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JC Penney removes War Toy from website
by jeff
Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002 at 11:58 AM
JC Penney targets children age 5 and up with a GI Joe-like doll in a bombed out Barbie House. You can also purchase a "World Peace Keepers" Battle Station for the budding racist in your family.
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Yesterday, JC Penney removed an item from their website due to intense public pressure. The "Forward Command Post" is a bombed out dollhouse. Still on the website is the "World Peace Keeper's Battle Station", where a US Soldier can preserve "peace" in the world with heavy artillery.
Here is an excerpt from the JC Penney website.
"Take command of your soldiers from this fully outfitted battlezone. 75-piece set includes one 111/2"H figurine in military combat gear, toy weapons, American flag, chairs and more. Assembled dimensions; 32x16x32"H. Plastic. 10 lbs. Ages 5 and up."
If you search google for JC Penney War Toy, you will find a somewhat long list of different web pages of people who were disgusted by this toy.
www.rtmark.com/more/info/jcpenney/jcpenneyforwardcommandpost.html
Congratulations to the american public
by Olga Falceto, MD
Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2002 at 7:48 PM
ovidolg@uol.com.br
Congraulations to the american people who helped take this toy out of the shelves, as they already did with the troops from Vietnam and will in case Bush decides to invade Iraq. I still hope they will help preventing it as they have helped delaying it.
As for South America, my continent, and specially my country Brazil, I hope they will help sustain our new LULA government that is being built in a true democratic fashion with the aim of furthering development and jobs,not to remain slave of the financial international community that has being enslaving us.
Let's roast some Conspiracy Nuts also!
by jim fuge
Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2002 at 2:48 AM
jimfuge@webtv.net
This is an excellent send up for Christmas, thanks for drawing attention to it!
Who says there is some secret plan for One Word Order!
In the spirit of the season we need a combat action figure to hunt down those dangerous Conspiracy Nuts and roast them on an open fire also!
KMART is Still selling this war toy
by Voice4Change
Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002 at 2:11 AM
sgalindez@voice4change.org
Good News: Controversial War Toy Discontinued by JC Penny!
Bad News: Still Available at other stores
Thank You to all who complained to JC Penny!! It is a tremendous victory to have them discontinue a project that was selling, and even back ordered. It is discouraging that people were actually buying this "Toy". According to a JC Penny Customer Service Rep., there were back orders and they have now been cancelled.
Now the bad news, K-Mart and KB Toys are sill selling the "Forward Command Post" below is contact information for them. Thank you Gina Maxwell Ulbert for letting us know that these stores are still carrying the "Toy".
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=021219~v4c.asp
www.voice4change.org
Joke or not?
by Sonya
Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002 at 12:28 PM
This is a joke, right?? Right? No such toy exists - or is this for real?
Ms
by Michelle K
Saturday, Dec. 28, 2002 at 2:43 PM
This is disgusting. I can't believe it - or actually, I can believe...what was I expecting from a society so passionately promoting war, military, violence all along its existence - from beginning - to - the end??? Many might say "you're anti-american". I say "whatever". It is not what I say or think - since in true freedom I can say and think whatever I want - it is what this society IS DOING. It is disgusting seing commercials on "marines", "army" in movie theaters, on CNN channel - seeing CNN reporters openly talking about war strategies against Iraq, formerly Afghanistan....disgusting seing this terrifying toys and videogames that are supposed to 'teach' something our children and teens - what can ever become of them being surrounded by such filth???? Maybe for [most] of you, americans, this is all normal - everyday stuff, but certainly not for the [most] of the rest of the world. It is primitive, it is backwards and it is stomach-turning.
Cool Toy!
by American Patriot
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2002 at 1:17 AM
Wish I had one...Where can I get one.
It's too bad that reality based toys offend some people, but that's just too bad. get over it.
I imagine small chested women are offended by Barbie...Lets ban her too.
to the american patriot
by jim fuge
Wednesday, Jan. 01, 2003 at 12:13 PM
jimfuge@webtv.net
If you think this is such a great toy I would like you to read a 53 page book by a TRUE American patriot who TWICE won the Congressional Medal of Honor!! (only 17 Americans EVER to do this)
He was USMC Major General Smedley Darlington Butler.
The book published in 1934,..."War is a Racket" It is available free on the Net. I would be curious to have your feedback.
There may be more going on than you realize.
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by American Patriot
Thursday, Jan. 02, 2003 at 2:42 AM
Ya, Ok. So prostitution is the worlds second oldest proffesion Not the first. that is, If war is a Racket.
He he . You amuse me.
Read Liberal Propaganda, Sure, ok.
War with Iraq.(correction an ass kicking of Iraq) is fine. But I feel we should remove N Korea from the map.
God Bless America!
Mr
by Tracy McLellan
Thursday, Jan. 02, 2003 at 2:43 AM
tracymacl@yahoo.com none none
Let's remember that patriotism is only an accident of geography. We are members of the human race and world.
none
Toy from Daily Show with John Stewart
by Elizabeth
Saturday, Jan. 04, 2003 at 6:46 AM
This is not a real toy. It was designed for a skit on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart - I know because I watched the show. They were trying to spoof the annual "Consumer Alerts" that go out about unsafe toys at Christmas and this was one of three toys they used during the skit.
Don't believe everything you read on the internet!
It's still on the K-mart site
by Joe
Tuesday, Jan. 07, 2003 at 10:25 AM
The toy is still on the K-mart site as of 9:30pm eastern time, January 7th, so it doesn't seem like it's a Daily Show fake (though I wouldn't put it past to come up with something so ridiculous).http://arizona.indymedia.org/news/2002/12/5731.php
forgot the URL
by Joe
Tuesday, Jan. 07, 2003 at 10:27 AM
And $40 no less!
http://www.kmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1199191
did you read the book or not
by jim fuge
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003 at 9:49 AM
jimfuge@webtv.net
He fought for his country his entire career and won the Congessional Medal of Honor twice!
He was a MAJOR GENERAL in the USMC.
The book is free on the Net.
I challenge you to read it and respond.
Jim Fuge
great resonse
by jim fuge
Sunday, Jan. 19, 2003 at 9:55 AM
jimfugewebtv.net
I will research it again, I thought it was a real toy because it was on this site.
You're right to research. More after search.
DR.
by Louis Sanabria
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 at 4:28 AM
ludwing69@aol.com
I'm sure the same Knuckle heads that now-a-days are trying to come across as compassionate, caring and peaceful people (to satisfy their own egos) protesting about the attacks of the USA to Iraq. Those are the same kind of people that were shocked by the sale of this harmless toy.
For those ignorants I must enlight you that not every house for an action figure is a Barbie Doll House and whoever had played and plays with soldiers do not think of soldiers in a garden full of fresh roses.
Let's focus on the real issues instead of trying to place your anger towards people who are not to blame for your own frustrations.
Have a nice day
Soldier of Fortune?
by GI Joe
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003 at 4:59 AM
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Hey OLGA FALCETO, did you buy South America?
No wonder USA is not your country. No wonder "yours" is so screwed up. Why did you move here then?
For S. GALINDEZ I'm sure you also complaint about todays economy. Hope your "victory" hurts more stores to better our economy.
Hey SONYA: Go out more.
For TRACYMcLellan & Michelle K. Did you ever wonder if you'd be alive and gaining more pounds if the USA did not had armed forces?
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by ME!
Friday, Mar. 03, 2006 at 11:53 PM
Yes! Freedom of speech BREECHED! Just cause you don't like it doesn't make others not want it. Good lord, are you morons so inclined to constantly think about yourselves and whats right for yourself? But ohhhh, wait a sec.. you want to save your kids from glorifying our great military, but you won't hesitate to kill our kids while they're still in the womb! Nice. Thanks again for ripping the American out of all of us.
Serving soldier
by CPT Larry Kibodeaux
Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2006 at 6:35 AM
larry.kibodeaux@us.army.mil
I am currently on a peace keeping mission and we have used bombed out buildings for command post. We did not bomb it, it was destroyed by SERBs during their attempt to eliminate all non-Serbs in the country. I personaly think all peace idiots need to face reality.
three years ago!
by reader
Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2006 at 2:40 PM
C'mon -- the oriiginal post and most comments here are from three years ago! Don't you current commenters have something more, uh, current to comment on? Jeez.
some issues never go away
by Kevin Walsh
Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2006 at 6:13 PM
thekoba@aztecfreenet.org
The Yugoslav Civil War may no longer be a current event, but the issue of the American media, government and military lying about "attrocities" is always important. I seem to recall a story from the Kosovo war that tens of thousands of bodies of Kosovar Albanians were going to be found at a certain site. Once troops got on the ground there were a few hundred bodies there, and they had nothing to do with the war.
In any case, the Yugoslav people had a right to national unity and national integrity. Those who sided with the Americans and NATO members in breaking up Yugoslavia deserved to be killed, and the "peacekeepers" still occupying Yugoslavia deserve to be killed. If such people happened to be of a certain ethnic group, that's too bad. In such cases, ethnic cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Thank god for Ebay
by Sandman
Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2006 at 6:29 PM
The politically correct police might possible have made this into a valuable collectors item.
Go-go E-BAY!!!
I meant the GI Joe toy
by reader
Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2006 at 11:25 PM
I meant the GI Joe toy that was the original subject of the post three years ago Kevin, NOT the Balkan war. And in this case, Sandman is probably right about ebay...
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Think about it,okay?
