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In article <l0X0c.19092$NU5.4143@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com>, Anonymous
<NoSpam@NoSpam.com> wrote:

> I guess I'll have to cancel my kids' summer campouts in the back yard.
> 

The City Council orders enforcement only against their political
enemies and their supporters. So if your name is "Rittenhouse" or
"Norse," expect enforcement.

The same double standard happened during the busts of those giving away
food in a park. Tickets were given, arrests were made, using the lack
of a food vendor license (no "vending" was going on, as the food was
given away) and unspecified health concerns, as the reason.

I pointed out at a City Council meeting that no such enforcement was
directed against the various parties and groups cooking hot dogs and
giving them away to large crowds at various picnic and sports and
company events, in the same park (Harvey West Park). I asked if all of
those groups had gotten "Food Vendor Permits." Silence. I asked if the
same alleged health inspectors had inspected the pots of beans cooking
on grills, the steaks and hot dogs grilling. Silence.

As a libertarian, I am offended when government offices use their
satrapic powers to apply the laws nonuniformly, whether against right
wingers or left wingers or anyone else.

Most city councils are pawns of the local establishment, whether it is
right or left. (And the same lefties who tried to get the bookstore
"Borders" barred from opening in Santa Cruz scream bloody murder when a
right wing city council bars the opening of a pregnancy counseling
office in a town. It's the same principal. And, of course, both cases
are illegal uses of government power. Those who do these things should
be dealt with harshly.)

--Tim May