Starchild wrote: SC) Good news! California shopping malls will no longer be able to prohibit peaceful political activity on the premises (see message below). This may not be strict libertarian orthodoxy (SC
It's the exact opposite of libertarian, as Brian Miller correctly noted. I'm shocked that you would abandon libertarian principle on this just because it might help the Ron Paul campaign. SC) On a moral level, it can be argued that rent-seekers who receive large public subsidies of their facilities should not be able to deny members of the public the ability to exercise their basic rights in these facilities. (SC There is no "basic right" to behave on someone's property in a way that the owner has a stated policy of not allowing. You could make the same "moral" argument about any piece of real estate with road access or water service. Malls are a prototype for the sort of private communities that geolibertarian economist Fred Foldvary says are the best hope for replacing the force-initiating state with bottom-up consensual communities: http://www.foldvary.net/ec156/propcom.html . We need to protect these experiments from the tendrils of statism as much as we can.
