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Is there any worthwhile music that isn’t profane? What is profane? How do they decide?
This is the kind of thing that encourages abuse. I bet we all know exactly what kind of bars will be targeted.
Why, I might call this a violation of free speech if I was able to express such sentiments without breaking the law.
Stupidest fucking thing I ever heard of. Wish I had George Carlin’s eloquence.
Weeeeell, maybe.
In a town I used to live in, a bunch of bars came up with a “no wife-beater/no sagging jeans” policy. THAT was pretty obvious on its targets.
This? Not exactly. I can easily see this applying to just straight-up blue-collar bars as well.
wtfh!?
Bars aren’t supposed to be family friendly! If you don’t want to hear swearing, don’t go to a bar. I protested mandatory seatbelt laws because they make it easier for cops to pull someone over for no reason other than they looked “suspicious.” The same is true of this shit. Laws are rarely or never enforced equally across all groups. Who’s going to be the real target of this shit?
D.N. Nation, I don’t think it’s so much that the targets are clearly identified by the law, but it gives police officers license to choose when and where to enforce the law. The councilman pretty much admits it’s not something that’s going to be actively, evenly enforced and giving the police a vague rule to enforce as they choose and/or in response to complaints sounds like a situation waiting for abuse.
The profane literature bit just keeps giving me an image of the cops breaking up reading groups at the pub.
What the fuck, Chuck?!! This has gotta be one of the signs of the coming apocalpse, right?
In the meantime, FUCK St. Charles. Drink in St. Louis!!
Eddie Izzard: “and soon no drinking and no talking.”
Indecency – both verbal (bitching about one’s boss/spouse/life) and physical – is one of the main things driving people to bars. It would be easier to bar booze from bars.
“I can easily see this applying to just straight-up blue-collar bars as well.”
The article tags the area of intended enforcement as “historic, downtown.” 5′ll get you 10 that that’s code for “racial underclass of choice.” I’d also like to see what non-religious basis they have for banning “profane” speech and literature.
Gads. Next they’ll ban random drunken hookups that you feel empty about the next day.
I wonder what the fine for that would be… perhaps mitigated for straight folk who screw up (ahem) the contraception?
All right, pal, hand over that copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and follow me!
(OK, so I was just listening to Tom Lehrer’s song “Smut!” today.)
Seriously, this is pretty ridiculous. Besides that it seems to be meant to target bars on at least a classist basis if nothing else (not that I don’t buy that there are racial ideas here too), who the hell expects a bar to be safe from swearing?
Alternate headline for the article: St. Charles Bans Fun.
Sadly, I live in St. Charles. Now this is even more reason for me to get out while I can. However, the fact that they are even thinking about this bill, does not surprise me.
Are they going to ban drinking and inept flirting in bars, as well?
I guess bar owners should just call themselves liquor stores with barstools then…
Not.
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