Month: November 2016

On the very same day Cpt. Moody wrote his memorandum, Roeder made a written request to the City Council for the revocation of the Cuckoo’s Nest’s live entertainment permit, thus advocating the original demand of the disgruntled business owners from March 1980.  The police and high-level City management clearly coordinated this maneuver:  there is no way else to explain the rapid escalation of this matter from Det. Bell to Cpt. Moody, from Cpt. Moody to Roeder, and then from Roeder to the City Council.  Accompanying Roeder’s request were all of the documents assembled by Cpt. Moody in his memorandum to Roeder, as well as some correspondence between the City Attorney’s office and local businesses and the Cuckoo’s Nest.  This demonstrates that the police were the primary agents in assembling a case against the Cuckoo’s Nest.  Roeder set a hearing before the City Council for the revocation of the Cuckoo’s Nest’s live entertainment permit for February 17, 1981. Continue reading “The City bureaucracy and government mobilize against the Cuckoo’s Nest”