Texas arresting people in bars for being drunk

Flint · 04-13-2006, 09:13 AM

Due to public outcry, the TABC is suspending this program, pending an internal investigation. What a joke. What happens when you make something that people are going to do anyway illegal? They do it anyway, but you lose tax revenues. They do it anyway, but completely unregulated. They do it anyway, but an underground industry is formed, and violence follows as organized crime bosses muscle in for a piece of the action.

Am I to understand that we will still have bars, they will still serve alcohol, but it will be illegal to get drunk? So you have to go to a speak-easy?

04-13-2006, 09:13 AM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Due to public outcry, the TABC is suspending this program, pending an internal investigation. What a joke. What happens when you make something that people are going to do anyway illegal? They do it anyway, but you lose tax revenues. They do it anyway, but completely unregulated. They do it anyway, but an underground industry is formed, and violence follows as organized crime bosses muscle in for a piece of the action. Am I to understand that we will still have bars, they will still serve alcohol, but it will be illegal to get drunk? So you have to go to a speak-easy? __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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