Wow, 60 years on and they’re still raiding gay bars. Can’t express how profoundly depressing that is.
How’s about investigating straight bars where dudes drug girls by sneaking GHB on their drinks or spend the night sexuality harassing and touching girls without their consent?
No, they gotta go after the assless chaps.
Show me chaps that aren’t assless.
Exactly. Assful chaps are just pants.
Can we do both? Lewd behavior doesn’t belong in public.
A bar is a private establishment.
If they do it in the bushes in a public park, that’s a different story.
Some bars are private establishments. Those bars require memberships. The rest are public non-governmental establishments. These are open to the general public. Lewd behavior does not belong in any public establishment. If you want that type of environment, make it a membership only establishment.
Seems like they were just the ones breaking the rules.
Postman further detailed the extent of the inspections, noting that on Friday night, the JET visited 10 locations, including two known as historic gay clubs. On Saturday, LCB officers inspected eight clubs, two of which were gay clubs. He said these inspections were part of their routine work to ensure compliance with state liquor laws.
Annecdotal the gay clubs and festivals I’ve been too are way more sexually charged so tbh this isn’t really shocking to me.
If it’s consensual between people of appropriate ages, then the government should have absolutely nothing to say or do.
Weird how the party of freedom and the party of small government wants to take away so many freedoms and put so much government between you and everything else, huh?
Yeah, it is funny that the people that came to this land for freedom ended up creating a government that restricts freedoms so much. Turns out the didn’t want to destroy the systems of control they ran from, they just wanted to be the ones in charge.
Exactly true.
Poor piligrams. No one ever mentions them.
Many of the earliest immigrants to North America came because they were religious regressives that didn’t fit in with their countries of origin.
A mere 128 years after the first Europeans did and +13,000 years after the first humans.
“Earliest”.
Yes, the first humans on the Americas showed up around 10-25 thousand years ago. But the first immigrants, by definition, would have been the first humans to show up after the First Humans to show up.
The first humans in the Americas would be what we call native or indigenous Americans today, but the first immigrants to the Americas, according to our history, would be the first Europeans to come here.
I am very much under the impression that the freedom the original pilgrims sought was the freedom to persecute each other, yes. Like, they left England because they were being stopped from doing that. They even went to one of the Nordic countries first, and were welcomed, but they didn’t like it there because they thought the locals were too liberal or something.
Pilgirims =/= Purtains.
Puritans, and that’s who the pilgrims were.
Postman further detailed the extent of the inspections, noting that on Friday night, the JET visited 10 locations, including two known as historic gay clubs. On Saturday, LCB officers inspected eight clubs, two of which were gay clubs.
Also
The lewd conduct violations in question were related to clothing that exposed the buttocks and nipples of patrons, which is prohibited under state law in liquor establishments, he said, noting that, in his opinion, the law needed to change to be a reflection of today’s times.
Sounds like pretty standard, as opposed to directed, harrassment. Well, if they had information about how many tickets were given out at each club they “visited”. And I happen to agree with the guy (shudder), the law needs to be changed.
Nah, the seattle PDs MO would be to target the gay clubs but then also “inspect” several straight clubs to cover it up.
Its a police department that’s been under a federal consent degree for over a decade due to racist policing and excessive force. Its the police department whose second in command of the union was recently recorded joking about how little a young indians woman’s life was worth after a cop just recklessly killed her with his car going 74 in a 25. Its a department that illegally hung a “trump 2020” flag in the same break room they were displaying trophies from black lives matter protests. A department that directly maced a small child during said protests, along with hundreds of other brutal and unjustified actions. The same department whose last chief mysteriously lost a great sum of official conversations with the the mayor and the head of the police union during the protests. The previous mayor and head of the police union also strangely “lost” those legally public conversations.
They get no reasonable doubt because they have failed to live up to that standard too many times.
Don’t forget the cop who tweeted “black lives splatter LOL” after a woman was killed at one of the BLM protests.
Or the lieutenant who asked everyone to refer to him as Obergruppenführer and had Nazi memorabilia in his office. And yes, that was the local sheriff’s department not Seattle PD, but still…
It was more than just gay clubs visited all under enforcing liquor laws which begs the question, is this a top priority for Seattle society as surely those same police personnel could have been working on real issues as surely naked nips and exposed ass pants are doing little society harm. Meanwhile, a few more drunk drivers never got stopped. That is the real crime here. Seattle police are distracted with low priority issues. Is this ok with the people living there?
Nah but the libs keep electing conservative Dems.
Edit: Guarantee these downvotes are coming from people who don’t live in a solid blue city. There is only one viable party so you get all flavors of democrats, the most conservative ones always win mayor and the majority of city council.
The head of the city council is also against the recent referendum to shift local elections to even years, which would likely increase turn out. Higher turn out usually means more progressive votes
I mean Sarah Nelson thought we could reduce traffic by using kayaks in Elliott Bay for freight, so she’s just a font of good ideas.
Let’s not forget the major gerrymandering that was done to the 3rd district to push out socialist Kshama Sawant.
The lewd conduct violations in question were related to clothing that exposed the buttocks and nipples of patrons, which is prohibited under state law in liquor establishments, he said, noting that, in his opinion, the law needed to change to be a reflection of today’s times.
Absolute horseshit. According to the Supreme Court, the pigs have no duty to uphold law, enforce court orders, or protect citizens. We’ve seen plenty refuse to enforce gun regulations and COVID restrictions recently. Don’t ever believe them when they say they can’t pick and choose what to enforce.
