Individual Rights Take a Beating in South Carolina

The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that the city of Greenville, SC is within the law in enacting a smoking ban. The Greenville ordinance had been challenged by a group of business owners in the city.

At least a dozen other towns and cities in South Carolina were awaiting word from the state Supreme Court before enacting proposed smoking bans.

It appears that what was once a bastion of individual rights has become a mecca for the meddling nanny-state gestapo. Rather than rule that the decision to smoke is an individual one that is no one else's business, not to mention that business owners should be allowed to decide on their own whether or not to allow smoking on their own private property, the Supreme Court in the state threw its weight behind the purveyors of the Big Brother Nanny State who seem to believe they have the right to tell other people what to do.

Government in the United States was not established to save people from themselves nor to force people to do things 'for their own good.'

Apparently neither the citizens nor the Supreme Court in South Carolina are even vaguely aware of this concept.

I would have expected such a ruling in California or Massachusetts, but not South Carolina.

Thus, the march to beat individual rights into the ground continues....

Sieg Heil!