[Newsletter] The issue at hand

Tue Oct 16 21:14:40 CDT 2007

I googled the baggy pants issue and it looks like most of 
the cities are wanting to pass measures that would outlaw 
baggy pants that show boxer shorts or thongs.  Not the 
fashion of baggy pants.  No news article I could find 
described it as an attack on the fashion of baggy pants. 
 Only on the showing of underwear.

In Delcambre, Louisiana they passed an ordinance that 
carries a fine as high as $500 or six months in jail for 
exposing underwear in public.  Not just for wearing baggy 
pants.

In Atlanta "the divide appears to center on age, not race. 
The bill's sponsors are black council members, and most of 
the supporters who spoke were aging residents who peppered 
their speeches with anecdotes of the civil rights 
movement".

I don't know of any town that lets people walk around in 
their underwear.  Decency laws cover this sort of thing.

This does not seem to be a fashion issue but a public 
decency issue.

I like the newsletter but your reporting on this issue 
could have been a little more accurate.

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> KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
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> Skatepark Protest and Skatepark Workshop in West 
>Virginia!
> Wheeling West Virginia:
> There will be a protest at the Wheeling WV Skatepark 
>this Sunday. After years of working on a park that 
>included BXM they were banned just prior to opening. I 
>will be there.
> 
> Amendment I
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> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment 
>of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or 
>abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the 
>right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to 
>petition the government for a redress of grievances
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> SkatePark Workshop Elkins West Virgina
> Oct 22 1-4 pm there will be an SPA?skatepark workshop in 
>Elkins West VA. Fee is $200 for a city and they can send 
>as many people as needed for that fee. Individuals are 
>$95 each.
> I will cover risk management, BMX, construction 
>standards, Concrete VS Ramps and Olympic updates.
> contact me for locations and times.
>Fashion Police and the 1ST Amendment!
> OK this is almost too funny or hard to believe but it is 
>true. Cities are passing laws about fashion, which should 
>be illegal as they are nothing more than Jim Crow Laws 
>and a direct violation of our constitution. They are also 
>being passed easily in the South (home of the KKK) and 
>target young African American males. 
> Six LA cities / parishes including Shreveport and 
>Alexandria as well as Hawkinsville GA have adopted bans 
>on sagging / baggy pants for young men.?Propsed bans 
>include Trenton & Pleasantville NJ, Charlotte, Dallas, 
>Balitmore, Atlanta, in Georgia Rome, Brunswick, Plains, 
>Duncan OK, Yonkers NY.
> This is just plain crazy! We cannot have fashion police. 
>Some people don't like the baggy pants but it is not as 
>bad a skin tight pants. Ok so the boys look a little like 
>the seven dwarfs - so what. At some point Americans have 
>to stand up and honor the consitution and protect our 
>rights as citizens. These laws include jail time .. of 
>course that would be time in USA's for profit prisons 
>that are traded on the NY Stock Exchange. Just for the 
>record I wrote a resolution with Reverend Thomas Ziegert, 
>United Methodist Church, proposing a ban on for profit 
>prisons and the United Methodist Church has picked it up.
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> The USA has more people in jail than any other country 
>in the world and penalties for percieved fashion errors 
>range from warnings, fines and jail time. What fashion 
>experts were consulted for these laws? Who qualified 
>them? Who passed them?
> I think anyone involved with these laws should be 
>charged with some sort of a crime .. maybe treason?
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> Just a refresher. 
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> Amendment IV
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> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, 
>houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable 
>searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no 
>warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported 
>by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the 
>place to be searched, and the persons or things to be 
>seized. 
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> I would interpret this to include?the right to be secure 
>in their clothes. Just for a kick go back to when this 
>was written and see what the fashion was then .. for men.
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> Amendment VIII
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> Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive 
>fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments 
>inflicted. 
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>FASHION LAWS WOULD FALL UNDER UNUSUAL PUNISHMENTS. 
>Our?founding fathers could never have guessed this would 
>be an issue.
> 
> Young people need to regiser to vote and then VOTE these 
>ignorant?politicians out of office!
> www.rockthevote.org
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