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8/9/2007
8:48:23 pm EDT
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Casper Repeals Ban On Fortunetelling
Author: AP Source: Casper Star Tribune (WY)
Title: CASPER REPEALS BAN ON FORTUNETELLING
After nearly 80 years, it's once again legal for fortunetellers to ply their trade in Casper.
The Casper City Council voted 8-1 on Tuesday to repeal a 1929 city ordinance that had prohibited people from charging for fortunetelling services.
Most city councilors say they learned of the existence of the ordinance when local fortuneteller Nella Forest brought it to their attention a few weeks ago.
Casper City Attorney Bill Luben said no one has been prosecuted for violating it in the 10 years he's been in the city.
"I imagine back in those days you had roving people coming through," Luben said of Casper in the 1920s. "The climate was different back then."
Submitted by and Thanks to: Lady Damorea
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| Over Kill | Aug 10th. at 4:00:06 pm EDT
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Ander s. Drake (hays, Kansas) - Email Me
The lone vote to keep the ordinance came from councilwoman Stefanie Boster.
"When people are vulnerable, it's a good time for fortune tellers to take advantage," Boster said. "By repealing the statute we have opened the door for people to be taken advantage of particularly the elderly and people with low incomes."
We have laws to take care of those things like laws against fraud, there is no need to ban every body from fortune telling, that would be over kill. Really people have got to think for them selfs, just like when you go shopping you should consider how much some thing costs and how much you can really afford! IF some thing is out ragiously priced then you should consider if maybe it's a scam. In this country sales men can get away with fluff like telling you their product is super but they can't tell you it will cure cancer. and you should be cautious if some does tell you that. None of this nonsince about paying large sums of money to keep bad fortune from happaning to you. I doubt the gods and goddess appreciate people who abuse other people and the craft this way. and neither do I.
Foutune telling is offically a form of entertainment, while yes i believe it can help with personal grow it can't make you say rich over night. It mostly about giving you gudiance so you can help your self. overall I'm glad the bias law was repealed
bright blessings and have a great weekend
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| Wow! | Aug 10th. at 12:01:47 pm EDT
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Michael Welch (Audubon, New Jersey) - Email Me
Casper really *is* a friendly ghost!
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| Two Things | Aug 10th. at 11:41:38 am EDT
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Dynnys Derwydd (Lubbock, Texas) - Email Me
One, the article was in fact a positive one in which the city government repealed an old obsolete law which just as often stepped on the toes of alternative religions as well as the shysters which have always been around.
Two, those "roving people" may have been Gypsies, or they could've been the thousands who were uprooted from their farms and livelihoods during the "Dust Bowl." And while many families, individuals and municipalities were more than happy to help out those in need, many others took up their welcome mats and hid them away for the nonce. (And let's face it, many people did whatever they could to survive during the Dust Bowl which coincided with much of the Great Depression; this included theft, larceny, fraud, prostitution, etc..)
honi soit qui mal y pense,
Dynnys Derwydd
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| No Fortune For Casper | Aug 10th. at 12:25:58 am EDT
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Bluemax (Nelson, New Zealand) - Email Me
it appears america is going through a mini dark age where people being distracted by bright shiny bubles of consumerism are loseing there rights with the joining of canada ,usa, and mexico into an economic union. and ultra concervative local goverment it appears that the little person or individuel has lost his or her rights .
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| Racially Motivated | Aug 9th. at 10:49:48 pm EDT
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Dana Corby (Anderson Island, Washington) - Email Me
The article obliquely refers to the real reason Casper and *many* cities passed similar laws at about the same time: " 'I imagine back in those days you had roving people coming through,' Luben said of Casper in the 1920s."
Laws against fortune telling were actually enacted to keep Gypsies out of town - - the "roving people" the article refers to. In the 1920's America had a simultaneous fascination with Gypsies and fear of them. They were seen as exotic, mysterious, exciting, and - - though nobody admitted it - - sexy. When the Gypsies were in the area, whitebread parents feared their teenage daughters would be abducted and their teenage sons (and not so teenage husbands) might 'catch something.' And yet these same fearful whitebread folks could not resist getting their fortunes told by the presumed-psychic Gypsy women. It was believed that Gypsies made most of their living off fortune telling, though in most areas they actually made considerably more from horse trading and as a sort of migrant labor force. So, in panicky ignorance, town after town passed amti-fortune telling laws.
And now, when most of the fortune-tellers are as whitebread as the people who originally passed the laws, city after city is repealing its anti-Gypsy laws. It's a Good Thing. But it behoooves us to remember why they were ther in the first place.
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