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While most Americans are accustomed to police and government regulators employing heavy-handed tactics to limit and control virtually every facet of our business and personal lives in major cities (especially in California and the northeastern U.S.), the police state is now reaching its tentacles into small towns and communities everywhere. A police operation shutting down a young girl’s lemonade stand in the small Georgia coastal town of Midway, confirms there is no place in the country safe from overbearing police tactics lacking common sense.

Just last week, Midway police shut down a lemonade stand operated by three girls because the youngsters did not have a business license, which would have cost $130 per year plus $50 a day. The girls simply had wanted to raise money so they could go to a local water park. To accomplish this simple task, they turned to what was – in decades past – a normal way for kids to raise a little spending money and learn a bit about free enterprise at the same time. No longer.

As explained by Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar, her department had to shut down the lemonade stand, because neither the chief nor apparently anyone in the entire department was “aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, [or] what the lemonade was made with.”

J.S. Bach wrote:How come I always understand only around 2% of your posts?

I am smart!

miditek wrote:Police state comes to small-town Georgia

5:00 am July 20, 2011, by Bob Barr


Big Brother’s Lemonade Squad strikes a blow for Big Government in small town Georgia.

http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2011 ... in-georgia

While most Americans are accustomed to police and government regulators employing heavy-handed tactics to limit and control virtually every facet of our business and personal lives in major cities (especially in California and the northeastern U.S.), the police state is now reaching its tentacles into small towns and communities everywhere. A police operation shutting down a young girl’s lemonade stand in the small Georgia coastal town of Midway, confirms there is no place in the country safe from overbearing police tactics lacking common sense.

Just last week, Midway police shut down a lemonade stand operated by three girls because the youngsters did not have a business license, which would have cost $130 per year plus $50 a day. The girls simply had wanted to raise money so they could go to a local water park. To accomplish this simple task, they turned to what was – in decades past – a normal way for kids to raise a little spending money and learn a bit about free enterprise at the same time. No longer.

As explained by Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar, her department had to shut down the lemonade stand, because neither the chief nor apparently anyone in the entire department was “aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, [or] what the lemonade was made with.”

Apparently, this fascist dyke of a police chief has forgotten that this is America, not Amerika.

NeonVomit wrote:And if someone contracted food poisoning after drinking their lemonade and then tried to sue them and their parents? (which has happened in the past, and is one of the reasons behind this sort of legislation - Donoghue v Stevenson essentially sets the precedent for anything of this nature) There's a reason such laws exist - mostly from people suing each other over nonsense which wastes a lot of money and, more importantly, court time. It's kinda stupid that things have gotten to this level, but there's no-one to blame other than the regular man in the street and of course the legal profession egging them on for easy cash.

NeonVomit wrote:From the title I was expecting something like people being held indefinitely without charge, or freedom of expression being curtailed. But then I saw it was posted by you and then figured it would be something like this.