Banning Cheap Booze
Looks like Seattle is wanting to ban the booze that doesn’t cost a lot:
The state Liquor Control Board tonight will hold a public hearing on a request by Seattle to designate more than six square miles of the city a mandatory “alcohol-impact area” (AIA).
Within the AIA boundaries — including downtown, Belltown, Capitol Hill, the Chinatown International District, Central Area and University District — grocers would be prohibited from selling 34 brands of beer, malt liquor and fortified wines, from Olde English 800 and Pabst Ice to Night Train Express.
Class warfare hits alcohol.
July 6th, 2006 at 1:13 am
Yes…Seattle…nannyland central. Where strip clubs have to be well lit, and the strippers have to stay 4′ away from the customers.
About the only kind of fun they approve of is smoking weed.
July 6th, 2006 at 6:58 am
Can’t have the common-folk running around with them assault beverages with those high-capacity drinking devices.
July 6th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
And, remember, saloons and bars are just conspiracies by the bourgeoisie to oppress the proletariat. Sure, alcohol has existed and been popular for more than 2,000 years, and industrialists like Henry Ford were at the forefront of the Temperance Movement, but, still, it was a conspiracy!