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Date Posted: 12:00:40 03/05/03 Wed
Author: James
Subject: Re: Shame
In reply to: bob 's message, "Shame" on 08:54:19 03/05/03 Wed

Although the man was wearing the peace T-shirt and was asked by the mall owners to leave probably because he was wearing the shirt, he was not arrested for wearing the shirt. The cops did their job and arrested the man for failing to leave private property as he was asked to do. That is a big difference, blame the mall owners for asking him to leave if you wish, but don't fall into that trap of blaming the police for doing something they did not do.
I would have to assume that the mall, whether or rightly or wrongly, worried that the men wearing their shirts was going to escalate into the 20 + member group that they ahd asked to leave not long back. Again, you may disagree with the mall owners but it is their right to decide who is on their property and it is the polices job to remove unwanted people from said premises regardless of the reason.
Having said that, a private company voicing its opinion on the subject matter on the content on a piece of clothing is nothing compred to the government organized destruction of many other countries. Anti War demonstrators protest all the time all over the country and have not had their heads beaten in or been run over by tanks or even bothered. Some of them even shout for cops to fall off fire escapes and beat police horses because they are very peaceful people.
I guess I could be ashamed of your hatred or misguided views of America or at least your inability to go beyond a headline and read about what really occured.


>Shame on us. today I read an article on Yahoo.com "Man
>arrested for wearing shirt with peace symbol." Thatīs
>a shame. I almost canīt find the words to tell you
>how embarassed I am because of that. Here we blaming
>everyone else for not giving their people freedoms
>when we ourselves are being arrested for dissenting
>from the opinion of the government. 250,000 Americans
>died in WWII for our freedoms and apparently their
>sacrifices are not being recognized by the very same
>government who sent them to die. SHAME! I donīt think
>the US has any right to tell any other countries what
>to do because we are only being hypocritical. Just
>look at our own country, arresting people for wearing
>a shirt that supports peace. SHAME! I believe in
>America but right not I am ashamed of us. how can we
>let this kind of thing go on...

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