Posted on 09/01/2007 4:23:10 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Ping!
My apologies for the garbage in the middle of the article.
Remember when we used to live in America, land of the free?
Well we can’t ask if you are illegal but we sure can stop your smoking.
I hope people beat the crap out of these nazis.
I have a real problem with the gov. going into private business telling them they can’t do something that is a legal activity. Dining out or going on a pub crawl is a choice made and if you don’t like smoking than find another place to hang out.
My post from earlier today: “I just came back from the heart of Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio, the Terminal Tower (walked across the street to get some lunch in there). They have small patios OUTSIDE. I was on the patio with THREE ARMY MEN in uniform and we were having a cigarette. They sent a Cleveland Police Officer after us to get us off the patio. AND I’M NOT LYING! Welcome to the great fascist state of Ohio. I asked the police officer if this is how he wanted to treat our soldiers and also told him to go harass some shoplifters.”
I have mixed feelings about the law, but if you’re gonna have the law, it should be enforced.
But it would be cheaper to cite the owner for failing to prevent smoking.
“This is vindictive prohibition, plain and simple.”
That says it all- It never has been about health but about control.
I always think of Nevada as a good old freedom loving western state but it’s getting to be like my state,Massachusetts,and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Good for you...that policeman should be ashamed.
EDITORIAL: Ticketing smokers
MY EDITORIAL: Punching anti-smoking Nazi bigots.
FWIW, I don’t smoke.
And all these people who think Hillary is the great savior are oblivious to the fact that she and most Dems (and sad to say a fair number of Republicans) want government to control more of our lives. After she is in the White House we’ll see how the people who voted for her like it when federal bureaucrats tell us what we can and can’t eat, when and how often we can go to the doctor, etc. Plus if smoking laws get more stringent, even people who do not smoke will end up being affected.
FYI ... Unfortunately, Mike Huckabee likes it also — NATION WIDE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889134/posts
That’s right — give all the exemptions to the casinos and harass the small pub/restaurant owner!
From the size of Hillary’s butt I we can be assured that dietary restrictions will be last on her adjenda.
Typical leftist tyranny.
Mike will NEVER get my vote——he lost some weight and feels so smug and satisfied he’s going to tell the rest of us how to “get healthy”.
Wonder what they'd do if you just shook your head and answered in something resembling spanish?
Wonder what they'd do if you whipped out a prayer rug and started yelling "profiling"?
Wonder what they'd do if a couple hundred people lit up each night for three or four days in a row, got busted, and demanded a hearing?
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