Pre-ATF Party: Freedom Underground - Nanny State Policy Panel; Liberty On The Rocks BBQ

Freedom Underground - Nanny State Policy Panel

Friday, June 19, 2009

The Warwick Hotel, (The former Playboy Club) 1776 Grant Street, Denver, CO

***Don’t forget to sign up for the ATF Party the next day!***

Listen to Jon Caldara and Amy Oliver talk nannyism, the ATF party, and this great panel event!

Agenda

11:00a.m. — Registration

11:30a.m. — Lunch

Keynote Speaker: David Martosko, Center for Consumer Freedom

1:00p.m. — Morality and Philosophy of Nannyism

Panelists:

Radley Balko, TheAgitator.com and Reason Magazine

David Harsanyi, author of the Nanny State and syndicated columnist

David Kopel, Independence Institute Research Director

2:15p.m. — Economics of Nannyism: Sin Taxes and Litigation

Panelists:

Terry Gallagher, President of Smoker Friendly

Jordan Lipp, attorney Davis Graham & Stubbs and of the Colorado Civil Justice Leage.

Linda Gorman, Independence Institute Health Care Policy Center Director

3:30p.m. — Break

3:45p.m. — Fighting Nannyism:

Panelists:

Andrew Boucher, Boucher Strategies and NoCoPolitics.com

David Martosko, Center for Consumer Freedom

Andrew Breitbart, The DrudgeReport, Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood

5:00p.m. — Break

6:00p.m. – Dinner

Keynote Speaker: Andrew Breitbart, The DrudgeReport, Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood

8:00 p.m. – Cocktails & Cigars

This is a can’t miss event! Give us a call @ 303.279.6536 or RSVP online here to reserve your spot!

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Liberty on the Rocks BBQ!

Date: Sunday, June 14, 2009
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Washington Park
Street: Corner of Franklin and Virginia
City/Town: Denver, CO

Email: amanda@libertyontherocks.org

Location - Picnic Spot One at Wash Park next to the fire station (corner of Franklin and Virginia). There is plenty of free on-street parking.

Join others who love freedom for a fun in the sun day at the park!

BYOB - NO GLASS!!

There will be hamburgers, hot dogs, chips and other snacks provided. We will have water and soda, but if you'd like to drink, please bring your own alcohol. And be sure it's not glass - park rules!

There will also be a bake sale to raise money for the organization - so come with your sweet tooth!

We will have games to play, lunch and snacks to munch on and as always, great conversations! Come on out to Washington Park on Sunday, June 14th to network, make friends, eat BBQ lunch and have a great time!

Hope to see you there!

Boulder County Proposes Smoking Ban Surveys For HOAs, Private Complexes

In addition to the surveys it plans for the Boulder Housing Authority-managed properties--polling residents to determine if a smoking ban is wanted, Boulder County urges private home owner associations and privately managed housing complexes to consider banning smoking through a polling mechanism. So much for private property rights--say hello to your new nanny-state overlords, aided and abetted by your neighbors:

Boulder County is considering snuffing out smoking inside Boulder Housing Authority-managed apartment, condominium and townhouse complexes — and health officials would like homeowners' associations to weigh similar bans in private buildings.

The county's public health division, along with the housing authority, distributed a 12-question survey last month to the 467 residents living in its scattered complexes, asking whether they'd support a smoking ban for every unit in their building.

If most tenants support building-wide bans, Boulder County Public Health and the Housing Authority will consider a smoking prohibition. If most tenants reject the idea, the authority probably won't, said EricAakko, the county's tobacco education coordinator.

"Most buildings aren't designed to have smokers in one area and not in the next," said Aakko, noting that 50 percent of the air in multi-unit housing complexes recirculates throughout the buildings because ventilation systems aren't equipped to filter out smoke.

"The surgeon general has been clear: There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke."

Katie Case, who lives in a Housing Authority complex on Broadway, said she's opposed to having smoke in her house — but she also respects people's freedoms. She's particularly sensitive to the issue in the winter, when it can be too cold to smoke outside.

Mark Rosinski takes a smoke break Friday at the apartment where he is doing maintenance work. He said he would not support further smoking bans in Boulder.

"With the bar bans, if you can't smoke at your house, you can't smoke at all," Case, 23, said.

Still, because of associated health risks, Case said she'll support a building-wide ban.

"But it is getting a little invasive," she said.

Ya think?

And how about that logic--the proposal is invasive, but she'll still vote for it! So much for personal freedom on private property, if your neighbors don't like it, no smoking for you, even inside your own home! And all under the presumed veil of "democratic" polling of the HOA or housing units. With neighbors using logic like this woman, a quick puff may earn you heavy fines, and perhaps a trip to the nearest moonbat reeducation camp.

And to think, when the public area bans were first proposed, there were claims that smoking on private property would never be a target. Nanny-state creep is all the rage, especially in smoking prohibition.