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Ready for Hillary has same sense of humor as the NSA
Colby Itkowitz - WaPo
June 13 at 7:00 AM



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Ready for Hillary has taken a cue from the NSA.

No, the pro-Hillary activists aren’t tapping your phones, but they are just as humorless as the spy agency when mocked. In November, we reported that the NSA and Homeland Security Department were none too pleased about parody products sold online using an altered image of their logo, such as a T-shirt with: “Peeping while you’re sleeping” inside the NSA seal and under that, “The NSA, the only part of the government that actually listens.”

The federal agencies demanded Web stores Zazzle and CafePress, which sell user-generated and customizable items, take them down. Then Public Citizen sued the government on behalf of Minnesotan Dan McCall, who designed and sold the NSA and DHS T-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers and other such joke memorabilia, for infringing on freedom of speech.

The government backed down and retracted their take-down letters. All was, as Levy put it, “hunky dory.”

But now McCall, who’s slogan is “freedom products for liberty lovers” is back with a new line that riffs on the Ready for Hillary logo, using the PAC’s three-starred flag and the same font with the words: “I’m Ready for Oligarchy.”

The Hillary people were not amused and sent Zazzle and CafePress letters June 1 alleging copyright infringement and demanding the products be removed. The sites obliged, and now Public Citizen is back on the case. Attorney Paul Levy wrote to them, and on Wednesday, CafePress agreed “to reinstate the designs at issue.” Zazzle will not.

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