So then overweight chefs would be banned from trying their food in their own restaurants? Hey if people want to eat they are going to eat, just the same as if people are going to drink they are going to simply move on to the next bar until someone lets them in. But that's not the point.

The most interesting statement in this article to me is,"It is too oppressive for government to require a restaurant owner to police another human being from their own indiscretions," Well this is interesting because we already do have these kinds of oppressive individual indiscretion laws. No smoking in bars, you must wear your seatbelt and a helmet on a bike. I suppose that these issues still require a police officer to make the final judgements; but how about the law in Seattle that puts the weight on the business owner at night club to police the people who may or may not be on drugs? Can we really equate being obese with being on drugs?

I suppose this goes back to whether or not being obese is an disease in the same way that addiction is considered a disease. What point exactly is the Representative trying to highlight? That obese people should not be able to go into restaurants or that the government has the ability to create laws that will prevent freedom by protecting or providing security from the very freedom that people take for granted such as going to a restaurant by taking advantage of public fear or confusion?

Here's what I have to say, so he didn't file a permit. Who's complaining?? People would rather see a pile of brown decaying hay covered with tires, plastic tarp and rope than a beautiful, unique, stone castle with a nice green yard on their greenbelt? Apparently they would also prefer to see go-carts driving around some track as well. Why not just let him pay the fine for the permit and allow the place to stand? Plus it is a good point that just because he built the building behind some hay aerial views were to be had those four years and I am sure his neighbors had to know about it but apparently didn't care. I say if the gov is trying to get him on a technicality, he should be able to win on a technicality.