Here is an email I recieved today and thought to myself, WTF I should post this. You see, being deployed I have seen this personaly from a couple of big companies so it is prety easy for me to believe that this is true.

Well, here it is,

Subject: Screw Starbucks and their overpriced coffee
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:25:58 -0600
>
>This was sent my direction and it needs to be out there, support the
>troops, fuck the coffee, sign this shit, and send it on:
>
>
>
>Starbucks Coffee 06-08-06
>
>Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because
>they wanted to let them know how much they liked
>their coffees and to request that they send some of
>it to the troops there.
>
>Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for
>their support of their business, but that Starbucks
>does not support the war, or anyone in it, and that
>they would not send the troops their brand of
>coffee.
>
>So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not
>support them by buying any of their products! As a
>war vet writing to fellow patriots, I feel we should
>get this out in the open. I know this war might not
>be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't
>mean we don't support the boys on the ground
>fighting street-to-street and house-to-house for
>what they believe is right.
>
>If you feel the same as I d! o then pass this along,
>or you can discard it and no one will ever know.
>Thanks very much for your support. I know you'll all
>be there again when I deploy once more.
>
>"Semper Fidelis."
>Sgt. Howard C. Wright
>1st Force Recon Co
>1st Plt PLT
>
>PLEASE DON'T DELETE THIS .. ALLOW IT TO BE PASSED TO
>ALL IN MEMORY OF ALL THE TROOPS WHO HAVE DIED SO
>THAT WE MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO SUPPORT THEM
>OR NOT!


I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln