Inspired by the charitable works of Tim Bearden via an apparent super secret verbal only contract from Carrolton Mayor Wayne Garner, Midtown Atlanta’s center for the cultural arts, – they don’t call it the Spring Street Ballet for nothing – The Cheetah III Lounge has decided it wants to be for The Children, too. According to the AJC, The Cheetah wants to stand up for the right of 18-20 year olds to sit on laps for cash.
But the city of Atlanta argues that the problem isn’t the daughters of Atlanta getting nekkid, it’s just that they might accidentally drink alcohol while nekkid:
Atlanta lawyer Amber Ali Robinson said the city council was not trying to stop 18-, 19- and-20-year-olds from stripping, but it believed they might drink alcohol if they worked in the clubs. While the dancers had a First Amendment right to remove their clothes, the city officials had the right to regulate employment at establishments that make most of their money from selling alcohol.
“They are free to engage in nude dancing in other establishments before they are age 21,” she said. “This ordinance here does not regulate expression in any way. It doesn’t mention nude dancing.”
I’ve heard a joke many times that members of a certain Protestant denomination won’t have sex standing up because people might see them and think they were dancing. At least I thought it was a joke. Now they’ve figured out that they may see their 19 year old daughter dancing naked in a strip club and think she’s there drinking.
At least the Cheetah is closed on Sunday. Don’t have to worry about any of the daughters of the South drinking there then. That’s a relief.
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I have an idea for a new business: Topless hair-cuttery. No need to worry about alcohol consumption by under-aged women as none will be served.
Didn’t the Clampetts already get into this business?
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Bill Greene: dude, you’re seriously weird.
Who connects dots that far apart?
Isn’t it a good thing that my mind went there, instead of to Steve Perkins’ ta-tas?
Actually, Bill, you’re a little late. I saw an ad somewhere for that just the other day. Apparently there’s three different prices… lingerie, topless, and nude. Not real sure where I saw the ad, but if I run across it again I’ll post a link to it for ya’.
Civil libertarians should organize a sit-on.
I wonder what city council member Erick Erickson would do in Macon with this issue?
Dash…clever.
Atlanta lawyer Amber Ali Robinson just wants people to use “expression in any way”.
Modonna Express Yourself MTV Awards Show Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgg2mgmcncU&feature=related
State Sen. Renee Unterman has brought to light some of the problems around the Cheetah Club. There is a sex slave business, particularly with young girls (under 18) that centers around this club.
The pimps are buying run aways & homeless girls & then putting them into prostitution locally as well & markets in other countries.
It’s not a joking matter, and there is plenty of documentation to substantiate the problem.
Misogynistic snickers aside, Mr. Plyer is correct on this point. I believe Atlanta is just one point in the caravan of clubs that circulate young women around the US.
Some of these women avoid crank, coke, and worse, but a lot of them don’t. At 18 a person’s mind is tabula rasa, there is no way anyone can effectively argue that working in this environment is a positive development.
I am not advocating government involvement either, these places are under a lot of scrutiny as it is. The City is wasting tax dollars on this lawsuit.
B Balz,
On the advocating gov’t involvement…several laws fedral & state are being broken at the same time..so that calls loudly for gov’t intervention from the police!
Absolutely enforce existing laws, I think the City o Atlanta is over reaching, though.
“Somebody give me a dollar” – Blondie Clermont Lounge
http://www.ajc.com/news/clermont-hotel-works-to-74867.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab
“Honey, our daughter has been smoking, drinking, stripping and sitting on men’s laps, and may be having sex for money.”
“What? SHE’S BEEN DRINKING?!?!”
You know, Locke’s theory of government took into account the idea of a “civil compact,” the notion that a group of people may join together to form a group/society under a rule of law that fits in with their notions of right and wrong. Maybe that doesn’t work in a post-modern pluralistic society like ours, and so we end up standing for anything, or nothing.
Err… or maybe people are getting less and less uptight about beer on Sunday, girls shaking their ta-tas, and other such supposed threats to the fabric of the universe. Maybe old farts respond to changing attitudes by pushing constitutional amendments, laws, and ordinances… desperately trying to codify a dying way of life in hopes that the ink on a page will somehow survive them.
If you buy into Locke’s civil compact, part of the bargain is that the compact changes as society does. That doesn’t mean that society has “abandoned” morality or the rule of law… it just means that time is passing you by.
I’ve never been called one of those before. I have arrived.
Midtown Atlanta is about to become known as the constitutional challenge district of Georgia. Pending a quick and painless solution I am about 2 emails away from taking them to Federal court (that is all I am allowed to say at this time) on other constitutional issues.
This city better get its head out of its rear, and quit trying to legislate morality amongst adults.
You go Rick!
The biggest challenge to Atlanta is actual and perceived crime.
I hear that there’s one problem with the article – the Cheetah is actually open on Sundays
According to their website, they don’t list Sunday hours.
However, they do close Saturday night at 3:00am, so technically I guess you can drink there for three hours on Sunday. But from 3:00am until early services there’s plenty of time to sober up and wash the glitter off your face.
Vouch.
Go Rick! I fully support your right to marry whoever you want.
I’m sorry but I just don’t want my young strippers drunk. This is a good law.
Me either! They can barely pole dance at that age–I mean. Yeah.
Thank god they dont serve alcohol at the massage parlors in Macon
Sure they do.
Gives the term “rubbing alcohol” a whole new meaning.
I don’t follow. Please explain.
Well, little Rugby, it’s like this:
When a man and woman have special feelings for each other, the man pays cash up front and is told to lie down on the table…
What happens next? Why would he lie down on a table?
That’s where it gets complicated. It might be best if you just bring about $100 down to Macon. Don’t give it to her all up front though. You’ll need some of that for when she asks you half way through your massage if you want a happy ending.
If you think you still need help with this, you might want to see if Erick is in town that day. He seems to know a lot about these places, maybe he can go with you and make some introductions.
It’s a familiar story that never gets old. Everybody loves a happy ending.
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