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Re: 80 year old arrested for anti war tee ****rt at mall

by "Another McCain Voting Democrat" <McCain is the Real Man@[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 1, 2008 at 02:08 AM

I told you, you have to be a Sonofa***** like me to be loved in =
America.....  If you are not with Satan then you're not one of us.......



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 once more far right nuts for screwing American's rights. Simon
Property Group deserves a good boycott due to this.

newsday.com/news/local/ny-liwar0330,0,2069315.story

Newsday.com
Police arrest anti-war protester, 80, at mall
BY ANASTASIA ECONOMIDES and MATTHEW CHAYES

matthew.chayes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 AM EDT, March 30, 2008

An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall
Saturday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove
a T-****rt protesting the Iraq War.

Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at
the Lake Grove mall with his T-****rt, which had what they described as
"graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his ****rt had the death tolls of
American military personnel and Iraqis -- 4,000 and 1 million -- and
the words "Dead" and "Enough." The ****rt also has three blotches
resembling blood splatters.

Police said in a release Saturday night that Zirkel was handing out
anti-war pamphlets to mallgoers and that mall security told him to
stop and turn his ****rt inside out. Zirkel refused to turn his ****rt
inside out and wouldn't leave, police said. Security placed him on
"civilian arrest" and called police. When police arrived, Zirkel
passively resisted attempts to bring him to a police car, the release
said.

But Zirkel said he was sitting in the food court drinking coffee with
his wife Marie, 77, and several others when police and mall security
officers approached and demanded they remove their anti-war T-****rts.

The others complied, but Zirkel said he refused, and when he wouldn't
stand up to be removed and arrested, authorities brought over a
wheelchair. "They forcibly picked me up and put me in the wheelchair,"
said Zirkel, a deacon at one of the poorest Catholic parishes on Long
Island, where a devastating fire recently destroyed the rectory and
storage areas.

Zirkel was charged with criminal trespassing and resisting arrest. He
was released on bail. A spokeswoman for mall owner Simon Property
Group did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Generally speaking, a mall has the right to control what happens on
its property, said John McEntee, a Uniondale commercial litigation
lawyer.

Activists with dueling opinions had gathered to sup****t and oppose
America's five-year campaign.

As Zirkel was being wheeled to the police car, the crowd chanted "We
shall not be moved!" Moments later, they moved; police and mall
security had ordered them off the property. Many joined a larger anti-
war crowd assembled by the mall's entrance, off mall property, on
Veterans Memorial Highway.

They were complemented nearby by protesters saying the Iraq war is
vital for security.

Copyright =A9 2008, Newsday Inc.
 




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