[GovernmentShrinker]

This was in a privately owned mall. All merchants have contractual agreements with the mall specifying what they can and can’t sell, what kind of signage they can and can’t put up, and spelling out that the mall management makes the ultimate decision. Part of this is to maintain the image of the mall — different malls very deliberately craft and maintain certain demographic images, i.e. very upscale, sort of upscale, inexpensive and convenient, etc. Another huge part of it is because each merchant has contracted and paid for specific rights re limiting competing merchants, either anywhere in the mall, or in larger malls within a specified distance of the merchant. Private contracts are private contracts and the Constitution doesn’t put any limits on the terms they may contain.

[Mr. Lucky]

Well said.

[airborne]

That being said, I hope the business selling these shirts takes advantage of the free publicity and sets up a place on-line where they can sell them.

This kind of free advertising can be turned into a nice profit!