tyingq parent
The hit back at the liquor license (which apparently requires admitting the general public, with only very specific exceptions) sounded pretty clever to me.
Clever but a clear sign that we have no protections on the books for anything like this.
That someone needs to resort to clever liquor license dispute adds to the dystopian feel of this story.
It's a hack in a domain in which I am not a hacker! Makes me feel vulnerable.
Yes, people in a vulnerable position routinely get hurt and just about every citizen is vulnerable to multiple someones.
It's unfortunate that certain professions have extremely high walls around them: police, doctors, lawyers, even certain elected officials and select other professions are very hard to displace, while their position grants them very easy tools to displace, manipulate, or harm others.
Hence the popcorn!