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Latvians argue over strip clubs
By Laura Sheeter
BBC News, Riga
Touts for erotic shows are common in Riga 
Officials in the Latvian capital Riga - now a popular destination for revellers - are proposing to ban strip clubs from the historic city centre.
Riga City Council says it is acting with public support, but the plan does have some opponents.
Riga's historic Old Town dates back to the 13th Century, when it flourished as a trading port in the Hanseatic League.
Its narrow, cobbled streets and ornate medieval buildings are attracting increasing numbers of tourists.
But as cheap flights make the city ever more accessible Riga is also welcoming visitors far more interested in its nightlife than its architecture.
Revellers
Behind the shutters of a medieval townhouse, or tucked down a cobbled side street, you are increasingly likely to find a strip club or lap-dancing bar, ready to welcome visitors who have come to the city for a party.
Often the visitors are on pre-wedding "stag" weekends and want to see more than just historic sights.
Revellers flock to Riga for "hen" and "stag" parties 
But the proliferation of strip clubs in the very small Old Town is controversial.
Clubs face tough competition, so they hire people to walk around town wearing sandwich-boards advertising them, and approach passers-by to persuade them to come in.
These promotional staff are often paid according to how many customers they bring in, and their aggressive marketing techniques, as well as the mess left by hundreds of discarded club flyers, is causing increasing public indignation.
Discussions about the problem occupy a lot of airtime and column inches in the local media.
Riga City Council says locals and tourists alike are complaining to them that club promoters make it impossible to walk through the Old Town without being accosted, and that the city is getting a bad image.
They had discussed introducing a ban on "erotic advertising".
Clean-up campaign
A ban on adverts for strip clubs and the like radically altered the appearance of the arrivals hall at Riga International Airport.
Latvians are proud of their capital's attractive historic centre 
But now the council has decided it needs to go further and ban clubs from the Old Town altogether.
Their plan would also ban strip clubs from operating in apartment buildings, state and publicly-owned property, and within 300 metres of any educational establishment.
But there is some tough opposition.
Clubs say it is not fair to impose a ban on legitimate, and profitable businesses.
Eduard Letunov, who manages several clubs in old Riga, told the BBC he did not think the council would be able to impose an outright ban, but he said they would compromise on how they worked.
"If they tell us we can't advertise using people carrying placards, then OK, we'll comply. But we pay tax to the government, so why should they interfere with our business?" he said.
It seems that some in the national government agree.
The minister for local government, Maris Kucinskis, has spoken out against the plan, saying the council has no right to impose a ban as Latvian law allows all legitimate businesses freedom to operate.
However, the city's mayor has not given up. The council is working with the ministry to devise a way for it to legally regulate strip clubs in the Old Town.
If the plan succeeds, it could spell the end for Riga's flourishing reputation as a sexy holiday destination
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5099490.stm
Posted : 21/06/2006 2:32 pm
The first thing Americans did when they occupied Baghdad was to allow "real rape" pornographic videos. Apparently the evil freedom-hating Saddam Hoessein had outlawed that.
How did they live so long in Latvia without child porn, rape porn, and all those other cultural advancements of the kike?
One of the fist hits for Bagdad in Google. Even the best of the jews should be killed.
"People, look at the evidence the truth is there you just have to look for it!!!!!" - Joe Vialls
Fight jewish censorship, use
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Posted : 21/06/2006 4:03 pm
Where are the tourists coming from? Other parts of Russia? Because I can't see Americans flying all the way to Riga for "just" a strip club, if you get my drift. If they're attracting Americans, I have to believe they're offering more than a lap dance. Because I know how the G.D. Kike likes to sponsor "whore tours" for Americans, where they travel to Thailand and other ~exotic~ spots for cheap hookers....
AM
Posted : 21/06/2006 5:33 pm
Where are the tourists coming from? Other parts of Russia?
Latvia is not Russia.
Most of the tourists are probably Russians, yes. Not because they have much money, but because of the proximity and because the Russians are many. Because of cheaper prices and the lovely nature around the Baltic Sea, and because many of the old buildings from before communism have been preserved, Latvia will also attract Western tourism. Taxes on food, beer, everything is lower in the Baltic states than in most West European nations.
Posted : 22/06/2006 8:44 pm
I'm part Lithuanian, have grandmother that was born there. I've always admired and wished them the best, they seem to be strong and sensible White folk, I just wish they had a better economy didnt immigrate to our shitty western countries. :box:
Hail Jeboo!
Posted : 22/06/2006 8:51 pm
I'm part Lithuanian, have grandmother that was born there. I've always admired and wished them the best, they seem to be strong and sensible White folk, I just wish they had a better economy didnt immigrate to our shitty western countries. :box:
And our shitty western countries would be happy to see them stay in their own shitty eastern countries.
Posted : 22/06/2006 9:09 pm
And our shitty western countries would be happy to see them stay in their own shitty eastern countries.
Yeah, I guess can't compete with your nigger bucks or rico suave mestiozs. 
Hail Jeboo!
Posted : 22/06/2006 9:13 pm
And our shitty western countries would be happy to see them stay in their own shitty eastern countries.
Some years from now you'll be needing a place to hide. You will come to us. Do not nail the already shut door. Talking shit like this is easy, but is it wise?
back home.
Posted : 22/06/2006 11:49 pm
Some years from now you'll be needing a place to hide. You will come to us. Do not nail the already shut door. Talking shit like this is easy, but is it wise?
Ignore the idiot Bolg
Hail Jeboo!
Posted : 23/06/2006 12:04 am
Latvia is not Russia.
.
Oops, gotta brush up on my geography.,..
AM
Posted : 23/06/2006 4:57 am
Yeah, I guess can't compete with your nigger bucks or rico suave mestiozs.
Just like the swarthy Meds hate Nordics, so do Slavs hate Nordics, nothing new.
And always you show your "superiority" in the same way, the only way possible for you: that there is mass immigration in the West. Woo-hoo! NORDICS ARE INFERIOR, THEN!
Oh....
Wait a minute....
What about those nine million Gypsies living in East Europe?
No, I forget, Slavs are so superior that obviously there are no Gypsies, living in Slavic countries for many generations. Even before there were Jews controlling the media. Ooops!
Posted : 23/06/2006 2:48 pm
Some years from now you'll be needing a place to hide. You will come to us. Do not nail the already shut door. Talking shit like this is easy, but is it wise?
LOL
Wait a minute, sweetie ... the Grocer says our Western countries are "shitty," and I respond in kind ... and now I'm the one causing dissent here? Oh yeah, sure.
And again, all a Slav like you can show as superior is that there hasn't been mass immigration in East Europe. You have nothing else to show, as Western Europe has always been immensely richer, and has invented and produced so much more that Eastern Europe pales to nothing in comparison. You hate that. Just like niggers do. You know any Eastern invention you bring up - which do exist - can be matched with countless Western inventions, not just in the past but still today, every year.
And so you have to find something, just something, that justifies your spitting at Westerners and calling us inferior instead. HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! There's MASS IMMIGRATION in the West! Let's use that!
By the way:
East European countries are race traitors for supporting the European Union more than any Western people. East Europeans use the European Union to parasitize on Western nations just like the parasite niggers and sand niggers. East Europeans thereby ally themselves with the Jews, and it's not just the political and media leaders like in the West, but the entire Slavic nations!
So excuse me, race traitor, if I don't buy your superiority.
Posted : 23/06/2006 2:55 pm
LOL
Wait a minute, sweetie ... the Grocer says our Western countries are "shitty," and I respond in kind ... and now I'm the one causing dissent here? Oh yeah, sure.
And again, all a Slav like you can show as superior is that there hasn't been mass immigration in East Europe. You have nothing else to show, as Western Europe has always been immensely richer, and has invented and produced so much more that Eastern Europe pales to nothing in comparison. You hate that. Just like niggers do. You know any Eastern invention you bring up - which do exist - can be matched with countless Western inventions, not just in the past but still today, every year.
And so you have to find something, just something, that justifies your spitting at Westerners and calling us inferior instead. HEY, WAIT A MINUTE! There's MASS IMMIGRATION in the West! Let's use that!
By the way:
East European countries are race traitors for supporting the European Union more than any Western people. East Europeans use the European Union to parasitize on Western nations just like the parasite niggers and sand niggers. East Europeans thereby ally themselves with the Jews, and it's not just the political and media leaders like in the West, but the entire Slavic nations!
So excuse me, race traitor, if I don't buy your superiority.
You are not making any sense. You did not understand what I told you and you did not understand what Grocer told you. Bad for you. Continue being a moron. I have no time to waste on you.
back home.
Posted : 26/06/2006 12:37 am
On a whole, the Baltic States people are a fine people. They have been kicked around for quite some time by monetarily more powerful "nations". Their resources are such that there can be very little government resistance to the jew agenda. Their government sells them out just as all governments do. I hope they win their fight to relocate the sex trade to other locations outside the city. I have many good friends from Lithuania. Good White racist people they are. I would trust them with my life. This coming from one who has learned the hard way not to trust.
Posted : 26/06/2006 12:55 am