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Smoking Ban? You Betcha!
Long have I argued against the word: "Freedom" or any
of it's variants, i.e.: free speech. Simply because it
doesn't exist.
Of course, governments are there to govern. What that
really means is that it rations out the so-called
"freedoms".
You have no "rights" either. The police can stop you
from going to the polls, therefore, you have no "right
to vote". Many Floridians faced this in the last
presidential election.
Freedoms are, what amounts to a privilege to smoke,
until the public denies said privilege.
Tim Erickson is wrong when he says that this group is
about issues and not about each other for the same
reasons it's not about government. It's an idea that
really should be banned along with smoking.
It's not about issues, it's about people and moreover,
it's about the people who run / ruin government. It's
about time that we starting calling it �like it is.
It's really a war between common sense, correct people
and the evil capitalists.
It's time to start naming names and pointing fingers.
It's time to draw the line in the sand and get it on.
Government is a great thing, unfortunately, most of
the people who run it aren't so great� anymore, with
exceptions like John Marty of Roseville.
When it comes to a smoking ban, our leaders shouldn't,
with the mountain of evidence available, shouldn't
think twice about banishment of the cigarette in any
place, including one's own home. They should ban
cigarettes state-wide. We do it with fireworks, so why
not cigarettes? I know that the naysayers will whine:
"but you still see and hear them on the 4th of July.
See�you can't banned things."
My answer is that you wouldn't hear 'em if the
government was allowed to do it's job without the
accompanying duty to promote crapitalism. We do a
pretty damm good job with child pornography. We banned
public bath houses. See any of them around the city?
Incidentally, weren't they banned for health reasons
as was the stated case against fireworks? Isn't that
the same premise being used to ban smoking??? If your
going to demand a privilege to smoke, then by the same
stroke of the gubernatorial pen, open the bath houses
too! Let's have some consistency here.
In other countries, things are routinely "banned". For
example, in Europe, U.S. meat is banned! It's not
allowed simply because it's a health hazard. Results:
Europeans don�t ingest cancer causing meat imported
from the U.S. They live just as long and their quality
of life is much better than ours.Same was done with
the idea of drinking and driving. In other countries,
you don't drink and drive, period.
Can the government stop you from drinking and driving?
If they did it right, the government could stop it
cold in it's tracks, but when well intention "correct"
people start to do so, up pops the evil of capitalism
and thusly, compromises common sense and ruins the
day.
The government job IS to protect us, not from
ourselves, but from overwhelming crapitalistic
interests taking advantage of us in the marketplace.
We shouldn't have to compromise our health for the
sake of crapitalistic interests. If we have one and
only one "right", it should be: Our own health without
CAPITALISTIC INTERFERENCE!
There are a lot of other things that should be banned
simply because it's no damm good for you: U.S. meat,
Wal-Mart, McDonalds, the forty hour workweek,
religion, corporate unions and competitive
professional sports. The list goes on and in the end,
we will find the best thing we can do for ourselves is
to ban, the root of all this evil: capitalism.
We should be in the streets DEMANDING that our health
and welfare be taken out of the hands of the ever
intrusive and exploitative capitalists!
R. Hanson.
A reasonable voice in St. Paul.
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