10 Jun
2003
10 Jun
'03
10:12 a.m.
----- Forwarded message from Bob Paolino <rpaolino(a)EXECPC.COM> -----
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 17:06:55 -0400
From: Bob Paolino <rpaolino(a)EXECPC.COM>
Reply-To: rpaolino(a)alum.wustl.edu
Subject: Re: America the
To: CBS-HB(a)LISTSERV.UIC.EDU
Hey, Jeff--
In a possibly related note, the following is from the issue of the "Global Beer
Network" (Belgian beer importers) newsletter I got in the post the other day.
It was describing the 17th century in the Low Countries, where mothers fed beer
to their young children from vessels shaped like breasts, where even small
cities had 10 or more breweries, and average consumption was about a half-gallon
daily. It was also the primary source of tax revenue, sometimes amounting to
70% of revenues (i.e., 70% of the budget, not that the beer tax was 70%):
"Drinking beer was looked upon as performing a good deed. The more you drank
the better citizen you became, since you sponsored all the social
responsibilities and the defence expenses of the cities. It looks like we are
again going the same way in the USA, where almost all States, many counties, and
communalities are looking to add or impose more taxes on beer. Pretty soon, we,
the US beer drinkers, will be honoured as social heroes."
Jeff wrote:
In case you were under the impression that the
"land of the free" really
was....
This from the Pete's Wicked Ale beer news web site:
CONTROVERSY IN VIRGINIA OVER BAR RAIDS
Police consider the operation a success and said they would consider doing
it again, but civil libertarians, restaurateurs and many of their customers
who were either questioned or arrested have decried the police tactic. The
tactic in question is a joint operation of the Fairfax County police and the
Virginia Department of Alcohol Beverage Control, aimed at full enforcement
of Virginia state and local liquor control laws. During the recent holiday
period, undercover agents went to 20 bars in Reston and Herndon looking for
examples of bartenders "over-serving" customers. Police ultimately raided
three bars and arrested nine patrons who failed sobriety tests. They were
charged with public drunkenness and spent the night in jail. Under Virginia
law, a restaurant or bar is a public place, and public intoxication is a
low-level misdemeanor punishable by a night in jail and up to a $250 [snip]
Now go have a beer,
Bob Paolino
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