Stick THAT In Your !@#$% Pipe

Let's see how much the Self-Appointed Defenders Of Freedom will have to say about this...

No smoking -- OUTSIDE. In Calabasas, California, home of the famous frog-jumping contest (?) and hardcore Leftists.

All of the Usual Suspects have been soiling their shorts big-time over the Bush Big Brother Wiretapping tempest...where the authority is limited to people having conversations (no doubt to book those Dream Vacations) with places like Iran and Sierra Leone.

But Otto expects to hear some Simon & Garfunkel, The Sound of Silence, from those wingnuts when it comes to Calabasas' Brave New City...a place where:

-- Second-hand tobacco smoke is "a toxic air pollutant"

-- Magnanimously, private residential property is exempt from the happy new law, "other than housing used as a childcare or health care facility when employees, children or patients are present" (emphasis Otto's -- and also note that it will be a very short step for some future "activist/lawyer" to argue that houses of parents with kids are in fact providing "childcare" and thus are in fact INCLUDED in the ban)

-- The wise Overlords of the City apparently can read people's minds and habits, since "The city said it would relax the ban at times when non-smokers aren’t present in a public area"

-- Passing the buck -- to, where else, PRIVATE INDUSTRY -- is the preferred method of coercion ("Business owners will be responsible for ensuring that all employees and patrons comply with the new law")

And for yer coupe de gracious, The Big Taco:

Individual citizens can report offenders to the city and officials will determine how to handle fines on a case-by-case basis, said Tony Coroalles, Calabasas city manager.

Right outta Uncle Joe Stalin's playbook...

So let me just say, all sarcasm and satire aside -- This is the Real Deal here, if you're truly and sincerely worried about government intrusion. This is the Real Deal, if you're truly and sincerely committed to "minority rights." This is the freakin' REAL DEAL if you're truly and sincerely adamant about Bill Of Rights freedoms.

But you know what, you Lefties? You're not. Not worried or committed or adamant, truly and sincerely. In the end, it's all about The Power...the ability to force people to live the way you think they should. The Power is the only thing you're truly and sincerely interested in.

"Speaking truth to Power", my ass.

Stick THAT in your !@#$% pipe and smoke it, you hypocrites.