>>..Whatever anyone's opinion about Iraq is, this goes way beyond reasonable thinking, IMO:
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>>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/20030305/ap_on_re_us/mall_activists
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>"Private property", indeed. Makes you remember the old times, when many a shop would selectively reject clients, based on their race. Nowadays, I understand, this is illegal, and I think it should also be illegal to reject a client based on a political (?) opinion, even if this is expressed quite openly.

Just shows you that both sides have idiots, as well as good and bad arguments. What I find so offensive about this is not only the infringement of free speech, but even more so that a store in that mall sold them the shirts in the first place. Now if they had bee raising hell in the mall instead of just walking around buying t-shirts, then the mall has grounds to evict them from the premises. No way would I have ever submitted to their demands. It would have taken a real, on-duty police officer to remove me from the premises in that situation. Shortly thereafter, you can bet a high-powered lawyer would have been summoned.