Posted on 06/03/2004 7:49:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
Adult entertainers in Houston will have to abide by a city ordinance that requires them to display their city licenses while performing, a federal appeals court has ruled.
"With this opinion in hand, we will start enforcing that requirement," said Don Cheatham, an assistant city attorney.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans last week reversed its earlier ruling and upheld the city's requirement that dancers "wear and conspicuously display a city-issued identification card while performing."
The city has argued that the license display will allow police officers to determine more easily whether a performer is complying with city regulations.
The industry contends that its businesses are singled out for such treatment and that requiring dancers to display their real names could endanger their safety. Most perform under stage names.
"I do not know where the city gets the right to say that a person has to have that form of identification on them. In no other business does the city dictate that," said Nelson Hensley, a lawyer representing several of the clubs and businesses.
In 1997, the City Council unanimously approved tougher regulations of sexually oriented businesses, including the license display requirement.
In upholding the display requirement, a 5th Circuit panel also turned down the adult businesses' request that the entire court hear the case.
Hensley said he now will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider it.
This is one of the reasons why they hate us. Let's not pretend.
Now if we could just enlist a couple of compliance officers...
The goal is to bump ever higher the artificial "consequences," (via legislation, regulation and illegalization) for more and more behaviors, or any shades thereof, that are not approved of by the moral majority... whoever that happens to be.
AT some point these mechanisms will be fully built for targetting any group, moral or not, Christian, Jew or Pagan... and the "religion SHOULD be government" crowd will finally have won their battle to pervert our secular democratic republic, into a totalitarian religious state.
Unfortuneately it will be one that the muslims will likely seize as their own, simply by means of their intended demographic population bomb, here in the USA.
They mean to breed our way of life OUT of existence, and take over the entire system, using the very same enforcement mechanisms forged by our finest "moral police." And here we THOUGHT these mechanisms would serve to reinforce our religious and moral values.
It's WAY past time to shove government back in its box, and religious legislators into theirs...
Some folks applaud this type of attempt at criminalizing, regulating and legislating to death, those LEGAL activities and income methods they don't approve.
It is good to keep in mind that one day, the left will regain power, even if Islam does not. I don't think that is a good thing.
How soon we forget that the right barely won power this last presidential election. It remains to be seen if the "war on terror" is alone, sufficient to keep the religious right, via president Bush, in power for another four years.
Every once and a while "the People" get fed up with ever increasing levels of government intrusion. This kind of legal maneuvering on a local level, is reflective of the general attempt by government leaders as a whole, to clamp down on the overly exuberant freedoms that certain constituencies deem immoral. They are playing to the more extreme elements of the REALLY religious right.
and sometimes, the average joe revolts at the ballot box.
the pendulum swings back. violently at times.
I don't think we need to strve at building "the perfect beast," just because we won an electoral majority, by the skin of our teeth last election. Turnabout one day, will be fair play.
The beast will be gnashing its rather steely teeth at our own exposed hinderparts... and without us being strippers either.
Overheard from Persian customer at the Men's Club: "What's this??? I can stay home if that's what I'm going to see."
This could prove to be extremely dangerous for those in the business. I hope the city of N.O. is ready for numerous liability lawsuits.
Democrats. There is no government agency addressing this pressing need. Yet.
"Just an (Oil)town girl on a Saturday night..."
Oh, yes. Where I live, you need a license to strip AND you need a license to be an adult "escort". In other words the hookers need a license too. Just another tax.
But I'll bet they pay little to no income tax at all. This may just be a way to tax them as we do live in a tax state so strippers, and hookers should be no exception.
That star was pretty insightful, since we know the reason for this requirement is to target "undesirables" in the community.
"Sorry, Ms. Bambi, that shave is a little too close. I'm gonna have to bring you downtown."
I wonder if he's of the firm Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, oft mentioned on The Three Stooges. Seems to fit the bill.
Dead-on post.
Yep, her real name is Pandora!
My bad. My reading comprehension skills failed me early this AM...
So9
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