Cop Helps Enforce Santorum Family Values at Booksigning-Threats of Arrests

[JPZenger]

Teenaged girls threatened With jail for being suspected of wanting to protest Santorum.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050814/NEWS08/508140325/1013/NEWS

Delaware News Journal

Del. state trooper helps enforce Rick Santorum's 'family' values
08/14/2005

...people who disagree would like to tell {Santorum} so. But, as several teenagers and some of their parents found out last week, trying to do that in Delaware could land you in jail. Santorum appeared at the Barnes & Noble bookstore adjacent to Concord Mall ... for what was billed as a book signing and discussion. College students Stacey Galperin and Miriam Rocek of Newark decided to attend to hear what he had to say. ... Said Rocek "I thought I would go and just talk to him during the book signing, tell him I disagreed with a lot of his policies, just engage him in dialogue." Hannah Shaffer, an 18-year-old ...and several friends had the same idea.

...The students and the girls from Newark started talking about the event, and someone joked about having Santorum sign a book by a gay author. That drew the attention of someone on Santorum's advance team. According to Shaffer, the woman "called them shameful and said she was disgusted by the reasons they were there, that they should be there to support {Santorum}." "Rick Santorum's security team felt they were going to be a security threat and asked them to leave," said Amanda Winnington, the community relations manager for the Barnes & Noble store. The security, however, wasn't provided by a private guard, but by off-duty Delaware State Police Sgt. Michael DiJiacomo, who was hired for the occasion through a private security service...

..the cop...came up to us and said, 'If you don't leave you'll be arrested, and if you can't post bail you'll be put in prison.' He said it was private property and we would be arrested for trespassing." When the girls protested that they hadn't done anything, DiJiacomo told them they were under arrest. After taking them from the store, Galperin said, "He told Miriam to put her hands on the car and kept telling us, 'You're going to embarrass your family, you won't get into college with this on your record.' " Barnes & Noble's Winnington confirmed that only customers who had a receipt for Santorum's book were allowed near him.

...Heidi Shaffer said.."I don't know when they passed a law in Delaware that said you can't have a cup of coffee and discuss your opposition to a book."

[shraby]

1. And Santorum wants to be re-elected?????

He sure is going about it in an odd way.

[NewWaveChick1981]

2. The only reason...

...Santorum and other freepers out there won't engage in a dialogue with others who believe differently is that they are deathly afraid of being made to "look bad." They perceive themselves as being much more important than they really are, and their images are so fragile that they fear being brought down.

[lyonn]

3. Just call Santorum No Nutz

He is such a dweeb, a repub that likes wars, telling people how to live properly (by their standards anyway, well, the my way is the only way type. The usual closed minded repub. They are so boring, the girls had to be having fun with it, too irresistible! I do believe Howie (Dean) could easily handle such a situation and have fun with it. We need so many more like him.

It's great those arrogant types keep getting some news, wake up America.

[tom_paine]

4. May God Damn their Nazi Souls to HELL

Although, they are only the Kinder and gentler Second Cusins to the Nazis at this moment in time, they are still part of the broad family of Tyrants which comes in so may forms, and from across the political spectrum.