Allen Lichtenstein Quotes (13 Quotes)

The statement 'we don't want to do business with you people' you people isn't anyone but John McDonald.

It does cause some concern. It raises questions that need to be looked at.

When you have a set of rules, and then government says they don't apply to you -- they only apply when we want them to -- that's a concern.

It's not the job of police to play formal or informal censor.

It really doesn't matter whether there has been an attempt at an outright ban or merely an attempt to influence these properties. We're still talking about action that is taken under the color of the law and is therefore governmental action that is, frankly, censorship.

I think the people in Business License need to get better guidance before they run into significant constitutional problems. We would be happy to represent the Little Theatre.

Imagine for a moment you owed money to the city of Las Vegas. You owed the money in October, but you ignored it for all these months. You think they'd take action against you Of course they would.

Certainly there is nothing that prohibits the commission or the (Gaming) Control Board from saying to properties, you have to be careful about and responsible for the security of any type of venue. But it can't go to content.

To say, 'don't have it', that's censorship. That's what is being done. That is what is being said by the control board letter and by the sheriff.

She's flat out wrong. The only justification for special taxes is to pay for administrative costs. The U.S. Supreme Court has said that First Amendment businesses can't be singled out for special taxes.

I look at it as part of the same kind of mind-set that looks at the tourist industry as paramount, and therefore anything that might offend tourists, the powers that be don't want. So they pass these things sometimes forgetting the fact we're not in a private Disneyland here.

The police ... get to eat what they kill. They have an incentive to fund themselves through these seizures, and it can be very disproportionate (to the crime). A misdemeanor, yet a fine that takes away the entire property

This is a substantial amount of money. This is not some symbolic type of gesture, this is the procedure to be followed.