06 Mar 2003
Public Protests or Ploy

For anyone who's interested, here's a link to the relevent police reports on the mall incident that has been the subject of much discussion.

If you notice, the complaints state that the pair with the shirts had been stopping and harassing other shoppers - which goes well beyond the 'I was just wearing this tee shirt I just bought and they kicked me out, the facist bastards!' line that the media has been spouting.

I think this was a ploy to ratchet up the debate - and it's working, too.

Regardless of your particluar position on the upcoming events in Iraq, I think this is a pretty clear cut example of exactly what position the major news media holds: any reporter could have gotten access to these reports before filing their stories....

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