[Critter]

"so the default position is to enlist the government to force his competition to have the same rules as him, at gunpoint if necessary. "

Precisely. Try smoking in your apartment, after the ban goes into effect, and then try resisting the eviction order. You WILL end up dead. And then, you wil be villified post mortum, as an extremist. But just who is the extremist? The guy who refused to be bullied in his home, or the people that came to do the killing? America has it all wrong these days, and doesn't even know it.

[Protagoras]

"AMERICA IS AT THAT AWKWARD STAGE. IT'S TOO LATE TO WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM, BUT TOO EARLY TO SHOOT THE BASTARDS"

Claire Wolfe