I first want to say that I agree with you, except for the part where you thank our City Council for this. We need to be thanking the ACLU and their take on Freedom of Speech which gives your intoxicated actor friend the right to say what he wants. I believe that the city was pressured into this. At least I think they did attempt to distinguish between panhandling and performing, but I'm sure that someone will say that the panhandlers have the right to state their beliefs that we should be giving them money just because they ask...