Freedom is nobody tells me what to do, when to do it or who I do it with. *I* decide all those, and it's bliss.
Paying off my tab in the rats arms. JOhn won't give my dog back till I do. I want my Dog to have freedom. Set my Dog free JOhn. Peace
Im waiting for Lithiums 'Freedom is...being up a tower' but for me... freedom is independence..from everything..
Freedom is a distant memory; Swallowed up by the jaws of political correctness , health and safety and the anti smoking unions. Remember the time when you could smoke in a greasy spoon? It would be raining outside and you would be sipping on a cup of tea whilst smoking a ciggerette. Now you are criminalised the instant you light up in a public place. This is how Politically correct Britain has become.
Such a shame we no longer have the freedom to poison and very slowly kill off others and make the air unbreathable without having to cough and choke and getting the stench of it all over innocent peoples clothes and on their food before they eat it. I often think that. Such a shame FREEDOM is about being able to do whatever you like aslong as youre not harming anyone or anything else. My right to clean air that isnt harmful to me is a basic freedom Try lighting up a cigarette next to me or once the babys born and im holding them in my arms and id seriously knock you out. Im not a violent person Yeah, i should be gone already
Freedom is a field of wheat on a sunny day, a Q and some baccy. Oh and on j0hns point, I'd say freedom in that sense is the freedom of a business owner to say whether people can smoke or not in his/her establishment.
Do we really need Criminal smokers in overcrowded jails? Or waste millions of pounds prosecuting some guy who just wanted a five minute fag break in a court of law? There are terrorists and rapists, murderers and peodophiles to convict.Isn't that more important? Why do we no longer live in a rational state anymore? I agree.:gnorsi:
I would, non-compliance with the legislation can only result in fixed penalties, up to £200 for those who smoke where it's not allowed and up to £2500 for businesses which fail to prevent people smoking. Such fines are very unlikely anyway, usually all you will get is someone yelling at you to put your cigarette out. It's incredibly unlikely the police and justice system will ever become involved at all unless say it's a pub or company which consistently allows people to smoke against the law or there is a public order issue where someone is refusing to stop smoking...
Non payment of said fine could result in prison. A fine is mandatory. If they can't get that money because of loopholes in the law which state bailiffs can't smash your door down to get access. But if you don't let them in, they can't come in. Then prison is an option. Though we are not talking years, just three months which would be more like a month and a half.
Freedom is being able to sit in a greasy spoon and watching the rain outside while sipping tea, without having some fool light up a cigarette next to you and you getting instantly nauseous and beginning to worry about the long term health effect this fool has foisted upon you.
Then the crime you'd be sent to prison for would be non payment of a fine, not smoking in a public place...
