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MsSage

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Welll I am ashamed of Concord NC. They have denied a renewal lease to a conservitive Kiosk :? I can not tell you how many Pro obama items I saw around the mall they are ok along with the anti Bush. BUT dear LAWRD can not have anti obama :evil:

Conservative Kiosk Owner Denied New Lease at North Carolina Mall (Concord Mills)

The owner of kiosk that sells conservative merchandise in a North Carolina mall won't get to continue pushing "Impeach Obama" bumper stickers after his lease expires Friday.

The Concord Mills mall decided not to renew its contract with Loren Spivack, who fought to stay in business in the shopping center.

Spivack says his kiosk, Free Market Warrior, is being nudged out for purely political reasons.

After meeting with officials from the Concord, N.C., mall Tuesday afternoon, the two sides could not reach an agreement to keep the 8-foot-long kiosk where it was.

"Mr. Spivack has not agreed to remove the objectionable merchandise and will be moving out of Concord Mills at the end of his lease," a statement from the mall said.

Spivack told FOXNews.com that mall officials specifically asked that three bumper stickers and a T-shirt believed to be linking President Obama with terrorism be removed from the kiosk, including one that read, "Obama Wins and They Celebrate in Iran, Do You Get It?"

Four employees at the kiosk will lose their jobs at the end of business on Friday, Spivack said, but he'll continue selling the merchandise online.

"It was a very difficult decision," Spivack told FOXNews.com. "I really don't want to [leave the mall], but I was even less comfortable having this corporation essentially dictate which criticisms could be made."

The hottest sellers at the kiosk, which has been in the mall for roughly three months, are items that are critical of President Obama, Spivack said.

They include a “Work Harder, Obama Needs the Money” bumper sticker and a T-shirt that lists the top 12 things Obama has been doing as the economy crashes.

Among the other merchandise sold at the kiosk and on its associated Web site are GOP elephant bobblehead dolls, a Republican president jigsaw puzzle and baby bibs that say, “My parents chose life. Thanks Mom and Dad!”

Asked if he felt targeted by mall officials due to those items, Spivack replied, “There’s no question. There’s no issue other than the material we’re selling.”

The brouhaha began, he said before his request was denied, when someone wrote a letter to the editor in the Charlotte Observer criticizing his business for promoting racism and sexism.

“This apparently got the attention of the national management,” Spivack told FOXNews.com. “They came down with a decision that we had to leave and that our lease would not be renewed when it expired.”

Spivack said he met briefly with mall manager Roy Soporowski on Sunday, the same day about 100 people rallied in front of the mall to support him and his right to the sell politically-charged merchandise.

“We didn’t come to any conclusions, but we agreed to speak again [Monday],” Spivack said. “We’d obviously like to stay, that would be very positive.”

Soporowski did not respond to several interview requests on Monday. A spokeswoman for Simon Property Group, which owns the mall, declined to be interviewed for this report.

Spivack wouldn't say how much he pays to rent the kiosk, citing a condition of his contract. And while the future of his business is currently in jeopardy, the controversy has had a noticeable benefit.

“Sales have definitely picked up,” he said. “Simon Malls clearly did me an unintentional favor.”
 

hypocritexposer

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Any political objection to the party in control would be "right wing extremism".

Check with DHS, you'll find out that it's true.

Slippery slope indeed. People don't look far enough into the future to realize what it is going to become, when the shoe is on the other foot.

Pendulum is swinging.
 

MsSage

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From the Free Market Warrior Blog
http://freemarketwarrior.com/store

UPDATE ON THE STORY, Simon Properties Group Harassment of Free Market Warrior
Written by Loren Spivack
Friday, 24 July 2009 14:51
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
 
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