This guy had a kiosk at a mall that employed multiple people selling conservative stuff, like bumper stickers that said "Impeach Obama". Nothing was inflammatory. One ex-employee of a neighboring store complained and the Lefty Left Obama-supporting owners of the Mall shut the kiosk down. (Same group who wouldn't allow one of the Tea Parties to be held at an empty parking lot/closed store.) One of my favorite bumper stickers says "I'll be as gracious to your president as you were to mine"
Below is the website that now sells the same stuff in case you want to support him. Course that won't help the employees who no longer have a job, but still...
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Having told my story a hundred times now, I’m finding it just keeps getting clearer. One of the largest companies in America (Simon Properties Group) is stomping on one of the smallest companies in America (FREE MARKET WARRIOR) because one single, solitary person was incapable of being in the same mall with a bumper sticker she disagreed with.
We were told at one point that there were numerous complaints; we now know that was a lie. There was only one (plus the original complainer had one of her friends echo her complaint). I see things in the mall everyday that I disagree with and I never even thought to demand they be expelled. But this one person, schooled in modern liberalism and its one-way “tolerance”, has decided that she has a right to have all alternative opinions kept 10,000 feet away from her. She has also absorbed the primary battle strategy of the left which is to label anything you don’t like as “racist”.
So, the fact that we have thousands of happy customers both locally and on the web (and, apparently, millions of supporters nationwide) means nothing to this billion dollar company, run by committed liberals. Neither does the fact that our employees will have to be laid off from perfectly good jobs during a recession. No, the liberal “compassion” of the Simon Group is all about “protecting” one person from free speech.
They could have opened up a liberal bumper sticker store. That might have created jobs and promoted the mall. But left-wing “fairness” doctrines have always been about stifling free speech not enhancing it!
It has been reported (correctly) on the internet, that the young lady who wrote the one complaint was an employee of a neighboring store and not the disinterested shopper she claimed to be. This has led some to call for a boycott of the store that this person used to work for. I would like to take this opportunity to stop that right now. The store in question has been nothing but a good neighbor to us and very supportive. It is in no way their fault that their former employee started this.
I cannot find it in my heart even to blame her. She, like myself, is a product of our public educational system where students are nurtured on intolerance like mother’s milk and where ends are always held to justify the means. I’ve just had more years to put it all in perspective. God willing, she will live to develop tolerance for the opinions of others and maybe, someday, will actually consider their validity!
The real threat here is the “liberal-industrial complex” where corporations controlled by the “enlightened” work together with the government and the media to shut out opposing view points. They don’t want to win the debate. They want to pretend there is no debate.
The real story is that I see conservatives all over America standing up and fighting. I am awed by the fact that I am the catalyst for this. I only hope I can be a worthy one. Thank you all. Thank you more than I can express.
I hope you all get a chance to see us on Glenn Beck today!
-LS
http://www.freemarketwarrior.com/
Beck Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUcegRlnpk
Media article:
http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-072109-mrn-freemarketwarrior.63b5bce2.html
Below is the website that now sells the same stuff in case you want to support him. Course that won't help the employees who no longer have a job, but still...
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Having told my story a hundred times now, I’m finding it just keeps getting clearer. One of the largest companies in America (Simon Properties Group) is stomping on one of the smallest companies in America (FREE MARKET WARRIOR) because one single, solitary person was incapable of being in the same mall with a bumper sticker she disagreed with.
We were told at one point that there were numerous complaints; we now know that was a lie. There was only one (plus the original complainer had one of her friends echo her complaint). I see things in the mall everyday that I disagree with and I never even thought to demand they be expelled. But this one person, schooled in modern liberalism and its one-way “tolerance”, has decided that she has a right to have all alternative opinions kept 10,000 feet away from her. She has also absorbed the primary battle strategy of the left which is to label anything you don’t like as “racist”.
So, the fact that we have thousands of happy customers both locally and on the web (and, apparently, millions of supporters nationwide) means nothing to this billion dollar company, run by committed liberals. Neither does the fact that our employees will have to be laid off from perfectly good jobs during a recession. No, the liberal “compassion” of the Simon Group is all about “protecting” one person from free speech.
They could have opened up a liberal bumper sticker store. That might have created jobs and promoted the mall. But left-wing “fairness” doctrines have always been about stifling free speech not enhancing it!
It has been reported (correctly) on the internet, that the young lady who wrote the one complaint was an employee of a neighboring store and not the disinterested shopper she claimed to be. This has led some to call for a boycott of the store that this person used to work for. I would like to take this opportunity to stop that right now. The store in question has been nothing but a good neighbor to us and very supportive. It is in no way their fault that their former employee started this.
I cannot find it in my heart even to blame her. She, like myself, is a product of our public educational system where students are nurtured on intolerance like mother’s milk and where ends are always held to justify the means. I’ve just had more years to put it all in perspective. God willing, she will live to develop tolerance for the opinions of others and maybe, someday, will actually consider their validity!
The real threat here is the “liberal-industrial complex” where corporations controlled by the “enlightened” work together with the government and the media to shut out opposing view points. They don’t want to win the debate. They want to pretend there is no debate.
The real story is that I see conservatives all over America standing up and fighting. I am awed by the fact that I am the catalyst for this. I only hope I can be a worthy one. Thank you all. Thank you more than I can express.
I hope you all get a chance to see us on Glenn Beck today!
-LS
http://www.freemarketwarrior.com/
Beck Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edUcegRlnpk
Media article:
http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-072109-mrn-freemarketwarrior.63b5bce2.html
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