[wordup] 'Peace' T-shirt gets man arrested

[Adam Shand]

I've been trying to only send out good or interesting news, rather then 
the barrage of bad/fucked up news that I was sending out.

This is absurd though, god forbid that anyone think for themselves.  Yeeesh.

Via: Richard Schwartfeger <richard.schwartfeger at virgin.net>
From: 
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/03/05/offbeat.peace.arrest.reut/index.html

'Peace' T-shirt gets man arrested

NEW YORK (Reuters) --A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with 
trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to 
take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.

According to the criminal complaint filed Monday, Stephen Downs was 
wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Give Peace A Chance" that he had 
just purchased from a vendor inside the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, 
New York, near Albany.

"I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two 
security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the 
mall," said Downs.

When Downs refused the security officers' orders, police from the town 
of Guilderland were called and he was arrested and taken away in 
handcuffs, charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter[ed] or 
remain[ed] unlawfully upon premises," the complaint read.

Downs said police tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions by 
refusing to remove the T-shirt because the mall "was like a private 
house and that I was acting poorly.

Calls to the Guilderland police and district attorney, Anthony Cardona 
and to officials at the mall were not returned for comment. Downs is due 
back in court for a hearing on March 17 and he could face up to a year 
in prison if convicted.