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TERRY’S TIDBITS

March 7, 2005

“Remember that the boy who cried wolf was right once.”

                                         Strider

BOWLING FOR TOBACCO

          In Cumberland City Tennessee, a school bus driver was shot this week for telling on a kid who was using chewing tobacco.  This can go in the same folder as the lady in New York who was slashed with a razor for telling some people to put out their cigarettes, or the man abroad who was thrown from a moving train for smoking.  Also in that folder are the names of many Americans killed by Americans over tobacco, inspired to violence by tobacco Nazis in this country.  Kids have been killed in the tobacco black market, bouncers have be stabbed and shot, kids have committed suicide because they were caught smoking, and the list continues to grow.  However, it isn’t nearly as bad as it will get.

           Anti tobacco forces have created such hatred toward tobacco users that this kind of scenario is likely to become more widespread as time goes on.  There already have been numerous deaths around the country with anti-tobacco sentiment and propaganda being the cause.

            You folks need to remember that smokers are your neighbors, doctors, lawyers, plumbers, students, teachers, and others who are part of our communities.

            The problem with tobacco is not tobacco users; it is with those who would encourage such hatred toward tobacco users.

          Louisville is once again gearing up to ban smoking from private property.  George Melton will be introducing an ordinance very soon.  Tom Owen and Dan Johnson are likely to climb onboard the restrictive and oppressive legislation with the catch-all phrase, “It is for the children.”

          I sure hope that this is Melton’s going away “gift” to Louisville.  The man is old and useless in any capacity that requires thoughtful leadership.

          Remember that they are trying to ban smoking on private property.  Don’t let them cloud the distinction between public and private as they usually do.  Public means ownership by the government.  Private means just that.

          On a good note, judges in New York and Florida have just ruled that smoking bans are not constitutional.  New York is a state that the tobacco Nazis hold up as a poster child for good oppressive legislation.  This ruling could make all smoking bans obsolete.  We’ll see.

NO COLDS ALLOWED  

To thwart the very small minority of people in Kentucky who buy large amounts of cold medicine for the purposes of making methamphetamines, Kentucky has passed a law that makes everyone who sells cold medicine keep a log of who buys it and all citizens sign the log if they should make a purchase.  This book is open to law enforcement any time they want to view it, without due process.

Now, it takes more than cold medicine to make meth.  Drain openers such as Drano or Liquid Fire are also needed.  Then of course one must know how to make it.

I wonder if people get colds or stopped up toilets more often.  What if a meth maker has a stopped up toilet or a cold?  What if grandma has the sniffles AND her toilet is stopped up?  Can she expect a visit from the Cold Toilet cops?

 Law enforcement is basically telling us that they can’t control the problem without penalizing those of use who use legal products legally.  I say this is an excuse to control those who use legal products legally.

It would have been very easy to go after chemical drain openers, but we don’t put chemical drain openers in our mouths.  In this day of liberal nannyism, there is an open season on what we put in our mouths.  What comes out of the mouths of politicians, on the other hand, is nothing but oppressive thoughts manifested in words, and should rightly justify open season on the sayer.

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