City should allow responsible alcohol use without permit
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Editor,
I do not see why we citizens should be forced to give up adult beverages or pay a price to obtain a permit to consume alcohol in the city parks. Alcohol is not an illegal substance. This is not supposed to be a policed society. People pushing this measure are cops, former cops and a cop’s wife. We have been losing our civil liberties in leaps and bounds for years now. It needs to stop.
I take my grandson to these parks often to swim and play. I do not see “drunks” or fights and do not hear profanity. I do see the police drive through and constables on patrol talking to the citizens.
There are enough laws in the books to prosecute drunks, disorderly conduct and public nuisance offenders.
Do not take our rights of consuming adult beverages in our public parks away as they are used by responsible people that have celebrations of all kinds. Taking these rights away without public input, illegal.
Tim Wall
Polson
