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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (366772)	3/5/2003 7:57:13 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

Sounds like from these various news reports that the mall had been disturbed previously and that the guy was scheming. JMHO. A girlfriend who lived in LA said gay clubs discriminated by banning open-toed shoes, which kept a lot of women out. I doubted her but it was true. On Dec. 21, about two dozen people from Upper Hudson Peace Action, walking in groups of two to three and wearing T-shirts that read "Peace on Earth" and "Don't Invade Iraq," were told to leave by mall security and the police, but there were no arrests. But Downs,a lawyer with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct and a former Peace Corps volunteer, refused. Stephen Downs, 61, of Selkirk, was arrested Monday on a trespassing charge after wearing a T-shirt saying "Peace on Earth" and "Give Peace a Chance" in Crossgates Mall. He and his 31-year-old son, Roger, had T-shirts with anti-war messages made at a mall store and wore them while they shopped. Mall security guards told the men to remove their shirts or leave the mall. The son took his T-shirt off, but Downs refused. Police arrested Downs after mall security said he was causing a disturbance. Downs, of the Albany County hamlet of Selkirk, pleaded innocent Monday night to trespassing. Guilderland Town Police Chief James Murley said his officers were just responding to a complaint by mall security. He said the mall can decide to press charges against anyone who refuses to comply with a request to leave because it is private property. On Dec. 21, about two dozen people from Upper Hudson Peace Action, walking in groups of two to three and wearing T-shirts that read "Peace on Earth" and "Don't Invade Iraq," were told to leave by mall security and the police, but there were no arrests.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (366772)	3/5/2003 7:57:25 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush controls the government now, no peaceniks can stop him from doing whatever he wants. Nor can any other countries. If he really means everything he says he should just go attack Iraq, cut taxes for the rich down to zero, declare no environmental regulations anymore, send the right-wing church groups billions and cut government social programs to the bone. Why is the right-wing complaining? They control almost everything now. So they can do as they please and accept the full blame later for the results.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (366772)	3/5/2003 8:18:19 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 769667

<< That's your opinion that the peace protestors are delaying the war. As if the Russian, Germans and French don't have anything to do with the delay of this war? >> The small minded, quisling Russians, Germans and French have been empowered by the large scale appeasement protestors. I am not saying that the sniveling protestors are totally responsible for giving Saddam more time to prepare for the American invasion, but they are responsible, in part. The unwashed, groveling protestors would rather jump up and down, and shout slogans, rather than hold a job, or defend our freedoms. It's rather easy to carry a placard, and appease terrorism, than fight for our nation, which is which our brave men and women are doing.