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Michigan city bans being annoying in public
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12-24-2008, 01:40 PM
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Michigan city bans being annoying in public
Michigan city bans being annoying in public
Fri Dec 19, 8:38 pm ET BRIGHTON, Mich. – Ticking someone off could get you a ticket in one Michigan city. The Brighton City Council on Thursday approved an ordinance allowing police in the Livingston County community to ticket and fine anyone who is annoying in public "by word of mouth, sign or motions." The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell reports the measure is modeled on a similar ordinance in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak. A city attorney says there could be situations where the measure would violate freedom of speech, but that those cases will be reviewed by the city. The ban takes effect Jan. 2. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_...lKQu_y37rxeW7oF &Alice laughed, &There's no use trying,& she said: &one can't believe impossible things.& &I daresay you haven't had much practice,& said the Queen. &When I was your age I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.& - Lewis Carroll &Things are seldom as they seem ... Skim milk masquerades as cream.& - Gilbert and Sullivan (Pinafore) At NASA, it really is rocket science, and the decision makers really are rocket scientists. But a body of research that is getting more and more attention points to the ways that smart people working collectively can be dumber than the sum of their parts. .. Irwin Janis? &Groupthink:& is a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity override realistic appraisals ? It is the triumph of concurrence over good sense, and authority over expertise.& -John Schwartz & Matthew L. Wade |
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12-24-2008, 02:07 PM
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Michigan city bans being annoying in public
insanity. Stasi mk.2 just on the horizon. Same in W.Europe too
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12-27-2008, 11:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-27-2008 11:14 PM by ploder.)
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Michigan city bans being annoying in public
This sucks. In the UK we have 'antisocial behaviour orders' which are given for conduct 'likely to cause harrasment, alarm or distress' to the public. This basically allows you to be punished for things which aren't even crimes on the flimsiest evidence. They are also rolling out on the spot fines of £80 for threatening words or behaviour as well in some places. They also love their anti-terrorism law. You can be stopped and searched with no evidence whatsoever, not even a reasonable suspicion here in the UK and they try and collect your name and address for their databases!:(
&A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.& - Bertrand de Jouvenel |
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