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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
By your reasoning, if you are riding BART wearing a pro-Bush shirt, BART police can make you cover it up since BART is not a public forum.
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Read the cases. BART would be a public forum just like an airport. That is the Hari Krishna case. A state university auditorium would be a designated public forum. A military base is a publicly owned, non-public forum. The FDA building is a publicly owned, non-public forum. The government can impose content-based restrictions in publicly-owned, non-public forums. That is why federal employees can be barred by the government from engaging in political activities at their workplace, which is publicly owned.
Was your article even discussing a publicly owned building or was the building privately owned and rented with government funds for a particular purpose? That changes the situation even more.
