In the spirit of the Olympic Games, I'm trying very hard this week to not comment on the politics of other countries. But this one is just so insane that I can't let it go. The article is about the loons on the other side of pond banning smoking in public. But that's not all--

In addition to making it a crime, for which you can be deprived of liberty and property, they also introduced crimes and penalties for failure to obey the initial laws. There's a brand-new fine for NOT posting signs prohibiting smoking -- and that fine is 4 times the no smoking fine. It's not immediately clear exactly how many "No Smoking" signs are required per square foot. It's also not clear that if there's not a sign and you smoke if you've actually broken the law.

Even that's not all! There's ANOTHER fine, FIFTY times the smoking fine penalty for "failing to stop people smoking." Seriously!

So, if you're smoking, there's a small fine. However, if someone walks past you who is NOT smoking, and they don't stop and force YOU to stop smoking, THEY get a more serious fine! Is there anyone who can make ANY sense out of this insanity?

I expect to see public beatings continue -- because if you are there and don't force someone else to stop smoking, you could be heavily fined!

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