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Originally Posted by BJA62
It's on the books for the same reason it's illegal to fish from a giraffes neck in Illinois. Someone, at one time, had a brain fart and the law is there.
We don't disagree that it's a bad law and a slap in the face for a victim of rape. We don't disagree that Palin, or any other city official, should have recified it by removing it from the books.
But, I still ask, was this law in practice by Palins administration? It is relevant.
The other question is... why are there so many black men going in and out of Donkey Lefts apartment?
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I don't know anything about laws in Illinois. And I'm trying to find out more here. However, it seems that the path of least resistance is
not to have it on the books. There was pressure form the state troopers to not have this policy. Few, if any other towns had this policy. The state legislature had to pass a law to make it mandatory that no towns had this policy as Wasilla did.
That seems quite odd, especially if the intent was never to charge someone in the first place.
Here's another question: Has this always been a policy in Wasilla or was it just policy when she became mayor in 1996 up until the state legislature made the town change it in 2000?
All these questions go to the "why" of it being on the books.