First, those Communist Fascists in Iowa City put cameras in the bathrooms at that town's public library.
Now they want to ban smoking outdoors:
Iowa City smokers will not be allowed to light up outside on the Pedestrian Mall if some city officials have their way.
Such a restriction along the popular city plaza, known as the Ped Mall, would be permitted under the state smoking ban that takes effect July 1.
The idea came up after the state health department provided details on enforcing the controversial law that prohibits smoking in most indoor venues.
Last week, City Attorney Eleanor Dilkes sent a memo to city officials about the ban and noted that it could extend to the Ped Mall.
The City Council will discuss the matter Tuesday. Mayor Regenia Bailey and Councilman Mike O'Donnell said they might support such a ban.
"I think most smokers are courteous, but there's always thousands of cigarette butts down there that somebody has to pick up," O'Donnell said. "I understand you're banning a legal substance, and some people are going to be upset about that, but I don't see walking a few blocks as a big inconvenience."
..."It's cold six or seven months out of the year here," said Patrick Schultz, a 21-year-old U of I student. "I'm in a bar in the Ped Mall, and you're telling me to walk two blocks to smoke on a city sidewalk and then come back? It's pointless. It's excessive."
Oh, that's nothing.
Just wait until those Nazis force you to walk to the city limits in order to have a smoke.
Or, you know, drive your car. Because cars should be banned.
And if you forget your canvas bag at the grocery store, tough shit, because you won't have a choice between paper OR plastic!
I'm sure we're just around the corner from having the left-wing, jack-booted thugs of the Iowa City Police Department storm your apartment building for running the air conditioner. Why, it wasn't that many years ago they were executing artists for holding telephones.
You think I'm joking?
Think back 10 or 20 years. Back then could you have even contemplated a municipal government banning smoking OUTDOORS?
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20 years ago the smoking savages were still lighting up in crowded elevators.
I'm not sure why any non-smoker would defend such an obnoxious vice. People who smoke (and people who live with smokers) don't get it. Their senses of smell and taste are so dulled that they don't have a clue how foul they smell and how foul they make the world around them smell. This is true even outside, barring days when there are gale-force winds. If they had the senses to comprehend this, they'd be too embarrassed to light up in public.
Also, this would have the not-unwelcome effect of getting all the bums to find somewhere else to hang out and ply their "legitimate" (or whatever that moron called it) panhandling trade.
That's fucking rich. I've had to walk through Mike O'Donnell's fucking smoke clouds more than once on my way into a city council meeting. Connie Champion too. If either of them votes for this and I catch them lighting up on the steps of City Hall, as they are presently oh-so-fond of doing, I will consider it my civic duty to extinguish their cigarettes via bucket of water.
Don't give these fools in Iowa City any more ideas...
They might just actually try to ban cars next..
The sad part about this is that these people think what they're doing is "progressive"..
But then again.. Like I said earlier..these are the same idiots who think they need a massive "Health and Human Services" building instead of a new jail or fire station.
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