If You Smoke, Don't Come To Fort Wayne

Attention tourists:

Fort Wayne's Repressive

Smoking Ordinance

   If you smoke, don't come to Fort Wayne, the City Council and the Mayor see you as an unwanted and unwelcome health hazard to their city, except for your tourist dollars, of course.

Convention leaders:

   Why would you want to bring a convention into a city that sticks its nose way too far into the affairs of private citizens? How can your smoking members feel comfortable and relaxed in a city that sees them as but disgusting people? Go somewhere else.

Human behavior experiments:

   Fort Wayne is a world test market and has been so for many decades. But the test products now include social experiments, such as the current smoking ban, to condition people to give up their civil rights at the government's discretion.

  Click below for the new smoking ordinance:

http://www.kekiongapress.info/CitySmoke.html

From reasonable to outrageous

   In 1998, City Council passed their first smoking ordinance, which mandated that restaurants independently ventilate smoking areas-- and many establishments spent $50,000 or more to comply. Now in 2007, the city council says that this is not good enough and that they have wasted their money in compliance with the old ordinance! (Shouldn't the city be sued for their expenses?) Somehow secondhand smoke on other smokers is not tolerable now. Worse still, is that the new ordinance goes into private businesses and tells them that they cannot even have separated and ventilated smoking rooms for their employees!

  Fort Wayne's new smoking ordinance bans smoking in bars, restaurants and most private businesses without reason or justification.

Leadership or dictatorship?

   The only fair way to enact such an ordinance is to let the citizens vote on it themselves, instead of special interest group representatives and stooges, such as the city council and the mayor. Otherwise, it is not democratic but dictatorial behavior. Whenever possible, the people should be allowed to govern themselves.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government--lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

Patrick Henry