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The (not so) Peaceful Opposition of Pflugerville Pfamilies Pfirst

This has two elements in it, one good and one bad.

The Good
Many members of the community around a proposed strip club didn't want it to be built so they got the word out and put public pressure on the business to keep it away. Universal Media, the developer, decided to back down and withdrew its application.

The Bad
The opposition did not hesitate to ask the government to step in and stop things, a tactic that under any other circumstances would be no different than hiring pleasant-looking thugs to intimidate the business for you. Then there were the arguments they made against the strip club, most formulated around some claim of collective ownership of Universal Media's property.

Universal Media probably did the right thing to not open a business that would be known primarily for the local opposition to its existence. Any business in any socio-political environment must deal with that possibility. However, it remains true that the company had a right to build whatever business it wanted on the property it owned, whether the locals hated it or not and whether the state approves or not.

Posted by drizzten on February 17, 2006 10:31 AM |

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