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Humor Title: Right-Wing Extremists Tricked by Trojan Shirts With a skull-and-crossbones logo and the message "Hardcore Rebels - National and Free," some 250 black T-shirts given away at a recent right-wing extremist rock festival were quickly snapped up. But there was more to the tough-looking image than met the eye. Once the rightist rockers washed their new shirts, they were dismayed to find an entirely different message: "If your T-shirt can do it, so can you. We'll help to free you from right-wing extremism." The offer, complete with contact information, came from a group called Exit Deutschland, which helps people get out of the neo-Nazi scene. The group sent their "Trojan T-shirts," disguised as a donation from an anonymous party supporter, to the organizers of the Aug. 6 event, which took place in the Thuringian city of Gera and was sponsored by the right-wing extremist NPD party. Exit Deutschland has been pleased with discussion the initiative prompted in online neo-Nazi forums, co-founder Bernd Wagner told daily Süddeutsche Zeitung on Wednesday. "Why didn't we think of that?" one forum member reportedly asked. Still, the initiative to outwit the neo-Nazis is unlikely to prompt immediate re-evaluation of their values, Wagner said. "But our name will be stored in their minds. And when they consider leaving the scene at some point, they will remember us," he told the paper. The group's main goal was to reach young right-wing extremists "in a situation where they would hopefully be alone at home." A marketing expert in Hamburg, who wished to remain anonymous, came up with the idea together with his colleagues, the paper reported. His firm paid for the T-shirts to be printed. Exit Deutschland was founded in 2000 by Wagner, a criminologist, together with Ingo Hasselbach, a former neo-Nazi leader. According to the group's estimates, they have helped some 400 right-wing extremists to escape the scene. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Once the rightist rockers washed their new shirts, they were dismayed to find an entirely different message: " Do right wingers wash their clothes? With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction. #2. To: Brian S (#0) It should be tried here at a tea party rally. The shirts could change to "I renounce my Social Security/Medicare Benefits" from "Shrink Government and Cut Government Waste".
#3. To: Godwinson (#1) Do right wingers wash their clothes? We pay our maids to do that, silly hippy.
#4. To: socalv8 (#3) We pay our maids to do that, silly hippy. So you admit you are a neo-nazi? With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction. #5. To: Godwinson (#4) So you admit you are a neo-nazi? Bad week, eh hippy?
#6. To: socalv8 (#5) Bad week, eh hippy? Obama Downgrade, Wisconsin, DAX = Godwinson breaks out the whoopers. You lose. Why is it a bad week? America is being destroyed by Wall Street. Good day to be an anti-capitalist. With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction. #7. To: Godwinson (#6) Good day to be an anti-capitalist. Good day for you? A quick peek shows you calling people nazis and furiously defending Obama and Unions this morning. Desperation is a stinky cologne, hippy.
#8. To: Godwinson (#4) So you admit you are a neo-nazi? That's what red necks call their wives.
#9. To: mininggold (#8) (gwinson) So you admit you are a neo-nazi If a neo-nazi is a "new" nazi...what's an old nazi? Argentinian?.
#10. To: mininggold (#8) That's what red necks call their wives. Better that than "Barney."
#11. To: Get Outta Dodge! (#10) Better that than "Barney." You must be confusing Red Necks with Log Cabins.
#12. To: mininggold (#11) You must be confusing Red Necks with Log Cabins. I'm told in West Virginia, there's both.
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