Posted on 07/02/2004 6:57:10 AM PDT by kattracks
Sorry, loony left: The Minnesota Twins say they won't give G.I. Joe the boot.
Despite pressure from several anti-choice appeasement groups in the P.C.-crazed Minneapolis area, the team will present the action figure to 5,000 lucky children at the game Monday with the Kansas City Royals."We are absolutely going forward with the promotion," said Patrick Klinger, the team's vice president of marketing.
"It really is intended to pay tribute to the soldiers, those infantry people who are serving the country here and abroad. We wanted to pay tribute to the real G.I. Joes and G.I. Janes serving the country," he said.
The team has included this salute on the toy's packaging: "The Minnesota Twins salute these courageous men and women, past and present, who put their lives on the line to defend our country and assist us in times of need."
Mary Beaudoin, a leader of something that dubs itself Women Against Military Madness, raged to the St. Paul Pioneer Press: "This is hideous a bad message to send kids. Kids need to be raised with the values of life, not killing."
Col. Denny Shields, a spokesman for the Minnesota National Guard, said, "We're sorry that a small number of Minnesotans are offended by the doll and don't see it as the tribute that it really is."
"OUR MISSION: W A M M is a nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination and justice through education and empowerment of women. W A M M 's purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression."
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W A M M is supported by the Membership and grants from the following Foundations : : Women's Foundation of Minnesota : : Community Solutions Fund : : Headwaters Foundation for Justice : : Otto Bremer Foundation :
They'd probably endorse a Paul Wellstone bobblehead doll.
the whole upper midwest MN/WI is that way full of these types of org's. they routinly protest the ELF site in northern Wi which is our sub communication line. buch of loosers is all.
So glad to see they're not backing down. Every team should give away a GI Joe.
Yea, but not the pro-choice I believe in, I mean how many choices to these folks believe in, first you choose to have sexual intercourse, then you choose to not use any kind of birth control, then you choose to abort what you chose to ignore in the first two choices, it never ends, and they don't get it. Declaring yourself pro-choice is premafacia evidence of the ignorance exhibited in the original declaration.
Toymaker Hasbro removed the gun from the action figure,
...and furthermore what knowledgable woman would align herself with an organization that included the above mentioned buzz-words and others like them in their mission statement.
Maybe I just answered my question.
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