Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:47:57 -0500, me@privacy.net wrote:
>
>
>>>>I am a non-smoker, but I get very hot about you Nazi's trudging on
>>>>everyone's rights just because you think you know better how we/they
>>>>should conduct our lives.
>>>
>>>Think seat belts.
>>>
>>>-eom-
>>
>>Are you positing that they are beneficial or a nuisance--in your
>>opinion, that is?
>
>
> Laws are passed from time to time for the safety of those too dumb to take
> care of themselves. Ala seat belts. Ala banning public smoking and for that
> matter smoking all together.
>
> The reason smoking is not banned all together has nothing to do with it
> being a public and private safety issue, the arguments on that were done
> and sealed years ago.
>
> It has everything to do with what actually drives this country and that is
> Big Business. BB buys the politicos, keeps us in a perpetual state of War,
> BB wants to sell tobaccy, BB loves big medical bills, etc.
>
> BB also drove home the seat belt issue. In order to keep speeds up, w/ the
> death rate climbing on the highways, post - Interstate, BB came up with
> several measures all which filled their oil pockets with more money. Seat
> belts/airbags justified keeping speeds up, speeds up, more gas.
>
> Heavier cars were safer cars with more safety added features
>
> good for you
> good for me
> good for BB
> goody-goody
AND, big government! Don't forget the politicians! AND, the taxes they
impose.
I will never forget a talk radio show I heard in Phoenix several years
ago. It was right in the middle of all the tobacco suits.
A local talk show host, Barry Young, had as his guest Senator John
McCain. They were discussing the proposition that banning smoking was
for health purposes. At that point, Barry asked Sen. McCain "If smoking
is so bad for people, why not make it illegal, as prohibition did for
alcohol?"
Sen. McCain's response "We can't do that! We need the money!" (The
taxes on tobacco sales.) |