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April 28, 2004
Covert Charity Revealed
[Parental discretion advised] A previously covert organization providing support to US troops has now gone public with its own website. Operation Take One For The Country, whose members prefer the military-style acronym OTOFTC, has an unusual mission statement: "To discretely [sic] provide US troops shipping out overseas with the most sensually pleasing departure possible." OTOFTC leader Kelly McDonough tells how it all started: It was back in February of 2003, when a lot of troops were leaving Ft. Benning. My girlfriends and I were partying at a bar frequented by soldiers. At some point one my friend leaves with a young soldier. The next day we questioned her and commented that the soldier didn't seem her 'type'. My friend just shrugged and said, 'Hey, his unit was going to ship out in a few days, so I decided to take one for the country', I knew right then and there that this was an incredible idea, so I started OTOFTC. Even before it went public, however, the group aroused heated reaction from other groups. Annette Spargas of the UC Berkeley chapter of NOW spoke to newsletter author John Truman: "These women are really sick, they are prostituting themselves," Spargas ranted; "they are objectifying their bodies to the killers of the Bush cabals war machine." McDonough shrugs off such criticism by pointing to well over 19 "officially unofficial batallions, as we call our groupings, across the United States." The virtual group, or at least its notoriety, does appear to be growing fast, especially since the website and online store began operations. a hat tip to Tim Worstall. Posted By Clyde at April 28, 2004 05:34 PM | TrackBackComments
This'll be good for bringing the professional victim organizations out of the woodwork. Prostitution? I don't see where any of them are soliciting "donations" in exchange for sex.
Posted by: gus3 at April 28, 2004 06:13 PM A hat tip to me ? A member of the Liberty Alliance in good standing ( although of no apparent effectiveness ) ?
Posted by: Tim Worstall at April 28, 2004 06:32 PM NOW is complaining? Weren't they the ones that were saying that Monica was just an empowered woman, making her own choices? Posted by: laxGoalie at April 28, 2004 07:20 PM "These women are really sick, they are prostituting themselves,”
Posted by: jones at April 28, 2004 07:27 PM Well, they're compromised. Hmmm, no I mean their covers have been blown. No, poor choice of words there.
Posted by: Liimpet at April 28, 2004 10:18 PM Hoax alert. Posted by: frylock at April 30, 2004 06:15 AM Damn, the site went down.
Posted by: gus3 at May 4, 2004 09:16 PM it's bogus. Amont other things, the supposed "NOW" quote blew it for them. I figured that the quote didn't sound like any NOW member I've ever known, but it did sound an awfully lot like freepers and dittoheads would imagine a NOW quote to sound like.
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