Victory for Terrorist Chic
A Danish court has just acquitted a t-shirt company who, last year, started selling shirts with the logos of the Colombian FARC rebels and the Popular Forces for the Liberation of Palestine militia. They promised to send five Euros from every sale to the respective militia groups represented.
In what is seen as a test of Denmark’s new anti-terrorism laws prohibiting funding of terrorist groups, the judge ruled that although these groups have engaged in "murders and kidnappings" they are not guilty of terrorism. To say that this outcome is absurd does not even begin to explain it.
Chalk one more up for the popularization and commercialization of violence and terrorism. This is even more absurd that Urban Outfitter’s "anti-war scarf". At least UO wasn’t sending cash directly to fund terrorism!
The FARC and the PFLP are among the most vicicious, ideologically extreme, and unrelentingly and unrepentedly violent militia groups in the world. In my conversations with members of the Israeli security establishment, they have been unequivocal in stating that despite the relatively small size of the PFLP, they represent as concerning a terrorist threat as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or Fatah. As for the FARC, I cannot imagine anyone outside of Hugo Chavez who would not see this pack of murderers as anything but a terrorist group.
Even the European Union agrees. That should mean something even to the idiots out there who would want to buy trash like this. If you really want to be sick to your stomach, read the whitewashed descriptions that the Lovers and Fighters company provides of these groups:
Fighters+Lovers is greatly in debt to the stylish classic coolness of Palestinian fighter Leyla Khaled and the funky outrageous style of Colombian guerrilla commander Jacobo Arenas. Our work is inspired by the style and principles of these legendary fighters…Look great & stand up for freedom!
*Retch!
source Tags: dumb news, terrorist chic, pflp, farc, t shirt, denmark, anti terrorism law
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To me, seeing a PFLP (or FARC, or Mao) T-shirt is every bit as offensive as someone in a Nazi or White Power T-shirt. (Simply two nominally opposite sides of the same stinking coin. Totalitarian mass-murderers in the name of narcissistic “idealisms” that have killed more people than any robber baron ever could.)
The only defense any of the delusional idiots wearing this crap have going for them is “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”