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08:56 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
By BETH SHAYNE / NewsChannel 36
CONCORD, N.C. -- “Impeach Obama. “
“Al Qaeda’s favorite days: 9/11/01 and 11/04/08.”
“Work Harder. Obama needs the money.”
The bumper stickers and posters sold at “Free Market Warrior” at Concord Mills are meant to be “biting,” the kiosk’s owner Loren Spivack said.
At least one passer-by found them racist and bigoted, and took time to tell the mall in a letter and a letter to the editor of the Charlotte Observer.
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The owner of this mall is a real asshole. So is the liberal bitch who wrote the letter asking that this guy's kiosk be removed from the mall. The best retaliation is for people to publicly protest and not to shop at that mall. Teach this Democrat a lesson for discriminating like this.
Conservative kiosk not allowed at mall | WCNC.com | Local News for Charlotte, North Carolina | Top Stories
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The owner of this mall is a real asshole. So is the liberal bitch who wrote the letter asking that this guy's kiosk be removed from the mall. The best retaliation is for people to publicly protest and not to shop at that mall. Teach this Democrat a lesson for discriminating like this.
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Some of those are over the top. I don't have a problem with the Impeach Obama because...well how many people were running around with Impeach Bush bumper stickers before. The Al Qaeda (you know they're terrorists because they don't have a "u" directly after the "q") one is a bit over the line though. But whatever, as already stated the mall is private and the owner is free to do as they wish.
Freedom is a bitch, it is private property....
"Free Market Warrior, a kiosk located adjacent to Bass Pro Shops, specializes in memorabilia embellished with pro-confederacy statements as well as those opposing both the government and President Obama. In addition, these products support ideas such as racisms, sexism, and even slavery.
At least you're being honest about your beliefs now
Second, if at any point (or currently) the mall allowed Kiosks or Spensers or such things that had derogatory bumper stickers, shirts, pins, etc about George Bush or Dick Cheney but stopped this one then I'd be completely and fully for the boycott. If you don't want insulting political items sold in your mall...so be it. If you don't want insulting political items targetting your guy sold in your mall...then I will take my money elsewhere.
The mall definitely should be free to make this choice. And people definitely should send their own message, both in standard communication and with their wallets, that they won't stand for double standards on political speech.
If that turns out to be the case, the operator of this kiosk has grounds for a nice little discrimination lawsuit.
While I don't agree with their decision, it is a privately owned mall and the owner has every right in the world to do what they want in this regard.
2) However, the people DO have grounds for not shopping there. THIS is where the battle should be fought. Spread the word - Do not shop at this mall. The owner of the mall can then decide how much his standards are actually worth.
And this "private property" - the owners can do whatever they wish....this does not cut it...
It would be quite the thing if the people could be civil and respectful.
But I see so little of this...
And the truth...never..
Why was the kiosk not allowed, exactly why???
And this "private property" - the owners can do whatever they wish....this does not cut it...
I think that I will go out of my way to shop at that mall when I am in town!
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