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From: jmd@rduxb.UUCP (Joseph M. Dakes)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Noise pollution (flame)
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 13:35:58 EDT
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> There are cities in this country that would disagree with you. When I
> was in college, the city had a noise ordinance. You could get arrested
> for being too loud.
> 
> People have the right to happiness, and happiness includes quiet. Isn't
> disturbing the peace still illegal in many places?

Well obviously the city from which the original poster lives doesn't have
a noise ordinance or turned their back on it for one night to allow the 
band to play.  He did say the city council sponsered it:
> >> * At home *  My city gov't thinks it's a great idea to allow
> >>            the merchants assoc. to hire rock bands to play in
> >>            city parking lots -- LOUD, you can hear it over a
> >>            mile away.  I don't LIKE being forced out of my home
> >>            by city hall.

> You keep saying "if you don't like the way things are, vote to change them".
> I don't know about your city, but it takes 4 years to get rid of a marginally
> bad president and various other offices. At best, you can elect new city
> officials once every two years. An official has to be pretty criminal to be
> thrown out before his term of office is up.
> How can it be a democracy if the problems we have now can't get solved for
> two years.

Well, who voted for them in the first place?  The majority, perhaps?

> Now, if YOU want to allow me to come over to your house and play the
> Residents' "Not Available" through a 200-watt P.A. system, then send me
> some money. I show you something about forcing musical preferences on
> someone.

Thanx, but no thanx.  Me and my roommate's 300W PA are quite adequate.  Ask
our neighbors...ask their neighbors...ask their...:-)

> 			David Elliott

						Joseph M. Dakes
						AT&T Bell Laboratories
						Reading, PA
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