Local Band, My Fair Fiend, will be handing out FREE T-Shirts at their show this Saturday. But not just any T-shirts. Remember Judy Cox? She was the woman who had bought all the T-shirts from a Pac-Sun store, amounting to $600 because she didn’t like that they were displayed in the store’s windows. She felt their content was pornographic and inappropriate for anyone to see. Yep. That Judy Cox.
The band plans to hand out the same T-Shirts that Judy Cox bought from Pac-Sun at their show in protest to the Orem City Council’s response to Judy Cox’s outcry for a more modest mall.
“For anyone who doesn’t understand the “uncensored” statement we are making or thinks we’re evil – It is not about the shirts or the models and their sexy cleavage. There is a deeper issue that is extremely important to us here.
Band members of My Fair Fiend don’t take offense at Cox’s right to purchase clothing (for whatever the reason). Their grievance is with the Orem City Council. The council sent an official letter to the company expressing concerns about the T-Shirts to Pac-Sun.
The letter states:
“City Council members wish to personally register our disapproval of this type of offensive display. As the display could be readily viewed by both minors and adults, we found the display to be especially inappropriate. We believe that this type of public display is objectionable, not just to us, but to many citizens in Orem.”
Orem’s Mayor Richard Brunst signed the letter.
Is it okay for the government to send letters to businesses? Some would argue that the government plays a large role in business regulation, but the way to regulate, as others like the band members of My Fair Fiend suggest, is through official laws voted into action by the people their government represents.
