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A loooooong read, but definitely worth it.

An excellent editorial / essay on the machinations of the nanny state.

Seattle's and Washington State's chief anti-smoking nanny and enforcement personage. This is almost a caricature. Notice the smugness.


1 posted on 01/19/2006 5:59:55 PM PST by elkfersupper
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Ping.


2 posted on 01/19/2006 6:01:04 PM PST by elkfersupper
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As is typical, the biggest Nazis have the smallest weenies.


3 posted on 01/19/2006 6:04:26 PM PST by Reactionary
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That guy needs to be bitch slapped around for a couple days.


4 posted on 01/19/2006 6:06:41 PM PST by jwh_Denver (Don't be near Ted Kennedy when his liver explodes.)
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I wish that Roger Valdez would walk up to me and tell me to put my cigarette out. Go ahead Roger, make my day!


6 posted on 01/19/2006 6:12:06 PM PST by appleharvey
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This is how it starts.


9 posted on 01/19/2006 6:22:50 PM PST by wizardoz
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Definitely a good read...........and I'm only half way through :)


10 posted on 01/19/2006 6:23:14 PM PST by Gabz
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This article is an excellent primer on why my home city absolutely sucks.


11 posted on 01/19/2006 6:23:47 PM PST by Junior_G
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"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

These clowns do not have the Constitutional authority to ban smoking, especially in a person's home. There are a lot of things covered by the 10th; the Founders anticipated these jerks and so wrote the 10th. There is no need to enumerate every "right" of the people. On the other hand, the Constitution does not limit the liberty of the citizens. It does, however, limit the authority of government. I think the Seattle do-gooders have it backwards.

13 posted on 01/19/2006 6:28:16 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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The author of this article is a bit confused: to wit, this quote:

"That sounds like the justification floated by conservatives when they want to censor free speech or ban gays from teaching: We must protect the children!"

It was the damn liberals, notably that paragon of liberty (as long as its "liberty" to kill the unborn) the rotten scum bag, Hillary the Witch Clinton who coined the "its for the chillllrun" crap.

16 posted on 01/19/2006 6:33:21 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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This is in The Weekly? Wow. Good piece.

I don't have much hope that Seattle's "progressives" will get it, though.

17 posted on 01/19/2006 6:36:28 PM PST by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1000 knives and counting!)
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Perhaps if we all switched to pot, we would have a right then?

Last I heard, King County voted to make pot a minimal crime, the same time they voted down their Starbucks Tax.


19 posted on 01/19/2006 6:41:02 PM PST by DakotaRed
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These people are called progressive? Something is missing here.


22 posted on 01/19/2006 6:46:02 PM PST by TheLion
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It's not "progressive" it's subversive. That's all it aims to do.


26 posted on 01/19/2006 6:52:16 PM PST by LauraleeBraswell
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I was in Seattle last week. The "25 foot rule" has got to be the most ignored law on the books.


29 posted on 01/19/2006 6:58:20 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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I was in Seattle last week. The "25 foot rule" has got to be the most ignored law on the books.


30 posted on 01/19/2006 6:58:35 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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I was in Seattle last week. The "25 foot rule" has got to be the most ignored law on the books.


31 posted on 01/19/2006 6:58:40 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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I was in Seattle last week. The "25 foot rule" has got to be the most ignored law on the books.


32 posted on 01/19/2006 6:58:49 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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I was in Seattle last week. The "25 foot rule" has got to be the most ignored law on the books.


33 posted on 01/19/2006 6:59:13 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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My gaydar is buzzing like mad...


48 posted on 01/20/2006 4:22:55 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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I don't smoke, but just looking at this guy makes me want to slap him. Amen.


49 posted on 01/20/2006 4:27:59 AM PST by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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