quoted 71 lines No. You are not getting it. The problem is that some of these new regs
> No. You are not getting it. The problem is that some of these new regs
> will be directed at all
> clubs, regardless of their past safety record and ownership. In
> Richmond, for
> instance, they recently (but before recent tragedies) passed a law
> that says
> all venues must pay for an off-duty police officer per 100 people in
> attendance.
> Also, the City Manager is allowed to shut down any venue at any time
> for any
> reason.
> Now, after these recent tragedies, there is very little way
> politically to
> fight off unjust regulations. Just like with the War on Drugs and the
> War on
> Terror, 'public safety' will allow the authorities to do whatever they
> want.
> Great White's idiocy may cause safer clubs, but their actions may also
> cause
> more clubs to go out of business along with less music and freedom.
>
>
>
> Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:02:39 -0500
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> From: EggyToast <eggy@eggytoast.com>
> Subject: Re: [idm] Nightclubs in trouble
> Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20030224225910.0152b838@mail.eggytoast.com>
>
> At 10:10 AM 2/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>> I am concerned for nightclubs. Richmond, whose conservative city
>> fathers
>> already hate nightclubs, had its daily paper run an editorial cartoon
>> with
>> Death waiting to pay a cover to get into a nightclub. Combine these
>> latest
>> tragedies with some of the already draconian, anti-youth laws going
>> into
>> effect and it does not take a genius to see that this industry is
>> under the
>> gun. Its too bad. Its a real shame, because with file-sharing and the
>> major
>> corporate labels losing tons of money (and not being able to pay all
>> their
>> lawyers), independent live music was poised to take on more stature
>> up to
>> this point. Now everybody is going to have to pay for more security
>> guards
>> and sprinkler systems.
>
> My goodness, did you just say that sprinkler systems are stupid?
>
> These clubs should be equipped with this sort of crap already. Few
> other
> businesses are able to get away with it, so why should nightclubs be
> excepted? All modern movie theaters, even retrofitted ones, have
> clearly
> marked, easy to access exits in case something happens, and a good
> sprinkler system to protect from fires. And the row system
> implemented in
> theaters is MUCH worse in panic situations than a rather open
> nightclub. If any other public facility was operating in the manner
> that
> this nightclub was, they'd be shut down or fined heavily. The
> nightclub
> chose to disregard the rules, and now people are dead. Sounds like the
> owners have the problem, not the government.
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