To those who from the outset reputábamos the 'smoking ban', rather 'anti-smoking', as freedom-and economically ruinous, some advocates of government action as a guarantor of virtue and morality We conceded that, indeed, its enforcement would mean the lace for a particularly hit by the crisis, as is the hospitality. In any case, the safeguarding of public health sacrosanct (and private) are well worth a few failed businesses and more unemployed, total is the inertia of Spain today and only question, therefore, to wait for better times. However, when it also warned of the risk that one day ends up getting in our houses to even regulate private behavior, and that the said law does not cease to represent not only an attack on individual liberty, but an intrusion on private property is We crossed out of exaggerated and, indeed, radical. However, little has been slow to be clearly the true spirit that has moved to the legislature in this case: to intervene and interfere in our lives, under the premise that the State knows better than anyone, even ourselves, what is what we need.
Since it is ultimately impose a kind of Puritanism 'progress' as a code of conduct, so stifling control of our behavior becomes hopelessly in censorship. So that one of the fundamental liberties, the right to free expression, becomes the main affected. So, thanks to the complaint of an informer, an essential figure in these matters of civil liberty and shows us the dark history of totalitarianism, the Public Health Agency of Barcelona has seen fit to fine the musical 'Hair' because their players, of course the screenplay requires, smoke during the performance of the work. , Absurd immediately obtained the enthusiastic support of the law so harmful godmother, the Minister Pajín, which was not idle, has been allowed to give lessons in stage direction and urged that in such cases the artists 'simulate' the Just as' crimes in the theater. " Appears to have acquired exactly the same gravity stick a knife or firing a bullet to a deployed, even a fake cigarette such as .
ironic musical director, Roger Julia, with the possibility that ban will ever be movies in which smoking (which, incidentally, among the best Hollywood products are, or rather were, the vast majority) 'And we will remove the cigarette to Humphrey Bogart', true icon, a heavy smoker and often smoky film. Unfortunately, not at all unrealistic to reach such extreme delusional, no. Because the censor mind that nests in these dirigiste and repressive purposes just surfacing in some way or another. And it is not just to avoid further damage to a sector that generates wealth and creates jobs. It is basically freedom unwary.
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