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Time for resistance |
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El Arntson |
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May 22, 07 - 10:51 PM |
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arntson@hotmail.com |
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I just wrote this letter to the editor of the Strib, Whether it gets printed or not we need to do this.
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."
Thomas Jefferson, 1791
What's a smoker to do? We've lost at the polls, we don't have the propoganda or lobbying money the other side has. Our last bastion has been removed. What are our options? We can accept our fate, or we can do what so many others have done when faced with an unpallatable and unjust law in the past. We can just say NO. We can continue to light up in the bar, bar owners can do what some already do in California, rent ashtrays at $5 a pop and put the proceeds into a jar to pay for any fines since allowing smoking is a petty misdemeanor with a maximum fine of only $200. Call your county commissioners, or City Council persons and ask that city and county law enforcement not be used to enforce the law. Shortly after Minneapolis put it's ban into effect Acme Comedy Club had a well publicised smoking show, the police were called and didn't bother to come. This can happen everywhere every night. The police will soon find better things to do and this law will go down from simple lack of compliance just like prohibition before it. |
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