So why the $%^%& did you need to pass some Nazi law to enable that in the first place you dimwit???
Yeah, right, uh-huh.......January 1, 2003 will se government imposing a ban because donuts are fattening and someone has a study somewhere that children are overweight and obese and don't get enough exercise.
Children are a minority? Well then, technically, so are the owners of doughnut shops. And the customers. Which minority gets its rights protected?
Normal, decent people on one side, and stinking liberal pukes on the other.
Like that scene in 'Braveheart'...
Two enormous crowds just running toward each other swinging whatever is handy and screaming at the top of their lungs.
These businesses are just that: BUSINESSES. They're not daycares charged with watching after children. Besides, who's more likely to give you business, the guy with the job (who just happens to smoke), or the kid with no job.
For pity's sake, get a grip.........
Children having everything their little black hearts desire is not the be all, end all of the world!
Here in CA, they just made a law that all smokes must be behind a counter, for full service sale, to prevent children from stealing smokes. A friend of mine who owns a smoke shop was ticked off.. he couldn't possibly move all tobacco items in the shop behind the counter, so he built a small counter, stuck a cash register on it, put it in front of the enclave where all cartons of smokes are stored, and put up a sign that said "full service only". Of course, it is not full service. He doesn't use that register, it is just subterfuge for the cops.
Something tells me this lawyer does not see the true irony here. I guess a lawyer can make a case for anything these days.
Lawyers really are the scourge of society, driving up the cost of everything, and in this case making the absurd claim that a child has a right to force everyone else to refrain from smoking.
The women had it exactly right when she huffed that there were plenty of other places to get a cup of coffee and donuts for her wee tots.
What a collection of busy-body imbecilic whiners. These people make me ill. They will never, ever mind their own business. They interefered, and since it backfired, how much you wanna bet they are going to interfere again. The store owners should just ban minors, period... smoke or not.
Wellllllllll, those donuts shops are in business to make "profits", dunce, and it sounds like they are putting their customers first or else the customers would have stayed away.
I love this! I hope they keep it up! It's a strike for freedom! These people had a choice, smokers or kids and they chose smoking customers so that they could stay in business and for freedom against the liberal nazis.
Most nazi anti-smokers usually don't eat donuts, cheesecake, drink caffinated drinks, or anything else that they "think" (have been told by their commie gurus that it's very unhealthy so as to control them) might harm them.
I could have throttled like idiots a couple of years ago when my dentist's son got a cancerous brain tumor, at the time nuts like these were trying to convince everyone that too done/burned hot dogs would cause such. My dentist was agonizing over it to me and it was heartbreaking.
Hmmmmm. That's strange. US resturant owners claimed that would happen to them, but the opposite happened. Turns out folks still eat EVEN if they can't smoke. Who knew?
"The irony is that the bylaw was meant to protect children, not harm them. The way it is being applied has the exact opposite result," said David Matas, a Winnipeg immigration lawyer who works on human-rights issues. "Children are a vulnerable minority. But you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money."
Well, of course not, you socialist bastard. It makes much more sense to discriminate against the smokers who contribute over $7 billion to the Canadian economy and the business owners who are (right now) free to keep kids safe while safeguarding their businesses. Yup. Sounds reasonable to me.
Why do socialists and liberals in general always flash the "CHILDREN" card when they want to bellyache about something?
But you can't discriminate against them simply because you want to make money.
Mr. Matas is correct here. Seeing how kids really don't have that much in the way of discretionary funds, we should absolutely not discriminate against them, and allow them to enter strip clubs, porno shops, nightclubs, and doughnut shops where people smoke. Seems some people can't make fascist beaurocrats happy.