Bloomberg's Brown Shirts

   

City Tries to Shut Club It Says Flouts Smoking Ban

"So in recent months, the department has deputized a team of inspectors — many of them younger and hipper-looking than the stereotypical bureaucrat — to work into the wee hours, posing as patrons and hunting for tolerance of smoking by clubs’ employees."

The obvious rants are that Bloomberg is declaring open war on NYC's hospitality industry and the natural backlash when you try to dictate how someone runs their business which use to be private property. The thing that really caught my attention was the 'deputizing' of a team of "younger and hipper-looking" inspectors. As far as I am concerned, these guys are Bloomberg's brown shirts or the Bloomberg Youth. I can not believe I am looking at this unfold in an America city. This is what happens when politicians don't know their history. Prohibition ended up criminalizing normal law abiding citizens rather than bring the sort of utopia its supporters envisioned. It also created generations of criminal empires. Now here we go again. The business owners lose their business, the employees their jobs and the city loses tax revenue. It's not even worth a rant to describe how this Mayor is acting.