WAY TO GO GATE CITY BILLARDS in GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA!   
                                
                                WE & ALL FREEDOM-LOVING AMERICANS ARE WE'RE PROUD OF YOU! 

July 24, 2010: Per published reports, (google) Gate City Billiards in Greensboro, North Carolina, is challenging the un-American, anti-freedom, no-smoke law enacted in North Carolina. The article is shown below. The link is pasted below it. To help out Gate City Billiards with their legal costs, you can go to: www.GateCityBilliards.com

Article: In May of 2009, Bev Perdue, Governor of the state of North Caroline, signed into law a smoking ban in bars and restaurants.
From this new smoking ban have come many repercussions for businesses across the state.  One story in particular is the plight of Gate City Billiards in the city of Greensboro.
At first, Gate City Billiards did not fall under the guidelines of the smoking ban, as there were two exceptions to the jurisdiction of the new law.
1.  Cigar Bars
2.  Private clubs, defined as country clubs or other nonprofit groups such as a VFW or an Elks Lodge
When Gate City Billiards applied for their ABC permit with the state of North Carolina, they were considered a 'private club', which in itself carries a number of restrictions.  However, this new law omits Gate City as being a private club under the auspices of the new smoking ban, and deems them a public entity, even with a private club permit.
In March of 2010, Gate City Billiards reorganized and created their business entity as a 'country club', and changed their business name to Gate City Billiards Country Club, LLC.  Since the law is vague in its definition of a 'private club', to this point outside of a court room determination the city has been treating Gate City Billiards as a public business to include fines on two separate occasions.
Needless to say, the smoking ban has taken its toll on the businesses in Greensboro, and especially Gate City Billiards.  As on today, they have chosen to fight this legislation in court as long as they are financially able to do so.
They are also asking for donations to help in this legal fight.  More information on where you can help can be found on their website at:  www.GateCityBilliards.com
Gate City Billiards has chosen this avenue based on a larger scope than simply a smoking ban.  They are looking to argue the merits of public and legislative control over what appears to be a 14th amendment issue for the right of privacy in a designated private setting.
Can Gate City Billiards fight city hall and win?  That is not only a question that private businesses desire an answer to, but also states such as Arizona in their battle against the Federal Government.    

As shown at Examiner.com Denver:  http://www.examiner.com/x-58699-Billiards-Examiner~y2010m7d23-Gate-City-Billiards-Takes-on-City-Hall-Over-Smoking-Ban                
                                            

                                                                         WAY TO GO SOUTH CAROLINA!

                         WE & ALL FREEDOM-LOVING AMERICANS ARE PROUD OF YOU!

July 22, 2010: GREAT NEWS! Per published reports, the powers that be in York County South Carolina are set to roll back portions of their un-American, no-smoke ordinance. Contrary to what the no-smoke slobs say, businesses do lose business when the no-smoke zealots demand authoritarian rule and tyranny be enforced upon entire populaces. Article pasted below from msn.com. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38333966

ROCK HILL, S.C.-- At its meeting in August, the York County Council looks poised to roll back part of a smoking ban the county enacted just 14 months ago.
An amendment suggested Monday night would exempt private clubs that require a membership of its customers. That includes places like the American Legion and VFW, and also smaller drinking clubs that opt to ask customers to apply. Five members of the council spoke favorably of the amendment Monday.
That "private clubs" category includes the Ponderosa on Cherry Road, which was empty when NewsChannel 36 visited at noon on Tuesday. The private club used to open for lunch, but nowadays, they don't serve food at all. The early shift workers have been let go.
"It's just killed our business. That's just in a nutshell," owner Steve Lipe said. "It took half our business. It just took it away."
Lipe only allows members and guests of members to drink at his bar. All members fill out an application and pay $5 per year. Lipe, a non-smoker, says 75 percent of his members were smokers."I talk to them," he said. "I see a lot of them, and I ask them, I say, 'Where you been going?' And they say, 'Steve, we go to Lancaster or Chester or Charlotte."
York County business owners have a unique situation because smokers truly do have options of nearby places
 to go. The ban does not apply to businesses within the boundaries of the county's four towns. York and Clover allow smoking. Fort Mill exempts private clubs. That contrasts sharply to North Carolina, where the ban is statewide. (It also exempts private clubs.)

                       


                       Google Jerry Brittain, Warrenton, Virginia. Las Vegas Review-Journal.
March 22, 2010

A guy by the name of Jerry Brittain from Warrenton, Virginia, had a letter to the editor published in the Las Vegas, Nevada, Review-Journal. He was complaining of smoking being allowed in so many places in Las Vegas. His letter, as published, is pasted immediately below. He was soundly rebuked by citizens of Las Vegas and www.RepealSmokingBans.com . 
"Too many butts"
To the editor:
I made a trip to Las Vegas last week. I have been there many times, but this time I had an experience that left me pondering why anyone would want to visit the city.
First, every place I traveled in the casinos, except for a few eating places, had people smoking, in the halls, in the shops, casinos, and even in the rooms. Perhaps I did not notice this when I last visited, but since most Americans now do not smoke, I wonder why this is going unchallenged.
Second, my wife and I stayed in the old part of town and would take a taxi, daily, to the newer Strip. We could not walk down the sidewalks without someone shoving a business card for "girls" in our faces. Being civil did not seem to work.
Both areas of concern should be addressed, in order to make the city and sites more user friendly.
JERRY BRITTAIN
WARRENTON, VA."

"RepealSmokingBans wrote on March 22, 2010 06:35 AM: Poor Jerry Brittain and Brian (below). You don't like smoking, so even when you're nowhere to be found on the Strip - or anywhere else smoking is allowed - those people on the Strip or anywhere else shouldn't be allowed to smoke. Because you don't want them to. That right?

Don't like smoke? Then don't go where smoking is allowed. And we'll not light up in businesses where smoking isn't allowed. Their money invested into them, their rules. No problem. Easy solution, right?

Not for little Jerry Brittain or Brian. You demand people OBEY(!) you and buy into your self-imposed drama, and dogma, and your anti-freedom stance. Whether they want to submit to your authoritarian demands or not. And if they don't obey? Then your stance is they should be punished. In America. For oooooh, smoooooooking.

Your thinking is divisive. It's anti-freedom. Your demands that authoritarian law be enacted in the United States manifests a disrespect for the rule of law. That's bad for all of us. www.RepealSmokingBans.com"


"Amen wrote on March 22, 2010 08:24 AM: JERRY BRITTAIN
I am a non-smoker but I would never even begin to think I could impose my will on smokers in areas where smoking is allowed, inside or outside. This is America fool, not communist China. Go to China to gamble and try impose your thinking there. They likely would throw you and your wife into prison.  As for the girls. This is Vegas not Disneyland. Go to Disneyland if you want to live in a Fairy Tale. My suggesting is that you learn to appreciate the country you live in or one day you will be living in a communist America."


"Randy wrote on March 22, 2010 09:09 AM: 1) Stay on the newer end of the strip you cheapskate. 2) The new upscale casinos allow smoking, but you can hardly tell its there - unless you're a sissy. 3) Ignore the people passing out cards. Don't even look at them. That is it. If you want purity and all natural goodness go to Amish country in Pennsylvania, don't come to Vegas and bring your nanny state mentality with you."


"Never Happen wrote on March 22, 2010 02:26 PM: Brian, your dream of Nevada becoming exactly like the People's Republik of Kalifornia is your wet dream only. That will never come to pass here. If you don't like the smoke, stay out of the casinos. No one is making you go there. Unless you're chained in a casino, you've got no gripes. Stay in the ultra nanny state the Kalifornicators have built for themselves and while you're there, enjoy the huge taxes that have done nothing but drive businesses out and left the state penniless."





Letter To The Editor: Published in the University Daily Kansan (University of Kansas, a liberal stronhold in the Midwest), titled "Why I'm against the statewide smoking ban."
     http://www.kansan.com/stories/2009/apr/21/letter_why_im/                                                       


                               

                           WAY TO GO SOUTH DAKOTA!
South Dakota smoking ban set to go into effect July 1, 2009 put on hold and to be put to a vote of its citizenry in 2010.

Per an article in the Rapid City Journal (South Dakota) @ www.rapidcityjournal.com, dated June 29, 2009, the proposed smoking ban in South Dakota has been put on hold until it's been put to a vote of the citizenry in 2010. 25,000 signatures were gathered by freedom loving citizens to set back the no-smoke nazi's in South Dakota.

Unfortunately, and not surprisingly, the little nazi's on the editorial board at the Rapid City Journal are a bit upset. Imagine that. They printed an editorial, dated June 29, 2010, titled, "State Smoking Ban All But Certain."

Let's tear the editorial apart. In an honest way.

First, the title. A smoking ban in South Dakota is not all but certain. But that's what the Rapid City Journal wants you to believe;  just like Hitler - also a no-smoke zealot pig along with being a murdering psychopath - got his socialist minions to believe the Third Reich's lasting thousands of years was all but certain.

Then the writer states, "We’ll never argue against the people’s right to have their voices heard in a South Dakota election and a smoking ban doesn’t make the exception."

Cute little trick by the writer. He/she wants to you assume that the majority of South Dakota citizens don't value personal sovereignty and individual ownership. But it's OK to vote, even though they put to you that your voting won't make a difference in the end. Yep, good little nazi's.
 
Then the writer sates, "So we’re glad to see the controversial issue go to the ballot, but we’re disappointed another 16 months will pass before public smoking becomes a thing of the past in our state."

You mean freedom becomes a thing of the past? Again, the writer wants you to assume freedom is a thing of the past and you should just get over it. Freedom....losing it....no big deal to the Rapid City Journal. They're zealots. They're out of control. They're the new American nazi's.

The editorial also stated that Jennifer Stalley of the Pierre, South Dakota, American Cancer Society office was in the South Dakota Secretary of State's office photographing the 25,000 signatures. We assume, appearing to be a good little nazi, to attempt to disqualify as many of the signatures as possible. If you have a photograph of Jennifer Stalley, please forward it to us. Jennifer Stalley and the other zealots at the American Cancer Society are dangerous to freedom. Stalley, in our opinion, is out of control. She's un-American. She's a fascist.

The bottom line is this: Freedom is making a come back in South Dakota. Its citizens are no longer laying down in the face of oppression, suppression, and tyranny. GOOD JOB, SOUTH DAKOTA!

Editorial shown at www.rapidcityjournal.com @ http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/06/29/news/opinions/doc4a455851a1449808699664.txt

 

April 7, 2009. Pasted from Yahoo @ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_go_ot/stevens

WASHINGTON – A judge has dismissed charges against former Sen. Ted Stevens because of prosecutorial misconduct and has ordered a criminal contempt investigation of the prosecutors.

"In nearly 25 years on the bench, I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case," U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said in the opening moments of a hearing.

Sullivan read a stinging summary of the many times the government withheld evidence or mishandled witnesses in the case.

Stevens was convicted of lying on Senate financial forms about gifts he received from wealthy friends. But Attorney General Eric Holder asked that the case be dismissed, saying Stevens did not receive a fair trial.

Stevens narrowly lost re-election just days later, falling to Democrat Mark Begich. He had been in the Senate 40 years, making him the longest-serving Republican senator when he was defeated.

During Tuesday's hearing, Sullivan read a primer on criminal procedure, the kind of rudimentary lecture students normally receive during their first year of law school.

The judge said he has seen a troubling trend of prosecutors withholding evidence in cases against people ranging from Guantanamo Bay detainees to public officials such as Stevens. He called on judges nationwide to issue formal orders in all criminal cases requiring that prosecutors turn over evidence to defendants.

It was a stinging rebuke of the Justice Department and Sullivan called on Holder to order training for all prosecutors.