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From: doit@ihlpa.UUCP (Roeseler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: "Russia: Love It Or Leave It"
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 09:51:35 EST
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From tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum):

>  [...] The only question, then, is whether a shopping mall is analogous
>  to a store, or to a public thoroughfare.  My personal opinion is that
>  it is more like a public thoroughfare and you should be able to distribute
>  literature.  However, this is a point upon which reasonable people can
>  disagree.  I understand the mall owner's point of view.  You make it
>  sound like "powerful economic interests" are trying to suppress dissent.
>  NO!!!  They are just trying to maximize the number of customers who shop
>  in their mall.  [...]

You grant permission to the owner of the shopping mall to control the right
of free speech. The owner is not even forced to justify the dominion: "He
owns the building and wants to maximize profit" -- that simple fact is
enough for you to accept the domination.

Your proposed union of freedom and servitude is dismanteling to human
rights and cannot possibly be in the interest of a free society.

If this is whats happening: The corporations that own places of public
interest can judge at will which civil rights they allow the people to
exercise and which not -- then there is something wrong with that kind
of ownership and corporations should not be allowed to do so.

We are not talking about some weired, radical or life threatening behavior
on part of the public here. We are talking about something as simple
as distributing flyers.

If this, however, interferes with the interest of the owner of the
shopping mall, then those interests are to be questioned -- not the
civil rights!

	Armin Roeseler		...ihnp4!ihlpa!doit