Repeater
Regular Member
Judge finds ordinance unconstitutional
Well, breaking news:
Judge declares city noise ordinance unconstitutional
Another ordinance that passed unanimously.
Council either knew or reasonably should have known that ordinance was unconstitutional; yet they passed it anyway, and now looked what happened.
Freedom is simply not respected in Richmond government. Sounds, dances, guns, and on and on -- it somebody doesn't like it, Richmond city council will likely regulate it or ban it -- if they can get away with it.
Please, let's keep the Dillon Rule precisely because of authoritarians like these.
Saying that dance halls, or rap artists, or young black people are the cause of this problem is just as stupid, offensive, and nonsensical as saying that guns are the problem.
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This whole issue reminds me of the Hearst Newspaper stories back in the 1930's in the Western states about how Mexicans and Blacks were smoking marijuana, and it was causing them to look lustfully at white women. It was the yellow journalism of the Hearst Newspapers (that just so happened to have spent the previous decade buying up pulp wood farms in the Pacific NW--which just so happened to have as its only competitor the Hemp industry in the US...) in order to make Marijuana (Hemp) illegal.
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Wake up, Richmond. Your government has been taken over by racist eugenicists who hate freedom, and are doing EVERYTHING in their power to destroy small business and what's left of the middle class, foment racial tensions, and divide the good citizens into fractious antagonistic enclaves.
Wake up, Richmond...
Well, breaking news:
Judge declares city noise ordinance unconstitutional
The City Council unanimously approved the ordinance Feb. 22. During daytime hours, the ordinance prohibits sound such as a television or the playing of a musical instrument if it is “plainly audible” inside someone else’s home or at 50 feet away or farther.
The ordinance exempts sounds related to religious expression, such as sounds from religious services or events, including singing, bells and organs. Steven Benjamin, who is representing the four people charged, argued at a hearing last month that the exemption violates the First Amendment, and he said the law was unconstitutional because it was too broad.
"This statute advances religion over any other normal conduct," Pustilnik said in court Tuesday. He said the ordinance criminalizes noise emanating from almost any appliance and noted that a husband who turned on the television after getting into bed would violate the ordinance if his wife beside him could hear the television.
Another ordinance that passed unanimously.
Council either knew or reasonably should have known that ordinance was unconstitutional; yet they passed it anyway, and now looked what happened.
Freedom is simply not respected in Richmond government. Sounds, dances, guns, and on and on -- it somebody doesn't like it, Richmond city council will likely regulate it or ban it -- if they can get away with it.
Please, let's keep the Dillon Rule precisely because of authoritarians like these.