A pipe collector's convention is leaving Chicago next year because they are not allowed to smoke.
Sitting in a tent more than 15 feet away from a St. Charles convention center Friday, Al Shinogle lit up his hand-carved Danish pipe and explained why there was so much frustration at this year's Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show—the largest pipe collector's gathering in the country."How would you like it if you went to a wine tasting and you couldn't taste the wine?" asked the 53-year-old Denver resident. "It's a freedom issue."
On Thursday, pipe aficionados learned that their attempts to allow smoking inside the Pheasant Run convention center, where some 4,000 were expected to linger over tables laid out with aromatic tobacco and intricately carved briar pipes Saturday and Sunday, had gone up in smoke.
The quote of the day comes from anti-freedom government official
"This is the first time we've seen such a blatant attempt . . . to actually undermine the law through legal sophistry," said Mike Grady, the American Cancer Society's Illinois director of public policy. "We're very happy with the outcome. This is the perfect example that the law is being enforced."
I like how when people try to exercise their Constitutional rights to freely associate and assemble it is "circumventing" law. But when these fascists pass laws that directly do circumvent the United States Constitution that is all right.
