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80-Year-Old Church Deacon Arrested for Refusing to Remove His Anti-War
T-Shirt
Posted by GottaLaff , Cliff Schecter's Blog on March 31, 2008 at 3:01
PM.
He's 80, but he was wearing the wrong tee shirt. One must never wear
the wrong tee shirt. That's just unacceptable. Especially if one is at
the mall:
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall
yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to
remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at
the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as
"graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of
American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the
words "Dead" and "Enough." The shirt also has three blotches
resembling blood splatters.
That is disturbing! Especially if you're one of the 4,000 Americans or
1,000,000 Iraqis who died.
Police said in a release last night that Zirkel was handing out anti-
war pamphlets to mallgoers and that mall security told him to stop and
turn his shirt inside out. Zirkel refused to turn his shirt 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.
Good lord, he sounds dangerous. Hide the kids!
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-shirts.
Drinking coffee? In an anti-war tee shirt?? What do you want to bet he
was not wearing a flag pin?!! Don Hussein Zirkel, this'll teach you
not to dissent! America's not about that! America's about nodding in
agreement and saluting the Chimpenfuhrer.
T-Shirt
Posted by GottaLaff , Cliff Schecter's Blog on March 31, 2008 at 3:01
PM.
He's 80, but he was wearing the wrong tee shirt. One must never wear
the wrong tee shirt. That's just unacceptable. Especially if one is at
the mall:
An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall
yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to
remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War.
Police said that Don Zirkel, of Bethpage, was disturbing shoppers at
the Lake Grove mall with his T-shirt, which had what they described as
"graphic anti-war images." Zirkel, a deacon at Our Lady of the
Miraculous Medal in Wyandanch, said his shirt had the death tolls of
American military personnel and Iraqis - 4,000 and 1 million - and the
words "Dead" and "Enough." The shirt also has three blotches
resembling blood splatters.
That is disturbing! Especially if you're one of the 4,000 Americans or
1,000,000 Iraqis who died.
Police said in a release last night that Zirkel was handing out anti-
war pamphlets to mallgoers and that mall security told him to stop and
turn his shirt inside out. Zirkel refused to turn his shirt 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.
Good lord, he sounds dangerous. Hide the kids!
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-shirts.
Drinking coffee? In an anti-war tee shirt?? What do you want to bet he
was not wearing a flag pin?!! Don Hussein Zirkel, this'll teach you
not to dissent! America's not about that! America's about nodding in
agreement and saluting the Chimpenfuhrer.