[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Scratch Mankato

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Scratch Mankato
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1195014092.shtml


   I have a short list of cities I will never live in or at least again:
   Golden Valley, Robbinsdale, St. Louis Park, Minneapolis, and
   Richfield. These cities all have poorly run and/or overly repressive
   governments. It looks like I should add Chaska and now Mankato to the
   list.
   They have laws holding adults responsible for underage drinking
   occurring on their premises. These are "zero tolerance" - "photocop"
   style laws that charge you with crimes you cannot reasonably expect to
   prevent.
   As I heard it explained on the news tonight, if you own a house, you
   go out of town on business, and your teenager hosts a kegger, you are
   guilty. Even if the alcohol is brought in by a party guest, you are
   guilty. The only sure way to avoid prosecution is to not have kids,
   putting what number you have up for adoption. I don't get this. What
   would these people have us do to avoid this?
   Even if I've got this wrong, that it isn't this overreaching, it soon
   will be as the smoking ban demonstrates.