[ale] [OT] rights and wrongs [politics] (was Re: Linux apparently illegal in MA)

[Robert Coggins]

I agree with both of you Richard and Michael.  But to add to it...  I
can't stand it when people flick their cig butts (or any trash for that
matter) onto the street.  It makes me want to pick up a hand full or two
of butts at an intersection and dump it into their vehicle telling them
they dropped something...

Sorry...  This has been especially bothersome to me lately...

Rob

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mbt at zest.trausch.us> wrote:
>> On one of my recent trips up north I ate at a restaurant in Michigan
>> where business owners still had that freedom.
> 
> I fully agreed about privately owned indoor property. But, there are a
> few caveats.
> 1. Subjecting a minor to cigarette smoke should be "contributing to
> the delinquency of a minor" even if a parent does so in their own home
> or automobile.
> 2. When someone lights a cigarette on a public sidewalk and baths my
> children in the fluid (gaseous smoke) that they expel from their
> mouth, it should be considered no different than spitting on them.
> Either they should be guilty of assault, or I should have the equal
> freedom to bath them in the fluid (green flem) that I expel from my
> mouth. (the bright side is that my fluid doesn't even enter the
> receiver's body)
> 3. When the same person dispenses fluid (gaseous smoke) from a hand
> held container (cigarette) onto bystanders, those bystanders should be
> free to dispense fluids (beverages, gasoline, etc.) from hand held
> containers in return, or else both should be punished similarly.
> 
> This is coming from a cigar smoker and avid personal liberty activist.
>