Police state comes to small-town Georgia

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Police state comes to small-town Georgia

Post by miditek » Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:31 am

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.
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Post by J.S. Bach » Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:47 am

How come I always understand only around 2% of your posts? ???

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

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Re: Police state comes to small-town Georgia

Post by icecab21 » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:00 am

are you mad about the law, the enforcement of the law, or both?

the title of the article could just have well been "police enforce business license law"

America, free enterprise? since when? for who?
Georgia was a slave state and then segregation with Jim crow laws. you say government is just now crossing the line with treatment of people?

awful laws are not new nor is their enforcement.

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Post by DAYR TAKIN MA RIGHTS » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:53 am

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.
This country will soon be a police state just watch and when it happens....here comes one world government
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Re: Police state comes to small-town Georgia

Post by NeonVomit » Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:45 pm

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.

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.
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Re: Police state comes to small-town Georgia

Post by browneyedgirl » Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:51 pm

I hope there's no crackdown on yard and garage sales......there goes my cheap designer jeans. :cry:

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Post by miditek » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:45 pm

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.
I actually agree with you about the value of the court's time, and how it should not be wasted on frivolous lawsuits, which I feel makes a great case for tort reform laws. However, I do think that the cops in this case were being assholes to the girls.

I used to do the same thing that they did when I was a little kid, and the cops back then would typically drop by to simply say hello, and give you a quarter (25 cents) or whatever for each cup that they drank.

Also, on a side note, I forgot to mention that the author of the article, Bob Barr, is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney General, in addition to being a former U.S. Congressman.
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.
Well, here's a better, or let's say more accurate "police state" type of story that you may find to be a bit more on target.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011 ... t-4-years/

Georgia is not that big of a state (such as California or Texas), but 80,000 roadblocks in four years is beyond belief.
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Re: Police state comes to small-town Georgia

Post by Arnold Layne » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:06 am

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