Fear of T-Shirts
Posted on | October 31, 2006
Don’t like those shirts that list the names of America’s fallen in the Iraq war? Pass legislation outlawing their sale!
It ought to go without saying that simply listing the dead isn’t violating anyone’s rights, and that next of kin don’t deserve any special control over such use of a loved one’s name. The laws being passed are simply attempts to suppress certain speech. The jingoists supporting the war don’t want you knowing who’s dying, just as they don’t want you seeing those coffins coming home.
They want you to ignore the dead, but they’ll pretend, of course, that this censorship is some sort of respect.
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