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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: "Russia: Love It Or Leave It"
Message-ID: <551@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 19:32:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  1 19:32:37 1986
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> In article <528@mmm.UUCP> mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) writes:
> >
> >>>  [...] The only question, then, is whether a shopping mall is analogous
> >>>  to a store, or to a public thoroughfare.  My personal opinion is that
> 
> >>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.
> >>
> >>	Armin Roeseler		...ihnp4!ihlpa!doit
> >
> >mean. Well, I think I get the gist... You're saying that if I want to come 
> >into your house uninvited during a party and hand out literature that you
> >find offensive, I should be allowed to do so. Would you also extend this
> >"free speech" concept to actual speech? If I wanted to enter your house and
> >harangue at the top of my lungs, should I be allowed to do so? At any time
> >of the day or night?
> >
> 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.
> 
> Richard Foy, Redondo Beach, CA
> The opinions I have expressed are the result of many years in the school of
> hard knocks. Thus they are my own.

So a mall owned by an individual, or a partnership, that wasn't a 
corporation, should have the right to refuse political leafletting?