Last week I was looking for a place to hold a small public demonstration. I phoned the management of a local shopping mall.
'If we don't approve of your message”, she said, 'we'll call the police and have you moved on”.
'Is there anywhere in your mall,” I asked, 'where a group of people with a concern that might be controversial can say so in public?”
'No,” she said, 'there isn't”.
Does this mean that big business now controls who says what in places where the public gather?
Mary Rose, Welcome Bay.
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The Owners are in Control
Posted on 17-04-2014 17:20 | By verandric
It is gratifying to know that mall owners do not permit demonstrators to inflict themselves on customers. Its their property and so their decision. By the you can't demostrate on my front lawn either.
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