Editorial: Let the strip club ordinance stand
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Whose idea was this, anyway? This had to be germinating in one person’s mind before the changes saw the light of day.
Ben Hasan and Dennis Williams – both lame-duck Commissioners.
The lunacy continues!!!
Do the people proposing these changes ever think that the woman up on that stage is somebody’s daughter, granddaughter, sister, or even wife?
I have a friend who told me that he was done with the gentlemen’s entertainment when he realized he had a daughter the age of the girls dancing. He left and never went back.
As far as the “objectifying” women and the morality, it is voluntary on their part. I’m more concerned with the atmosphere it creates. I’m told that it is the primary underlying reason Columbia County established the restaurant/alcohol code. It basically eliminates strip clubs.
Reality check here.
The driving force behind this is money.
All of your pius ramblings and the amusing replies naively miss the obvious.
Find out who is behind this and what Commissioners stand to benefit.
ANYTHING mixed with alcohol can stir up the base instincts of people. We need to bring back Prohibition.
IF this passed the people who will open the new clubs will not be from around here.
Augusta would become the location for the “Farm Teams” of Columbia and Atlanta “establishments”. A NEW Snake Lady !!
“As of mid November 50 rapes have been reported”. How did that compare to prior years? Is the writer aware that there have not been strip clubs in Augusta for quite some time. Surely crime and rape numbers would have gone down if the so called “secondary effects” were increased by syrup clubs. Does the writer know about apps and that thing called the internet? Strip clubs are relatively tame compared to the things people are viewing online. Does the writer know the locations of homeless shelters downtown? Businesses of all kinds have a financial interest in keeping the homeless away and they do.
“What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. The market gives people what the people want instead of what other people think they ought to want. At the bottom of many criticisms of the market economy is really lack of belief in freedom itself.”
Milton Friedman
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