BUSH LIED THEY DIED Shirt is Illegal in 2 StatesOur anti-war shirt is illegal in 2 states & may soon be banned nationwide. Now features names of 2,803 fallen troops.

Since when is a t’shirt illegal? What happened to Freedom of Speech?

Somehow I’m pretty sure this will get struck down as unconstitutional,….  Its just a matter of time…

Anyone remember the woman who won her lawsuit after a cop pulled her over for an antiwar bumper sticker?  Wish I had a link, but i’m just a bit too tired to look it up at teh moment.  I’ll post it in a comment for you later as soon as i’m truly AWAKE…

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is pulling a skull-and-crossbones T-shirt from its shelves after a blogger complained that the image was identical to a Nazi SS emblem from World War II.

Rick Rottman, who runs an online journal called Bent Corner, posted a picture of the shirt late last week next to an image of a divisional insignia he said was used by the 3rd SS Division, a unit of Adolf Hitler’s Waffen SS.

The design is a distinctive image of a squat-looking human skull slightly angled to the side.

The world’s largest retailer said Monday it was not aware of the origins of the image until Rottman’s post and is working quickly to get the T-shirt out of stores, spokesman David Tovar said.

"We are deeply sorry that this happened, and we are in the process of pulling all of these T-shirts from our stores," Tovar said. "Respect for the individual is a core value of our company and we would never have placed this T-shirt on our shelves had we known the origin and significance of this emblem."

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FEDERAL COURT HOLDS THAT SCHOOL COLORS ARE PROTECTED UNDER TRADEMARK ACT

Smack Apparel Company (Smack), a manufacturer of printed shirts, produced several types of shirts related to the 2004 Sugar Bowl and the national football championships won by Southern Cal and Ohio State. The specific shirts Smack produced were:

+ A purple and gold color shirt with "Beat Oklahoma!" on the front, and, on the back, "Bring It Back to the Bayou!" and "National Champions."
+ A purple and gold color shirt with the words "2003 College Football National Champions" on the front and "Sweet As Sugar" on the back.
+ A crimson and crème color shirt and the words "BOUrbon Street or Bust" on the front and "Show Us YOUr Beads" and "Sweet As Sugar" on the back.
+ A crimson and crème color shirt with "Let’s Make It Eight!" on the front, and "Beat Socal!" on the back
+ A scarlet and gray shirt that read on the front "Got Seven?" and, on the back, "We Do! 7 Time National Champions!" with a map of the state of Ohio with a star indicating the city of Columbus.
+ A cardinal and gold shirt that read on the front "Got Eight?" and, on the back, "We Do! 8 Time National Champions!" with a map of California and a star indicating "SoCal".

Louisiana State University (LSU), the University of Oklahoma (OU), Ohio State University (OSU), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Collegiate Licensing Company (CLC)–the official sports licensing arm for member institutions of the NCAA–became aware of the shirts through their marketing by vendors near campus on game days and in New Orleans immediately prior to the 2004 Sugar Bowl.

LSU joined with the three other schools and the CLC to sue Smack, claiming that the shirts violated the respective schools’ trademarks because Smack never obtained a license from CLC to manufacture and market the shirts. The universities alleged that even though the shirts did not specifically and explicitly mention the universities or their mascots–the Tigers, the Sooners, the Buckeyes, or the Trojans–the shirts utilized the schools’ official colors to give consumers the false impression that they were shirts that were officially sanctioned by those schools and to capitalize on the time, effort, and money that the universities spent on developing a well-known color scheme.

The federal Lanham Act governs the use of trademarks in the United States. A trademark, which can take the form of words or symbols, grants the trademark’s owner the exclusive right to use such words or symbols to designate a particular good or service. A trademark, in short, is an adjective which designates the origin or source of a good or service.

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By The Associated Press

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Two Rapid City high school students who showed up to school wearing T-shirts advocating passage of South Dakota’s medical-marijuana ballot issue have had those shirts confiscated.

A security guard told the two Stevens High School seniors to remove the shirts as they went to their first class on Oct. 20. The principal, Katie Bray, confiscated the shirts.

The students, David Valenzuela, 17, and Chris Fuentes, 18, said the confiscation violated their rights to political free speech.

But Peter Wharton, Rapid City superintendent, said it had nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with violating a policy forbidding clothing that displays images of alcohol, drugs or tobacco products on school grounds.

"Unequivocally, no. It had nothing to do with political speech," he said.

The green T-shirts featured an image of a marijuana leaf and the message "Vote Yes on Initiated Measure 4."

Students can wear political T-shirts as long as administrators determine the clothing is appropriate, Wharton said.

Some have worn T-shirts urging passage of South Dakota’s abortion ban.

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Over the last two years, Joe Wilson claims he’s raised over $15,000 to make plaques honouring fallen Canadian soldiers.  But it’s the way he’s done it — selling t-shirts that depict a poppy-like flower — that has members of the Royal Canadian Legion seeking to halt his sales. 

"Everything that these soldiers fought for in World War II was for our freedoms," Wilson stresses.

"For everything I sell.I purchase name plaques for guys who were killed in action that day."

According to the Dominion Command of the Royal Canadian Legion, however, they own the trade mark to the poppy image and they’ve asked Joe to cease and desist, claiming it is illegal to make a profit off of the poppy.

Joe makes less than $2 gross for each shirt he sells, but according to aging vets, it’s not about the cash, but the principle.

"Despite the good intentions it’s still a commercialization," said vet Reg Wright.

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