"RAVE" Act Passes

www.blogcritics.org...

This is obviously a threat to everyones rights. What is your opinion?

"Also, the original bill suggested that prosecutors should view the sale of water and the presence of glowsticks or massage oil as evidence of drug use. These ludicrous "findings" were completely removed thanks to activists who sent nearly 30,000 faxes "

Who the heck put that in?
Lol if you own glowsticks you are a criminal!

I signed that letter.

[Edited on 3-5-2003 by Lysergic]

I still can not believe this was actually passed. An officer could simply not like an organization and claim that it is the site for drug use and shut it down and incriminate the owner, from what I udnerstand, under this act.

LOL

they call it "wretched."

Another sinister attempt of the "christian" right to deprive america's youth of their badly needed sex, to turn them sour so that they may eventually pass laws like "no sex before marriage", "praying is good for you", "no science in school" and nazi things like that.

You have GOT to be kidding... They actually passed this???

Damn, there goes some of the parties we go to...

they'll never take me alive damnit!!!!!!!!

smokes a lot of weed while screwing during drunkeness and watching an r rated movie, shooting off an illegally bought handgun and playing video games i shouldn't have lmao.


if they pass a law sayin no sex til married, then i'll freakin revolt!!!!! fight the power

Let's say I am a rave promoter.

I hold a rave.
For security, I hire actual police officers from the city where the party is.
They work the door.
They patrol the party.
THEY WILL STOP NOTHING. Anybody that wants to do/sell/buy illegal things still will. I have been to parties where uniformed officers were the security.

Then.... as Rave promoter, I wait to get busted. That is, I wait for someone INSIDE the party to be busted with a huge cache of drugs.
Then... I sue the stupid city and its moronic police force who were supposed to be working the door for me, for letting kids with drugs in.
Either I get compensated BIG TIME by the city/cops or this stupid law gets repealed.

That's just an idea.


[Edited on 3-5-2003 by quango]

yea but the real problem with this lies not within the fact that they can shut down a business that allows drug use, but they can shut down a business that never has had any instances of drug use and simply claim that they harbored drug use. They can shut down any business that they please under this. If some man thinks that a business is say, a competitor, he could lie and say that they harbor drug use and the owner can be arrested without proof.

I've never been to a Rave, I don't even know what a Rave is and dont want to know, sounds like a real boring party.

this has nothing to do with raves! erm. it has something to do with everything!

Whiskery old cut'n'paste drivel: God grief, Bush père passed the section of the act 14 years ago, when the "War" of the day was "against drugs".
The amendment merely seeks to clarify what has become an issue through judicial procedures.
Even then, "blogcritics" (only the best of sources at ATS) points out for those Americans unfamiliar with their government procedures ( 98.7%, and rising, at last count):"This legislation must be signed by President Bush before becoming law."
Gosh..so that's what presidents do!

they can pry my booze and drugs from my cold, dead hands!