[quote=“Chris”][quote=“Dr. McCoy”]man, 80, arrested in war protest
Bush, apparently, is very popular with mall security.[/quote]
Whatever happened to freedom of speech in America? A distant memory.[/quote]
Here’s a little legal background:
[quote]State laws allow malls to exclude protesters
BY PATRICK WHITTLE | patrick.whittle@newsday.com
March 31, 2008
New York’s laws about free speech in malls are rooted in a 1985 case in which the state’s highest court ruled that an anti-nuclear group did not have the right to hand out leaflets at Smith Haven Mall.[/quote]
The full article is here.
This Wikipedia article can give a little more legal background.
A few years back, somebody on Forumosa mentioned a similar incident (the post is [url=U.S Domestic Policies for the next 4 years - #14 by mofangongren but I don’t know if it was discussed at length.
And there’s a Forumosa thread [url=Land of the free indeed on an incident in which two people were removed from an American Airlines flight because one of them was wearing a T-shirt which displayed a picture of a bare-breasted woman.
I don’t have any strong opinions about this particular issue one way or the other; I just like to cut and paste stuff.