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Staff told me I couldn't smoke, but I said I'd had enough of being pushed around by the Government.

It seems you are having impure thoughts.  Let us help you.  Cleanse your mind, and then rejoin the happy masses.

1 posted on 10/15/2007 1:51:52 AM PDT by Stoat
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Puff Ping


2 posted on 10/15/2007 1:55:40 AM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2008: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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3 posted on 10/15/2007 1:59:36 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Hillary has pay fever. There she goes now... "Ha Hsu, ha hsu, haaaa hsu, ha hsu...")
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unless you own the bar, follow the rules and shut up. or leave. simple as that.


4 posted on 10/15/2007 2:10:20 AM PDT by thefactor
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oh, and here’s another thought. my guess is that if this guy was acting the way he was and NOT smoking, the cops still would have been called. the article latches on to the smoking part and it probably wasn’t the main reason the cops were called. be careful what you believe when it come to the media.


5 posted on 10/15/2007 2:12:42 AM PDT by thefactor
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“I was told by one police officer that he did not ‘want to start a race riot’ by arresting Pakistani men for sexual offenses”

Go after smokers with riot police and turn a blind eye to Muslim Pimps and rapists!

6 posted on 10/15/2007 2:13:36 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
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> “Staff told me I couldn’t smoke, but I said I’d had enough of being pushed around by the Government.
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> “They pressed a panic button and the next thing I knew, there were six policemen in the pub and two outside.”

Mayday, Mayday Mayday! This is an Emergency: I say again, this is an EMERGENCY! The Barneyfication of the United Kingdom is in peril! Tele-Tubbist forces are no longer in control and the Proles are revolting! Broken Arrow! Broken Arrow! A Barney Position is about to be over-run! Send in everything you have!!!


8 posted on 10/15/2007 2:15:06 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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and ANOTHER thing! how does a bar have only one tv in this day and age? next you’re going to tell me it wasn’t hi-def. that would be a real crime.


10 posted on 10/15/2007 2:24:32 AM PDT by thefactor
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The genius of this is that the health-fascists have taken a clinically defined mental illness, the compulsion to control others, and turned it into a mass political movement that puts the health-fascists themselves into power.


12 posted on 10/15/2007 2:29:32 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
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“Awright, hands up, you bloody tobaccoholic cricket terrorist, it’s off to the Bailey with ya’ now.”


13 posted on 10/15/2007 2:31:47 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
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The entire effort to eliminate smoking is to save people from dying from the effects of tobacco smoke. So we save one from dying at the age of sixty. However, no one can be saved from death. And life in those later years is not easy. There is a loss of income as one becomes unable to do the things they did in younger years. Many as they go into their later years become dependant on the state for survival. The estate they have built in their younger years is liquidated and, rather than going to their children as an inheritance, goes toward their survival.


14 posted on 10/15/2007 2:46:06 AM PDT by jonrick46
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The Emglish have gone mad.


15 posted on 10/15/2007 2:57:19 AM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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18 posted on 10/15/2007 3:08:10 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Rousing the blog-rabble since 9-11-01)
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Didn’t we know this would happen? Instead of doing something important; like going after the real enemy, terrorists, for example; they use to go after innocent citizens.

Of course, this is their real target. To bring the population under control and turn them into slaves. What’s next prison camps?

Our governments are creating confusion, for example, allowing so many different illegals, to walk in; in order to create distraction and confusion; so they can take control.


19 posted on 10/15/2007 4:05:59 AM PDT by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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'ello, 'ello. What's all this then?!

20 posted on 10/15/2007 4:12:27 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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It seems you are having impure thoughts. Let us help you. Cleanse your mind, and then rejoin the happy masses.

Welcome to Hillerystein. She will do this, among other things, for our own good.


21 posted on 10/15/2007 4:53:50 AM PDT by Bitsy
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“I’d had enough of being pushed around by the Government.”
the reply by Government was to push him around some more. If there had been a group of machete-carrying fascist murderers chopping British heads off I suspect the pub owner would not have pushed the panic button and the police would have arrived 2 hours later with bags to pick up the heads and mops to clean up the blood. The authorities would have said “only people carrying out the tenets of their religion. Nothing to see here. Move on”


26 posted on 10/15/2007 5:41:49 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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“wearing protective gear stormed the pub.”

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for a hilarious story. I envisioned them showing up in Hazmat Suits due to the smoke hazard (can’t stop laughing)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


28 posted on 10/15/2007 5:53:28 AM PDT by jedward (I'm not sure you meant, what I understand...or maybe you did.)
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"Staff told me I couldn't smoke, but I said I'd had enough of being pushed around by the Government."




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36 posted on 10/15/2007 7:38:11 AM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/Ron_Paul_2008.htm)
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>>So Mr Vaughan lit up a cigarette in protest. When he refused to extinguish it, staff pressed a panic button behind the bar.


And a few minutes later six riot police officers wearing protective gear stormed the pub. <<

I’m not surprised that staff would use a panic button.

Nor am I surprised that , not knowing what the problem was, police would respond in force.

What amazes me is they enough problems in pubs to have installed panic buttons in the first place.


37 posted on 10/15/2007 8:08:15 AM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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Oh, what a riot! Everything about this story is so funny. It would've made a great Monty Python skit: the bar changing the station, the guy lighting up in protest, the panic button, and finally...

six riot police officers wearing protective gear stormed the pub

...I presume unarmed. That guy will have a story to tell for the rest of his life.

41 posted on 10/15/2007 8:51:46 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes (Dad, I will always think of you.)
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