Big Apple smoking Nazis get their wish
One of the most fanatical smoking Nazis in America is close to his dream of remaking New York City in his image and likeness:
The New York City Council is preparing to ban smoking in all parks, beaches, boardwalks, and even Times Square, reports The Wall Street Journal.
“When this legislation is passed, all New Yorkers will be able to enjoy a walk in the park or a day at the beach without having to inhale secondhand smoke,” said Council Speaker Christine Quinn when she and Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the proposed bill last year. ”This bill will save lives and make New York City a healthier place to live.”
A compromise measure floated by Councilman Peter Vallone, Jr., would have allowed smoking in certain areas around parks and beaches but is not expected to pass. “It still has a lot of support,” Vallone told the Journal. “I’m disappointed leadership chose to move the original bill and not my compromise.”
Notice that they haven't banned the sale of cigarettes, only smoking them. If smoking is such a menace, why keep selling them? Because the taxes earned by the city and state of New York are too great for these colossal lying POS hypocrites to take the principled action required by their warped philosophy.
I'll reconsider my next pleasure trip to New York City: If I'm not welcome, and cannot use a legal product, then another city will get my tourism dollars.
Until WE THE PEOPLE vote these scumbags out and demand that stupid laws be repealed, nothing will change.
Nonsense like this, and the lack of resistance by the people of NY and other big cities otherwise known as pockets of socialism and general Nanny-State-dom are reasons why I believe secession is not merely in the wind but nearly inevitable.
In 1861, the Blue and the Gray had vastly more in common than the Blue and the Red today. Yes there were cultural differences (food, customs, etc) that they would ridicule each other. But these are minor compared to the Judeo-Christian ethic of classical liberty vs. the debauched nihilism- pro-criminality-what-is-truth-ethic split of today.
The only thing I see that would stop secession is a national crisis of such horror that blue and red band together again because the blue recognize that there really are absolutes and evil exists after all.
We may be seeing the beginning of that crisis in Egypt.
Oh! Thank Gaia they didn't include crack-smokers!
THAT would be ... waacist!
Legalize marijuana, but effectively ban cigarettes. These religious fanatics...
[...] George Moneo, no fan of the ban (as I would expect of any freedom-loving American) wonders aloud why the city hasn’t simply banned the sale of cigarettes. You will find his answer difficult to refute.If you’re wondering what we should do with all [...]
Well, I live in Sarasota,FL, where you can't work for the county, smoke on the beach, fishing jetty, library parking lot, or even the parking lot across the street from the administration building, each area gleefully bedecked with oversized "smoke-free zone" signs bruiting their great civic virtue. You've heard of "hostile work environments"; I find myself in a "hostile living environment." I've tried to vote the "gang of virtue" out, but apparently other smokers keep voting for them. As to New York, I've never returned.