What about a BANANA!
Posted on 09/10/2011 1:45:54 PM PDT by marktwain
If I told you the story of bringing wood to be recycled and burnt in an energy boiler in the Peoples Socialist Republik of Taxachuetts, this summer....you wouldn’t believe me...
the emperor of the time was afraid of being assassinated at dinner - so he banned dangerous eating utensils and ordered chop sticks as the order of the day.
We are getting close to such insanity.
no guns, then no knives. then no bats, then no forks, then no knitting needles, then........................
People intent on doing harm will always find a weapon. Broken beer bottles have come in 'handy' many times.(Start packaging beer in baggies?)
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Looks like Restoration Hardware, Sears, Walmart and some other retailers will have to pay another business license fee to comply with this nonsense.
I’d thought the Boston Knife Panic stuff was satire...
Thanks for the ping—I think I saw something about this yesterday....There’s always something for us to stay on our toes about, isn’t there?
-——the Public Safety Committee of the Boston City Council ——
Mitt is one of these looters. Boston should be purged from the union
(is this a real piece)
poke yer eye out...
Let's not forget chopsticks! I saw a kungfu movie where the good guy could kill with chopsticks at 10 paces! Obviously very dangerous weapons! /S
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Don’t bring a knife to a chopstick fight.
Claremont, California, a town that would be more at home being a suburb of Berkley than in the Inland Empire. I don't believe that there's any steak knife bans in the city, but it's not something I've chosen to test at any other restaurant there. First and last time I've dined in the city.
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BOWIE KNIFE.
These horrid weapons are usually called BOWIE knives. They were invented by a man who lived in the state of Louisiana. His name was Buie(sic). It is a French name, and pronounced B'OO-E. Afterwards he went to Texas and was killed there in a battle.
People in slave states often carry such knives about them. When they get angry they draw the knife and sometimes STAB ONE ANOTHER!
A man who keeps a shop in Broadway, New York City, sells Bowie knives. (Excerpt from an article on bowie knives in THE SLAVE'S FRIEND a pamphlet published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York City.)
From Man at Arms magazine, August 1997. An NRA publication.
I still think that one of the most effective things to do is present each council member with a carefully planned proposed lawsuit, printed on pleading paper and ready to be filled in with the specific ord #, date, etc. stating that it will be filed by one if not hundreds of citizens, taking the council, the city, each personally and severally to court. And stating that the lawsuit would be pursued all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Ask them if they are fully prepared to have the city pay the expenses of such a suit for such a long period of time and through all appeals. And if they are prepared to be the ones who set the precedent if/when the plaintiff’s prevail.
Note to them that each retail store or knife seller will be happy to file a separate suit against the city/council for deprivation of civil rights under color of law and loss of income, etc. Trump up as many possible legal grounds conceivable and then ask them if they’re prepared for the costs to defend themselves, their city and council and also the bad publicity that the plaintiff’s are fully ready to unleash on each of them if such a law is passed.
I understand that it’s Bahhhston and the council doesn’t care about spending tax money but it would give them much more pause than everyone sitting around, unprepared, wringing their hands and trying to get “activists” to show up at the council meetings.
If a non-prof legal organization drew up the legaleze and each knife seller served a copy of it on each council member wherein they are personally named, the costs to defend such suit and trying to get themselves excluded would be enough to change at least some minds.
There’s gotta be a 501c(3) legal firm that could put the filing together from general boilerplate and provide it to any activist who wanted to file. And state that such firm would be pursuing the suit pro bono, so the filer wouldn’t be subject to high legal fees for representation. Unlike the council members and city. Filing fees wouldn’t be that much for each individual plaintiff, but if every council member were served, I’ll bet it would get more reaction than pleading the 2nd amend. at some staged public hearing.
Just my $0.02
Right! It’s Mutant Clown Posse up there.
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