Ga. police shut down girls' lemonade stand
MIDWAY, Ga. — Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.
Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.
The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.
The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property.
The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.
One girl, 14-year-old Casity Dixon, says the three had to listen to police and shut down.
The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money.
"The law is the law" is what officers use when using ridiculous enforcement. What is the intent of the law requiring permits for businesses? It's not shutting down lemon-aide stands of teenage girls and then trying justify intentional dishonesty and deceit by claiming they didn't know what was in the lemon-aide, pretending there was some sort of safety concern.
Speeding is illegal, right? So, by the use of "the law is the law excuse" if I go 75 mph in a 60 in your town, then you would have to break the law to catch me and write a ticket, right? So, when you catch me and you will if I speed (which I don't), you would of necessity have to write yourself a ticket, too. After all, "the law is the law", right?
The truth is that there are exceptions to the law on speeding, one of which is that Emergency Vehicles such as police, fire and ambulances can do their jobs. And an exception should have been made with these lemon-aide stand girls. The police were not enforcing the law, but abusing the law and that abuse should land these police people in jail.
It's people like you who foment people like those scofflaw pigs who somehow imagine they are our authorities.
Now, our government wants full control. They do not want lemonade stands. They do not want small business. They want a nation of people who do what they tell them to do. It is sickening! These leaders kill thousands of people every year, and then allow lemonade stands to be shut down and small business to be over regulated, in the name of saftey? Then why are we so far in debt and not using the money to better our own country?
The democrats and republicans are both responsible. They are nothing but manipulators. My only hope for 2012 is Ron Paul, and it'll take a miracle to get him elected, the mainstream media won't talk about him! (I wonder why) :(
I might be numb somewhat from all the thing's seen in the news media, movies, etc but something about this really bothers me.
I think this is very disturbing that our country has sunk so low. A lemonade stand I know, but what it entails, the fact some children can't sell lemonade on their own property without paying is an outrage.
I don't see how a cop could enforce such stupid laws.
I know some cops are decent and lenient but not these.
Where is my Constitutional Republic? This is not & never was a Democracy. I want my Constitutional Republican government back! And I want these traitors sent off to some island or another planet!