Dance Ban: Footloose in Arizona, by Drew Carey and Reason.tv

[scott04la]

Vote Libertarian

[ThePenWolf]

What you're basically seeing here is that local governments love to get their "cut," and they're sponsored by other businesses who don't like the new competition. Believe it or not, these folks are competing against entertainment venues and restaurants, who are more than likely got friends and cronies in positions of power to do something about it. And when this happens, word has to get out about it, and people have to be informed. It's wrong, and it has to be stamped out.

[ThePenWolf]

I hate to disagree with this video, but there is a problem. You see, the 1st Amendment doesn't protect anyone from local civic ordnances. The operative word in the 1st Amendment is "Congress." It's a prohibition on the Federal Government, not the states or the counties, from passing laws abridging speech. I'm not saying that's it's right, I'm saying that's the law. And if you don't like the local laws, work to change them. Don't wait for government to do it.

[rmcdaniel423]

I once stayed at a local Canadian bed&breakfast hotel. The owners were an old couple that used to have a cool big Victorian place downtown close to all the businesses. The local gov devised a new tax code that forced them to have to sell and relocate the business to a less desirable location and building. They couldn't sell the old place right away but rules disallowed ownership of more than one place so they actually had to divorce until it sold in order to maintain ownership temporarily.

[NoEoAoRo]

damn these regulations!

[anamerican101]

The local powers that be should be ashamed for being so unamerican. This is a clear violation of the Constitutional rights of the people. Yet these people spit on freedom and everything american.

These freedom hating government officals would have made great leaders in the old Communist Soviet Union.

[hianda]

Elmore City banned dancing for 100 years. Did the old bans originate out of fear whites might mix with Native Americans, and fear in general of a different culture?

[MacGhil]

San Tan Flat Can Dance The Night Away

East Valley Tribune - April 30, 2008

"A Pinal County judge has ruled that San Tan Flat restaurant is not an illegal dance hall.

Pinal County Superior Court Judge William O'Neil said Wednesday that the open-air steakhouse does not morph into a dance hall every time someone sways to live music in the restaurant's courtyard.

The decision ended a nearly two-year legal battle over dancing at the father and son-owned restaurant located south of Queen Creek."

[jbgoldcanyon]

The owners (father & son ) really are a couple of nut cases anyway. Hard to believe that Drew Carey would allow himself to be caught in the middle. Yes, I have been in the rest/bar and what I witnessed the son doing was completely bizarre to say the least. The kid appears to be on crack

[puddinqueen]

mackler=

the government doesn't have the right to tell the people they can't dance,laugh or sing.

YOUR THE IGNORANT ONE!!!

[mackler]

I'm disgusted by all that flagrant law breaking. The law is the law, and if the people of that County want to ban dancing, who are those greedy businessmen to profit off of mass, organized, law-breaking! Dancing is a gateway crime.

[Hathen]

wtf? if all the ignorant people in our country wanted everyone to be christian, who am i to disagree? right? wrong. just like your stupid comment.

New Secular Order dumbass.

[mackler]

Nice ad hominem attack. It just proves that you have no logic or reason, so all you can do is call me names. Thanks for proving that I'm right, you Christian-hating bigot.

[puddinqueen]

mackler=

the government doesn't

have the right to tell people they can't dance, laugh or sing= your the ignorant one!!!

[mackler]

Whats you're point?

[robotguy]

I can only assume you are being sarcastic. In the USA, a law is void if it violates the Constitution, and this dancing ban clearly violates the first amendment.

[mackler]

Sarcastic?! I am totally serious. If the John McCain tattoo in my biceps doesn't convince you, nothing will.

[mackler]

They had an election and the people of the County voted. That's better than a poll. A poll is just a sample. Everyone gets to vote.

[GeorgeMozosko]

@mackler

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

Thomas Jefferson

[johnq54]

You must be the Bin Ladin of the christian Taliban!

[Bound4NH]

What is unsaid in the video, is that this town had an official 2000 Census population of 4,300. The estimated population in 2006 had grown to 20,800.

They hinted at the money motive for shutting down this restaurant, but when you see how fast this Phoenix suburb has boomed, it just lends more credence.

[Bound4NH]

Another great ReasonTV video. And yet another concrete example of why so many people are flocking to Ron Paul, and hoping to find more politicians like him.

All government is force. It's time to realize that, and neuter the governments that seek to control people and limit freedom.

[jsnasselin]

Sounds like Dale and Spencer Bell need to run for the County Gov. and get it changed... Someone out there doesn't like them for some reason.

[jramey30]

Fantastic... Best of luck to the men at San Tan Flat...