Not Fine With Me: Liberties go up in smoke in NYC

[The Northerner]

Run time: 03:59 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdP6zYML4Fw   Posted on YouTube: April 30, 2011 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 1201   Posted on DU: April 30, 2011 By DU Member: The Northerner Views on DU: 1557

 
New Yorkers are finding out the hard way how their city is raising it's much-needed cash. They're being watched every step of the way and, if they put one foot out of line, they get hit in the pocket. RT's Marina Portnaya reports on how revenue-raising fines, are seeing liberties go up in smoke.

[greenman3610]

1. I like Steve Martin's line. 'Mind if I smoke?"

"Why no! Mind if I fart?"


The woman in this video will be diagnosed with lung cancer or emphysema sooner than she would
like. She has the look.

[goodnews]

4. Nice way to entirely miss the point.

[PonyJon]

2. Police State

I much rather breathe some second hand smoke than live in a country run by GESTAPO.

[goodnews]

3. Thank Bush for this. It is all about de=humanizing the population.

Obama is continuing the effort started by Bush.

[JHB]

7. In NYC, thank Bloomberg and Guliani

[DeSwiss]

5. POLICE STATE - K&R n/t

[reggie the dog]

6. I have a garden of rebellion too, outside

but aint nobody takin no videos or photos of me anywhere near it

[AsahinaKimi]

8. Just curious...but

Where would one find tobacco seeds for growing their own? Seems to me the Tobacco companies would want to keep those out of the hands of most people.

[nebenaube]

9. Any decent heirloom seed catalog... n/t

[boppers]

10. GIYF

http://www.thetobaccoseed.com/Cigarette_Tobacco.html
http://www.newhopeseed.com/tobacco_seeds.html
(etc.)

[AsahinaKimi]

11. Thanks..

I am still surprised the Tobacco growers, companies are not limiting them.

[aquart]

12. She's an addict, not a noblewoman.

She has clearly sacrificed her entire life to satisfy her habit.

God, smokers disgust me. They're like deposed monarchs wistfully recalling kicking peasants in the good old days.

You know what's wonderful about these lost smokers' liberties? The freedom it gives everyone else. All us kicked peasants begging for a breath of clear air get to walk where we want, shop where we want, eat where we want, work where we want.

Poor smokers. They had it all. Then came the revolution.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Any time I start to feel sorry for poor abused smokers...

... I recall the countless hours I was FORCED to sit through meetings while the smoke blanket made its way from the ceiling to about waist high.

Fuck the whiny smokers.