Saturday, April 17, 2004
Subject: Re: It all sounds familiar
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:25:19 -0400
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Yours,
Samantha
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Ritchie Jr
To: ladylibrty@ladylibrty.com
Cc: info@smokersclub.com ; sfdsmoke@hal-pc.org
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: It all sounds familiar
Many times I have received the same sort of responses.
I am a smoker. I served my country during two consecutive enlistments during the Vietnam Era. The reason I joined was to preserve FREEDOM. I was unpopular at the time because I was part of the establishment. When I left military service, it was only to find that while this rooster fought off the weasels, the chickens (draft dodgers/college students, etc.), had taken all the best perches in the hen house. I now live in near poverty and am aging. It is difficult to hold onto hope because time is running out for me.
I am, have been, and always will be a smoker. I never intentionally blow smoke in anyone's face or direction. I am cursed with a good memory when it comes to how the current anti-smoker movement started, has progressed, and is what it is today. I remember the rat studies where they took tobacco tar and mixed it with acetone, an industrial and proven cancer causing agent. They could have just as easily mixed it with honey and screamed honey causes cancer.
Based on the anti-smoker movement I have been denied employment, fired from one job, am restricted activity wise as to where and when I can recreate, in the most heavily taxed group, and strictly governed/encouraged not to smoke on workplace grounds (only with permission in certain places if at all).
The anti-smoking movement is but one of many government sponsored efforts at behavioral control. Other examples are to get the public to accept perverted sexual activity as normal, encourage interracial mixing (which is lowering our social status, not raising the other races like what they intended), promotes prohibitionary groups/movements, forced political correctness in media, and as you stated is now promoting censorship. There are many other others I haven't mentioned as well, but government is now heavily involved in our day to day lives.
Isn't it funny that you can watch perversion and bisexual activity on TV but forbid an unauthorized occurance? Isn't that a dual standard? Isn't the fact that smokers have no rights a dual standard? Isn't gag rules in the courts restricting/eliminating self defense of defendants slanting outcomes? FREEDOM cannot and doesn't exist in a regulated/controlled environment....
Like in Nazi Germany, we were not United, allowed ourselves to be segregated/divided, and now group by group we are being (or will be) suppressed/oppressed, unless we as a people go back and force our society to go back to the philosophy of "Live and let live, you do your thing and I'll do mine, and respect/allow each other to make their choices without fear of oppression. Then the next step must be to tell government to downsize and get out of our personal lives.
Jack R.
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:25:19 -0400
I have a blog at http://smokersclubinc.blogspot.com/ for my new issue notes. I store them there.
Please go to blogspot.com and open a free account so you can store your writings there. They are easy to upload to the web. Just copy and paste the text into the field of your work page and click on publish.
Yours,
Samantha
______________________________
Samantha Phillipe - The Smoker's Club, Inc. - http://www.smokersclub.com
The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter
mailto:info@smokersclub.com - Respect Freedom of Choice!
----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Ritchie Jr
To: ladylibrty@ladylibrty.com
Cc: info@smokersclub.com ; sfdsmoke@hal-pc.org
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 5:19 PM
Subject: It all sounds familiar
Many times I have received the same sort of responses.
I am a smoker. I served my country during two consecutive enlistments during the Vietnam Era. The reason I joined was to preserve FREEDOM. I was unpopular at the time because I was part of the establishment. When I left military service, it was only to find that while this rooster fought off the weasels, the chickens (draft dodgers/college students, etc.), had taken all the best perches in the hen house. I now live in near poverty and am aging. It is difficult to hold onto hope because time is running out for me.
I am, have been, and always will be a smoker. I never intentionally blow smoke in anyone's face or direction. I am cursed with a good memory when it comes to how the current anti-smoker movement started, has progressed, and is what it is today. I remember the rat studies where they took tobacco tar and mixed it with acetone, an industrial and proven cancer causing agent. They could have just as easily mixed it with honey and screamed honey causes cancer.
Based on the anti-smoker movement I have been denied employment, fired from one job, am restricted activity wise as to where and when I can recreate, in the most heavily taxed group, and strictly governed/encouraged not to smoke on workplace grounds (only with permission in certain places if at all).
The anti-smoking movement is but one of many government sponsored efforts at behavioral control. Other examples are to get the public to accept perverted sexual activity as normal, encourage interracial mixing (which is lowering our social status, not raising the other races like what they intended), promotes prohibitionary groups/movements, forced political correctness in media, and as you stated is now promoting censorship. There are many other others I haven't mentioned as well, but government is now heavily involved in our day to day lives.
Isn't it funny that you can watch perversion and bisexual activity on TV but forbid an unauthorized occurance? Isn't that a dual standard? Isn't the fact that smokers have no rights a dual standard? Isn't gag rules in the courts restricting/eliminating self defense of defendants slanting outcomes? FREEDOM cannot and doesn't exist in a regulated/controlled environment....
Like in Nazi Germany, we were not United, allowed ourselves to be segregated/divided, and now group by group we are being (or will be) suppressed/oppressed, unless we as a people go back and force our society to go back to the philosophy of "Live and let live, you do your thing and I'll do mine, and respect/allow each other to make their choices without fear of oppression. Then the next step must be to tell government to downsize and get out of our personal lives.
Jack R.
