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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
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Subject: Re: Protest in Russia and the U.S.
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 04:10:00 EST
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>/* csd2:net.politics / orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER) / 12:02 pm  Feb 17, 1986 */

>She was not sent to a Gulag anymore
>than I would have been had I been arrested.

Perhaps not, but how do you know?

>If present trends continue then in many places there will be no
>public town squares, only shopping malls.  What will become of
>*our* political rights guaranteed under our own Constitution if
>there is no place to distribute literature to the public?

If a significant percentage of people who avail themselves of malls wish
to see the dissemination of such literature, mall owners will have no choice
but to oblige them, or see business go elsewhere.  If very few people care,
well, that's democracy in action.  It seems to me that you so often sing
the praises of democracy, Tim, why not now?


>If one
>is simply not allowed to distribute literature where the public
>actually congregates?


It is not clear that it is necessary to be "where the public congregates"
in order to reach it.  Modern telecommunications technology has provided
means to communicate easily with masses of people, such as cable television,
this and other networks.  There may well be other means that have occurred to
neither you nor I.

>    tim sevener   whuxn!orb

Mike Sykora