[SheLion]

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[SheLion]

Don't SAY it can't be done in the states. We never thought it would go THIS far!

[ned]

I really hope that they find a way to keep the jail sentences to a minimum. In a few years, this whole problem is going to go away anyway.

[tomakaze]

RE:"What we want is compliance. We don't want anybody to go to jail."
 
What these jack*asses want is irrelevant.
These are the type of people for whom "blanket parties" were invented.

[tomakaze]

RE:Health staff say the crackdown, to be considered by councillors today, addresses complaints that a few establishments are stealing business away from 99 per cent of the industry that complies with the ban
 
the plot thickens. Rather than take a side by side principled stand against absurd laws against a common enemy (Government), rat on the competition competition.
Gawd, sometimes I just flat hate people.

[Enterprise]

A buncha disgusting ninnynannies with nothing better to do. Maybe they should spend their time on playgrounds making sure children don't be mean to other.

[monkeywrench]

"You don't go to jail for beating people up in the park any more, so I don't know why you should go to jail for not enforcing the smoking bylaw?"

That about sums it up. Jails are for business owners not thugs. Great use of taxpayer money and crowded jails.

[1Old Pro]

Extra enforcement would come by reassigning six of 26 public health inspectors away from duties like food inspection and infection control

And why not, the quality of our food and the control of contagious disease isn't nearly as important as shutting down a bar where people freely go to smoke.

[bloodmeridian]

Looks like bars will be closing up quickly in the Waterloo Region.

[tomakaze]

RE:The jail threat is part of a proposed enforcement crackdown aimed at 28 stubborn establishments.
 
i.e. those owners who wont bend their knees to this absurdity.

[Bella_Bru]

SheLion, I used to post this every week in the Smoker's Lounge:

Smoker's Creed

I smoke because I like to smoke.
I smoke because I want to smoke.
Smoking pleases me.
My life is better because I smoke.
I accept responsibility for all of my actions.
I want the freedom to choose to smoke.
I can choose how to make myself happy.
I own myself.
Smoking is my choice.

[BARGE]

Time to "Lock and load".

[concerned about politics]

"What we want is compliance.

HAIL HITLER! The politically correct though oppressors are knocking at the door. You have no free will!

[concerned about politics]

The jail threat is part of a proposed enforcement crackdown aimed at 28 stubborn establishments.

Those who will not obey the liberal oppressors. They have not been successfully mind controled to remain in the new United Socialist States of America, the land of the thought collective.

[BOBTHENAILER]

If I had my way

Smoking Bar-Nonsmokers not allowed, without signing damage waiver.

Smokin' Airlines: Attention all customers, non-smokers not allowed on these flights. Ticket policy clearly states all Middle Easterners subject to minute search, no exceptions, acceptance of ticket creates automatic acceptance of this policy. All pilots armed, all flight attendants armed.

I'd be willing to bet that both ventures would be money makers.

[RISU]

"Am I my brothers keeper?"

When did Bar Keeps become "enforcement agents"?

For that matter, when did cops, who used to be called "Peace Officers" become "Enforcement Agents"?

Does an "Enforcement Agent" belong in "America", or in some dictatorship someplace?

[unixfox]

"What we want is compliance. We don't want anybody to go to jail."

What a joke !! What they REALLY want is for everyone to become serfs and lick the boots of tyranny. Before you know it these same serfs will be on their knees begging the government for food.

[Just another Joe]

"What we are doing is stepping up the process basically to the maximum," said Brian Hatton, the region's director of environmental health.

If they don't comply we're gonna SHOOT 'em. THAT sounds like the maximum they're after to me.

[Republicus2001]

they should just smoke pot - that's ok

[nothingnew]

"What we want is compliance. We don't want anybody to go to jail."

"VAT VE VANT IS CUMPLIANCE!. VE DUNT VANT NOBODY TO GO TO ZE JAIL!"

Up yours, you fargin NAZI!

PUFF!!!

FMCDH holding a gun and a cigarette.

[scouse]

Health staff have proposed asking justices of the peace for orders prohibiting convicted owners from breaking the smoking bylaw.

The smoking bylaws are unconstiitutional according to Roe vs Wade

THE ASSERTED STATE INTERESTS ARE PROTECTION OF THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN, AND PROTECTION OF THE POTENTIAL FUTURE HUMAN LIFE WITHIN HER. THESE ARE LEGITIMATE OBJECTIVES, AMPLY SUFFICIENT TO PERMIT A STATE TO REGULATE ABORTIONS MORE STRINGENTLY OR EVEN TO PROHIBIT THEM IN THE LATE STAGES OF PREGNANCY. BUT SUCH LEGISLATION IS NOT BEFORE US, AND I THINK THE COURT TODAY HAS THOROUGHLY DEMONSTRATED THAT THESE STATE INTERESTS CANNOT CONSTITUTIONALLY SUPPORT THE BROAD ABRIDGMENT OF PERSONAL LIBERTY WORKED BY THE EXISTING TEXAS LAW. ACCORDINGLY, I JOIN THE COURT'S OPINION HOLDING THAT THAT LAW IS INVALID UNDER THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. /1/ ONLY MR. JUSTICE HARLAN FAILED TO JOIN THE COURT'S OPINION, 372 U.S.,AT 733.