Danger of L.A.’s New Anti-Cruising Measure

So the police now have a new weapon in their never-ending fight against undesirables. I refer, of course, to the new anti-cruising law that the City Council recently passed (unanimously).

Does John Q. Citizen now run the risk of being ticketed while circling the block looking a parking place? Perhaps even while driving around waiting for a companion to come out of the pharmacy with the much-needed prescription for a sick baby at home? No, of course not. This is not likely to happen. Instead the new law will join those others that are selectively enforced.

What villains, then, will be the object of this legislation if not John Q. Citizen, eminent WASP? Will it be only those low riders cruising and causing traffic jams in certain areas? No, even these desperadoes will probably escape the wrath of this new police toy since it usually takes longer than two hours to drive through one of those areas.

The real criminals bearing the brunt of this new legislation will be the patron of a gay bar circling the block for a parking space and the low rider out filling a prescription for the sick baby. Perhaps even the guilty wretch who reminds some poor officer of a childhood tormentor.

C’est la vie. We all know that the majority have nothing to fear and, thus, it’s OK to have laws like this. The majority rules in passage of new laws, as in the selection of judges to protect majority desires under these laws.

Wait, I hear a faint voice from the past (perhaps the constitutional convention). Minority WHAT? Pshaw, boy, get a can of whitewash and join the majority parade. God bless America! NORTH America, that is.

CHUCK GEORGE

West Hollywood