Smoke Nazis

Today cigars/cigarettes. Tomorrow our guns? Not so silly at all.

It's the 'camel's nose in the tent', the foot in the door.

And it's tyranny, candy coated 'in our best interest' aka health in this case.

I've mentioned in a previous post that I gave up cigarettes in 91. I did it as my own free choice. No one coerced me. Our vices, as with our virtues, are a matter of free choice, free will. You cannot legislate behavior.

The statists keep trying however. Public safety, for the children, good health, excuses all draped in ideas that might seem plausible.

Reminds me of a pedophile (I prefer the moniker child rapist.) who said gov would enslave society by first using his kind as test cases. Among the most reprehensible, people would say yes, let's track em. Monitoring the undesirable so we are safer. Sounds good huh? Just a step to total control.

Security is a two sided coin. What can be used for 'good' can easily be used for 'evil'. Progressive (Yes. Also in the sense of 'commie') steps 'for the common good' lead to oppression. Just check out Nazi Germany.

Government can't help itself. Peds etal should be punished (I would prefer summary execution), but not at the expense of our Freedom. It can be done without resorting to 'big brother'. And it can be made VERY clear, that those of us who cherish Freedom need not be on a list. Easier said than done. But not impossible.

How about we keep enemies of Freedom on a list? Wait, we already do. You know who you are. We watch and wait, noting all your offenses and just what you do.....

As for personal choice, that is just what it is. Gov has NO business telling us to wear seatbelts, helmets, to smoke or not, to drink or not, what to eat, how to be entertained etc. For weal or woe, THAT is up to us.

Our wouldbe masters just salivate when there is a shooting, 911 or other offense. rushing to 'defend' us, they readily toss out Freedom for security. And many let them.

The woman who taught me German (There was another, just as skilled) was a translator at Nuremberg, talked to me about East/West Germany. There are always those who prefer to be told what to do. Not me I told her. She smiled. Thus why she was living in the US. She and many have seen what is happening here. Just like there native lands, we are becoming a police state. The commies have done a number on 'reactionaries like here me and you. I hope you are of like mind. We must stop this two step of death for this Republic.

Must we go door to door? Hmmm. Stand up to these cultural bullies and face em down.

Not a smoker? Don't drink? Think helmets and seatbelts are dandy? OK that's YOUR choice. But wake up, stand up and see the bigger picture.

Remember Martin Niemoeller. German Lutheran pastor who wrote the 'First they came for...' poem. He was a mixed bag ideologically. Antinazi, but said to make antisemitic remarks, he later became a pacifist and antiwar activist. However, his poem is quite accurate.

Paraphrasing, first they came for the smokers. I didn't smoke so I did nothing. Then they came for the no seatbelters. I wore a seatbelt, so I did nothing etc.

Not to mention (Well we always say that when we actually MEAN to mention lol) how they go for the guns. Aha. Surely THAT gets a rise from some. Yep but not enough.

I know a guy who doesn't own a 50 cal., say that he didn't have a 'dog in that fight' re banning them. WTF??? What affects one affects all. Personally, I'd like a Beowulf and one of the Barrets -s-.

Nonetheless, what affects one eventually affects all. Yep. That's a tired old story. So is the rise of tyranny. Therefore, it makes waking people up all the more recrudescent.

Please, don't waste an opportunity to get people to think about our slide into democracy. No, not a wild 'you're next' approach like Kevin McCarthy at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Plant seeds of Freedom instead. Look for that opportunity to 'pitch' the 'story' (Though there might be an exception who needs a swat on the backside -s-).

Perhaps we might remember that 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'.