----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: Re: Lawyer Arrested for Wearing a 'Peace' T-Shirt
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Dan Minette wrote: > > > > Reductio ad absurdum. Nobody is claiming that here. > > > > The reference to brownshirt alludes to that, I think. > > "Self-appointed brownshirt" - please get the whole quote. Fair enough. > yes, certainly alludes > to the willingness of some ordinary people to behave like fascist gits > under certain circumstances and when given a convenient excuse. If > private property makes it legal for them to do so, it doesn't make the > mall cops - or perhaps I should say mall management, or the Macy's clerk, > or whoever it was that couldn't tolerate the sight of dissenting speech - > nongits. Reading through the complaint, I think what they couldn't stand is a heated arguement in the mall. And, that's exactly what the person arrested was interested in. I agree that he probably didn't start the arguement, but was happy when it started. Arguements in malls are bad for business. I think you need look no further than Macy's wanting no distractions from the most important business of shopping at Macy's. > > > I also agree that we need to work on having more civil disagreements. I > > think there was no comment on Gautam's examples because there was no one > > who was interested in defending the behavior of the folks Gautam had issue > > with. It was wrong to do that, pure and simple. That is another example > > of people not being willing to put the effort into civility. > > ...? I must have missed this. Subject: From Sgt. Stryker's Weblog "One of my neighbors, who's in the Army and works in Oakland, was caught off post in her uniform by a bunch of people expressing their displeasure with the non-war in Iraq. They surrounded and harassed her for a good while until a few sailors happened upon the scene and extracted her from the situation just as it was starting to get a little rough. This isn't an uncommon occurrence around here but it's the first I've heard of it happening to someone I know. http://windsofchange.net/archives/003147.html IMHO, it is incumbent for each side of the political debate to strongly object to nasty tactics from those who they tend to agree with. Dan M. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
