From: robert@askinc.ask.COM (Robert McMullen)
Subject: Smokin' @ Showzzzzzzzz
Organization: ASK Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 23:37:52 GMT

To catch people up, one eternally vigilant asshole posted up all
about how neatly they go about trying to keep people from exercising
their civil rights to protect his personal rights (yeah, keeping
people from smoking in public to suit his selfish needs...).  Someone,
questioning the methodology, responded:

>>Are you for real? You've actually *done* this? And haven't gotten
>>your lights knocked out???? I'm not a smoker, and am not particularly
>>Cormac

>Well, Yeah, I'm for real. As I mentioned before, if you are stealthy
>they really don't know where it came from...that's what's mostly

No, that means you're a fucking pussy.  If you had any balls at all
you'd simply ask them to roach the cig/joint/whatever.  BTW, being an
advocate of "stealthness", are you for the US building a bomber that
can sneak in undetected and bomb you in your sleep?

>fun about it. If you walked right up in their face and did it you
>might as well be really confrontational and I wasn't advocating 

Bzzzt!  You'd get better results by asking than through cowardice.  I 
know, since I usually go to shows with large groups of friends, that
I *would* find you, then do something really unpleasant to you.  
Especially if it was my *last* cigarette.      

>starting brawls in the aisles. As for asking people to not smoke,
>it rarely works. Most people I know who still smoke are indignant
>and self-righteous about their "right" to smoke in *your* face.
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That's only happening because the fascists in CONTROL have decided
that they're going to limit what people can do where (ie, smoking
in restaurants, oral sex in Arizona).  I don't know of any time
someone's claimed the "right" to blow smoke in *my* face as opposed
to the countless times people have asked me NOT to smoke, or made 
that god-awful, faggy little *cough, cough* right after I lit up...

A couple questions: 

Do you squirt Jerry for blowing his ungodly smoke in your precious
little face?

Would you squirt-gun, say a 350-pound 1% HA biker, or do reserve your 
cowardly antics for people smaller than you, say girls?

Do you not go to any indoor shows?

[I agree with the person who said that you can't do shit about it 
outdoors, say at Shoreline, but they shouldn't allow it indoors, say at
Oakland Coliseum...and I smoke!] 

All I can say to help you is, if you don't like it, don't go, and save
some tickets for those of us with minds open enough to deal with it
(thought that's what the beauty of this scene is, anyway...).

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