Let me read and catch up. 
Posted on 05/25/2005 9:29:10 PM PDT by Crackingham
A judge tossed out a lawsuit brought by a 115-year-old private club that sought to strike down no-smoking laws so it could continue to honor its members - who include Walter Cronkite and Carol Burnett - with ceremonies that include lighting up.
The Players Club is no more entitled to special privileges with city and state health inspectors enforcing the laws than are pro-tobacco organizations that tried unsuccessfully to overturn them, U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said Wednesday.
"Individuals have no 'fundamental' constitutional right to smoke tobacco," the judge wrote.
Let me read and catch up.
Bwahahaha!
Sick. Ain't it?
VVV
Another example of Big Brother, Judicial Tyranny, The God Complex - and anything else you may care to add which takes away ONE MORE freedom in this Great Country of ours.
Seems to me like our Founding Fathers (that particular generation in our history) began the Tobacco growing Industry in this country - after the Native Americans taught them about it.
If they thought it should have not been allowed here - I would think they would have set up an ammendment to stop it.
Oh, but wait - that would have just given a Judge another part of the Constitution to misconstrue, misrepresent, and destroy. Nevermind. JK
What this Marxist black-robed thug has done is illegally trespassed on private property without a warrant and robbed people of their property rights. He should be arrested, found guilty and thrown in prison.
See Amendment XXI of the Constitution.
His statement is mere sophistry. What he means to say is "Individuals have no constitutional right to own private property".
New York Judges exist for one reason: To rubberstamp everything the politicians want. (The NY judicial nomination process is cockeyed)
PS: Yeah, yeah...I know..its a US district judge
(Excerpted from an email I just received:)
And that is where liberal interpretation is a major problem in this country. The statement by the judge should have been, “There is nothing in the constitution to remove the fundamental right to smoke tobacco.”
Please, please, please, read our Bill of Rights. This document is our guarantee by our founders that our fundamental rights, those that we are born with, will be honored. It was written to protect us from runaway government and was placed in our constitution as amendments to an otherwise almost perfect document.
Amendment IX reads: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage other retained by the people.”
Translation: By numbering the Bill of Rights we are not limiting your rights to only those. You cannot be denied your rights simply because we didn’t include them. We have laid out certain, recognizable fundamental rights that we understand in this day and time to be inalienable. But being fallible humans we also understand that we can’t cover everything, especially your rights in issues that should arise in the future. So we are giving you this rule so that when you are told that you have no right to (pick something), you can say, “I don’t NOT have a right to (whatever it is).
If we were a bicycle group we’d all own bikes. If we were a pocket knife groups we’d all own pocket knives. We are a rights group and we should all own constitutions. I carry a pocket constitution almost always, assuming my pockets aren’t stuffed that day with the eyeballs of Nazis. It is essential that we all know our rights or at least be able to lay our hands on them. I can’t tell you the number of times that I’ve heard people going off about “my right this and my right that” and I’ve reached into my pocket and said, “Let’s see.” The looks that one gets because he is a citizen who not only tries to understand our rights but makes an effort to live by those rights and enlighten others, is, well, unexplainable. One of our biggest downfalls in this country is not demanding that our rights are honored and there is no way that we can make that demand when we do not know what those rights are.
Here is a link to order your pocket constitutions: http://www.nccs.net/us_constitution.html
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Exactly. Same old chit. What's good for me is not good for you.
It depends on what side of the aisle we sit when it comes to power and money.
What, no penumbras, no emanations?
And the judge has no fundamental understanding of the constitution, much less rights.
This is past sad.
Setting aside the issue of wheteher one has the right to smoke or not for a moment - what about the "rights" of a PRIVATE club on private property?
I agree with your conclusion regarding said judge.
While that's correct, it doesn't change the fact that they are among the rights enumerated by the founders. Not granted, enumerated.
I post this for clarity, not because you don't know it, I'm sure you do.
PS, I hope you are feeling better today.
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