Posted on 02/27/2010 5:16:09 AM PST by libertarian27
A former pub landlord yesterday became the first person to be jailed in connection with the smoking ban.
Nick Hogan, 43, was sentenced to six months in prison for refusing to pay a fine imposed for flouting the legislation.
Two years ago Hogan, who ran two pubs in Bolton, became the first landlord convicted of breaking the law for allowing his customers to routinely light up in his bars.
A judge fined Hogan, of Chorley, Lancashire, £3,000 and ordered him to pay £7,236 in costs after finding him guilty of four charges under the Health Act 2006.
But the married father-of-two refused to pay the fine and yesterday, after repeatedly being hauled back before the courts, a judge sitting at Bolton Crown Court finally lost patience and jailed him.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
6 Months in Prison for allowing people to smoke on Private Property and refusing to pay the fine.
Remember when they sang, “Britons never never shall be slaves!”
They are now. All hail The State! Bow to the Borg!
When can we arrest Obama for smoking in the whitehouse?
Good point. Just try smoking in a library, court house, or other public building and see what happens.
There’s over 390 comments under the Daily Mail article and they are with the Pub owner and against the government.
England is having their first Tea Party Meeting this weekend.
I hope many more Britons wake up to the harms of the socialist Labour party.
I sure hope so!
In that country they jail you for not stopping people from smoking or for shooting an intruder on your property.
The US is becoming more like the UK every hour.
Good. We need to export Communism and re-import Capitalism around here. We have been doing the absolute wrong thing for 50 years. Exporting our Capitalism and Importing Communism. All we have to do is reverse course.
Kinda makes you wonder whom these governments are representing.
Bans such as this are thrust down by a know-it-all elite upon the little people because they are just too stupid to know what to do for themselves. If there had ever been any real interest in non-smoking pubs, some capitalist would have opened a whole bunch of them in any blighted area where smoking were still permitted.
ML/NJ
Great movie!
And if he would have resisted the jail sentence, they would have shot and killed him.
Oops, I screwed that one up didn’t I.
I’ve done that before ;)
Too many tabs open....:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAWSDWFAyL4
Video:
Spread the word, British justice is dead.
Smoke ban hero Nick Hogan.
I detest control freaks.
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