CALIFORNIA’S WAR ON FILTER CIGARETTES
LIVING IN AN IDIOCRACY
First, and in full disclosure, I must admit that I was once a smoker. I gave up smoking many years ago when my daughter who was some eight years old, looked up at me with those beautiful, big brown eyes she inherited from her mother, and said: “Daddy, will you quit smoking for me”. I did.
So, I don’t come to this discussion with perfectly clean hands, but, the United States Army disciplined into me that a smoker does not throw their cigarette butts on the ground. If no ash tray is available you “field strip” them and put them in your pocket till a proper waste receptacle is at hand.
Having said these things, I heard on the news yesterday that California is in the process of prohibiting the discarding of filtered cigarette butts. Just the filtered kind. The proposed fine for doing so would be $500 per incident. It seems that the genius’s in charge of this scheme have figured out that used cigarette filters are a health hazard.
But, not to worry, if you are homeless or live in one of California’s homeless encampments it will still be legal to urinate in merchants doorways, defecate on/in the public sidewalks and gutters, dispose of used narcotics needles and all manner of other trash anywhere, at will, with no penalty or fine.
It will also be permissible to pilfer and steal from nearby stores (as long as you keep the theft on any one trip to below $950) with only the possibility of a misdemeanor ticket. And, by the way, their shopping carts are free.
In addition, rioting, looting, burning and destruction of public and private property will still be ignored legally as long as you do it in the name of a “Progressive” or “Liberal” cause as championed by the main stream media.
Under our current leadership, California is becoming a trash ridden, Insane Asylum without the usual rules, order and discipline you find in such a place. It is like we have put the residents of such an establishment in charge of maintaining public law and order.
I am of the opinion that if America really wants to defeat whatever enemies it has, all we need do is export to those enemies California’s brain dead Legislature and Governor, Gavin Newsome. Then somehow put California’s leaders in charge of our enemies economies and legal system. That ought to do them in.
Bob Bandy – January 2022
I’m glad our leadership is so concerned about the people’s well being. Polling (and I also imagine science) shows misplaced filtered cigarette butts as one of the greatest issues we constantly face. It’s about time someone took a stand for what is right.
Indeed, the inmates are in charge.
Sam’s watch is fast, we could have sipped on our coffee a little longer.
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Not that it is on par with policing cigarette butts, but I’m reminded of the great effort to save our trees by switch to plastic shopping bags. I notice that when the plastic bag rage shut down the advocates didn’t apologize or offer an alternative, probably out collecting plastic bags off our beaches. They do stay busy.
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