Goons storm into Pub

[kola]

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/smoking_ban_riot_police_storm_pub_after_smoker_lights_up.htm

[Braddogg]

They stormed into the pub because someone working there hit the panic button . . . which, at least where I used to work, meant that someone was robbing the place or being violent in some other way.  Which would explain why the cops stormed the pub -- they were expecting to have to deal with a violent thug, not someone smoking a cigarette.  The employee who hit the panic button should be the focus of this story, not the police.

[slim]

I am all for civil dis, I am also a smoker and very interested in smoking disobedience. I think this man made a mistake when the staff asked him to extinguish the cig and he did not. He did leave when the staff asked him to and that was great.

I think if someone wants to disobey the law he should get the bar owners permission first since it is his establishment.

[RattyDog]

I am all for civil dis, I am also a smoker and very interested in smoking disobedience. I think this man made a mistake when the staff asked him to extinguish the cig and he did not. He did leave when the staff asked him to and that was great.

I think if someone wants to disobey the law he should get the bar owners permission first since it is his establishment.

I think yes, you should have to ask the bar owner before you do smoking civ dis...just as the owner should be asked whether or not he wants his establishment to be non-smoking. These smoking bans make me soooo freakin mad.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I think yes, you should have to ask the bar owner before you do smoking civ dis...just as the owner should be asked whether or not he wants his establishment to be non-smoking. These smoking bans make me soooo freakin mad.

Exactly, but, it is unlikely to happen as their Booze licensce would probably be at risk.

[KBCraig]

His intent was not to perform CivDis about the smoking ban... he was trying to get them to change the channel back to the cricket match.

The police overreacted, but they didn't know what they were responding to. When they got there it was all chuckled away, the man left, and there were no charges. In most U.S. cities, the smoker would have at least been in handcuffs, and probably issued a ticket even if they released him.

[slim]

I think yes, you should have to ask the bar owner before you do smoking civ dis...just as the owner should be asked whether or not he wants his establishment to be non-smoking. These smoking bans make me soooo freakin mad.

I agree the smoking bans piss me off. The smoking ban really was the reason why I got active in the liberty movement when it went in to effect here in NY I was hopping mad and after I participated in a petition drive to repeal the law I realized the "massa" would not change their minds. I took the petition around my work and 2 people out of ~200 would not sign it I finally figured out that the people in the house were just like the 2 people who would not sign the petition they thought they knew what was best for everyone else. After a little while I went in to a small depression where I was looking at my life and started searching for others that thought the way I did. I would search the internet for hours some nights I would not sleep and just keep on searching one great night I stumbled across the Libertarian Party website and got a little hope and shortly after that I came across Free Talk Live and realized I was not alone.  I then had to let the ideas grow in my brain and went back to my introverted life where I would only allow a special few people know the real me. After I went through a close friend's death I knew I did not want to be locked in this box and I began to break the walls I put up in my own life, I still am breaking the last few chains that are keeping me in NY once that happens I can get on with a greater purpose in NH.