Recently, a privately owned and operated sports and entertainment centre, encouraged by the health Nazis' attitude, decided to take things a step further and conduct searches and seizures of patrons’ tobacco products ...
Which prompted this excellent letter:
Great letter, Sean! I know exactly where you’re coming from.Re: Save-On centre butting out, News, Sept. 17, 2008.
Has the Capital Regional District and Save-On-Foods centre gone completely insane?
You will not be confiscating any of my tobacco products or infringing on my rights, as I never plan to return to the land of the over-regulated and bylaw-saturated non-personally responsible hell that is being created in Victoria region and Canada as a whole by silly self-serving bureaucrats trying to justify their existence by telling me how to live.
Anarchy works for me. That is why I moved to Mexico. I write you as I enjoy a beer and a smoke in a public shopping mall, just ahead of commute back home in my vehicle, while not wearing a seat belt, watching smiling families riding in the back of pick-up trucks whiz by me at 110 kilometres per hour.
Guess what will happen if I crash? They will say it was my own fault. No one to blame but myself. How liberating. Adios!
Sean Randall
Formerly of Langford
Right on, JR! If I could afford it I'd be right down there wth you. I worked for 15 months in Mexico and loved it. It is truly amazing how refreshing it feels when you are not perpetually questioning every move you make wondering if you have broken some goofy rule that you never even heard of.
ReplyDeleteGood luck in the land of the free.
Thanks for your support for the idea, Powell. But just to clarify, the "I'm outta here" in the title was just my notional quote of letter writer Sean, whose decision and reasons I admire. I have no immediate plans to join him - though he (and you) certainly have me thinking about it:)
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