THE LINE'S BEEN DRAWN

I couldn't blog yesterday because I felt physically sick at the orchestrated anti-smoker campaign that used and exploited children to further it's morally twisted cause.

My guess is that the 15,000 signatures collected were from children of those who work in the industry - or parents who don't see that their kids are getting a lesson in how to fear and how to hate people who have no wish to harm anyone.

I wonder if it was just coincidental that this stage managed approach from people I have never met, telling me what to do with my own car that they will never get into, happened on the same day that a state backed harassment campaign against smokers was launched.

As Leg Iron says, it proves that police forces need trimming back. Teresa May should be looking to Essex first when deciding where the biggest axe on services should fall.

Essex police obviously have officers to waste on intimidating people in their own private property while they go about their private daily business peacefully. A company car used to belong to the owner of the company. The boss set the rules for the employee who used it. There were consequences if they were broken. The Govt had no right to interfere.

All private company vehicles were Nationalised by NuLabour along with private pubs, restaurants, and cafes and this NuGovt is doing nothing to relieve the pressure. Not satisfied with slaughtering the pub industry, it seems the state is now costing companies delivery time by allowing the police to set up "stop and sniff" road blocks to delay drivers. If it wasn't so oppressive it would be reminiscent of an Ealing Comedy.

I have accepted all restrictions with dignity in the past 40 years and abided by them. Telling me what to do with a legal product on my own property is a step too far. It is my line. This is where I take no more. This is where I fail to comply.

I will ignore a car ban. I will ignore a home ban. I will not let them exploit money from me in fines. I will go to prison if I have to. I said criminalisation after exclusion was the aim all along. It looks like it might come to that for me. I will have no other choice.

I don't want to lose the remaining liberty I have left over this issue but what is the point of liberty if you are not free to enjoy it? The prison of the inside or the prison of the outside makes no difference. I want back the life the anti-smokers and smokerphobes stole from me. I want to live in peace without fear or prejudice. Why does this merit such a demonstration of hate against me?

Why is this Govt not listening and when will it act to stop this fear and hatred from spiralling further out of control?

WHAT NEXT? YOU.

Whatever your view about tobacco and smoking, anyone with an ounce of perception can see that if these measures go through then it clears the way for restrictions on all sorts of legal products that the authorities don't like.

That is why it is imperative that you add your name to the petition. If you don't, and this goes through unchallenged, then it's time to take bets on what will be next.

For my money it will chocolate and sweets in plain packaging - cakes which are not allowed to look pretty, burgers sold on the black market on street corners, and fizzy drinks being hidden under the counter.

If they manage to eradicate tobacco use, and ultimately move to the next stage of criminalising law abiding smokers, don't think it won't be you next and whatever it is you like.

These proposals are preposterous. Tobacco is legal. There is no evidence that these sort of restrictions make smoking less attractive or accessible to youths.

I hate perfume. I hate the smell of it and that it makes me sneeze. I can't bear sitting near anyone wearing it in a restaurant as it spoils the taste of my food. The packaging is pretentious, the contents poisonous when inhaled, but I would not back any moves to restrict it's point of sale. Nor would I expect those who have a favourite brand to have to guess what they're buying because someone else like me hates it and starts making laws to eradicate it.

Look - we know what risks we take when we smoke. Kids are far more knowledgeable than we were about the dangers of active smoking. It's almost the first thing they learn these days. It's probably why the numbers of people taking up smoking are markedly lower than they were when I started.

When we reach the age where we can legally smoke it should be our choice based on informed risks, and not because Nanny Britain has sent us to the Bully to be punished because we won't take her good advice.

SHS, which I do not accept is any kind of major risk, can be avoided with choice so banning the consumption of a legal product in public is nothing to do with health and everything to do with Govt backing of denormalisation of a minority social and lifestyle group.

Further restrictions are just the next step towards making a legal product illegal.

I've always supported education on tobacco risks but I am against propaganda.

These proposed restrictions are simply propaganda. They will achieve no aim but further denormalisation of law abiding and mostly older lifelong smokers who face criminalisation if they do not comply with this new health world order.

Whatever it is that you like, do you seriously want to be next? Sign the petition and make sure you won't be.

OUCH

Prague was amazing but depression set in as soon as I landed back in the Uk especially on catching up on the Govt's final solution for smokers announced while I was away.

Yes, they have us by the proverbials visualised above in a poster advertising an art exhibition that caught the attention of many passers by in Prague.

The sense of freedom I felt in that city was immense. My step was lighter as I walked even in several feet of snow, my fear disappeared. I felt equal and included for the first time in four years.

The first cafe I went into reminded me of the one I used to visit in my local indoor market. It was the sort of place that anti-smokers didn't go because it was more underclass than middle class. I felt at home.

I was also hugely pleased that choice was on the menu in the Czech Republic with signs to indicate both. I walked past those that didn't allow smoking. It was the sort of thing we used to have here before we became a Communist State of the EUSSR.

Oddly I smoked less. Culturally in the UK smoking was never encouraged on the street until July 2007. In my youth there was a name for women who smoked out in the open. It just wasn't done. Now people binge smoke before going into buildings. They are forced out into the open to be ridiculed, humiliated, outcast. This is not about their health but hatred of them by others.

Govt has called them out to be targets.

One thing I was reminded of in Prague was the effectiveness of air ventilation systems. You couldn't tell if you were in a smoking or non-smoking restaurant, pub or cafe just by smell. I always had to ask when I entered or look for ashtrays on the tables. Smoking is not an issue there at all because these people know the true value of freedom and what defines it.

I was actually moved to tears in the Mucha Restaurant to be allowed inside such a wonderful place and to be welcomed. It was very cultural, and like stepping back to 1920. The jackboot lifted from my neck and I could breathe fresh unbiased air. Smoking was part and parcel of it's ambience. We had a four course traditional meal as a jazz pianist played.

It was named after the Czech art nouveau artist Alfons Mucha who was one of the first to be arrested when the Gestapo entered the city in 1939. He did not survive the experience as many more classed as "undesirables" did not.

Yes, the Czechs know the true value of freedom, the danger of denormalisation, and the exclusion of "unwelcome" human beings. Their Jewish cemetery is testament to that.

I've worn my red F2C badge, which has a striked-through cigarette with the words "What Next" underneath, since attending the first TICAP anti-prohibition conference in 2009. We now know it is Obesity, particularly but not exclusively.

The badge attracted a lot of interest from English speaking Czechs who wanted to know what it meant.

"Ah yes, I've heard about the marginalisation of smokers in the UK," said one young man when I explained how awful life was here and how oppressed it's citizens were.

He was shocked and disappointed because of that mythical ideal Eastern Europeans have about the model of freedom - Britain. I told him he should never visit the UK because it was a terrible place of unspoken oppression. I said smokers were jailed, evicted, promoted as child abusers, villified, humiliated, and abused. I said other "undesirables" were being targeted for similar treatment.

Another non-smoking Czech told me he smoked for 20 years but quit. He said choice was important and he was saddened to hear how people are treated here because they like the "wrong" foods, they drink alcohol and they smoke. I joked we'd all have to have blonde hair and blue eyes next to become accepted by "normal" society.

We used to be the laughing stock of Europe because of this lifetyle pettiness but we are now feared by those in Eastern Europe who do not want to revisit their oppressive history now they are free citizens. I found those in Hungary the same when I visited Budapest about three years ago. The UK is Definitely off the list as a holiday venue for some.

It is why Klaus Vaclas, the Czech president, is fighting further integration of the EU where this lifestyle control comes from.

I also explained that my reason for visiting Prague was the only way I could show any resistance to our treatment. I explained about the Resistance Movement we have that refuses to fund the UK denormalisation plan by buying our tobacco abroad. Tobacco at CzK 170 a 50g pack was more expensive than a pack of fags at CzK 61. Both were far cheaper in the city than the airport so buy in Prague for best value and boost the local economy which deserves our custom.

The heaviness and unhappiness that I feel because of having to live in the UK under the dictatorial LibLabCon govt immediately returned on landing and going through customs. Signs threatening this that or the other, were littered along the walls as we made our way through passport control.

I flew from East Midlands airport which has a smoking section. They cage smokers up outside. In Prague airport the pub is smoking. Non-smokers have to sit outside or choose an non-smoking alternative. At least they have one.

I would love to go again but as part of the Resistance Movement I plan to see as many European cities as possible so somewhere in Spain is next on my list. After tasting -16 degree temperatures in Prague, a little bit of sunshine next time would be nice.

REVEALED - POLITICIANS HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOUR

So now we know although it wasn't a hard guess - politicians obviously have trouble seeing the funny side of British Comedy.

I've just read this http://bastardoldholborn.blogspot.com/2009/10/nothing-to-hideeverything-to-fear.html on Old Holborn's blog and it made me shiver. They may not like comedian Mark Thomas' humour but that doesn't make him a "domestic extremist" . What, exactly, is one of those when it's at home anyway?

When a man can be held up as some sort of danger to the UK just because those in power don't see the funny side of his jokes, then we have very serious opression. Gulp!