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Bad title. Should be "The nonexistent war on lemonade stands that we just made up as part of our publisher's long-standing propaganda efforts".

scythe 15y ago
reason has been posting articles about this for a while. http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/18/lemonade-stand-crackdown-conti http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/18/lemonade-stand-crackdown-c... http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/10/free-the-lemonade-three http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/10/free-the-lemonade-three http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/24/concord-cop-threatens-camera-w http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/24/concord-cop-threatens-came... http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/17/saturday-is-lemonade-freedom-d http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/17/saturday-is-lemonade-freed... http://reason.com/blog/2005/08/03/when-lemonade-is-illegal http://reason.com/blog/2005/08/03/when-lemonade-is-illegal http://reason.com/blog/2009/08/06/lemonade-is-not-a-crime http://reason.com/blog/2009/08/06/lemonade-is-not-a-crime http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/01/reasontv-the-war-on-lemonade-s http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/01/reasontv-the-war-on-lemona... But hey, I personally enjoy the smell of sand, so I wouldn't blame you for keeping your head there as long as you like...
- anothermachine 15y ago
  I read 4 of those articles, none of which are a "war against kids' lemonade stands", and all of which involve violations/disputes that tangentially had kids or lemonade involved, before I stopped giving you the benefit of the doubt. I saw: * Anti-competition ordinances around a special event * Lemonade stand on a busy intersection * At a specially permitted farmers' market, a vendor (not even a kid) crashing the market to sell his stuff, with a bonus dispute over the right to film police The "War on Lemonade Stands" angle is propaganda: it's inventing a misleading emotionally-powerful angle in order to add rhetorical power to an argument over a separate issue.
  - scythe 15y ago
    Uh, what? Top story, top link. >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 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. [...] >The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money. That was nothing like you described.

scythe 15y ago

reason has been posting articles about this for a while. http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/18/lemonade-stand-crackdown-conti http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/18/lemonade-stand-crackdown-c... http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/10/free-the-lemonade-three http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/10/free-the-lemonade-three http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/24/concord-cop-threatens-camera-w http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/24/concord-cop-threatens-came... http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/17/saturday-is-lemonade-freedom-d http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/17/saturday-is-lemonade-freed... http://reason.com/blog/2005/08/03/when-lemonade-is-illegal http://reason.com/blog/2005/08/03/when-lemonade-is-illegal http://reason.com/blog/2009/08/06/lemonade-is-not-a-crime http://reason.com/blog/2009/08/06/lemonade-is-not-a-crime http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/01/reasontv-the-war-on-lemonade-s http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/01/reasontv-the-war-on-lemona... But hey, I personally enjoy the smell of sand, so I wouldn't blame you for keeping your head there as long as you like...

anothermachine 15y ago
I read 4 of those articles, none of which are a "war against kids' lemonade stands", and all of which involve violations/disputes that tangentially had kids or lemonade involved, before I stopped giving you the benefit of the doubt. I saw: * Anti-competition ordinances around a special event * Lemonade stand on a busy intersection * At a specially permitted farmers' market, a vendor (not even a kid) crashing the market to sell his stuff, with a bonus dispute over the right to film police The "War on Lemonade Stands" angle is propaganda: it's inventing a misleading emotionally-powerful angle in order to add rhetorical power to an argument over a separate issue.
- scythe 15y ago
  Uh, what? Top story, top link. >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 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. [...] >The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money. That was nothing like you described.