Sunday, April 6, 2003|
Support our troops by spending $20 for half a buck? That's the pitch I received this week in a spam-mail. "Now you can show your patriotism and support" the ad says, by sending them $19.95 for a "colorized" commemorative Kennedey half dollar. In other words, they're going to take a fifty cent piece, paint it and and send it back to you. But, as the ads say, that's not all. They're going to match your purchase by sending a similar coin to "a (sic) military personnel fighting in Iraq." Or, they offer to send the extra coin to you and you could donate it to a local cause sending gifts overseas." So for $20 you get a painted fifty cent piece. Some poor soldier digging sand out of her shoes, opens the package from home to find - 50 cents and your best wishes. And the scum balls who thought this up make $19 (minus shipping, handling and paint). They claim only 100,000 coins are being released. That's $50,000 in coins. In the unfortunate event they peddle them all, that gives them $950,000!
Good Americans get incensed about musicians exercising their right to free speech. But these greasy, classless, slime-covered, fuckwads will probably make a ton of money on brainless Americans who will do anything to "support the troops", without having the faintest idea what that means. I hope these money-changers die painfully slow. |
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