This Is For Your Own Good!
Oh my god. Fully recognizing that the club in which Imette Saint-Guillen was leaving before she was murdered, the New York City Council went ahead and passed a law requiring clubs with cabaret licenses (in other words, you can dance there) to restrictive camera and footage storage policies, even mandating heavy fines if footage leaks to gossip sites or television stations.
“It is in her name that we are taking these actions,” said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens) of the victim, Imette Saint-Guillen.
Seriously. If Lindsay Lohan goes down on some socialite’s son, you really think a club is going to be able to keep a very industrious employee from snagging that footage?
Furthermore, they fully admit that the club Guillen was in wouldn’t be required by this law to comply. And yet they’re invoking her name and murder as the reason.
Also, the bill is going to change “bottle service,” that curiously overpriced little thing where you can pay, oh, $500 for a bottle of Absolut for the express privilege of pouring your own drinks.
I say, if you’re stupid enough to sit in a club and pay $500 for a bottle of Absolut, you actually DESERVE to have your antics recorded and shown on television so we can all laugh.
Ok, maybe not. The change to bottle service will require a waiter to be stationed at a table using bottle service to pour the drinks for them. So what’s the point?
Here’s our illustrious Mayor pontificating for us lowly people:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday he is likely to sign all the nightlife bills.
“I like to go and have a few drinks, and dance, and sing and laugh like everybody else,” he said, “but you just have to do it responsibly.”
Really? You don’t say. How do the new restrictions force responsibility? Do our politicians not realize you can’t force people to act in the manner which you personally find responsible? Where does the issue of personal responsibility come in? They seem to have found their big, sensational story and they’re running with it as if to say, “see? We’re good politicians. We are doing IMPORTANT THINGS.”
The sensationalism of local politics continues.
After banning the n-word and banning electronics while walking, what’s next? Personally, I’m hoping that they pass legislation requiring we go prostrate when a rich person like Trump walks by.
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they should require these cameras to have microphones so we can make sure nobody gets liquored up and starts saying the N-word.
That’d get Paris Hilton back in the AP news in no time.
You are becoming more and more libertarian with each passing post.
I take full credit.
Hah! Well, I’ve never been much for “feel good legislation.” In many ways, gay marriage bans are “feel good legislation,” designed to further some “social good” for a certain segment of the people so that they and the useless politicians they elect can all feel good about themselves.