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Europeans dislike new "nanny state" laws
Europe's governments have gone crazy. They've been over-regulating for a while, but this takes the cake.
It seems that their citizens, by and large, hate the new, invasive laws they've created
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While many accepted the new rules as reasonable measures in the name of public health, some bristled at what they called the state's overreach and the creeping end of the European way of life.
"I will not let anyone stop me from smoking at my own business," Ali, owner of the Westend Pinte bar in Berlin, told Germany's mass-market Bild newspaper.
"I've been smoking 40 cigarettes a day since I was 12 -- I can't quit now."
Anne Cicek, manager of the Bier Bar in east Berlin, told the daily Berliner Zeitung that she would defy the rules: "We are not little children who need to be told what we cannot do."
The conservative newspaper Die Welt noted that 19th century revolutionaries in Berlin had waved the banner for, among other civil liberties, the right to smoke wherever they pleased.
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If a Democrat is elected this year, and Democrats control the house, you can expect similar government freedom-grabs.
-Matt Hittle
Posted at 11:38AM Jan 03, 2008 by College Republicans in Freedom | Comments[0]
