WARNING: this audio broadcast will contain offensive material.Concerns open allowed displays of vulgarity of the highest order on display this date in the Bayshore Mall, Eureka Ca., a General Growth Properties owned mall. The material under discussion in this broadcast is marketed toward pre-teen young girls urging them to advertise their willingness to engage in sex. Mall security notified and dismissed complaint as free speech. Offending retailer - Spencer Gifts ( also called Spencer’s Gifts ) ….located in virtually every mall across the country. 05/18/08
If you have children, you should listen to this broadcast. For more information on Spencer Gifts and run ins with their behavior towards children….see PAST INVESTIGATIONS
FOLLOW UP NOTE: three hours later. 05/18/08 - I have received so many emails from listeners who frankly just didn’t believe it could be happening that I sent two people back to the Spencer Gifts, after my complaints mind you….and had them purchase one of the shirts from a smiling girl named Andrea on the receipt at 2:53 pm, P.S.T. I am placing links to the pictures here. Warning, very offensive. Picture #1 Picture #2. Remember, these are marketed toward our young girls, and as mentioned in the broadcast, with approval of the store and the mall security that I spoke with. I want to be clear here, the shirt was not inside the store, but front and center facing the mall center outside the store in clear view on a rack….in full view of the many children in the area it was being marketed to.
FOLOW UP: 05/19/08 - Both local Eureka Ca. daily newspaper news departments, The Eureka Reporter, and The Times Standard, as well as local NBC station KIEM were notified along with contact information approximately 12 hours ago. Will report back as to how serious local media treats the marketing of sex to our kids, or if the daily advertising outweighs the responsibility to local communities. As I mentioned in the broadcast below, this is the canary in the mineshaft in the war on our culture….and the sexualization of our children by businesses…..for profit. This is happening down the street from you. Right now.
Discussion thread on this topic via Free Republic…….
News Story via Pipe Line News on this subject……. Note, this and other websites are choosing to run the pictures, WARNING offensive material.
Final note 19 May 08 - lots going on with this, will discuss in detail during the regular Friday night live show of the Old Glory Radio Hour. We may even be auctioning off the shirt for charity money going to an Abused Children Organization.
NOTE: MAY 20TH - Well I guess I can stop writing letters, (Al Sharpton was next, God help us) ….a local weekly liberal oriented journal here, North Coast Journal, broke the local media silence and brought to light this situation in the area. Still nothing but chirping crickets from the daily newspapers despite another round of contact by myself. While I am at it I want to personally thank Humboldt County Supervisor Bonnie Neely, for being the only elected official to return my phone calls. Probably not much she can do, but it is harder for merchants to put things like this in front of our children when they know they are being watched. Still no call back from the Mayor’s Office. Join me this Friday evening during our Live Show for a discussion on what I am calling Rape Inc……as we follow the money trail…..Tom
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