XPost: alt.activism, ny.politics, nyc.general 
 XPost: nyc.politics 
 From: liberty@once.net 
  
 "jeremy"  wrote in message 
 news:b3ITk.4430$8_3.3961@flpi147.ffdc.sbc.com... 
 > Freedom Fighter wrote: 
 > 
 >> This is a matter of the legal definition of private and public. Anyone 
 >> here that can answer it objectively? 
  
 > Having been a bar, restaurant and hotel owner and a smoker of cigars, yes. 
 > It is my place, if I do not like you I do not have to offer my services to 
 > you and I can set limits of behavior, dress and comportment that suit me. 
 > 
 > If I think you a misinformed anti-smoker with no understanding of science, 
 > facts or even the limits of my personal control over my property, as long 
 > as I do not use race, religion or physical disability as a limiting 
 > factor, I can keep you out. 
 > 
 > My place is not a public place. 
  
 And thus our freedoms entitle us to be arrogant, inconsiderate, intolerant, 
 or downright nasty. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)