According to this article over at Thisweek Live, the Rosemount Parks and Recreation Commission has created a proposal which will nicely ask that people not smoke in city parks, trails, parking lots, garbage cans, shitters, etc even though they openly admit that they just don’t see that many people smoking in the parks as it is. The best part of this proposal? It has no teeth.
Just so I am understanding what’s going on here. The Parks people are pushing a completely worthless proposal to solve a problem that really doesn’t exist and are asking the members of the Rosemount City Council to put into law something that doesn’t really do anything. Sweet! This is local government work at its finest! I suggest that they instead write up a proposal that says that they will all be removed and then replaced with other people that do more work but have a clause at the bottom that says, “only if you want to leave do you have to.” Honestly, that makes just as much sense all around.
While I am not a Rosemount resident, I do use their parks occasionally especially when I happen to be locating a geocache or two. While I don’t spend much time in their parks, perhaps someone else here does and could explain to me how limiting the freedoms of others to do what they want to do in public spaces is a good idea.
Are you a Rosemount resident? If so, please comment about this and what you think. Should the City Council even fucking waste their time with this or should they concentrate on bigger matters like tearing down historic housing to clear the way for more unnecessary downtown development?
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August 1st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I hate smoking. I hate second hand smoke. I hate cigarette butts littering the ground. The world is not an ash tray. The problem with smokers (and of course I’m generalizing) is that their “habit” (addiction) effects others. I do not want to smell like smoke. I do not want to walk through a cloud of smoke while exiting a restaurant or hiking on a trail in Rosemount. Fuck “smoker’s rights,” give me a break, take your stinky ass home and smoke in your own disgusting smoke stench house. Next time you want to light up a cigarette, visualize yourself drowning in your own phlem.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I believe in “everyone’s rights” not just “smokers’ rights” and while I wouldn’t particularly have an issue even if they outright banned smoking in their parks, I do see an issue with passing some sort of regulation that just says, “you can’t, but we won’t do anything to you if you do.”
Just put up the fucking signs that say, “please do not smoke” and be done with it.
August 1st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
agreed.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Mrs Marcos,
Hopefully you do not have an activity in your life that pisses someone else off. They may try to pass a law preventing it. Nowhere did our founding fathers intend on government protecting people from pissing each other off. If so, driving would have been illegal a long ass time ago. Also, butts on the ground are already illegal via anti-littering laws.
So let the poor fucking smokers smoke. Freedom baby! And if the anti-smoking crowd had any balls they would go right after their goal; to make tobacco illegal. Instead of being all nickel and dime about it.
Bill, you are right on the nuts with the assessment with this non-law is a waste of time. If a law cannot be enforced, don’t pass it. Do something productive. Rosemount residents should get on their elected officials about it.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
JP,
If I do any activity in my life that negatively impacts the health and welfare of fellow citizins there is probably already a law preventing it. The tobacco industry is the only reason smoking isn’t already illegal.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Honestly, if you’re near someone who is smoking outside, the likelihood that it will negatively impact your own health is directly related to your own choice to be in close proximity to them.
As far as what is illegal and what isn’t illegal. Smoking shouldn’t be illegal, nor should 99% of everything else that’s currently outlawed because it’s “bad for your health.” If someone wants to get baked and sit on their couch eating brownies while playing classic, 8-bit, Nintendo for 38 continuous hours, fucking let them.
August 1st, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Well now that we know your plans for the weekend….