“No person shall use the County's airports or any portions thereof for the conduct of a commercial enterprise, or other form of revenue producing activity, without first obtaining authorization therefor from the proper authorities of Milwaukee County by means of a written agreement, lease, license, or permit and paying the *872 rentals, fees and charges as established therefor.”
“No person or organization of any nature shall post, distribute or display, including without restriction because of enumeration, signs, advertisements, literature, circulars, pictures, sketches, drawings or other forms of printed or written matter or engage in any form of solicitation upon the premises of the County's airports without prior written permission secured from or through the Airport Director, as may be required.”
“ * * * (S)treets, sidewalks, parks, and other similar public places are so historically associated with the exercise of First Amendment rights that access to them for the purpose of exercising such rights cannot constitutionally be denied broadly and absolutely.”
“ * * * The fifty foot walk is lined with stores and concessionaires, crowded at some hours and less dense at others. * * * (T)he terminal, with its many adjuncts, becomes something of a small city but built indoors, with its ‘streets' in effect set atop one another. * * * ”
“Invariably, the Court has felt obliged to condemn systems in which the exercise of such authority was not bounded by precise and clear standards. The reasoning has been, simply, that the danger of censorship and of abridgment of our precious First Amendment freedoms is too great where officials have unbridled discretion over a forum's use. Our distaste for censorship reflecting the natural distaste of a free people is deep-written in our law.”
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