[GOP_Lady]

I heard about this story on the radio during my drive into work. The Cleveland Police said that they would be going after the "smokers" too. Welcome to the hell that the people have created.

[GOP_Lady]

Nanny-State Ping, please, Sir Eric. Thank you.

[EagleUSA]

What a joke. Stupid pols. Didn’t they learn from the prohibition days? Oh, I forgot. Libs don’t study history.

[Repeal The 17th]

Just a return of the “Speak-Easys” of prohibition.

[RichInOC]

“You can make it illegal, but you can’t make it unpopular.”

—Martin Behrman, then-mayor of New Orleans, when the city was finally forced to close the Storyville red-light district

[tickmeister]

Prohibition always works pretty well. It has eliminated pot smoking and I’m sure it will do the same to tobacco. And everybody knows that prostitution hasn’t existed for decades.

[Gone_Postal]

oh please..
when I lived in NY we would got to after hours places all the time....no difference here and it ain’t new

[facedown]

Here we go again.

[MaxMax]

Police have asked landlords to monitor activities in their rental homes.

And risk having their property trashed? I'll bet high rent payments are
voluntary to keep mouths shut.

[Army Air Corps]

I think that I am going to start growing tobacco as an act of defiance.

[G Larry]

It shouldn’t take much brain power to determine these locations. If they stay open it’s because the cops “don’t care”.

[Yaelle]

"They have succeeded in creating this underground, sleazy, cash-only business that cannot be regulated, taxed or secured by police," said attorney Skip Lazzaro,...

But... But... Huckabee said that could never happen under his Fair Tax! He was going to remove all underground economies! All bad guys were going to go legal and buy TVs!

[Senator Goldwater]

A law banning dancers at adult clubs from touching patrons or each other

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Jeez.

[Global2010]

Comparible to Rave parties for young adults.

Closed parties for older adults.

Nothing new here.

Maybe just more affordable and geared toward a more middle class “red light” district.

I don’t think the crust of this movement is about a place to smoke in public. It is about prostitution.

I am only in favor of decriminalizing whore houses so women that don’t want to be used against their wishes aka human trafficking.

If a female chooses to be a whore I say make it legal and have her pay taxes.

And no I do not advocate females making this lifestyle choice.

[B.O. Plenty]

Elections have consequences...

[xtinct]

Gee... History repeats itself... prohibition was the reason for underground clubs, etc. in the 20s...

People in a FREE society will find a way to do what they want no matter what the anal-retentive pols do to ban something.

[BipolarBob]

this underground, sleazy, cash-only business that cannot be regulated, taxed or secured by police

Which of these most bothers the authorities? I'm betting the taxes Number One and someone somewhere is having fun without permission Number Two.

[uglybiker]

OH MY GAWWWWD!

THEY'RE SMOKING!!!

Call in Das Antirauchende Kommandos!!

[Disambiguator]

"They have succeeded in creating this underground, sleazy, cash-only business that cannot be regulated, taxed or secured by police,"

Free-market economics at its best.

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[mo]

those who never read history are doomed to repeat it....all this last, as I recall, preceded one heck of a financial hangover as well....