Reminds me of Nixon's price controls. I remember a huge media deal about some kid who turned in some retailers for violating the price controls. He was a media darling. We all know how well those worked.
You going to Ohio soon? ;-0
Turn in your neighbors and your friends
They'll thank you for it in the end
And while they're busy doing time
We'll clean up their heads and wash out their minds
It reminds me of Mao's Red Guard.
"We've become a nation of finks."
Can someone paste a pic of the sign here for us, please? Thanks! :-)
Hey, while we're at it, why don't we call the police every time we see somebody driving without their seatbelts on.
The new Ohio law: "All “public places” and “places of employment” must, by Dec. 7, 2006, post conspicuous signs at each entrance. The signs must be clearly legible and shall contain a toll-free number for reporting violations. ODH has designed two sample signs which, when properly placed, meet the requirements of ORC 3794.06 (A) Posting of Signs."
We've been nice and conditioned by the Drug War to just this sort of thing.
It would be hilarious to get a large group of people together to report "smokers" all over town and then videotape the Smoke Police running around like a bunch of perverted Keystone Cops. Then show the video of the bozos who are too busy to catch illegal aliens to the taxpayers. Now that would be some kind of fun.
Philadelphia recently enacted no smoking - many bars are apparently rebelling, with some bartenders saying to reporters checking in, straight faced in front of smoking customers, "we are enforcing the no-smoking ordinance."
For your amusement.
Is there a monetary reward involved? If somebody is going to be a government snitch, there ought to be money involved.
By the time anyone responds to a tip call, the smoker will have finished the cigarette and walked away.
ping to the list
Will the government get involved with parents who feed their kids McDonald's constantly, too? Answer: Yes. Any far-fetched nanny-state thing you can think of even in a comical way will come up for legislation.
Can you imagine the kind of busy body nut-jobs who would turn people in? These are the kind of people who when you give them a little power they turn into all-out loonies. As a matter of fact, I think they just won a major election.
Ohio ping!