak up, and be heard.