where was this? the people who own the building should contact the ALCU.
Concrete Cookie wrote:
quoted 88 lines Well, I was at a "private" party on saturday [ie, with friends
> 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
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> http://www.mashup.org
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>> 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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