[Reno89519]

Personally, something stinks about this. What happens when the private company says you can’t have a gun, can’t do something a free citizen has rights to do?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I agree. I don’t see why we should trust a private corporation any more than politicians

[Garth Tater]

Our God given rights can not be abrogated by a contract. Even a contract I may willingly enter into cannot separate me from them or remove the obligation of the Federal govt and the govt of the State in which I reside to ensure these rights - and any contract that attempted to do so would be void.

Private contracts could be used to set fees and such but all of my rights (free speech, right to assembly, right to bear arms, etc.) are beyond the bounds of any private contract. It would be unconstitutional, for example, for them to attempt to keep me out of their "private city" if I wished to enter said city and engage in a peaceful, political assembly.

Then again, what I am I going on about... just words written on old parchment by a bunch of old dead guys.

[Mafe]

Good point, but remember: the government certainly isn’t a friend to those rights either. The difference? A private company doesn’t have absolute power to enforce it’s will, whereas the government does.