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From: wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Democratic Rights and Property :re to Tanenbaum
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Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 15:06:33 EST
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In article <540@whuts.UUCP> orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>Explain to me how having an exhibition glorifying military hardware
>brings more customers than an exhibition celebrating Peace.

Is this question supposed to be serious or rhetorical? After all, it is
pretty obvious that exhibits of militaria attract a lot of people. Kids
love to clamber over tanks and play with artillery and sit in cockpits
and vehicles. This brings along their parents, who are potential
customers, as are the kids themselves and anybody else who came to see the
exhibits. Maybe other exhibits would attract more than these; it is now
up to you to design and produce one, and make it available to the mall
owners. If it does attract more, they'll be happy to provide space.

What *are* you going to exhibit to "celebrate Peace", though?
Reproductions of famous treaties? A mess of doves? A blacksmith beating
swords into plowshares?

For what it's worth, though, I agree that malls should be treated like
public streets, in terms of political access. Just because they are
under a roof, and the trash collection is handled by a private party
instead of a municipality, doesn't change their essential character,
which is a direct descendent of the community "shopping district" or
"business district", and whose roles the mall has usurped.

Will