Posted on 03/06/2002 5:21:26 AM PST by farmall
They're coming after you
Posted: March 6, 2002 by: Walter Willaims
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Most Americans were pleased with the legislative attack on cigarette smokers, not to mention confiscatory tobacco taxes. We reveled in the Environmental Protection Agency's dishonest study concluding that second-hand smoke causes cancer. And, by the way, I'd like to hear whether the Food and Drug Administration would sanction pharmaceutical companies employing EPA's research methods to test drug safety – and if not, why not?
The real reason for the attack on smokers is that many people are offended by the tobacco odor. Unfortunately, in their quest to eliminate tobacco fumes, Americans are willing to trade away constitutional principles and rule of law.
Tyrants are never satisfied. They've lined up new victims. Surgeon General David Satcher has provided them with ammunition by describing obesity as America's No. 1 killer, costing 300,000 lives annually. As a result of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and other obesity-related illnesses, it's costing us billions upon billions of health dollars. That means, according to John Banzhaf of George Washington University School of Law and other tyrants, America's food industry is to blame and liable. New York University Professor Marion Nestle agrees, saying that the food industry "can't behave like cigarette companies. ... Yet there's a lot of people who benefit from people being fat and sick, and the whole setup is designed to make people eat more. So the response to the food industry should be very similar to what happened with the tobacco companies."
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is one of the Washington lobbies that wants to control what we eat. These tyrants not only propose taxes on what they deem as non-nutritious foods, they've also proposed a 5 percent tax on new television sets and video equipment, and a $65 tax on each new car or an extra penny per gallon of gas. You might ask why tax these items? CSPI Nazis see watching television and videos, and riding instead of walking, as contributing to obesity. And, as they see it, just as tobacco companies were responsible for people smoking, television manufacturers are responsible for people being couch potatoes, automobile companies are responsible for people riding instead of walking and the food industry is responsible for people eating too much.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving has joined these tyrants. No reasonable person advocates drunk driving, but MADD has another agenda. It wishes to outlaw driving even after having one drink. It has successfully pushed Congress to lower the blood/alcohol level for a drunk-driving arrest to .08 percent. But its true agenda was revealed by Steve Simon, chairman of the Minnesota State DUI Task Force, when he said: "If .08 percent is good, .05 percent is better. That's where we're headed. It doesn't mean that we should get there all at once. But ultimately it should be .02 percent."
That's the way Nazis work – incrementally. If they had demanded Congress make the blood/alcohol .02, they wouldn't have gotten anything – not even .08 percent. I wouldn't be surprised if their ultimate agenda is alcohol prohibition.
The Center for Consumer Freedom keeps up-to-date information on these and other tyrants. You might say, "What's the fuss, Williams? These people will never get away with controlling what we eat and drink!" Think again. In the '60s, when the anti-smoking zealots were simply asking for smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes, no one would have ever anticipated today's tobacco taxes, laws and regulations.
Most evil done in the world is done in the name of promoting this or that good. By turning away from rule of law and constitutional government, Americans are following in the footsteps of the decent Germans, who during the 1920s and '30s built the Trojan Horse that enabled Hitler to take over. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WorldNetDaily contributor Walter E. Williams is the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have actually encountered anti-smokers sitting in the smoking section and whining about the smoke - this after they indicated no proeference for their seating location.
My hero.
It gives their pitiful lives meaning.
For once they have a gang behind them!
Unlike Ann Landers and Dear Abby - Miss Manners has much more tolerance for smokers.
I'm seriously wondering if when some of these folks are fitted for their chains, they'll say please and thank you to those doing the fitting.
We had been sitting in the bar waiting for a table in the smoking section. Another couple was also sitting in the bar waiting for the "next available" table. The bar is small and it was packed, and nearly everyone was smoking.
The other couple was seated before us, and when we were seated they were at the next table. When the waitress brought our drinks she asked us to extinquish our cigarettes as they were bothering the people at the next table. Normally I would have complied, except that we had waited for a table for over an hour and this couple had been sitting next to us in the bar without complaint. I politely declined and we proceeded to order our dinner.
A little while later the waitress came and made the same request and she received the same polite answer explaining that we were sitting in the smoking section.
Shortly thereafter the manager came over with the same request, we again declined. We were then presented with a bill and asked to leave.
Long story short. The cop laughed at the manager and told us to be on our way. I refused to pay the bill.
I have no problem with non-smokers and will bend over backwards to not bother them with my smoking. But anti-smokers are an entirely different breed.
Nope - never set foot in the place again.
I live on the coast, surrounded by fishing villages, I don't need to go to one of the naional chains that don't buy American to get real fish and seafood!!!! we only went that time because of a particular special that was being run.
I actually get phone calls from the local waterman when certain things are running. Talk about right off the boat!!!!
It's been enjoyable talking with you. I'm going to go back to the FReepathon thread and then call it a night.
I'll check back in the morning and see if any of "them" decided to answer anything posed to them!!!!
If you're happy and you know it clank your chains...
Maryland is one strange state. If it could, the Maryland government, I believe, would try to outlaw exhaling, for fear of cluttering the atmosphere with CO2.
LOL Exactly, my friend.
I too must admit that I have, on occasion, gone outdoors and pointed a spray can skyward, and laughing fiendishly while I empty its contents.
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