Saturday
Nov242007
UN couldn't make it up
Saturday, November 24, 2007 
An old university friend, who works at the Foreign Office, is unable to come to our party (see below). He writes: "Thanks very much, Forest, but apologies this time as I shall be at the UN in New York looking after your interests, Simon. If it's any consolation, the UN HQ building is defiantly smoke-filled - especially in the eating areas. Good luck on Tuesday."
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Don't do as I do, do as I say springs to mind!
Simon
With the smoking ban so universally in force, how can there possibly be smoking at the UN headquarters? Your friend says it is defiantly filled with smoking...so who is policing the ban.
If they can flout the ban then so can we! Can this mean that the edifice of this spiteful ban is beginning to crumble...or does it mean one rule for one elite set in society and another rule for the plebs!
Re Chris' comments about plebs, however, see George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', Penguin edition, 1955, page 59: 'If there is hope', wrote Winston, 'it lies in the proles'.
Norman -
Re your reference to Winston Smith's "If there is hope, it lies in the proles", I rather fear -given the way things seem to be going throughout the planet at present - that O'Brien's hideous Stamping Boot metaphor may prove to be more apt: "Power is not a means, it is an end"...............
At least O'Brien was honest !