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Re:Phone Your Senator to Stop the Anti-Rave Bill - 2006/06/30 07:15
My apologies to those of you who don`t really care about this bill. I`m
However, I would like to address the recent comments on this pending legislation and I don`t know what NG "Bill" reads normally. Thanks for your understanding. address people who *use* drugs, targeting instead anyone who (in the eyes of the DEA) provides an environment where they are used. Specifically, they`re targetting rave promoters with S-2633, though it could be easily extended to people who promote rock concerts, sporting events, or even church gatherings. If they find drugs there, they go after who`s in charge.
At first glance, this might seem like a good idea. Shouldn`t the people who throw raves be in control of the drugs that get in? Well, I happen to be a promoter and at my parties we 1) advertise that drugs are not allowed, 2) search everyone at the door, 3) hire police officers to patrol the dancefloor and parking lot for illegal activity. Drugs still get in. Besides strip-searching everyone and getting drug-sniffing dogs, we`re running out of options. Should this task even fall to music promoters when the DEA itself (and its immense budget) can`t keep drugs out of our country?
What`s really happening here is that the DEA needs to turn around the public opinion that they`re losing the "War on Drugs." They`ve gone after rave promoters because they`re public, easy to topple, and are (thanks to a mix of misled media coverage and unfortunate truth) linked in the minds of the citizenry with drugs. They`ve so far used the "Crackhouse Statute" written in the 80s to target raves--but it hasn`t worked. Judges have, rightfully so, accused the government of targeting a subculture and not a criminal activity. Many cases have been lost.
So now, S-2633 would rewrite the "Crackhouse Statute" in order to allow them to apply it to raves more easily. Essentially, the old laws didn`t grant them enough power to commit unConstitutional acts, so they`re rewriting them. This is something we need to stop. subculture`s right to exist and about keeping bad legislation from becoming law. That you *can* do right now. In fact, the actions undertaken by ravers across the nation in the last few weeks have shown that our government *is* listening and that S-2633 might not pass the Senate.
Thanks for listening everybody. Obviously, this is a pretty important issue to me. I hope that everyone realizes that this is, indeed, an important issue to *all* of us. In this post 9-11 world, we must be vigilant in protecting the freedoms that make the United States worth loving. Just like jazz, rock`n`roll, heavy metal, and rap before it, raves and rave music is now the new drug scapegoat.
Keep shinin`, Stan
P.s. Here`s some further reading for anyone who`s interested:
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