Back in June, the Chicago Fascists won a huge victory in their war to have government take over every aspect of personal responsibility by passing a law banning smoking indoors throughout the state. Now, being a “big L” Libertarian, I find this law to be completely unjust, nevermind unconstitutional. Let’s put that aside for a second.

The wingtips, suits, and uniforms have had 6 months to develop a formal plan for enforcement of said law. 6 months to decide who would be responsible for enforcement, how violations would be policed, who would do the administrative work, etc. 6 months. Anyone who has read the paper in the last week or so knows that NO ONE, from the Farmington Police Department allllllll the way up to the office of Blagojevich knows how any of this is going to work. The General Assembly committee responsible for developing this plan doesn’t meet until January 9th, over a week after the law goes into effect.

What a clusterfuck. This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard. All theses assholes were so busy jerking each other off and rubbing their ties together in joy that they forgot that LAWS NEED TO BE ENFORCED. There seems to be a repeating pattern of police chiefs making statements such as “We’re not the cigarette police”, or “These guys didn’t become cops to tell people to put their cigarettes out.” Really? Why didn’t someone speak up BEFORE the law was passed? We don’t have enough plows to keep the streets safe in the smallest of storms, students pay hundreds of dollars to go to primary schools that are at best sub-par, the sidewalks and public ways are falling apart, crime is getting worse instead of better. Now the suits in Springfield (and Chicago) expect local departments to spend time and money on this asinine law, but they won’t tell them how to go about spending the time or money. It’s like telling an 8-year-old to build a Ferrari without tools or parts. He may know what a Ferrari looks like, but without the ways and means to build it, he’s just a kid standing in a garage.