Jerk with a t-shirt

Tyler Durden camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 24 06:52:10 PDT 2003


"This happened just a few miles
from me, so perhaps I've paid closer attention than you have. T-shirt
man wasn't merely minding his own business while wearing an offensive
shirt. He was stepping in front of people and haranguing them in front
of a large anchor store in the mall. After a while he was asked to
leave by a store employee, so he took himself to the food court and
repeated the procedure. After complaints from several mall patrons, a
security guard asked T-shirt man to either knock it off or leave."

Well I haven't heard the story told this way before. If this were the case, 
he should be removed no matter what T-shirt he was wearing.

As for the "private property" issues, I'm still not convinced they're 
cut-and-dry (though in some cases maybe they are). If nothing else, the 
demonstration the following morning lets the local thugs know that consensus 
reality these days does not equate benevolence with US foreign policy. Thus, 
the barely-made-it-out-of-high-school managers of the Mall's Security will 
know that anti-war T-shirts may not be any more controversial than pro-war 
t-shirts, despite what the TV has instructed them.

-TD



>From: Steve Furlong <sfurlong at acmenet.net>
>To: cypherpunks at lne.com
>Subject: Jerk with a t-shirt
>Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 06:42:24 -0400
>
>On Wednesday 23 July 2003 09:18, Tyler Durden wrote:
>
> > But it sounds like a rehash of the mall incident
>
>You don't know what you're talking about. This happened just a few miles
>from me, so perhaps I've paid closer attention than you have. T-shirt
>man wasn't merely minding his own business while wearing an offensive
>shirt. He was stepping in front of people and haranguing them in front
>of a large anchor store in the mall. After a while he was asked to
>leave by a store employee, so he took himself to the food court and
>repeated the procedure. After complaints from several mall patrons, a
>security guard asked T-shirt man to either knock it off or leave.
>T-shirt man refused, growing more and more aggressive, and eventually
>the local cops came along and arrested him. (I may have fudged some
>details, as I'm working from memory, but I don't think I screwed up
>anything important.)
>
>OK, so far it could be the spontaneous actions of one guy. But, even
>though the story wasn't reported until the late news that evening,
>there was a large (hundreds, IIRC) crowd of protesters when the mall
>opened the next morning. This might not sound like much to someone used
>to NYC crowds, but by the standards of this area that was a huge crowd.
>I guess it _could_ have been a spontaneous rising of a populace fed up
>with jack-booted thug harrassment of dissenting opinion. But the more I
>hear about it, the more this sounds like a planned operation.
>
>--
>Steve Furlong    Computer Condottiere   Have GNU, Will Travel
>
>"If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using
>their weapons to protect their rights, makes me very nervous that
>these people have these weapons at all!"  -- Rep. Henry Waxman

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