David wrote:
One more reason to elect new mayors in both Mpls and StPaul.
We'll just have to keep throwing them out until they listen to the citizens rather than corporations/chambers of commerce/powers that be.
It may take a while, because candidates promise us everything, then renege in favor of our exploiters.
So we have to be diligent, working constantly against the acid influence of Big Money.
We need to start now with Rybak and Kelly. They need to be Somewhere Else.
Robert writes:
Corporations, chambers of commerce....powers that be.....some of these people live in Mpls and St. Paul and they vote.....it's not the mayors, it's us....it's us and our values that are corrosive, well some of the time at least.....no matter what we think.....we have to follow the state and federal constitutions.....life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If smokers are happy smoking, and they know the risks, then why is it my business if those who don't want to breathe the stuff don't have to. Again for the very last time, the problem is when we are not given the choice. I don't have to go to first avenue, but I do have to go outside, this is where government belongs. Protecting unsuspecting citizens from chemicals they are unaware of and cannot get away from. If you hate tabacco and the corporations that have manipulated this plant into what it is today, fine, but just because you hate it and it's horrible and your health has been impacted does not mean that others hold your view. There are terms for governments of this repressive type. What would you people do in Amsterdam.......a city tolerant of smoking in it's various forms and roads that are not car friendly.
(The left will kill itself if it continues to impose it's values on others, IMHO)
People are biased on this issue....they have it out for tabacco, and it sounds so very familliar to another plant that has been smoked for a long time and is hated by many....both of which will be smoked long after our lives, cut short or not by tabacco, but more likely the combination and amount of chemicals we inhale everyday that we cannot even pronounce.......cheers!!!!!
Robert Yorga St. Anthony West
"Instead of asking who has realized or what God is, why not give your whole attention and awareness to what is? then you will find the unknown, or rather it will come to you."
Krishnamurti
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