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I just wanted to be included in the replacement needed posters mailing list.  I would appreciate if you send them to me. I have gotten a few and I have been sending them to my home country Nicaragua where my friends are already putting them out on the streets, in their Universities, coffee shops, supermarkets and places that they frequent often. I have also been sending them to California, where I used to live before I came to Seattle and my friends there are doing the same.  Since I am going to California in January to live, I would like to keep receiving them so that I can put them up all over the place.

We are happy to help, thank you.
Replacements Needed

An interesting E-Mail that we received

Replacements.com,

I'm sure this one email won't make a difference to your disgusting operation
that you're running, but I couldn't just let something so un-patriotic slip
past me without commenting. Your poster reached me in Texas, where we not
only overwhelmingly support our President, but above all our troops!!!! No
matter what your feelings on the war may be, showing mutilated bodies of our
brave soldiers fighting for your lazy asses is absolutely unexceptable!!!!
I'm sure you think you're really doing it for them, but you're not. It's
people like you who digust them, and distract them from getting their job
done. I can't tell you how happy I am that people like you are not in power
because you would send our country running with it's tail between it's legs.
Do me a favor, and just leave the country as soon as possible because you are
a disgrace to the men and women who have died to make this country what it is today!!!

We here at Replacements Needed feel that the Freedom of Speech is one of our most basic of rights therefore we encourage both sides of this issue to engage in meaningful and open dialogue free of name calling and other such obvious school yard tactics that are to often used now days to muddy the waters and distort the true issue which is "Why are our citizens dying in a country that did not attack us and that we had no valid provocation to invade?"

A Message Sent July 30th 2005
Mr. Hays:
 
I read the article about you in the Capitol Hill Times this week, and now I have a name and face for the person who has been trashing my neighborhood for the past year or so.
 
I'm sure you know that the City of Seattle has regulations which govern postering (SDOT "Director's Rule 02-02," effective January, 2003), and I'm also sure you know that you are ignoring several of these regulations. You  use glue to affix your posters, and this is specifically disallowed.  You do not put the date of posting on the posters nor do you remove them before the 30 day maximum term of posting. And you place your posters on all kinds of structures which are not allowed, such as traffic signal control boxes, bus shelters, public trash cans, and fire hydrants. You then have the gall to put a statement on your website stating that you do not condone violations of any local ordinance which inhibits posters, and even provide a recipe for a glue which is intended to make sure the posters stay up indefinitely.  What hypocrisy!  You might get real and either remove that material from your website or begin to honor the regulations, preferably the latter.
 
I think it's quite ironic that  you do most of your postering on Capitol Hill and nearby neighborhoods, because the vast majority of people in these areas agree with your anti-military and anti-war point of view. Those few individuals who support the war are not going to be swayed by seeing one of your posters - in fact, I think their opinion will be hardened.  So just what do you think you are accomplishing?  You are certainly entitled to your beliefs,but you are not entitled to trash our streets in clear violation of city regulations.  There are lots of ways you could express your beliefs in a non-destructive manner.
 
In the article, you dismiss those who are critical of your activity by saying that there are other problems on Broadway and other parts of Capitol Hill.  Of course there are!  But this is classic denial and avoiding responsibility for your postering.
The other problems do not give you the right to contribute to the downhill slide of the area by creating alot of visual blight on our streets.  Have you even ever heard of the well-accepted "broken window" theory of urban decay?  I suggest that you read up on it,because what you are doing is equivalent to breaking windows.
 
I think it's really too bad that you have so little regard for the physical beauty of Seattle that you vandalize all kinds of city structures.  You seem to be an individual who is going to do what he wants to do regardless of what anyone else thinks.
There are three words for a person like you:  arrogant, self-righteous, and selfish.

Greetings & Salutations
 
Kind Sir
 
I sense some hostility in your recent email. Perhaps you feel that me putting posters on phone poles etcetera is making your neighborhood look bad. Have you ever considered what our bombs are making the Iraqi neighborhoods look like? Do you even realize that each and every single week we update the body counts on these posters? Do you realize that those are not just numbers placed there to annoy you, but that they signify men and women who have died in a conflict that you seem to be bored with? If you have this violent of a reaction to the posters just think how violently you would react if Marines commenced bombing your neighborhood and killing your neighbors, would you want someone to count you amongst the dead or simply ignore your rotting corpse and pretend it did not happen?

An E-Mail received July 30th 2005
 
I have seen a few of your posters on the streets in Seattle and I was apauld when I got home and saw the news bashing what you are doing.  I think that what you are doing is fantastic and I hope that it can wake some people up to what is really happening.  It makes me sick when I watch the news and they give 2 minutes on the news to soldiers that have died in a war that we never should have gotten into.  I have lost 3 friends in the Iraq war and who knows how many more by the time it is finally over.  Either way I'll keep this short to not take up to much of your time.  Just wanted to let you know there are people out there that support what you are doing and hope you continue.


Iraq war hater,
MATT

Matt

Thanks a bunch, as you can tell the emails that I get most often are from the haters its always good to hear from someone who actually gets it and does not have their head shoved up their own ass with their foot stuck in their mouth. Keep spreading the word and together we will all fight this thing. Each in their own way and each to their own means by whatever means necessary brother.

 

Thomas:

Hey there.  I had no idea you were the one behind this travesty.  Shame, shame, shame on you, Mr. Hays, for telling it like it is.  So many people are unable to deal with such honesty.  You should pander to their inability to face the music and simply stop tooting your own horn.  After all, isn't it the weak who we're trying to defend, here?  If you really care about the weak, you should take notice of the weak all around you, in your own city, and STOP OFFENDING THEM!  They might just fall over dead from the shock if they ever actually read the posters, or realize what it truly means.  You should protect THEM.  Nobody cares about Iraqi's so just focus on the rich, the well off, the blind, the idiots... the typical Americans.  Mmkay?
 

Matt
Thanks for the kind words. I agree, well mostly. It would seem that the recent article in the Capitool Hill Times has garnered some rather interesting letters to the editor. One called me a misguided twit and left me reeling from the eloquence and stellar writing skills of its author. Another likened me to the prophet Elijah as he troubled king Ahab, and I seem to trouble everyone. I guess we all have our callings in life and mine seems to be to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, if thats the die that fate has cast for me so be it. Let the troubling begin!
TH

09-17-05
Hello,

Please stop defacing city property. I am sure that you do not have a  permit to post these signs. I have written the mayor, city council and DOT. I have pictures of your signs placed on top of city property. I will pursue this to make sure that your organization is held accountable for the costs of the city removing the signs and repairing the damage. It is wrong to destroy my city just to voice your opinion.

Seattle resident
Robert P.

Robert

 

Have you taken this much energy to voice your opposition to the fact the people on both sides are dying in a conflict that we "preemptively" started? Just curious.

TH

 

 

An E-Mail we received on 11-11-05
 
Mr. Hays,
 
Young children act out and misbehave in order to get attention from their parents.
Teenagers have an angry need to piss of their parents and other adults in their lives.  Most people outgrow these negative behaviors as they mature into responsible adults, but some never go through this process, and you are obviously one of them.
 
I think your illegal and obsessive postering has everything to do with the above, and very little to do with getting a message out.  I hope you will consider this, and try to grow up a little
Calhoun
 
 

Calhoun

 

Perhaps in some far distant corner of your mind you thought that by insulting me you could get your message across to me?

 

Perhaps you thought that your mindset is the only appropriate mindset and therefore by being condescending towards me you could pump up your own ego?

 

Perhaps you feel that the posters are in poor taste or that the message is ineffectual and thought by comparing them to childish tantrums you could shame me into ceasing my project?

 

Perhaps you think that I and I alone am placing posters on the myriad of surfaces that you have witnessed them on and could therefore attempt to frighten or silence me by your email?

 

Perhaps you are simply someone who is unhappy with your life and find it necessary to belittle others in order to make yourself feel better about your own pathetic life?

 

Perhaps you are a closed minded bigot who feels a righteous indignation at being lied to by your president and feel it is a good idea to bash those who have ALWAYS opposed this war?

 

Perhaps you are a slack jawed, simple minded fool who sits around in your whitey tighties watching German dungeon porn and sucking cheese whiz out of the nozzle?

 

Perhaps you are some sort of jabbering idiot who has sex with barnyard animals to earn the needed funds to meet your expenses?

 

Perhaps you are some sort of war monger who thinks that killing innocent people so that we can maintain our standard of living is acceptable?

 

Regardless of the situation you lost my attention and respect when you started out your communication with me by trying to belittle me. You seem to think that my ego is so fragile that an email from someone I’ve never met and will never meet comparing me to a child is going to make me stop this campaign. That is a fantasy that only you entertain.

I appreciate that you took your time to express your viewpoint and will do everything in my power to share that viewpoint with the folks who come to my website. After-all this is America and we do still have freedom of speech whether you like what the other guy is saying or not you damn well better be ready to fight to the death for his/her right to say it or you have betrayed your country and all it stands for.

 

Think about that next time you tell someone their opinion is childish or irrelevant.

 

TH

Saturday, November 12, 2005 4:26 PM

TH,
 
You missed my point entirely.  It is not your message I am opposed to, but the trashing of our streets for no reason
 (you're not changing anyone's mind).
 
Your irrational rant only proves what I suspected:  that you are a fanatic who will do what he wants to do, regardless.  I will have no further time for you, except to remove your ineffective posters whenever I can.
 
 Calhoun

 

An email from Seattle Department of Transportation
10-20-05
 
Mr. Hays:

We have received a complaint about your postering on Capital Hill.
According to our Director Rule, glue is prohibited as a means to attach
signs to public poles.  Please remove all posters that you have glued to
poles.  Staples and tape are acceptable substitutes.  Failure to comply
with this request will result in a citation which does carry a fine.

If you have any questions, please contact me either by e-mail or by
phone at (206) 615-1224.

Thank you. 

Benita Staadecker
Seattle Department of Transportation
Annual Permit Section - Team Lead
(206) 615-1224 - direct line
 
Benita
As I send the posters out on email to several hundred people every
week, and post them on the website I cannot be held responsible for the
actions of others. I would love to chat with you about this issue if you
so wish, but as I do not put up posters I do not see where this is
something you can fine me for.
TH
 
Mr. Hays:

According to our Director Rule, since your web site is the address on
the poster, you are responsible.  My suggestion is that you contact your
names and inform them that glue is prohibited.  The information about
postering is available on the SDOT website if anyone wants to get more
details.  Thank you.

Benita Staadecker
Seattle Department of Transportation
Annual Permit Section - Team Lead
(206) 615-1224 - direct line

 

Benita

I have posted your emails upon the website in hopes of sharing with others your concerns. I look forward to the chance to address this issue in open court if need be, but feel that we can reach resolution without lawyers.

TH


Hello,

I would like to use your posters in an installation art exhibit I am doing. Is it possible to get permission? I am doing a show for the "Day of the Dead" at Skagit Valley College in Mt. Vernon. I am reflecting on the Latinos that have died in this war for oil. The posters will occupy a space of their own, probably placed 2 wide and ten high. These will be next to a wall that will be covered in 211 (so far) 8"x4" specially made beeswax coffin/candles, one for each Latino that has died as of the date of installation (and added to as the month goes by --- hopefully this won't be necessary). If it works (makes sense visually) and I use your posters I will give credit how ever you wish to be given credit. Thank you for considering this. It would also be nice if I could get posters for October, September and August. Thanks so much for this great project you are doing, it would be an honor to add/collaborate it in my show....

Miguel G

An Email we Received Feb. 24th 2006
 
Hi Thomas, Sorry for the unspeedy reply. My job keeps me in the Air all the time. East coast -- West Coast I never what time zone I will be sleeping.

As far as getting a group going...I am in the other camp. I supported going into Iraq. I am still a supporter of our efforts. I thought it was way over due. I am just sorry Hussin did not die in a combat way. Having said that it has turned into a political mess but we cannot go back in time-- what's done is done. Having been a former soldier myself I believe the only way to truly wage war is to beat whomever has been  the unlucky chosen into the ground. No quarter, no safehavens. You can only truly rebuild something after it has been completely been beaten. The fight must be beaten out of them. Of course, now they are fighting each. The people over there, the people we are fighting have a falsely arrogant perception of the world and their place in it even toward each other. I have, in the pass, worked closely with people from that part of the world. I've even had a roommate who was Muslim.

In the end you and I have no common ground. We see the world completely different...so I would greatly appreciate it if you would please remove me from your mailing list.

I wish you all the best in all your endeavors...

James

Charlie
Which poster was it? USCS huh, that's cool to know that you are actually seeing them there. Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully you didnt lose your appetite for cheap oil did you?
Keep in touch.
TH

A Message From S.D.O.T. 01-19-06

-----Original Message-----
From: Seattle Dept. of Transportation (imailagent)
[mailto:sdotcrm@crm.seattle.gov]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:52 AM
To: zebner@comcast.net; Cathy.Abene@seattle.gov;
patrice.gillespie-smith@seattle.gov
Subject: Responding to your message (Intranet Quorum IMA00164602)

Dear Ms. Oelke:

I am responding to your letter on behalf of Patrice Gillespie-Smith.,
concerning the Replacements Needed posters glued to City-owned property.
While we appreciate your concerns about the nature of the posters, the SDOT
Street Use section is charged with enforcing the City's Street and Sidewalk
Use code (Seattle Municipal Code Title 15).

The municipal code states that posters may be legally applied to some
City-owned property, using a temporary means of application. The use of
glue, although biodegradable, is by all practical definitions a permanent
application, as it is extremely time consuming to remove each poster with
water and a putty knife. Additionally, the Replacements Needed posters are
illegally affixed to many places, such as traffic control cabinets and other
fixtures that serve a specific public safety purpose on the streets.

We cannot enforce against every poster that is illegally applied in Seattle,
nor do we single out the Replacements Needed posters. Due to workload
restraints, we typically only respond to citizen complaints, and we have
issued many warnings to other agencies that apply posters illegally. Other
agencies have been cooperative and responsive to our requests that they
abide by Seattle laws.

Thank you again for taking the time to express your concerns. The
Replacements Needed posters address an emotional subject, and call to mind
an important issue. SDOT supports the First Amendment right to express your
opinion; however, we ask when you use posters to convey a message, that you
comply with existing City of Seattle laws.

If you have further questions, please call the Annual Permits Hotline at
(206) 684-5267.

Sincerely,

Cathy Abene, P.E.
SDOT Street Use Division

A message from Brad R. Torgerson 11-14-05



Really, you need to reconsider what you are doing with ReplacementsNeeded.

This isn't just about one person having their say and another person

having a different say anymore. This is about patent troop-bashing and

America-bashing. If this were simply about Bush-bashing, I'd probably not

care. I don't go around doing anti-Kerry campaign bumper stickering.

Your ReplacementsNeeded posters often cross the line from mere political

commentary to attacking to soldiery and mocking military service.



Consider: where was ReplacementsNeeded when Clinton was in charge? He

sent troops to fight in the Third World, too. Was he misleading the

American people when he sent cruise missiles to Khartoum?



Consider: Bush leaves office in three years. When he's gone, it's

probable a Democrat will be in office, barring the rise of some populist

Republican who can distance himself, politically, from the sinking Bush

ratings. If/when that new President takes office, we'll STILL have a

military and that military will STILL need to recruit. ReplacementsNeeded

is friendly with the anti-recruitment scene at SCCC. How is it possible

to merely be expressing ideas and fostering information exchange, when

ReplacementsNeeded is part of the effort to PREVENT military personnel

from sharing information with citizens?



I don't think myself, or a lot of other people, would be so upset if

ReplacementsNeeded was purely anti-Bush, and focused solely on the

politicians in Washington D.C. What upsets us are the swastikas on the

American flag and skulls with dollar signs in their eyes. We're upset by

the anti-military setiment prominent on many, if not all,

ReplacementsNeeded posters. As I have said on my own posters, being in

the military is not just about shooting guns. The modern American

military helps far more people every year than it kills. Consider the

rescue efforts in the wake of Katrina, or earlier, the Indonesian tsunami.



We who wear the uniform don't want people to shut up for the sake of

shutting up. But we do want people to seriously think about how their

words and deeds actually help our enemies at home and abroad; people with

no interest whatsoever in simply exchanging information freely. The

Islamists see something like ReplacementsNeeded and laugh because they

know they've got dupes ready and willing to do their American propaganda

for them. Why demoralize the Americans when other Americans are busy

doing the demoralizing for them?



Think on all of this next time you sit down to create another one of your

works of "art".



--Brad

Mr. Torgerson



I've appreciated your posters for awhile now. Heck i even dedicated a page here to your posters I like them so much. Yet everytime you get a chance you either attack me as some unamerican, anti-patriotic wack job or try to demean me in some way. I do not give in to such tactics and think that they speak poorly of your character. If you really wish to get into a point by point discussion concerning the actions of this administration I welcome it. If you just wanna attack people for exspessing their right of free speech then I have no more time for your insults.



TH

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