SPARE US O LORD

City Council hears request from High School seniors in Ap Government class to pass ordinance banning all smoking in vehicles passing through town if there are any minors passengers in vehicle. Logic is ‘ driver has no constitutional right to inflict grievous bodily harm on passengers”. They proposed this ordinance because the City Council had already usurped them and passed an ordinance banning ‘texting while driving’ before the class could introduce their urgent plea to prevent that new social ill. Other towns banning salt, soda , sugar, “Big Macs, ice cream, doughnuts and God knows what else. Of course we all know smokers are criminals. There is no end to sticking noses in other peoples business or pleasure.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised
for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive. It may be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The
robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his
cupidity may at some point be satiated; but
those who torment us for our own good, will torment
us without end, for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience.” ~ C.S. Lewis
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