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Posted by Max Thomson on Jan-11-2009 20:23:

joe biden vs. electronic music

for you all obamanites who think the second coming is upon us, just remember the rave act:

"The RAVE Act which threatens to squash live music and free speech was passed in 2003 when it was tacked onto an unrelated child protection bill. In 2004 there were two additional pieces of legislation considered - the CLEAN-UP Act and the Ecstasy Awareness Act - that threatened to widen the laws to prosecute anyone who holds an event and fails to prevent illicit drug use. Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) forced the controversial legislation commonly known as the "RAVE" Act through both houses of Congress as an attachment to an unrelated child abduction bill. The "RAVE" Act was passed despite the fact it did not have a public hearing, debate or vote in Congress. "

http://www.drugpolicy.org/communities/raveact/

stay tuned for more of the same starting 1/20/2009!

Posted by Lira on Jan-11-2009 22:24:

The world needs more illegal raves!

Posted by atbell on Jan-13-2009 22:29:

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Originally posted by Lira
The world needs more illegal raves!

Good point.

Risk is an important thing to teach people. What better way to do it then to have cops threatening to shut down your party?

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on Jan-14-2009 01:47:

Yeah, I've got no problem with the law as written, and kind of wish it had actually passed. Most of the paranoia about freedom of speech violation is propaganda from people who obviously haven't read anything other than the prologue of the bill.