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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVirginia Just Banned Using ‘Cuss Words’ In Public
Not The Onion!
http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/06/virginia-just-banned-using-cuss-words-in-public/
The Arlington County Board recently approved the bizarre measure which increases penalties for both public intoxication as well as what they are calling blue language from $100 to $250.
This code change was adopted during last Saturdays board meeting, not in 1852. It came at the request of the Arlington Police Department itself, which reported making 664 arrests for public inebriation as well as potty language in 2014 alone!...
The city officials did note, however, that the new revised regulation replaced the word drunkenness with intoxication so they can more easily crack down on anyone if they appear intoxicated even if they do not have any alcohol in their system.
Hmmm... you don't suppose any particular group of people might be more likely to appear "intoxicated" even if they do not have any alcohol in their system, do you?
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Fuck them.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)FSogol
(45,595 posts)Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)assessed against the DC-area team.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Slam-dunk.
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)It hurt. Thanks a lot.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I defy you to find a law enforcement officer anywhere in the Commonwealth of Virginia who speaks 'olelo Hawai'i.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)First Amendment be damned, the city of Arlington wants money. This is the path Ferguson trod.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)it is an affluent suburb of D.C.
Man from Pickens
(1,713 posts)it's barely a suburb, more of an extension of DC on the Virginia side.
Given that it's an effectively urban environment, the possibility of actually stopping people from using curse words is zero and they have to know it.
A quick check of their FY2016 budget shows expenses of $1.5 billion and revenues of $1.1 billion. A $400 million annual funding gap is plenty of incentive to seek any excuse to generate new revenues.
onenote
(42,852 posts)There has been a law against the use of profanity in public on the books in Arlington for a long long long time. The penalty was $100. It was increased to $250 because that is the fine provided for in a state law against public use of profanity. But the law is almost never invoked, which is why your claim that this is about revenue generation is inaccurate. In 2014, Arlinton issud four citations for public profanity, two in situations where people were cursing in front of children and kept it up after the cops tried to get them to stop. Another one was for someone who also was charged with public drunkeness.
As for the change from "drunkeness" to "intoxication", that was done to make it clear that it covered being under the influence of illegal drugs as well as alcohol.
Notwithstanding all of the above, chances are that the law against public cursing is unconstitutional as written.
uppityperson
(115,681 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)Downwinder
(12,869 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)What kind of shot is this anyway? Who the fork thought this one up?
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)Home improvement projects and repairs will decline. And
sales of related materials will be negatively impacted.
No one will want to take a chance on hitting their thumb
with a hammer or dropping a board on their toe.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)as folks do in Hawai'i.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)alboe
(192 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Warpy
(111,467 posts)There's another state I'll have to avoid if I don't want to spend my time there in jail.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Be nice and clean
Shave every day if you want to look keen! </dr-demento>
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)What the fuck am I going to do now?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)More fucking money down the drain!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Keep going!
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I can't keep my Gaddman mouth shut for shit!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)But I'll cut you some slack on "Gaddman".
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Fucking thnaks!
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)....
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)CincyDem
(6,419 posts)Isn't this a matter of where you draw the line of offensiveness. Some people, like those on the Arlington County Board, draw it so every shit, fuck and a-hole might get you fined. Others, possibly even some here, draw the line a anatomical slurs.
Seems like DU and Arlington might have some things in common when it comes to defining "offensive" and the desire to manage the words used in public.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The First Amendment protects your freedom of speech against actions by the government.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Response to KamaAina (Original post)
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Certainly none north of Virginia, dammit!
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Spazito
(50,629 posts)Taber bylaw bans public swearing, spitting and yelling in Alberta town
Watch your language in the small Alberta town of Taber, where the council has passed a bylaw that outlaws swearing in public.
The first offence would cost $150, while a second offence could set you back $250 and that goes for yelling or screaming in public as well.
Taber Mayor Henk De Vlieger said council is going to give the bylaw a six-month trial before reviewing it. The mayor said the bylaw will only be enforced in extreme circumstances.
"It's just like every other tool, you can use it and abuse it," he said. "A hammer I can use to pound a nail, which it is intended for, or it can kick in your brains."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/taber-bylaw-bans-public-swearing-spitting-and-yelling-in-alberta-town-1.2988992
Now Taber has a sister city, lol.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Spazito
(50,629 posts)LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)Who the **** do these ******* ***** think they ******* are? **** these ******* *****!
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)Please come back. We need to know the seven words you can't say in Arlington.