Anyone who thought it was a fluke – maybe a misunderstood ballot item – when Seattle voters rejected the city’s new tougher ordinance on strip cloubs, might take a look at this comment sheet.
Occasion for the comments was a raid at Rick’s, the best-known strip club in the city. it was a big operations: 16 police officers were there to arrest 14 dancers and one manager, on what charges are not yet clear.
But check out the comments on the Seattle Post Intelligencer blog. They start with: “for some reason I just wasn’t afraid of those dancers. . . . Given the # of times my car has been broken into in Seattle, I’d rather have the SPD focus on break ins . . . This is simple fascism in action. This is simply Greg Nickels p*ssed off – this is unbelievably petty, vindictive and childish (and psychotic and dangerous!). . . It’s nice to know that crime is way down, so way down that the police have plenty of spare time to pick on strip clubs. . . . 16 police officers used for this when they could be preventing actual crimes? Arresting actual criminals? This is despicable waste of taxpayer money.” And go on from there, through about four dozen comments so far.
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