Stephen Baldwin Protests Adult Store
“Actor Stephen Baldwin doesn’t like pornography and says he’ll do anything to shut down a new shop on Route 59. Baldwin stood outside 28 Route 59 last night and photographed workers and their vehicles as they readied the adult entertainment store for business. Baldwin said he planned to stand outside the store every day and photograph the license plates of the store’s patrons in order to track down their identities. He said he would take out a full-page newspaper advertisement once a month to publish those names. ‘I won’t stop until it shuts down,’ he said, standing on the curb in front of the building that once was a car dealership… ‘I don’t want it this close to my house,’ said Baldwin, who lives about a mile away. ‘I’m personally not OK with pornography. I definitely think that it adds to the moral decay or our culture.’ Village officials have said they could not forbid such businesses, only regulate where they open… Clarkstown police responded to the property last night after Baldwin called them about 9:30 p.m. He said the workers were giving him a hard time for taking photographs.” — The Journal News (US)
When did it become legal to persecute the employees of a law-abiding business? Suppose you don’t like the Burger King or the daycare center across the street. You set up a Baldwin-style protest that includes harassment and intimidation. You publish the license plates of people eating hamburgers or shout slogans at parents dropping off their kids. Wouldn’t the police intervene and tell you to leave the place alone? Why should it be any different for an adult bookstore? So long as they both obey the law, the law should not discriminate in its treatment of them. Besides which, if you do want to protest, it’s ignoble to target the employees and not the ownership.
Then again, that’s the sort of dirty tactic typical of Jesus freaks. Certainly it is not property values but rather religious ones that motivate Mr. Baldwin in his crusade against that great scourge of free society, pornography. Evidently he is a born-again Christian — “we’re just a bunch of Christian guys making a video,” he once told some folks on a shoot. Maybe with God on his side Mr. Baldwin will be more successful in his crusade against pornography than he has been in his acting career, which has been a busy but undistinguished one.
In fact, maybe local pornophiles should set up a new protest. Suppose they hate Mr. Baldwin’s crappy movies. Why not stand outside his house, take pictures of him and his license plate, then publish it in the local newspaper with the headline, “No More Bad Movies!” The protesters should steel themselves to fight until Mr. Baldwin retires from the entertainment business — or at least until he leaves the adult entertainment business to itself.
It’s legal to take pictures just about anywhere it’s legal to stand. And if he’s heckling the employees, that’s probably illegal harassment. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what he’s doing.
I don’t think it’s the worst idea to publically identify people who do immoral things. It’s just that you & I & the Jesus freaks disagree about what’s immoral.
There are many other legal things they can do to ruin his life. Shine a 50,000 candle power lamp in his direction until he leaves. That is just as legal as him taking photos. Better yet have everyone you know croud around him for as long as he stands there. Get 50-60 people constantly taking photos of him 24/7 and watch him drop this topic faster than his movies drop out of the box office.
How do stars like paparazzi following them around taking their pictures all of the time? I say fuck him.
Does this clown think that he has some sort of status as a spokesperson for the moral majority? Just because he is a sometimes (forgettable) movie actor, does not give him the right to interfere with an establishment that’s licensed for business. I’m getting vibes that there’s ulterior reasons for his protests.
But what could be the motavion behind this “christian guy, who is “personally not OK with pornography” and doesn’t “want it close to my house”. Well……… whopee…shit!! Reality check Stephen, this is America, remember? freedom? freedom from harassment from assholes like you that want to oppress others with their personal beliefs. Perhaps if you get arrested and thrown in the slammer for interfering with this establishment’s business, and public harassment, you can find some other things that “you’re personally not OK with”.
Mr. Baldwin hates porno! and Jesus is his best friend!
The man just want’s the world to be a decent place!
See! He was in all these movies that embrace and share the Christian values that Mr. Baldwin is trying to bring to the world! See:
The Sex Monster
A comedy that answers the question “What would happen if your wife said yes to a menage-a-trois… and loved it!”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159730/
Half Baked
A stoner movie from the 90’s
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120693/
8 Seconds
(the first gay cowboy love story)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109021/
I think going through the effing list there’s not many moves that Mr. Baldwin made that a “reaL” Christian would NOT be ashamed of playing a part in.
I guess it’s different though when the “sin” money lines your pockets rather than some one elses.
Go to hell Stevie, you a hypocritical christian ass hole and I’m pretty sure Jesus hates you for it.
I know I do, but because you’re a discount baldwin and you’re stupid looking. The other stuff just adds to my hatred.
Hey a Stephena, why you don’ta wanna take up some real a moral causes: they gotta a child abuse, animal abuse, the deatha penalty, the war in Iraq, abortion, they gotta gays and a lesbians, anna lotsa other things you coulda be protesting instead a fucking witha some pore schmo whosa trying to make a dollar.
Whena I comma to thisa great country froma the mother land, I wasa told you coulda do whata you want as long as a you no broke the law. Nobody says anything about some turd gonna stand on the street and a protest cause he no like the business. You try a that back home and a you wind up with a busted kneecaps the first time, donna ask bout second time, not pretty.
You’sa sounds like you a pantywaist crybaby whose needs hisa attitude adjusted anyway, so I gonna tell ya, stay away froma my neighborhood.
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This mutha come round to my hood, trying this shit, somebody gonna cap his ass.
Ok let’s all look at this intelligently.
It’s a legit business and they have a right to sell porno.
But it’s too close to houses.
That’s the problem.
I’m the biggest perv of all, I don’t mind porn houses and jack shacks at all. But I remember once living next to one that was way too close to a school and I would see kids walking by it all the time.
That was wrong.
They BOTH have a point here.
Maybe the porn book stores shouldn’t be so close to homes and schools? Put them in industrial areas, OK?
His house is one mile away. I would not call that close.
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