From: Mike '/m' 



Here's the local press version of the story (Albany Times Union.
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=112222&category=REGION&B
CCode=HOME&newsdate=3/5/2003

No mention of the 2 individauls harassing anyone....

  /m


On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:21:41 -0600, "Joe Barr"
 wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:01:17 +0000, Gary Wiltshire wrote:
>
>> The story as printed is slanted garbage.  I work not far from the mall
>> and am a frequent visitor.  According to the local press the 2
>> individuals, unlike dozens of others wearing the shirts MADE TO ORDER IN
>> THE MALL, were harassing other patrons.
>>
>> Malls are private property, not "public places" and
there is plenty of
>> legal precedent to back that up.
>>
>>
>Here is more of that slanted garbage from another source.
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/local/WNYT/M276307.asp?0cv=NB10
>
>Both mall security and mall management were pretty much absent during the
>most of the two-hour protest.  Management did issue a statement saying
>Downs' behavior and his T-shirt were disrupting customers.
>
>Downs and his son said on Tuesday that's not true. "We were just
>shopping. We were wearing these T-shirts. We weren't handing out
>leaflets, we weren't saying anything," Roger Downs recalled.
>
>
>Hmm.  Guess Asswipe will have to arrest them on terrorism charges in order
>to silence them.  Helen Thomas is so right about Bush.
>
>

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