Atlanta considers banning baggy pants ?

[EGG]

[count chocula]

they should ban super tight emo hipster gayFAG pants on guys that expose all these girly boys little peckers

 

 

 

i'm amish too

bitches.

[fun haver]

those and toe socks. toe socks show way too much shape of the foot and might really get someone with a foot fetish off.

 

thats some funny shit

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

I was watching MSNBC today and the anchor chick had the douchebag councilman that's behind this on the phone. It was funny as shit too cause she was basically clowning him. Like "what's next, skirt lengths, men with long hair?". She totally caught dude off guard too. You could tell he wasn't expecting it. :biglaugh:

[Juan Fuentes]

it's a loss because i know the pigs caught more than one moron, easier, because of his pants.

i hate them but still baning them it's just a way for them showing that you live in a country where everything should be punishable and you should get used to it.

 

when will we get mad?

[The Fun Police]

we won't. we'll sit complacently until our last civil liberties are stripped from us... then and only then we'll wake up only to complain. fuck it man, fight back now, sag those pants.

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

it's a loss because i know the pigs caught more than one moron, easier, because of his pants.

i hate them but still baning them it's just a way for them showing that you live in a country where everything should be punishable and you should get used to it.

 

when will we get mad?

 

 

 

It's called a police state. But people that don't wear baggy pants or sag or whatever are just gonna laugh and cheer shit like this on. Cracking jokes and shit. Untill some shit that they're into gets banned. Then everybody that's not into that will just laugh and crack jokes about them. Untill something that they do get's banned etc, etc, till we all live in the equivilent of work camps and 90% of the country are in prison, mostly for shit that we would all consider trivial bullshit these days. But America is changing. Oooohhh is it changing.

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

we won't. we'll sit complacently until our last civil liberties are stripped from us... then and only then we'll wake up only to complain. fuck it man, fight back now, sag those pants.

 

 

^We were pretty much just typing the same shit at the same time.:lol:

[The Fun Police]

seriously the police state is here, it's knocking and people cant see through the proverbial peep-hole because they are blinded by a consumer based post 9-11 terrorist jihad mind fuck governmentally challenged waste land. shit.

[Dawood]

good, tell them homo thug niggas to put their ass stain boxer shorts back in their pants.

I can't stand that, especially when one of them is running across the street holding his pants up looking like a doofus all dinktoed. Dumb asses.

 

N E way....

 

they can't ban saggy pants, they're scared.

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

 

they can't ban saggy pants, they're scared.

 

 

 

Yes they can. And banning Muslims isn't too far off either.

Espescially with the combination of anti muslim fever after 911 mixed in with a large amount of a fundimental evangelical Christian movement taking over the US government.

 

But beleive what you will.

[soupBDC]

Faggot counselmen and their dreams of being fashion police. Stop looking at dudes asses and get back to work.

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

Faggot counselmen and their dreams of being fashion police. Stop looking at dudes asses and get back to work.

 

 

 

^Seriously!

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

good, tell them homo thug niggas to put their ass stain boxer shorts back in their pants.

I can't stand that, especially when one of them is running across the street holding his pants up looking like a doofus all dinktoed. Dumb asses.

 

 

 

 

^American dumbass translation... Good, tell them towelheaded jihadists to take that roll of toilet paper off their head. And to stop wearing dresses for crying out loud!

I can't stand that, espescially when they're crashing our airplains into our buildings and squattin down and doing that blasphemous prayer shit every few hours. What heathans.

 

 

 

 

 

^Just sayin. :rolleyes:

[Theo Huxtable.]

andre 3000 ain't complainin

 

 

Your white tee, well to me, look like a night gown,

Make ya momma proud, take that thing two sizes down

[xlando]

:lol:

 

funny guy

[fat ralphy]

sagging has only been around 15+ years.....yeah ban it...good luck

 

might as well ban those fuckin butt hugger hipster pants

[xlando]

even if they do ban

who's gunna obey ?

[geezpot]

Anyone ever watch Cops.

Every time the thug with the low jeans tries to dash his pants always fall down and he trips up and gets caught. There ain't no law abiding kid going to wear baggy diaper pants so the cops now got it easier to profile criminals. Atlanta needs to rethink the new law, thugs are going to be able to run faster with better pants on and blend in with regular population.

[xlando]

:lol:

[xlando]

true

[Dawood]

^American dumbass translation... Good, tell them towelheaded jihadists to take that roll of toilet paper off their head. And to stop wearing dresses for crying out loud!

I can't stand that, espescially when they're crashing our airplains into our buildings and squattin down and doing that blasphemous prayer shit every few hours. What heathans.

 

 

 

 

 

^Just sayin. :rolleyes:

 

Drunken Asshole oner.

 

[Dawood]

sagging has only been around 15+ years.....yeah ban it...good luck

 

might as well ban those fuckin butt hugger hipster pants

 

sagging pants came from the homos in prison who wanted to give bubba easier access.

[Gat Bush]

Cop: Hey you, kid! Pull up your baggy pants! Lemme see your ID!

 

Me: What?

 

Cop: Oh, he's resisting! Hit him with the tazer!

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

Dawood.

 

 

:biglaugh:

[xlando]

UPDATE :

 

 

" NEW ORLEANS - Hike up those pants. Droopy drawers that bare skin or underwear might soon be forbidden fashion on the streets of Alexandria and Shreveport, and violators could be forced to part with some cash.

 

 

"I'm tired (of) looking at behinds," Shreveport Councilwoman Joyce Bowman said after Tuesday's 4-3 vote to ban fanny-flaunting trousers.

 

Nobody can be arrested just for violating the ordinance, but they could be fined or required to perform community service. The maximum fine for a first offense is $100.

 

Alexandria's City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to ban the baring. Its ordinance allows some sag, but 3 inches or more can bring a fine of $25 to $200 and a requirement for community service. "

 

 

"Atlanta's city council is considering a ban on baggy pants, but critics say it unfairly targets black youth"

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

How funny would it be if this was the last straw that finally led to a civil uprising. :lol:

[DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER]

I mean come on... New Orleans???

All that's left is hood niggas and bums.

They're going to start hemming everybody up and fine them each $100 every time and you honestly believe that they expect to see a dime? When niggas can't even afford housing?

All this shit is meant to do is put warrants on everybody from the hood and eventually cart them off to jail when they don't pay up. Making way for easy gentrification while they build a New-New Orleans.

They might as well just be real about it and just round them all up and put them all in prisons without all the fancy dance moves... like the Nazis did.

The only real difference is that they're creating a bullshit excuse for what they're doing "oh he disobeyed the law and dressed how he wanted then didn't pay the fine so we were forced to cart him off to jail"... just be fucking real about it and round up the hood and say "we don't want your type round these here parts".

It's basically the same shit.

[soupBDC]

Im posting the whole shit because IHT charges to read the article.

source: IHT

In U.S., a backlash against sagging jeans

By Niko Koppel

 

Jamarcus Marshall, a 17-year-old high school sophomore in Mansfield, Louisiana, says he believes that no one should be able to tell him how high to wear his jeans. "It's up to the person who's wearing the pants," he said.

 

Marshall's sagging pants, a style popularized in the early 1990s by hip-hop artists, are becoming a criminal offense in a growing number of communities, including his own.

 

Starting in Louisiana, an intensifying push by lawmakers has decided that pants worn low enough to expose underwear poses a threat to the public, and they have enacted indecency ordinances to stop it.

 

Since June 11, sagging pants have been against the law in Delcambre, Louisiana, a town of 2,231 that is 80 miles, or 130 kilometers, southwest of Baton Rouge. The style carries a fine of as much as $500 or up to a six-month sentence."We used to wear long hair, but I don't think our trends were ever as bad as sagging," said Mayor Carol Broussard. I mean, we never acted like NIGGERS for gods sake...

 

An ordinance in Mansfield, a town of 5,496, subjects offenders to a fine of up to $150 plus court costs or jail time of up to 15 days. Police Chief Don English said the law, which takes effect Sept. 15, would set a good civic image.

 

Behind the indecency laws may be the real issue - the hip-hop style itself, which critics say is worn as a badge of delinquency, with its distinctive walk conveying thuggish swagger and a disrespect for authority. Also at work are the larger issue of freedom of expression and the questions raised when fashion moves from being merely objectionable to illegal.

 

Sagging began in American prisons, where oversized uniforms were issued without belts to prevent suicide and the use of belts as weapons. The style spread by way of rappers and music videos, from the ghetto to the suburbs and around the world.

 

Efforts to outlaw sagging in Virginia and statewide in Louisiana in 2004 failed, usually when opponents invoked a right to self-expression. But the latest legislative efforts have taken a different tack, drawing on indecency laws, and their success is inspiring other lawmakers.

 

In the West Ward of Trenton, New Jersey, Councilwoman Annette Lartigue is drafting an ordinance to fine or enforce community service in response to what she sees as the problem of exposing private parts in public.

 

"It's a fad like hot pants; however, I think it crosses the line when a person shows their backside," Lartigue said. "You can't legislate how people dress, but you can legislate when people begin to become indecent by exposing their body parts."

 

The American Civil Liberties Union has been steadfast in its opposition to dress restrictions. Debbie Seagraves, the executive director of the group in Georgia, said, "I don't see any way that something constitutional could be crafted when the intention is to single out and label one style of dress that originated with the black youth culture as an unacceptable form of expression."

 

School districts have become more aggressive in enforcing dress bans as the courts have given them greater latitude. Restrictions have been devised for jeans, miniskirts, long hair, piercing, logos with drug references and clothing suggesting gang affiliation, including "colors," hats and jewelry.

 

Dress codes are showing up in unexpected places. The National Basketball Association now stipulates that players who are not in uniform at league-sponsored events cannot wear items like sunglasses, headgear, exposed chains or medallions. After experiencing a brawl that spilled into the stands and generated publicity headaches, the league sought to enforce a business-casual dress code, saying that hip-hop clothing projected an image that alienated middle-class audiences.

 

According to Andrew Bolton, the curator at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, fashions tend to be decried when they "challenge the conservative morality of a society."

 

Not since the zoot suit has a style been greeted with such strong disapproval. The exaggerated boxy long coat and tight-cuffed pants, a look that started in the 1930s, was the emblematic style of a subculture of young urban minorities. During World War II, it was viewed as unpatriotic for flouting a fabric conservation order. The clothing was at the center of what were called Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles, racially motivated beatings of Hispanic youths by sailors. The youths were stripped of their garments, which were burned in the street.

 

Like past fashion bans, the prohibitions on sagging are seen by some as racially motivated because the wearers are young, predominantly African-American men.

 

islation has been proposed largely by African-American officials. It may speak to a generation gap. Michael Eric Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University and the author of "Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop," said, "They've bought the myth that sagging pants represents an offensive lifestyle which leads to destructive behavior."

 

Last week, Councilman C.T. Martin of Atlanta sponsored an amendment to the city's indecency laws to ban sagging, which he called an epidemic.

 

"We are trying to craft a remedy," said Martin, who sees the problem as "a prison mentality."

 

But Larry Harris Jr., 28, a musician from Miami who stood in oversize gear outside a hip-hop show in Times Square in New York, said that prison style was not his inspiration. "I think what you have here is people who don't understand the language of hip-hop," he said.

 

A dress code ordinance proposed in Stratford, Connecticut, by Councilman Alvin O'Neal was rejected at a Town Council meeting Monday, drawing criticism that the law was unconstitutional and unjustly encouraged racial profiling. Many residents said the town had more pressing issues.

 

Benjamin Chavis, a former executive director of the NAACP, said, "I think to criminalize how a person wears their clothing is more offensive than what the remedy is trying to do."

 

Chavis, who is often pictured in an impeccable suit and tie among the baggy outfits of the hip-hop elite, is a chairman of the Hip Hop Summit Action Network. He said that the coalition would challenge the ordinances in court.

 

"The focus should be on cleaning up the social conditions that the sagging pants comes out of," he said. "That they wear their pants the way they do is a statement of the reality that they're struggling with on a day-to-day basis."