H/T to Gateway Pundit.
Looks like selling conservative merchandise, especially shirts and buttons calling for the impeachment of Our Lord and Savior is about to get a business owner kicked out of a mall owned by major supporters of The Messiah.
Loren Spivack owns Free Market Warrior, a kiosk at the Concord Mills mall in North Carolina. Some Apostle of the Second Coming of Christ wrote a letter in the local state-run media outlet criticizing Spivack and accusing him of promoting racism, sexism and slavery — simply for opposing the Chocolate Jesus.
Next thing Spivack knows, the lease on his kiosk is not being renewed by the mall’s owners. Gee, I wonder why. Never mind that opposing socialism, communism and Marxism is opposing slavery, since those ideologies make the individual a slave to the state. But I guess just opposing Barack Hussein Obama makes you a racist in the eyes of the Kool-Aid drinking true believers.
Concord Mills is owned by Simon Properties, who also own nearby Gurnee Mills. The owners of Simon were huge financial contributors to The Anointed One in the 2008 election cycle.
Does local mall management have the right to not renew leases of tenants? Of course they do. But doing so should make business sense, not targeting a business owner because of his political beliefs.
During the Bush presidency, I had numerous chances to see anti-Bush T-shirts and items in kiosks, in T-shirt shops and places like Spencer Gifts. Yawn, been there, done that. Images of President Bush with a Hitler moustache. Sayings like “Somewhere In Texas A Village Is Missing Its Idiot.” Real kneeslappers. In addition to “Impeach Bush.” Every year, the calendar shop that sets up operations in our local mall after Labor until the end of the year had anti-Bush calendars (now it will be anti-Palin calendars).
So what? It’s political free speech, unless The Christos is the target. Then it’s hate speech and must be muzzled.
