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From: ansok@spp3.UUCP (Gary Ansok)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Shopping Malls (was "Russia: Love It Or Leave It")
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 19:27:51 EST
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> There is a very important distiction between a private citizen's house and
> a corporate mall. A corporation is an artificial entity the owners of which
> (shareholders) are protected from any legal action from private people.
> The corporation is a creation of the state, it has a charter from the state,
> therefore it should be subject to the same cival rights requirements that
> apply to the state.

Are you saying that if an individual builds a mall, then he should
be able to keep people he doesn't like out, but a corporation
(even if 100% owned by the same individual) cannot do this?

My own feeling on this is that a mall owner should be able to restrict
political activity (and other non-shopping activities), but that there
should definitely be something like the "Equal Access" for political
broadcast ads -- if one group is let in, then others should be let
in under similar conditions.  Or no political groups could be let in.

I believe that our freedom of religion needs us to allow churches
and other similar situations to be exempt, in that a synagogue does
not have to allow the KKK equal time.  However, if a Seventh-Day
church is rented out to another congregation on Sunday, should
they be forced to rent it out on Monday as well (even if the Monday
people were Satanists?)

		Gary Ansok
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