Well, I was at a "private" party on saturday [ie, with friends
mostly...donating money towards the system] and we were doing a LIVE PA
...beatless noise track when the cops ripped the gate open [literally] and
drove in and proceeded to search 21+ males saying "THIS IS AN ILLEGAL RAVE".
[yeah just imagine all the people dancing their heads off to a 1BPM noise
track track]...there were even people wearing anti-raver t-shirts [the
irony]....they took all of our id's and even called parents of people who
didn't have proof of their age....
The didn't present a warrant, didn't ask if they could come in...
After their search was over they started searching the place and basically
found a pipe ...but didn't take it...
I guess they were really disappointed they didn't find anything so they
started saying that the sealed water that was being sold had GHB in it...and
the decorations [balloons] had drugs in them. And they threatened to strip
down a car to search it...they took dust samples...it was RIDICULOUS!
Then they wrote up the poeple who threw the party and said they would ticket
the venue owner for allowing the party... even though the city council
itself allowed the party without the permit. When the cops found out [the
next day] that the city council let this party happen they said..."The venue
wasn't illegal...but the music was"
WTF?
Now i thought people in this country had the right assemble peacefully ...
cookiez
http://www.mashup.org
quoted 35 lines From: "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com>
>From: "cutups" <cutup@andythepooh.com>
>To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
>Subject: Re: [idm] be careful, you might be raving..
>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:37:16 -0400
>
> > In light of current L.A. policing methods, who regard any form of
>electronic
> > music as rave music, what kind of music do you think constitutes 'rave
> > music'?
>
>I think its whatever they want to decide it is. As a reaction to drug
>culture,
>i'd imagine they mean anything that goes all night and has djs, and not
>enough money to pay them off. Technicalities like guitars being
>electronic instruments are really just that - technicalities.
>
>But i'm not in LA - just how wide are they going? Like shutting down
>the goth clubs and movie soundtrack studios?
>
>I'm not really sure what anybody considers "rave" anymore. The term
>went out of fashion a long time ago, and there haven't been regular
>events in a while. Even when there were events, there wasn't much
>interesting
>going on most of the time anyway. Most of the dj culture rave scene has
>gone into clubs. There is better scene for "live" electronic music than
>i ever saw during the rave days now. At least in the US, but its still
>rather small and not very "party" oriented.
>
>- cutups
>
>
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