Reaction to Loos Tales
Trent Loos is apparently able to divine the thoughts of the Philadelphia Starbucks manager who has been in the news recently—that she had absolutely no racial bias when she called the police to have two black gentlemen removed from store and arrested.
She was just exercising “her” private property rights. Mr. Loos does not understand that when a business operates with a license issued by a government and is provided life giving services and access via public utilities and public property roads, the law of absolute private property does not exist.
If Mr. Loos wants to give Starbucks the privilege of operating a coffee shop on his land without a license or permit in the middle of Nowhere, Nebraska where there are no government provided services (which in this day and time is not possible) he theoretically may be able to enforce the idea of absolute private property and never let any blacks or anyone else he wants to exclude into the store.
Mr. Loos must have missed Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz and COO Kevin Johnson when they stated publicly on several occasions the manager was not following company policy.
Mr. Loos must possess the properties of the iconic Nebraskan, “Carnac the Magnificent”, and is able to divine the thoughts of the store manager. Mr. Loos knows and has no doubt that the color of their skin had no relevance in her decision and that she was not a racist as she called police to kick out two black guys who were waiting for a meeting with their business colleague—he knows she could not have been motivated by race.
I have visited Starbucks and other coffee chains from coast to coast and many in between and there are usually lots of people sitting around for hours messing on their cell phones or lap tops or just plain visiting or meditating as I have also done to kill time waiting for an appointment, while wife is shopping, or met friends to visit. Sometimes buying something, sometimes not and I have never been accosted by staff.
By exorcising the power also granted to me by Carnac the Magnificent like Mr. Loos possesses, I can divine from Trent Loos’ column that he is an absolute bigot and racist.
Oh, I can hear him now, “Can’t be, one of my best friends is black.” Spare me the Hog___.
As Carnac the Magnificent also allows me to read minds, I know Trent Loos exhibits outright bigotry and racism which is now totally accepted by many people in the days of Trump—you know, Nazis are very fine people.
I hope this newspaper to which I have subscribed for 50 years or so will puts limits on the hate speech of Trent Loos.
—Dale Thomas Hyatt, Las Animas, Colorado
