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Nov 11, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Tennessee: Mall merchant says evicted due to anti-Obama goods

Full story: Chattanooga Times Free Press

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. a ' A former merchant contends that selling merchandise branded with slogans and pictures critical of President Barack Obama got him evicted from an East Tennessee mall.

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sawman65

Since: Oct 09

146

elizabethton

ISP: Glade Spring, VA

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what happend to free speach? i hope he sure the mall and if he cant then get the manager civily. with a good lawyer hr will do well.
i would like to know where he is at i want a nobama sticker for all thee of my rides.

sawman65

Since: Oct 09

146

elizabethton

ISP: Glade Spring, VA

man i need to proof read ya think.(typing in the dark)

maggie

Johnson City, TN

According to the newspaper, he has sold his equipment and is bringing a lawsuit against the mall.

U 1na know

AOL

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maggie wrote:

According to the newspaper, he has sold his equipment and is bringing a lawsuit against the mall.

"One call... That's all"...(The Ambulance chaser's creed)
Oh yeah, retain a good ACLU Civil Rights lawyer and sue the crap out of them... I see a windfall on his horizon! He'll get a large settlement and use the proceeds to buy the mall, put the present management on the street (because they thought that he violated some silly retail contract, covenance or other term contained in the lease agreement) and then he can sell whatever he wants to sell in his own mall! I love this country...
What country you ask? Why, the United States of the Offended, of course...

Sam

United States

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When he wins his suit, the mall owners will have to raise the rent on everyone to cover the payout, then all the tenents will have to raise their prices on their customers to cover their costs....guess who gets bit in the end? The nobama customers!

U 1na know

AOL

Sam wrote:

When he wins his suit, the mall owners will have to raise the rent on everyone to cover the payout, then all the tenents will have to raise their prices on their customers to cover their costs....guess who gets bit in the end? The nobama customers!

Elementary economics... With a twist, of course...

maggie

Johnson City, TN

Sam wrote:

When he wins his suit, the mall owners will have to raise the rent on everyone to cover the payout, then all the tenents will have to raise their prices on their customers to cover their costs....guess who gets bit in the end? The nobama customers!

I guess Freedom of Speech is not free.

U 1na know

AOL

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maggie wrote:

<quoted text>
I guess Freedom of Speech is not free.

I'm afraid it's not, Ms. Maggie. Many years ago, when morals and ethics weighed heavy on the minds and hearts of our forefathers, a large sum was paid for the rights of freemen to move about, think, study, worship and speak freely (tactfully and with grace, of course)...

Today it's an after thought that comes to the fore front only when we feel that our rights are being treaded upon. Then it evolves into a monetary issue. Money is exchanged and everything is then alright...

Ignorance, complacency and moral corruption is our ruination... We're paying right now. Only we don't realize this yet...

So no, Ms. Maggie... Nothing is free.

maggie

Johnson City, TN

U 1na know wrote:

<quoted text>I'm afraid it's not, Ms. Maggie. Many years ago, when morals and ethics weighed heavy on the minds and hearts of our forefathers, a large sum was paid for the rights of freemen to move about, think, study, worship and speak freely (tactfully and with grace, of course)...
Today it's an after thought that comes to the fore front only when we feel that our rights are being treaded upon. Then it evolves into a monetary issue. Money is exchanged and everything is then alright...
Ignorance, complacency and moral corruption is our ruination... We're paying right now. Only we don't realize this yet...
So no, Ms. Maggie... Nothing is free.

AMEN!!!!

sawman65

Since: Oct 09

146

elizabethton

ISP: Bastian, VA

U 1na know wrote:

<quoted text>Elementary economics... With a twist, of course...

ahh but only if you shop at the price inflated "i have a shop at the mall stores".

Ankie

Ellenboro, NC

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I hope he can bust the malls ass!!!!

Ankiele Grabber

AOL

Yeah, Stick it up their water fountain! That'll show 'em.
Sure it will.
Don't you know, you can't beat the Mall?
You can pound it all you like but it'll never come around.
Yeah, Baby! Bust That Mall! Pound it Good! Oh Yeah, BABY! pound, pound pound. Bust Its ASS!

Just clean up your mess afterwards.
Bring tissues.
And ointment.

Dan Kidd

Since: Nov 09

804

Columbus, OH

The story is leaving out some detail. Such as what the lease agreement specifies. If in his contract he agreed to not push a political agenda, then he is in violation of the agreement, not the mall. Or if the mall aknowledged that they could end the lease whenever they like for whatever reason they like, they are well within their rights to do so.
On the other hand, if none of the above are true, he has every right to gain back his losses.

stingray

Johnson City, TN

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sounds like a story for wjhl after all they can get their noise's in the cracks

email me

Cedar Bluff, VA

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the mall is a private business, they can kick out whoever they want

I hate obama and think the guy should be able to sale whatever he wants

mike

Elizabethton, TN

The have the right to evict and i have the right not to shop there.

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