[Dynagroove] Protect Your Right to Party

[Mack]

What a moron...hahah, here it is..

http://ga1.org/campaign/rave 

Mack

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: dynagroove-admin at reelhouse.net
>[mailto:dynagroove-admin at reelhouse.net]On Behalf Of Mack
>Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:09 PM
>To: Dynagroove
>Subject: [Dynagroove] Protect Your Right to Party
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>Here are the details...
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>What's At Stake! Property Rights and Right to Dance Under Attack
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>The Senate is considering legislation that would give federal prosecutors
>new powers to shut down raves or other musical events they don't like and
>punish business owners for hosting  or promoting them. The bill (S, 2633),
>also known as the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE
>Act), is moving very rapidly and could be considered by the full Senate as
>early as this week. (A similar bill is also pending in the House.)
>
>S. 2633, sponsored by Senators Durbin (D-IL), Hatch (R-UT), Grassley (R-IA)
>and Leahy (D-VT), expands the so-called "crack house statute" to allow the
>federal government to fine or imprison businessmen and women if customers
>sell or use drugs on their premises or at their events. Property owners,
>promoters, and event coordinators could be fined hundreds of thousands of
>dollars or face up to twenty years in federal prison if they hold raves or
>other events on their property. If the bill becomes law, property owners may
>be too afraid to rent or lease their property to groups holding hemp
>festivals or putting on all-night dance parties, effectively stifling
>free-speech and banning raves and other musical events.
>
>The new law would also make it a federal crime to temporarily use a place
>for the purpose of using any illegal drug. Thus, anyone who used drugs in
>their own home or threw an event (such as a party or barbecue) in which one
>or more of their guests used drugs could potentially face a $250,000 fine
>and years in federal prison. The bill also effectively makes it a federal
>crime to rent property to medical marijuana patients and their caregivers,
>giving the federal government a new weapon in its war on AIDS and cancer
>patients that use marijuana to relieve their suffering.
>
>Health advocates worry that the bill will endanger our nation's youth. If
>enacted, licensed and law-abiding business owners may stop hosting  raves or
>other events that federal authorities don't like, out of fear of massive
>fines and prison sentences. Thus, the law would drive raves and other
>musical events further underground and away from public health and safety
>regulations. It would also discourage business owners from enacting smart
>harm-reduction measures to protect their customers. By insinuating that
>selling bottled water and offering "cool off" rooms is proof that owners and
>promoters know drug use is occurring at their events, this bill may make
>business owners too afraid to implement such harm-reduction measures, and
>the safety of our kids will suffer.
>
>The RAVE Act punishes businessmen and women for the crimes of their
>customers and is unprecedented in U.S. history. The federal government can't
>even keep drugs out of prisons, yet it seeks to punish business owners for
>failing to keep people from carrying drugs onto their premises. If this bill
>passes, federal authorities will have the ability to scare business owners
>away from using or renting their property for all-night dance events, as
>well as any other "politically incorrect" event.
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