From: Gary Wiltshire 

You most assuredly do NOT have the right to political demonstrations in
shopping malls.  This is long since fought out.

The Reuters account is slanted because it specifically left out the malls
side of the story and the local press did not.

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:58:57 -0600, John Cuccia  wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 16:55:39 -0500, Gary Wiltshire 
>wrote:
>
>>You don't know what you're talking about.  The local press, unlike the
>>slanted Reuters quote,
>
>How do I know that Reuter's slanted and the local press is not?  I'd
>bet that the mall pours lots of money into local coffers and spends
>plenty of advertising money with local newpapers.
>
>At any rate, if the arrestees were harassing people, they should have
>been evicted.  If not, then the mall/guards were in the wrong.
>
>>Also, Crossgates Mall is not a "public place" but private
property and
>>there is plenty of legal precedent to back that distinction up.
>
>You can't refuse to serve people because of religion, gender, race or
>sexual orientation, I do not believe that discrimination based on
>political persuasion is permitted, either.
>

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