The Nanny State Wants Total Control
No smoking in most of Belmont California, not even at home
"A controversial ordinance that became law Friday extends the ban on smoking even to residents' apartments and condos."
"The law is the first of its kind in California, going far beyond the statewide prohibition against lighting up in businesses, restaurants and bars. In Belmont, it is now illegal to smoke inside any multistory, multiunit dwelling."
"The fine for each citation is $100. No ifs, ands or butts."
Now I'm not a smoker. I haven't even smoked pot for decades, and I have a damaged lung from a motorcycle accident 10 years ago. I hate the smell of cigarettes and all the crap the manufacturers put in the stupid, addictive and poisonous things. It's not really tobacco anymore but cancerous profit making tools for the industry's magnates.
That being said, this sort of crap makes me extremely mad. If people want to destroy their health then they should bloody well have the right to go ahead and do just that, with no interference from the government. What you and I do with our bodies is our own business and the state should keep the hell out of our lives.
Over the years it seems the friction between smokers and non smokers has pretty much abated. Social venues are mostly smoke free and any differences can easily be worked out without government beaurocrats sticking their noses where they don't belong. Telling people what they can and can't do in the privacy of their own homes is simply wrong. And the first thing free people should do is kick the shit out of nanny state toadies like the nicotine cop stooge that's profiled in the story above.
"Hell is full of good intentions or desires." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
posted by nolocontendere at 9:40 PM
2 Comments:
I would venture to guess that this has nothing to do with cigarettes or tobacco but everything to do with cannabis, which is "legal" by state-law in California. I'm guessing that smoking a joint or bong would also be subject to the same law.
There is a small political party of very wealthy and powerful extreme religious-right hypocrites in California who absolutely hate cannabis users because they embody everything that the truly liberal democratic America believes in and they have been working closely with the DEA and the federal-level prohibitionists to find "legal" ways to take away the rights that the state of California and the majority vote gave the people. Control freaks, by any other name, is what I like to call them.
Good point. And in the broad sense, it's just another way to insinuate their fucking noses into our living rooms and bedrooms because they hate our freedoms.
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