Stop the presses! Local circle jerk busted!
March 4, 2006The Cinema Art Theater here in Troy has been a well-known glory hole for more than 20 years. It’s a big old theatre in downtown Troy that runs porn all the time, has private booths — you know. Everybody knows. They’re quiet and clean, there’s no ads on the outside that call attention to it, and for longer than I’ve lived in the area, 
they’ve quietly served the social masturbatory needs of lonely men of the Greater Capital Region. The other local merchants were unbothered, and the cops didn’t harass them.
But the current county prosecutor, Patricia DeAngelis, is a half-retarded and more than half crazy twerp way out of her depth who thinks she can run for some office by being a big bad tough prosecutor. She’s constantly getting overturned and cited for misconduct in her bloodlust for bad guys everywhere. No offense is too victimless; no mitigating circumstance — like, say, mental illness — is relevant, and no misconduct in unacceptable in her persuit of twisted injustice. (A few samples? Here, here, here — wait, just Google DeAngelis prosecutor misconduct yourself).
So, on the basis of a “tip” from the alleged “ex-girlfriend” of some guy the “ex-girlfriend” accused of engaging in prostitution and drug use at Cinema Art, DeAngelis and Troy’s finest bring in State Police undercover units for a three month investigation which uncovers no drugs and no prostitution, but does find that guys are jerking off in there! Whoa nellie! Party’s over: Cops close down Cinema Art. (Almost all the local TV news stations led with this story.)
So, consenting adults go into an explicitly adults only place for sex play, this goes on not bothering anybody for a good 25 years or so, and nobody is complaining (including neighboring businesses). But Trish “gets a tip” which turns out — after a 3-month State Trooper investigation — to be groundless and likely false, and all they can find is 4 guys shaking hands with the purple-helmeted general. (Sounds like a slow day, frankly.) Of course, Trish (and our completely useless and incompetent new mayor, Harry Tutunjian) go on for the press about how “disgusting” the activities in there are.
Shame on you both, Trish and Harry. Wasting time, money, and effort. I know who’s pandering here; and it’s not the people at Cinema Art.
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The mayor comments, “Our streets are safer and cleaner.” What idiocy! It is pretty clear that the theatre gave people somewhere to go besides the streets.
By P.D. on Mar 4, 2006