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To: AppyPappy
If the KKK advertises "Racist Day at Six Flags", Six Flags would sue them for using their name. Wake up.

Using the name of a company is hardly a crime. Disney, Six Flags, SeaWorld are proper nouns, describing a place.

If your business is centered around providing a service to the public, you are fair game. Heck, even if you do nothing but rent cars. If the neo-Nazi's want to convene at your business place, you have a choice. You can either deny them entrance into your establishment (and be sued for discrimination), you can do your best to ignore them (and be called a Nazi supporter), or you can advertize the neo-Nazi meetings as a warning to your other customers, and then be labelled as a Neo-Nazi supporter.

If I publically state that I am meeting ANYWHERE, no crime has been committed. Especially if a company can be shown to have publicized their location. What crime would you charge these people with?

64 posted on 07/26/2004 3:52:17 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: Hodar
What crime would you charge these people with? Why must it come down to a criminal charge? I read this thread, to start with, as information for those who might wish to avoid the spectacle by taking their family to an amusement park on a day incompatible with their value system. Considering that the vast majority of Americans don't care to be in that situation... as a secondary note... Six Flags might want to consider the ramifications of this "event" from a marketing perspective. Whether they planned, promoted, or only "allowed" it is immaterial once the general public has mentally removed the "L" from their name. I agree they are in a difficult situation, and possibly must choose between two adverse scenarios. That's what LEADERSHIP is for. How success or failure is measured...is up to the stakeholders.
84 posted on 07/26/2004 4:27:29 PM PDT by sayfer bullets
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To: Hodar

OK so you are willing to say that Disney had never sued anyone for using their name, right?


91 posted on 07/26/2004 4:39:23 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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