Santorum’s People Toss Young Women out of Barnes & Noble,

[Jon8503]

Trooper Threatens Them with Prison
Matthew Rothschild
August 19, 2005

On the evening of August 10, Hannah Shaffer of Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, decided to go to the nearby Barnes & Noble outside of Wilmington. She wanted to see Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, who was promoting his book, “It Takes a Family.” The event was billed as a “book signing and discussion,” Shaffer says. But discussion was the last thing that the Senator’s people wanted.

Shaffer, her friends, and two other young women were booted out of the store and threatened with imprisonment even before they had a chance to say a word to Santorum, as Al Mascitti first noted in the Delaware News Journal.

Shaffer, 18, thought Santorum’s public appearance might be a good occasion to ask him a few questions.

“He is my Senator,” she says, and she wanted to challenge him on his notorious claim that legalizing gay marriage was akin to legalizing incest and bestiality.

http://progressive.org/?q=mag_mc081905

[Zen]

1. More right-wing compassionate conservatism at work here

These things tend to come back and bite in the ass though - keep it up man-on-dog boy.

[hvn_nbr_2]

2. Sounds to me like lawsuit time. n/t

[Kagemusha]

3. I almost feel sorry for the trooper. So many grounds to sue.

And what his boss said at the end.. ok, I can see state troopers working security off duty. But in uniform? With hat? And gun? And working for someone other than the management but removing people from the premises telling them, "your business is not wanted here, they want you out"?

And that's just a small sample. I read the article in full. Just mind-boggling.