One of his favorite scams was getting one group to point the finger at another and denounce them as "impure" communists. He would then use these denouncements to round up the impure and either kill them outright or disappear them into the gulag.
After a relatively short time he would round up the finger pointers and they too would disappear.
I'm not saying our compatriots here, the finger pointers, dissemblers, signifiers and outright liars are trying to get us "gulaged", but I think they are smug and totally unaware of the fact that they're being used against their fellow citizens and they're next.
LOL!!!! I doubt that. Yes, there are the anti-smoking nazis who go too far, and I'd just as soon they went away. But this is not the "nose under the tent" for such folks, it's just a minor battle in their larger war.
But your insistence that this is an assault on fundamental human rights is ridiculous. It could be nothing more than the fact that smokers stink things up for that large majority of people who don't smoke, and who do not believe that you have a fundamental right to stink up the room for everybody else.