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Houston Police Department strip club crackdown planned
KHOU Channel 11 News ^ | 5/19/2007 | Jason Whitely

Posted on 05/20/2007 10:20:08 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084

The Houston Police Department's Vice Squad is putting together plans to start raiding dozens of the city's sexually oriented businesses. That crackdown, 11 News has learned, could begin within weeks. Owners of more than 120 topless clubs, modeling studios and adults bookstores in Houston will soon receive a two-page letter from the city's Legal Department. The letter says the businesses are in violation of the city's sexually oriented business ordinance; too close to neighborhoods, schools or parks. The City of Houston has spent more than $1.3 million in court costs over the last decade fighting to enforce this ordinance. Now, it appears HPD might soon take action. "Captain [Steve] Jett and the vice division have been working on an enforcement plan," said Don Cheatham, General Counsel for the city's Legal Department. "At this point I would tell you I'm not privy to it. But I would expect some action in a period of weeks." Owners and operators of the targeted businesses could face up to a $4,000 dollar fine and a year in jail unless they close down or move. Neither attorneys nor owners for several establishments returned our phone calls. But they're reportedly not giving up their legal fight.

(Excerpt) Read more at khou.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: funpolice; leo; morality; nannystate; stripclub; vice
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To: Eric Blair 2084
How do you say lap dance in Spanish anyway?

Consuelo, Señor.

21 posted on 05/20/2007 10:57:32 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Did you even read the article? They are going after them due to location violations.

You want one of these places on your street?

22 posted on 05/20/2007 11:05:28 AM PDT by don-o (We are "THEY")
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To: Eric Blair 2084

moral absolutes bump.


23 posted on 05/20/2007 11:07:23 AM PDT by balch3
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To: neodad

24 posted on 05/20/2007 11:32:07 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: neodad

Rick's Cabaret.

25 posted on 05/20/2007 11:35:42 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: narses
Nonsense. They are drug-ridden dens of prostitution. They lead people into hell.

Wait till the rest of the libertarians get here. This could be a lot of fun! I'll be happy to entertain you in the meantime.

26 posted on 05/20/2007 11:38:17 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
"I don’t know. How do you say lap dance in Spanish anyway?"

veinte dollar...?

27 posted on 05/20/2007 11:40:25 AM PDT by Dacus943
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To: Eric Blair 2084
From hazy memories of Le Palace in Panama:

"Un Lap Dance, Por Favor."

28 posted on 05/20/2007 11:42:06 AM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: narses

BTW, do you see any juicy irony here with Catholics, priests and this subject? There are a 150 jokes in there. I’m not sure I have the guts to risk offending anyone here (too much).


29 posted on 05/20/2007 11:42:32 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: All

In case anybody was wondering...the horribly offensive material in posts #24 and #25 that were removed by the Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue were pictures of clothed women who were not exposing anything.

You missed nothing.


30 posted on 05/20/2007 11:46:15 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Does this mean the strippers can;t turn upside down on the pole?


31 posted on 05/20/2007 11:46:58 AM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
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OK, now they are back. Thankfully the admin moderator today has a sense of humor.


32 posted on 05/20/2007 11:47:58 AM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

I’m scanning too quickly. I first thought the article read a penalty of $4,000 or a night in jail....


33 posted on 05/20/2007 11:51:02 AM PDT by Cvengr (The violence of evil is met with the violence of righteousness, justice, love and grace.)
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To: Cvengr

A year in jail for the owner...for owning and operating a place where oily women dance on stage...because it happens to be within x yards/miles from a school.


34 posted on 05/20/2007 12:06:23 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

An interesting provate property argument ... which came first, the clubs or the schools? Would the building of a government facility (i.e. a school) within the exclusion zone thereby forcing an established adult entertainment facility to move be a defacto emminent domain action? Can an exclusion ordinance apply retroactively if the proximity existed before the passage? I guess issues such as those are at the heart of the court action mentioned.


35 posted on 05/20/2007 12:28:03 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Thompson in 2008 - there is no doubt about it!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084; Abram; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; ...






Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.
36 posted on 05/20/2007 12:31:15 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; Xenalyte

I saw Xenalyte was already pinged to this. Look out girls.


37 posted on 05/20/2007 12:39:00 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns don't kill people. None of my guns ever left the house at night and killed anyone.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
These things usually turn into extra-curricular perks for cops.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/315278_lapdance11.html

38 posted on 05/20/2007 12:39:43 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: NonValueAdded

Good question. Put it in front of 100 judges and you will get 100 different opinions.


39 posted on 05/20/2007 12:41:26 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
An evening at The Camel Toe, Warizistan's newest strip club.

Taliban strip tease - she spends 30 minutes taking off her gloves.

Following a public stoning for damaging her father's honor, the next up on stage is Mimi.

Following this is the signature show - the venue's namesake.

Last up is 5 year old Aisha!!!

Pretending not to look!

40 posted on 05/20/2007 1:31:16 PM PDT by M203M4 (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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