MoveOn threatens legal action against T-Shirt vendor

After smearing four star General David Petraeus in a deep-discounted full page ad in the New York Times (Management had apparently give them the family discount) George Soros funded MoveOn has threatened legal action against online T-Shirt vendor CafePress. Claiming that T-Shirts, mugs, notebooks and other paraphenalia parodying the group violate the its trademark MoveOn issued a "Ceast and Desist" letter to CafePress in an attempt to scare the vendor into compliance.

Unfortunately for MoveOn, trademark infringement laws cover instances where a merchant attempts to deceive customers into buying his products by copying his competitors logo, packaging and name. Trademark infringement laws DO NOT apply to parody and free speech. By taking this action MoveOn's legal thugs are trying to shut down the free speech rights of a T-Shirt vendor because they don't like his message and hope to bully him into submission. While MoveOn stuffs fat gluttonous mouthfulls of the right to free speech into its porcine maw, at times pushing it to the frontiers of libel and slander as in the case of its full page New York Times ad, portraying General Petraeus as General BetrayUS, yet MoveOn is so thin-skinned that it can't take the ribbing of a simple online T-Shirt vendor and threatens legal action when its image is deservedly besmirched.

The caption emblazoned on T-Shirts, Mugs, Notebooks and other assorted knick-knacks that MoveOn finds so objectionable that it calls out its legal dogs reads, "General Petraeus has done more for this country than MoveOn.org." can be viewed at Michelle Malkin's Blog which has done a very fine dust up of the raving moonbat org's latest rant here.

Blue Crab Boulevard has more on the story here called MoveOn.suppress while PajamasMedia provides some background titled, All The Propaganda That's Fit To Print.

The knick-knacks that provided the latest spark of contention are viewable here. Get some for your friends.