IMO the UK government is directly to blame for this…
accurate
, too right :-[
1967: Private Places of entertaining (licensing) act
1988: Licensing act (the police got more power by licensing partys)
and of course: Misuse of drugs act
1988 - 1990 altercations between (ilegal open airs) party people and police (force)
1990: Entertainments (increased penalties) act: organizers of illegal partys must pay up to 20.000 Pounds and must go in prison for 6 months! :o
1992 (may): Woodstock a open air rave(by castlemorton): 40.000 People came, the organizers have been denounced, but the denounce ment was dinied. (costs of denouncement: 4 millions pounds! - and very much negativ public!)
1994: CJA-Criminal Justice Act (thats the shittiest act ever- you must read this act :o fu…ing grazy!- this has destroyed the rave culture)
1997: local nameities can close clubs (no licensce anymore) if they have arguments of drug misuse in this club!
In austria we had the last years a big psy trance festival “sonneklang” (since 2003)
To understand the austrian system: Austria is cuttet in 10 areas, in 2 areas we have CJA like laws (not so heavy of course), (in both areas is a bigger psy trance scene)
Now this year the Justice of 1 area “niederösterreich” (nether austria) will not license this-one of the biggest- psy trance festival of europe!
The Argument of the justice was: 2 persons had died in the last 2 years.- First in the puplic the said “a drug dead”
But the truth was- one clean person is fallen 50meters into a lake and had died.
The other had a car crash by driving home (2005 came 8000 people of all over the world - and the most free people go there by car!)
In the other hand wie have very much acceptet partys for the biggest part of our populace: It consist Alcohol alcohol alcohol alcohol… and shitty popdancemusic of the ugliest form, after a while in this sick society their minds are getting ugly. :-\
And the most people are die ing on this partys! (not on a rave!)- And this partys are ones of the negativest effects for our population, and if somebody has died on a party in the most of cases- he had died of alcohol-or drived drunken or of force.
>:(