'Stop Snitching' T-Shirts Yanked From Boston Store

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'Stop Snitching' T-Shirts Yanked From Boston Store

POSTED: 8:22 am PST December 4, 2005
UPDATED: 8:29 am PST December 4, 2005

BOSTON -- A clothing store owner agreed Saturday to stop selling "Stop Snitching" T-shirts amid concerns the message was intimidating murder witnesses during a surge in violent crime.

Store owner Antonio Ennis, after meeting with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and outraged community leaders, said he would stop selling the shirts in his store and over the Internet.

"It's the right thing to do," Ennis said.

Antonio Ansaldi Clothing has stocked the shirts since 1999 and sold 300 to 400 a month, he said.

Boston has had 66 homicides so far this year, matching a 10-year high, and police haven't identified a suspect in 70 percent of them. Police say many witnesses fear retaliation, and Menino said the "Stop Snitching" shirts are part of the problem.

At a meeting Thursday, the mayor said he would send city employees into shops to seize the shirts.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts asked Menino to abandon that plan.

That "is a form of official censorship which is fundamentally inconsistent with the constitutional guarantees of freedom of expression," John Reinstein, legal director for the ACLU of Massachusetts, said in a statement.
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To think that people are not coming forth as witnesses because of a tshirt seems kinda ridiculous to me. :confused: Either way, I prefer to buy my offensive shirts from tshirthell.com. :)
 
The T-Shirts speak volumes about why

there is the level of crime there is in those communities. AND why blaming that crime on guns from NH, VT and ME is patently absurd.

That said, it also shows that Mennino and the erstwhile liberals have as much contempt for the FIRST Amendment as they do for the Second. :barf:
 
The strangeness of the entire situation notwithstanding, why is the mayor sending someone over to seize the shirts if the store owner has already agreed not to sell them?

Tim
 
Well, yes. Snitching on people who commit violent crimes is probably a good thing.

But we have so many laws these days - in America AND here - which are basically opressive - banning guns, toys, shirts - that to snitch on their violators would be tantamount to helping maintain tyranny.

In fact, less snitches is a good thing. If people refused to report people except for real, grave crimes, the cops would find it harder to enforce those laws - and we would be more free. It certainly worked in my father's time, in Russia.
 
Being from MD. The bags of crap that created these videos and the term "Stop Snitching" have been responsible for witness intimidation, cold-blooded killings and the firebombing of a whole family that tried to clear these drug dealers off her street. Yes the whole family died.

So before everyone gets on their high horse about rights what do you think about Boston Stores selling KKK wardrobe or tee-shirts???

Do I think we needs laws about this? No.... But we need more people of higher moral character.
 
If they had

prevented the sale of those tee-shirts back in January, I'm sure all 66 people would still be alive.
 
Im sorry but thats just plain BS.

Its not a shirt that causes intimidation but the mentality of our current society. What do I feel bout KKK stuff/etc? I dont like it but its in their right to believe what they want and unless they act on it and break a law then im aganist them.

In my view, this is the same as shifting blame from user reponsibility to an inanimate object.
 
A little joke

"So before everyone gets on their high horse about rights what do you think about Boston Stores selling KKK wardrobe or tee-shirts"
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would that be the KKKmart ?








sorry....
 
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Antonio Ansaldi Clothing has stocked the shirts since 1999 and sold 300 to 400 a month
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Talk about a stupid business decision. I would boycott his store and tell him not to cave to the thought police.



If they had prevented the sale of those tee-shirts back in January, I'm sure all 66 people would still be alive.
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Amen.

In my view, this is the same as shifting blame from user reponsibility to an inanimate object.
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Double Amen.

To think that people are not coming forth as witnesses because of a tshirt seems kinda ridiculous to me.
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Yep.

At a meeting Thursday, the mayor said he would send city employees into shops to seize the shirts.
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I would love him to so the settlement from the lawsuit could pay to purchase the building he's probably currently renting in :D
 
... we need more people of higher moral character
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Eureka!

+1 to infinity...

It takes more guts to STAND UP and say "no" than to follow along at the back of the crowd or sit in the corner and do nothing.

Which is the difference between those who have moral character and everyone else.
 
Doing business in Boston can be tough, you already have to jump through rediculous hoops and plenty of bribing of officials to get something open there. If you don't toe the "party line", you'll soon find yourself out of business, and maybe in jail.

Yes, it's that bad down there. I know a nice couple who tried to open a restaurant, what they told me was shocking.
 
Would the mayor confiscate someone's car with the bumper sticker: "Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my guns" if it was driving on the streets of Boston? After all, words are truly part of the problem!
 
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