7th March 2003, 4:37 PM
Weltall is correct. His right to free speech was not infringed upon because the real police didn't arrest him because of the shirt. He was arrested for trespassing. The mall is the one who decided why he was trespassing, but that's not part of free speech.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)