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Police Raid Lingerie Shop
Manedwolf:
--- Quote from: Brad Johnson on May 23, 2007, 10:24:17 AM ---
--- Quote ---No, she's just about right.
No, she's exactly right. Remember that these are the same people who arrested a bunch of Chippendale dancers a few months ago, going so far as to put them in leg irons.
Our city government has become obsessed with being the morality police. This latest eye-roller is in addition to the Chippendales fiasco, and shutting down all the sexually oriented businesses (aka strip clubs) on even the most minute technicality in their permit applications. By the way, the video taped "evidence" the police submitted for proscecution in the Chippendales case was released recently. It is so laughably devoid of any actual violations that I wish the Chippendales organization really had taken the city to court over it, if for no other reason than the negative publicity and to wipe their officious noses in it.
This is also the same city government that has been beating us over the head with red-light cameras. They have endlessly claimed the cameras are there "for safety", only to change the light locations at the last minute "because studies have shown that the intersections in question do not have enough violations for the cameras to be economically viable". (a direct quote from both the city trafic engineer and one of our illustrious city councilpersons).
The most unfortunate part about this whole deal is the store clerk that was arrested. If convicted on the charges they are trying for, the clerk would be forever branded as a sex offender. A lifetime of derision, persecution, and ridicule for someone who is guilty of simply showing up for work, and city doesn't care (see assistant DA's comments in story above). I guess as long as they prosecute someone they feel like they've done their job.
Brad
When this sort of thing happened in Florida, the lawmaker that was doing all the pushes for morality usually ended up being caught with a transvestite prostitute, or something worse.
Hopefully something similar will derail the efforts there.
Brad Johnson:
Some day they will push the wrong person the wrong way and stir up a violent fecal atmospheric phenomena they can't pray away. When that happens I guarantee every lawyer from Maine to Malibu will be crawling over this community, camera in hand, finding every skeleton in every clost. Too bad it will have to come to that for them to realize just how negative their actions really are for this community, but that's the only way they'll learn.
Brad
Perd Hapley:
He's still a drama queen.
Gewehr98:
Didn't I see this on an episode of Reno 911?
nico:
Can someone explain how woman + vibrator = child pornography, money laundering, and prostitution?
stories like this really make conservatives look bad.
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