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To: cripplecreek

Earlier this year, Sauk Rapids satirist Dan McCall won a legal victory over the federal government after National Security Agency reps tried to get online retailers to stop selling shirts emblazoned with the the agency’s seal and slogans like this: “The NSA: The only part of government that actually listens.”

The NSA essentially claimed their logo is copyrighted and couldn’t be used without permission, an argument that didn’t pass muster in light of the First Amendment’s protection of satire. Now, a pro-Hillary Clinton group is making a version of that same argument to once again get McCall’s products pulled from stores. (McCall also sells his shirts on his own site, LibertyManiacs.com.)

http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2014/06/satirist_dan_mccall_battles_hillary_clinton_pac_over_ready_for_oligarchy_design_images.php

Leftists always want to ban things they don’t approve of.


5 posted on 06/18/2014 8:21:50 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: TurboZamboni

“Leftists always want to ban things they don’t approve of.”

Yes, the Left does not want to win debates, they want to make debating illegal.


10 posted on 06/18/2014 8:24:15 AM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: TurboZamboni
Leftists always want to ban things they don’t approve of.

Thus their attacks on religious notions of sin, the tea party, education,...

50 posted on 06/18/2014 9:54:38 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: TurboZamboni
I was aware enough to foresee this and ordered 3 of each tee shirt as soon as I saw them. This is the best publicity the web site can get.
I bet they are being cranked out on overtime!

Aside from the NSA version, the Department of Homeland Stupidity is also a great one.

I am waiting anxiously for the "National Park Service" shirt, Obey our leader and we Might Let You Use HIS Parks!

And I can think of a few others...

56 posted on 06/18/2014 10:42:38 AM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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