I want drug addicts kept out of public places, lest they corrupt my children or injure my own health. Smoking tobacco (or pot) ought to be legal in one's home and a jailable offense outside it.
We can never get rid of drug addicts but at least we can keep them where they belong, out of the view and airspace of decent society.
-ccm
It is opinions like that, sir and/or madame, that guarantees you will always be the insignificant nobody that you are.
What a tool!
The south end of a north-bound horse.
Weak little people like you are always looking to use gub'mint for their own repressive ends.
Keep up the bad work, girly man.
If you want to put up a sign saying "Peeing is permitted" over your own pool, why should anyone else care?
The air in restaurants is changed 35,000 times a year; the water in pools once, if that. Only an idiot could fail to see the difference.
I want drug addicts kept out of public places, lest they corrupt my children or injure my own health. Smoking tobacco (or pot) ought to be legal in one's home and a jailable offense outside it.
Smokers are addicted???
Smoking is the relaxation of choice for many people. What do YOU prefer? Prescription drugs or booze?
Public places? You mean city streets, and City Hall?
Restaurants, bars, etc... are not public places. They are privately owned. Yes, someone paid their hard earned money to purchase or build one. You have no more right to dictate to them what they allow on their property than they do forcing you to allow smoking in your living room.
Lately we've had the legal abomination of "public accommodation", which is an end run around private property rights. Essentially, it says that if a standing invitation to enter exists to the general public, then somehow the owner doesn't quite own his own property anymore. And that the guests the owner allows on his property somehow, magically can tell him how its going to be.
Well, there is already a word for semi-private ownership coupled by government directives, and never ever forget what it is - FASCISM.
Only someone who has the mistaken idea that they have a right to tell someone else what rules to make for the use of their private property would make such a comment. The home and the business place share the same property rights.
Anyone who suggests otherwise should be jailed. It should be a jailable offence.
Your opinion ought to be legal in your own home and jailable outside it. Don't foul the air for the rest of us.
I'm curious about your position on alchol consumption in restaurants. Or MSG laden french fries?
Do you consistently apply this standard? Or are you simply trying to get the force of government to enforce your personal preference?
Exactly;
or more to the point, in case your comment is too subtle for the average smoker:
Having a smoking-allowed area in a restaurant is like having a p*ssing-allowed area in a swimming pool!
LOL! That is a very good point!
Good line.
Ah, spoken like a true business-owner-rights-loving conservative... /sarcasm.
If I ever meet you, the first thing I'm going to do is to blow a BIG cloud of cigarette smoke right into your ignorant face.
You won't mind. You're already f**king blind.
Note the use of 2 little nasty words above , Public Places. These places are not public places, they are the property of the owners of said establishments, and the owner, as host, has a right to set the rules.
Public Places are places that are paid for, and supported by, The Government, aka the people. City and town halls, Schools and other government buildings all fall under the terms Public Places.
Just because the public has been invited to enjoy an establishment, does not give the public the right to say what goes on there. When the mob rule of Democracy succeeds in renaming restaurants, bars, and bowling alleys as public places, we are all doomed.
Suppose fatty desserts were declared "drugs" and the obese "food addicts." Would you suggest jail for eaters of Krispy Kremes?
Do you feel the same way about alcohol consumption? Would you make the consumption of alcohol in public places a jailable offense?