{"id":3201,"date":"2006-07-04T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3201"},"modified":"2017-12-16T05:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T11:39:59","slug":"anti-property-rights-legislators-or-the-ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/04\/anti-property-rights-legislators-or-the-ira\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Property Rights Legislators, or the IRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting hard to tell them apart, with philosophies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/FFBAC8304928ED7F862571A0001C4993?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The surgeon general&#8217;s recent report on the hazards of secondhand smoke could spawn the next big summer sequel: Smoking Ban II.<\/p>\n<p>Last year a controversial attempt to ban smoking in all public buildings died a slow, public death in the St. Louis County Council.<\/p>\n<p>But the failed ban&#8217;s author, Council Chairman Kurt Odenwald, R-Shrewsbury, says the new report has led him to consider another run at the issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After this report, I don&#8217;t think anyone can say this is not a health issue anymore,&#8221; Odenwald said. &#8220;The dangers of secondhand smoke are real. They are not hogwash, and I think we need to address them.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it comes to keeping a check on the government&#8217;s regulation of individual property rights, our elected leaders and the unelected agitators for legislation usurping personal dominion over personal property seem to espouse the philosophy: <i>Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky always.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting hard to tell them apart, with philosophies like this: The surgeon general&#8217;s recent report on the hazards of secondhand smoke could spawn the next big summer sequel: Smoking Ban II. Last year a controversial attempt to ban smoking in all public buildings died a slow, public death in the St. Louis County Council. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18673,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions\/18673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}