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Last updated on August 6th, 2017 at 07:00 am

CafePress.com permits this T-shirt design (not work safe), but has withdrawn from display reader Matthew J.’s rather more thoughtful image:

Matt’s shirt is “generally offensive or in bad taste”, apparently.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/26/2007 at 11:02 AM

Hicks praying. He’s a good boy.
Posted by JDB on 2007 03 26 at 11:29 AM • permalink

Though the thong seems appropriate with the… erm, “I can smell your,” erm… I’m not going to say that in polite company…
Posted by Rajan R on 2007 03 26 at 11:40 AM • permalink

I tend to agree with CafePress. Obviously Mathew J should have been drowned at birth. Given that oversight his shirt is a mere empty moral echo.
Posted by yojimbo on 2007 03 26 at 11:45 AM • permalink

They missed the dog sweater.
Posted by rhhardin on 2007 03 26 at 12:15 PM • permalink

Isn’t his name Mohamed Douad?
Posted by Rob Read on 2007 03 26 at 12:32 PM • permalink

Cafepress showing it’s post-ethical bad taste.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 26 at 12:49 PM • permalink

Although it doesn’t absolve Cafe Press of their (typical) hypocrisy, the obscene phrase in the linked example is from The Silence of the Lambs. So it has “celebrity status”, I suppose.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 26 at 02:39 PM • permalink

Just an aesthetic point, but shouldn’t the “S” be highlighted in black along with the “B” and “D” rather than the “O” in “HOME” to make BDS the hidden message of the shirt?
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 26 at 03:17 PM • permalink

“Bring David Hicks Home – and Hang Him”
This message is just plain WRONG.
We should hang him here.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 03 26 at 03:56 PM • permalink

We should hang him here.
I disagree. If the US intended to execute Mr Hicks we should have done so immediatly upon his capture, per the Geneva Convention.
Since we did not, he should be returned to Australia, an allied power (would be different if he were from an enemy state), there to suffer whatever his home country’s penalty for treason is.
Posted by fclark on 2007 03 26 at 04:39 PM • permalink

#7 Absolutely.
One is a classic line from a classic film.
The other… Well, it’s just commonsense.
Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 26 at 05:51 PM • permalink

Since CafePress won’t oblige, where can I get one?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 03 26 at 05:52 PM • permalink

There’s always this alternative.
Posted by Dan Lewis on 2007 03 26 at 05:53 PM • permalink

I am still volunteering for David Hicks’ firing squad.
Posted by norian on 2007 03 26 at 06:13 PM • permalink

Maybe we can “encourage” India to request his extradition there. After all, he has publicly admitted that he ~~committed acts of terrorism against India~~ shot at Indian soldiers from across the border.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 03 26 at 06:29 PM • permalink

re the link, I particularly liked the ‘I Can Smell Your C**t’ infant/toddler t-shirt ($13.99) and baby bib. The latest in casualwear for your very own little Hannibal.
Posted by JonathanH on 2007 03 26 at 06:57 PM • permalink

And it’s available in a golf shirt for the country club set. Admirable market blanketing.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 26 at 07:21 PM • permalink

Yuh, right, Hicks huddled barefoot in a corner. Instead of sitting quite comfortable and alert with his lefty lawyers. Tell me another one.
Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 03 26 at 09:03 PM • permalink

Yes.
Bring him home to mother in a cardboard box.
At least one of his supporters should get that reference.
Posted by rbj1 on 2007 03 26 at 09:30 PM • permalink

Zazzle, for the moment, is tolerating the shirts.
http://www.zazzle.com/mcooganj/product/235878950625866358?CMPN=EMC-BV2983370235 is don’t forget david
http://www.zazzle.com/mcooganj/product/235884120162460002?CMPN=EMC-BV2983370235 is brink home hicks.
Posted by mcooganj on 2007 03 27 at 01:17 AM • permalink

Sod the t-shirt just get it done.
Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge on 2007 03 27 at 05:51 AM • permalink

It wasn’t Hannibal’s line, IIRC. The guy in the next cell, who Hannibal later talked into hanging himself for his “impoliteness”.
Not that it matters.
Posted by mojo on 2007 03 27 at 04:07 PM • permalink