{"id":58,"date":"2007-10-10T21:55:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2007\/10\/10\/it-is-now-illegal-to-smoke-in-your-own-home\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-07T17:37:00","slug":"it-is-now-illegal-to-smoke-in-your-own-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/it-is-now-illegal-to-smoke-in-your-own-home\/","title":{"rendered":"It is now Illegal to Smoke IN YOUR OWN HOME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a semi-free country like the US it&#8217;s difficult to impose tyranny in one fell swoop.  It has to be done slowly, little by little, baby step by baby step.  And it&#8217;s important that those first few steps seem reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>The first anti-smoker law was passed in the sixties.  It demanded smoking and non-smoking sections in airplanes.  That seems pretty reasonable, and it was passed with little objection.  If someone said &#8220;In a couple of decades this will lead to it being illegal to have a smoke <em>in a bar<\/em>,&#8221; everyone would have laughed at him.  And if he said &#8220;In forty years this will lead to it being illegal to smoke <em>in your own home<\/em>&#8221; he&#8217;d have been written off as being batshit crazy.<\/p>\n<p>This week the city of Belmont CA passed a law that does just that.  If you live in an apartment or a in a condo you&#8217;ve paid for, your private property, it will soon be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,300658,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">illegal to smoke in it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow citizens, how long are we going to put up with this kind of shit?  What will it take to wake up the American Sheeple?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a semi-free country like the US it&#8217;s difficult to impose tyranny in one fell swoop. It has to be done slowly, little by little, baby step by baby step. And it&#8217;s important that those first few steps seem reasonable. The first anti-smoker law was passed in the sixties. It demanded smoking and non-smoking sections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8,7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}