This is a bar, no profanities please

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1-11-2008 @ 8:58AM

Eva said...

"...planning to ban swearing, table-dancing, drinking, or profane music in bars."

Swearing I can live without - I am more concerned about the ban on drinking!

"How bad must things get in this place to have to impose such a "Hitler" law?"

I'm not trying to be the "PC" police but I find this comparison really inappropriate... unless people caught swearing are going to be killed?

"Aren't they stepping on the basic civil-right of being able to say what you want?"

As I understand it, in the US anyway, rights like freedom of speech lose some of their impact when you choose to enter a privately-owned establishment. I believe the owners can impose more or less whatever rules they like, and the idea is that enough people don't like it, the bar will go out of business. (Vague answer - I'm no law expert!)

But there have always been limits on freedom of speech - hate laws for example (speaking of Hitler... the laws about freedom of speech make a big exception for him in places like Germany and Austria), jokes about bombs on planes, blasphemy laws in some parts of the world... and so on.

I've never heard of a ban on profanity (in modern times anyway) before though! My grandmother would be thrilled... :P

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