More on the Tee shirt in the Mall case:


I don't think that malls are in the business of alienating customers for the sake of the personal views of the owners. If that's what this mall did, they will punish themselves. If these guys were just sitting there, as has been alleged, and some crackpot complained to the mall, it was stupid to buy all this bad publicity by tossing these guys. If they were attracting a crowd and blocking the flow of foot traffic, accosting strangers and haranguing them, or otherwise hampering the business of the Mall, its management is justified on bouncing them if they refuse to comply with its requests. I don't know what removing a tee-shirt could do to solve behavior problems, but free speech has never been absolute. Nor should it be.

The thing that bothers me about the publicity this is getting, and the way leftist groups make causes out of this kind of thing, is that it creates false beliefs in the minds of people about what the law and the Constitution say, especially ignorant liberals who think that chanting and marching is a quick route to being intellectual. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. You have to think.