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"The authority which Mr. Kaigh cited was a handbook issued by the ABC which is advisory in nature and in fact is no authority. The statute and the administrative code, which are authorities, contain no such provision. There is nothing in the legal authorities as to how the proceedings should be conducted and the decision to have the case presented by the police chief was entirely legal and appropriate.

"Nonetheless out of an abundance of caution and to ensure there was not a frivolous appeal over these non-issues the matter was continued on the condition that the licensee close at midnight and have no live entertainment. Those conditions appear to address the concerns raised in the notice of charges."

The list of charges vary and include such allegations as the purchase of alcoholic beverages from a prohibited source, health code violations, overcrowding, fist fights, brawls etc. Most recently a 24-year-old rapper who was performing at the bar was shot outside in the bar’s parking lot.

The club’s owners, Aramis Ramirez and Carlos Vasquez said at a news conference on January 10 the city was harassing them and they should not be held accountable for a series of bloody fights in their parking lot.

 IS THE NEWS MEDIA AFRAID TO REPORT THE NEWS?- Today’s newspapers seem to shy away from hard hitting articles for fear of offending someone. They are content to allow citizen journalists known as bloggers to report the real news. This is especially true with newspapers that are owned by major corporations who are only interested in making a buck. 

Recently Boston Globe editor Marty Baron received the 2012 Stephen Hamblett First Amendment Award, presented by the New England First Amendment Coalition. During his acceptance speech he talked about what is wrong with today's media. Baron said,

"The greatest danger to a vigorous press today, however, comes from ourselves.

"This is a moment in American history when the press has been made a fat target. The press is routinely belittled, badgered, harassed, disparaged, demonized, and subjected to acts of intimidation from all corners — through words and actions, including boycotts, threats of cancellations (or defunding, in the case of public broadcasting), and even surreptitious taping, later subjected to selective, deceitful editing. Our independence — simply posing legitimate questions — is seen as an obstacle to what our critics consider a righteous moral, ideological, political, or business agenda. In some instances, they have deployed scorched-earth tactics against us in hopes of dealing a crippling blow.

"In this environment, too many news organizations are holding back, out of fear — fear that we will be saddled with an uncomfortable political label, fear that we will be accused of bias, fear that we will be portrayed as negative, fear that we will lose customers, fear that advertisers will run from us, fear that we will be assailed as anti-this or anti-that, fear that we will offend someone, anyone. Fear, in short, that our weakened financial condition will be made weaker because we did something strong and right, because we simply told the truth and told it straight."