They can't climb a ladder on a work site or pump gas. But they can be strippers, as long as they are home by 11:30 on school nights....

http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/24/legal-loophole-allows-rhode-island-minors-to-strip/

have had work papers, in which case and parents would have been able to refuse to sign the papers to allow her to work. Does that sound correct?

This is just more drama from the (sexually?)frustrated legislator Giannini in order to bring attention to her indoor prostitution law. She needs to give it up.

oh, and just to make it clear, I do not endorse 16 year olds stripping.

This is such f*ckin' BS!!
I worked at a fast food joint at 16 (w/ work permit); anyone can get a job w/ signed papers.
No one checked/called my parents to see if their signatures were legit.
Sure the same thing applied here or she lied about her age (SHOCKER!).

This woman and all her right-wing buddies really need to get lives of their own and stop telling the rest of us how to live ours.
She has a truly warped sense of what personal freedoms/right to privacy actually are.
My father lost 3 siblings (2 older brothers/1 older sister in WWII) fighting against people who think like her.

And yes, this was a blatant hi-jack of a story/issue that has almost no relevancy to bring her (hopefully) soon-to-be-dead bill back into the spotlight.
These people will not be happy until everyone thinks/acts like they do.

When I was actually paying attention in school, I was told this country was founded by people who wanted freedom from govt persecution/oppression and the right to live their lives however they chose. They sacrificed everything (including their lives) for this ideal. This is just my opinion, but I think they would be appauled by our loss of personal freedoms; especially over the last 9 years.

My understanding of the online news article that I read was, the prosecutors wanted to charge the club's management with something and found that they could not.

Contrast this with the case of Traci Lords. Wikipedia (link below) says, "[T]he agents and producers who accepted her fake IDs were charged and people affiliated with the films in question experienced legal troubles for years."

As for a parent giving permission, check out the song "Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry (whom you may know as the singer who recorded "Ode to Billie Joe"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_(song)

This happened at Cheaters in Providence. And reportedly at Club Balloons next door too. Both places are NASTY !  ..the girls,the club,everything. Dirtiest "strip clubs" ever. I also heard she used a fake id. MANAGEMENT @ these places is responsible for hiring her though. Im not placing blame on her. It will be intresting to see what,if anything,happens here.

good points. I am not sure what the two years from 16 to 18 do, to make it okay for 18 year olds to be sex workers....but then I guess it has to be okay at some age...
I am Not supporting 16 year olds to be sex workers. Just pondering human nature.

I know I was sexually active before my 16th birthday, as was my girlfriend...  

However, I do support the concept of "MINORS".  (Contrasting 2 concenting adults in private.)  I don't know is stripping is technically "sex work" but it certainly is intended to be sexually stimulating...  & I just think it's wrong to have minors involved.  

The club's managements all claim they don't hire minors...  that there are plenty of adult women available, especially in this job climate.  I think outlawing stripping by minors should have "no effect" except to perhaps make club management more vigilant about employees ids.

That said, this is a spring board to bring attention back on the anti-prostitution bill which appears dead in committee for this year.  
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Do you think Hancock, Adams and the lads had 16 yr old strippers in mind when they wrote the Declaration? I bet your dead family members would be unhappy to see you citing their deaths in defense of your right to watch children strip. There is a reason it is called the ADULT entertainment business.

PS: I'm curious which of your personal liberties were taken away by Bush? Can you name one? (By that I mean an actual one, not a made up one.)

If you read my post, nowhere in it did I state that I supported underage stripping.
(seriously incorrect assumption on your part)
For the record, IMPO legal age of consent for anything related to stripping/sex industry should be 21.
In most people (I've known), an enormous amount of 'growing up' is done between 18 and 21.
But that's just me.

My rant was (obviously) in regards to the right-wing of RI using a thinnly related issue to soapbox their agenda.
They will not be happy until everyone leads their lives as they do.
This misuse of govt power/$ and forced morals/ideals is exactly what my relatives fought against.
I live my life and make choices (some of which they may not have supported) that are directly a result of their sacrifice.
For this I am extremely grateful (as everyone should be).

Hancock, Adams, Franklin and Jefferson (who wrote most of our country's 'paperwork') were very afraid of govt/church interference in citizens private lives (have you ever read anything about their lives, especially Jefferson?).
Having spent time in 'progressive' France in the late 1700's, my feeling is our founders would not be as shocked at what our country has evolved into as much as our loss of rights/freeedoms given to us 200+ years ago.

And BTW, we have had our personal rights/freedoms trampled on by 'Dick' Cheney and his puppet 'W' through that insultingly named Patriot Act (is that real enough?).

J

You still haven't answered which of "our" personal rights/freedoms were trampled on. I'd like to know if some of my rights/freedoms are missing. Just name one, but not one you make up, I mean a real verifiable right that we no longer have.

I do know 'Dick' was trying to get a federal law passed raising the stripping age to 19, but they were swept out of office before they could get George W to sign it. He wouldn't come in from the WH yard where he was trampling his ass off.  

BTW, Unless you are very, very old, I find it hard to believe you spent time in 'progressive' France in the 1700's.

Since reading comprehension is not your forte, I won't even argue your 'BTW' comment.

NPR link below offers simple explanations of our 'losses'.
If you truly believe that we have not suffered a serious regression to our liberties, we live on opposing sides of reality and further discussion is moot.

People usually write about as clearly as they think, and if you think reality is many sided, good luck to you and yours.

I agree with you. Here is a link for breaking news in Rhode Island :

PROVIDENCE -- Mayor David N. Cicilline announced that he has signed an executive order prohibiting the city Board of Licenses from issuing a license to any adult entertainment establishment that employs minors.

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