A spin off of the famous "This machine kills fascists" message that American musician Woody Guthrie placed on his guitars in the mid-1940s, starting in 1943. The idea originated from a sticker that American machinists affixed to metalworking lathes and drill presses to support the war effort. During that era, Guthrie had "romanticized the deeds of outlaws such as Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Calamity Jane or the Dalton Gang both as legitimate acts of social responsibility and as 'the ultimate expression of protest,' thus transforming the outlaw into an archetypal partisan in a fight against those who were held responsible for the worsening social and economic conditions."
