This ConservativePetitions.com Alert is a special message from
RightMarch.com
ALERT: As you know, Terri Schindler-Schiavo has passed
away, the victim of an out-of-control tyrannical judiciary,
politicians who couldn't or wouldn't stop the judges, and
a man who had abandoned his wife long ago and shouldn't
have even been allowed to stay as her guardian.
The crowds outside Terri's hospice in Pinellas Park,
Florida, are all going home, weary from the battle. While
Terri is gone now, we still live to fight another day --
and we WILL fight the judicial tyrants, to honor the memory
of Terri. We're already formulating battle plans to move
ahead in the War on Judicial Tyranny.
But there's one more battle in Pinellas Park that needs to
be fought... one more injustice that needs to be righted,
on behalf of so many people that sacrificed so much to
come and support Terri.
Supporters of Terri Schiavo have been RIPPED OFF
of over $20,000 -- and we need to STOP this financial
assault on free speech, NOW.
Thousands of Terri Schiavo supporters have made their
pilgrimage to Pinellas Park, Florida over the past few
weeks to peacefully assemble and pray. Local police
frequently directed them to park in the large Winn-Dixie
Supermarket parking lot across the street from the Woodside
Hospice. It was literally a "Winn-win" situation.
Demonstrators, thirsty from the hot Florida sun, purchased
water and Gatoraid by the truckloads from Winn-Dixie and
surrounding retailers. The economy in Woodside Hospice
enclave never looked so good. That was until TODAY, when
dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Schiavo supporters walked out
of Winn-Dixie to their cars, only to find that their cars
had VANISHED.
Why? Because EVK Enterprises, Inc., the property management
company renting space to Winn-Dixie, began towing cars with
a redemption fee of $161 PER CAR. An estimated 150 cars
were towed, for fees in excess of $20,000 -- ALL IN CASH!
One Terri supporter, Jerry McGlothlin, purchased retail
products at the Winn-Dixie shopping center, from the CVS
Pharmacy and the auto parts store, and left two shopping
bags in his front seat in plain sight before he walked
across the street briefly to the front of the Woodside
Hospice, out of respect to Terri Schiavo. Then he walked
back across the street and purchased $148.13 in groceries
at Winn-Dixie, since he had a scheduled 8 day stay in St.
Petersburg, visiting his nephew. Jerry then returned to an
empty space where his car had been. After five hours of
wrangling with the Winn-Dixie store manager, the management
company and several people in Winn-Dixie's corporate
headquarters to help him get his car returned, not a single
person lifted so much as a finger to help. He eventually
had no choice but to pay to retrieve his car.
Said McGlothlin, "When I showed Winn-Dixie's store manager,
John Brengle, my receipt for over $140 in groceries, and
asked for my car back, he outright refused to help and
shifted blame to the management company. I asked him
politely four separate times during various stages of my
five hour ordeal of being stranded without a car, only to
have Manager Brengle refuse all four times. The management
company needed just one single call from Brengle to stop
the towing, but Brengle insisted on being complicit and
doing nothing. I tried going over his head, calling several
people at Winn-Dixie's regional and national headquarters,
and got no help whatsoever. It seemed that top management
had already taken sides on the Schiavo matter, regardless
of how much money people spent with Winn-Dixie."
Selective enforcement was the order of the day in the
Winn-Dixie parking lot. Regardless of the size of a purchase
(in McGlothlin's case he made 3 purchases in three of the
stores in the shopping center, totaling over $200), as long
as anyone crossed the street to show support of Terri
Schiavo, even for 10 minutes, they got towed by "security"
forces who monitored who crossed the street. Emotions
apparently ran so high from the anti-Schiavo camp that there
appeared to be no consideration whatsoever made to the fact
that they were towing patrons of Winn-Dixie.
(NOTE: At the main entrance to the Winn-Dixie on the 66th
Street side, there was a "No protest parking please" sign
that covered a second sign stating that "unauthorized"
vehicles will be towed at owner's expense by Yoho's Towing.
Ordinarily a reasonable observer would not consider actual
PATRONS of Winn-Dixie as being "unauthorized," but then
again, this is the heated Schiavo debate, and nothing about
it seems ordinary.)
One woman was crying hysterically at the car pound, Yoho's
Towing; another man was from Canada without enough American
money. But the pattern was always the same: No mercy from
the a foul-mouthed woman working there named Danielle, who
incessantly used the "F" word to complaining "customers,"
even when young children were present.
One man was so incensed over having his car towed after
purchasing water at Winn-Dixie that he spent hours telling
his plight in front of the store to anyone who would listen.
Eventually police either arrested him or convinced him to
leave.
TAKE ACTION: This is OUTRAGEOUS. It's one thing for owners
of private property to post towing notices for unauthorized
vehicles; it's another thing to deliberately TARGET
protesters, EVEN THOUGH they're patrons of the stores on
that property.
These people need to "feel the heat" in order to "see the
light". So it's up to US to apply that heat. There's several
ways you can complain about this outrageous behavior -- but
keep one thing in mind... BE VERY POLITE. Do NOT give them
any excuse to file complaints against YOU!
1) Call Winn-Dixie's store #681 manager, John Brengle, at
727-541-2070. Inform him of your feelings about allowing the
towing of the cars of Terri Schiavo supporters, even though
they were obviously patrons of the Winn-Dixie and other
stores on that property. You can also call Winn-Dixie
corporate headquarters to complain at 866-946-6349, or send
a message at http://www.winndixie.com/comments/main.asp .
2) Call EVK Enterprises, Inc., the property management
company renting space to Winn-Dixie, at 727-821-4989. Inform
them of your feelings about their new decision to tow the
cars of Terri Schiavo's supporters, even though they were
obviously patrons of the Winn-Dixie and other stores on that
property. You can also send an e-mail to them at
evkinc@evk-lease.com .
3) Call Robert Yoho Towing at 727-545-3596, and inform them
of your feelings about towing the cars of Terri Schiavo
supporters that were in the Winn-Dixie parking lot, even
though they were obviously patrons of the stores on that
property. Also let them know how you feel about their
employees cursing at people with small children.
4) One observer commented that it would be interesting to
know if the IRS would ever see this spike in sales on the
tax returns of the small towing business, and whether there
might be some "kick-back" funds for stores or property owners.
The IRS offers a 10% finder's fee reward to citizens who give
anonymous tips of likely tax fraud -- their number is
800-829-0433.
Once more, let me remind you: BE VERY POLITE. Do NOT give
them any excuse to file complaints against YOU!
NOTE: Be sure to send this Alert to everyone you know who
would be outraged at this deliberate targeting of supporters
of Terri Schiavo. Thank you!
Sincerely,
William Greene, President
RightMarch.com
when I read this today, I could not believe how LOW people stoop!!!!!!!
I'm totally outraged by this.
Tutstar - your report needs to be sent to Hannity and Laura Ingram and people like that. This is insanity. Those people in that area are truly devils. I can't believe I read your report. Some fat cat who has a connection to the Sheriff's dept has a contract to haul off people's cars.
This is Michael Schiavo and the Sheriff at work to harass Terri supporters, even more than has already been done. Will these hateful people ever stop this. Let's send the report to the news media. This is nothing but robbery.
I'm posting this for floriduh voter here:
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MOMENT OF SILENCE TODAY AT 1:00 pm EST around the world. . . for Terri
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. . . for us.
Kash & Karry, here I come.