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Re: 'Peace on Earth' T - Shirt Sparks Arrest

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From: billnech
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:00
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"Dusty Rhodes" <terra@SPAMMENOTtexas.net> wrote in message
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> Joseph Crowe wrote:
> > On 11 Mar 2003, Bill wrote:
> >> Meanwhile, the mall made the security guard the fall guy even though
> >> he was only following instructions.
> >
> >   Regardless of the source, the "I was just following orders" defense
> > went out with the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal.  I believe this
> > subject has had all the flavor chewed out of it.
>
> While I agree in principle, anyone who spends a decade as a mall security
> guard, while obviously an idiot, possesses a sense of loyalty and
obligation
> that deserves to be rewarded, not punished. Where the hell do you find
> people willing to give that kind of loyalty for under $10/hr?
>
> The true fall guy here should have been the clerk who originally
complained,
> the management of the store in which the clerk worked for not stopping the
> clerk and the drooling cretins in the mall management office who ordered
the
> guard to respond.

Actually the clerk wasn't even in his/her store.  It was reportedly a Macy's
clerk, and the two men were never in Macy's.  In any event, said clerk has
never come forward.
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From: "billnech" <billnech@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: 'Peace on Earth' T - Shirt Sparks Arrest
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