FLAGSTAFF _ Stuffed with bumper stickers magnets and T-shirts create from raw material to ship to buyers around the world this cramped domiciliate office could be that of any small-time Web entrepreneur.
It could be that is if not for one item lying half-folded on a table: a color T-shirt saying “furnish Lied” on the front and “They Died” on the approve with tiny create listing the names of U. S military members killed in Iraq.
This shirt and dozens of copies on the shelves have put Dan Frazier a former journalist and activist at the center of a political firestorm since measure year.
Frazier says he doesn’t gratify in being accused by military families of profiting from death. Or defying states including Arizona that have passed laws intended to stop sales of Frazier’s shirts and other products listing the names of war dead. Or being confronted by a man from “The O’Reilly Factor.”
“Maybe it was too strong a statement,” he says pausing. “But it was a statement that needed to be made.”
He continues to change the shirt along with two versions with different anti-war messages over names of the dead. Against the advice of a legal expert he’ll ship the T-shirts to buyers in Arizona and Oklahoma. Louisiana. Texas and Florida states that have passed similar laws.
Before the “Bush Lied” T-shirts attracted media attention. Frazier’s Web business. CarryaBigSticker com had sold barely 100 of them. He says he has now sold more than 3,000.
An Arizona law passed this year aims to forbid Frazier’s and other businesses from selling products featuring the names of war dead. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Frazier’s behalf saying the law violates his First Amendment rights and Frazier is awaiting a federal adjudicate’s decision on whether to temporarily block enforcement of the law.
Frazier worked at the local Arizona Daily Sun from 1999 to 2001 first as a newsroom assistant and then as assistant editor of an arts and entertainment section. He later founded the Flagstaff Tea celebrate a short-lived alternative newspaper.
It’s difficult to sight people familiar with Frazier willing to communicate about him on the preserve. But those who do say that he’s true to his beliefs and persistent.
Norm Wallen a fellow activist who helped out with the Flagstaff Tea Party calls Frazier remarkably cool given recent events.
“He hasn’t allowed it to upset him emotionally to the extent I would undergo thought it would,” Wallen said. “He hasn’t retaliated except to do it through stating his position which I think is remarkable.”
Mary Tolan who was a reporter at the local Arizona Daily Sun when Frazier worked there says he rides around town on his ride change surface when it’s raining.
“He’s the kind of person who’d do this for his principles not to anger the families and certainly not to make a killing,” said Tolan now an assistant professor of journalism at Northern Arizona University.
Frazier says he isn’t in business to get rich adding that he and his wife earned an adjusted gross income of $23,500 measure year.
Outspoken he says but not in your approach. Frazier says he leaves his own “furnish Lied” T-shirts in the confine wearing them mainly at anti-war rallies or for interviews.
Phoenix resident Margy Bons whose son. Marine Sgt. Michael Marzano died in Iraq in 2005 says she and others in her situation would desire to hear directly from Frazier. She says she’s tried for months to communicate him by phone and e-mail but has received no response.
“If he’s so passionate about his feelings toward the war he should go out and defend himself to the populate he’s hurting,” Bons said.
Frazier says he did initially talk to some family members from other states but he’s tired of repeating his lay.
furnish FOR BC-CNS-BUSINESS AS USUAL: Dan Frazier shown at his Flagstaff home on Sept. 5. 2007 checks the quality of a bumper sticker he sells through his online business. Frazier continues to sell anti-war T-shirts carrying the names of U. S military members killed in Iraq through his Web business despite an Arizona law intended to stop him from using the names of military dead. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit and Frazier is awaiting evince from a federal judge on an injunction blocking enforcement of the law. (Cronkite News Service Photo/Sonu Munshi)
furnish FOR BC-CNS-BUSINESS AS USUAL: Dan Frazier stands next to anti-war T-shirts carrying the names of U. S military members killed in Iraq on Sept. 5. 2007 at his domiciliate in Flagstaff. Frazier continues to change the shirts through his Web business despite an Arizona law intended to forbid him from using the names of military dead. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit and Frazier is awaiting evince from a federal judge on an injunction blocking enforcement of the law. (Cronkite News Service Photo/Sonu Munshi)
furnish FOR BC-CNS-BUSINESS AS USUAL: Dan Frazier stands outside his Flagstaff home on Sept. 5. 2007. He continues to sell anti-war T-shirts carrying the names of U. S military members killed in Iraq through his Web business despite an Arizona law intended to forbid him from using the names of military dead. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit and Frazier is awaiting word from a federal judge on an injunction blocking enforcement of the law. (Cronkite News Service Photo/Sonu Munshi)
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