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2010-11-10 Home Front: Culture Wars
Armed Government Agents Raiding Barber Shops.
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-11-10 06:29|| || Front Page|| [11126 views ]  Top

#1 
John Stossel:

The Haircut Police
Orange County, Florida has seen a sharp increase in crime: Murders are up 45% . Maybe it’s because the police are busy with more important things. As the Orlando Sentinel reports:

As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop … handcuffing barbers …

It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops … deputies arrested 37 people — the majority charged with "barbering without a license"

Jeff Weiner, the reporter who broke the story, tells us that the barbers were taken to jail. They were only let out if they were able to post bond. Some said they stayed in prison for days.

So you may get mugged or murdered in Orange County, but at least you won’t get a bad haircut. Actually, you might get a bad haircut – there’s no evidence that government-regulated barbers give better haircuts. Regulation just means they’ve paid thousands of dollars for courses they probably don’t need, and kissed some bureaucrats’ rings.



Read more: http://stossel.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2010/11/09/the-haircut-police/?test=faces#ixzz14tFU95VJ
Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-11-10 09:40||   2010-11-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Any police force and district attorney's office that has the time and resources to engage in barbershop raids is a police force and office that could do with a budget cut.
Posted by Steve White 2010-11-10 11:41||   2010-11-10 11:41|| Front Page Top

#3 This is just reinforcing the belief that the government is part of the problem and is only looking after its own interests.

Good way to keep resentment brewing and making an uprising even more likely, dumbasses.
Posted by DarthVader 2010-11-10 12:27||   2010-11-10 12:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm from Orlando, actually, and I find this totally believable. Notice this part: "predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops?" That would be typical of Orlando, which has some actual (rather than imagined) class and race problems.

OTOH, maybe their competitors got mad and simply called the cops. These would be people from the same communities, probably better established and politically connected... and maybe not so happy about newcomers.

Just a guess.
Posted by Secret Master 2010-11-10 13:05||   2010-11-10 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 This is an example of economic rent-seekers enforcing their rents with taxpayer resources, and diverting resources from other uses.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-10 13:45||   2010-11-10 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Its fine to cut hair at home, or cut friends and relatives hair. Hanging out your shingle, though, when unlicensed, is the gateway to tax evasion, chemical burns, and who knows what other dirty deals.
Posted by Private Eye 2010-11-10 15:25||   2010-11-10 15:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Hair cutting I'm less concerned with than the all too frequent unlicensed dentistry, liposuction, collagen injection, and the insidious smuggling of Mexican bologna.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2010-11-10 15:37||   2010-11-10 15:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Or this type of thiking is the gateway to straight up pumping parties = how to look great at your funeral!

A few nights ago I was watching a show regarding “Pumping Parties.” I was really quite blown out of the water when hearing about these parties and how they continue to increase in popularity despite the inherent risks. A pumping party is when you are invited to a host’s home and "everyone is injected with silicone in the parts of the body they want to see rapid results. They pay hundreds of dollars to the injectee, who has no medical training, versus the sometimes costly price of plastic surgery and Botox. Many see this as an easier and less costly way to obtain pseudo plastic surgery results." http://www.piercemattie.com/blogs/2006/12/pumping_parties_a_deadly_trend.html

I think the point is that the unlicensed barbers are doing the equivalent of being a tenant putting out a cigarette onto the floor of a white man's apartment building. However, such trivilalizing such minutiae is dangerous. It leads to pumping parties and other problems. "Minorities" need to follow the laws of the land, small or large. No quarter just 'cuz day po folk.
Posted by Private Eye 2010-11-10 15:56||   2010-11-10 15:56|| Front Page Top

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