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" In phase two of the trial, however, that defense will be raised. The jury then will have an opportunity to reaffirm this basic proposition in law: Plaintiffs who assume risks cannot force others to pay their bills. "
Sing about your victory, bastards of the cartel! It will not last long, if the US legal system is still functioning, and Justice can still hear. And you may not have the time to change laws to fit the purpose, this time.
If this case is won by the cartel, the floodgates will be open to lawsuits about food, cars, alcohol, and any other issue social looters and predators will choose to sue for. Anything is a risk and, in spite of junk science, smoking is actually less risky than many other human activities.
As we stand here, powerless spectators to the lowest display of greed and lies, a profound question comes to mind: the anti-tobacco industry cartel has put justice under siege, and in recent times the American legal system is put to the ultimate test. Will it hold water, or will anti-tobacco politics perpetrate the ultimate corruption?
The greatest turning point in modern history has been the French Revolution for that meant, for the first time in the history of mankind, that the values of personal liberty and choice were established above the values of the state. It is common knowledge that the true realization of those ideals did not occur in France, however, but in the United States, whose might maintained and defended those values against their enemies.
For this reason the US has been rightfully called the greatest nation in history. But the cancer of socialism and state control has made America sick by infiltrating society in the name of health, safety, political correctness, and a million other excuses to justify the intrusion of the state into the lives of citizens -- a clear symptom of ideological insecurity.
Socialist America is no longer a free nation, and liberty is having the death rattle on the bed of history.
Will America heal, or will America die?
"The congressional roadblock, which comes before a lawsuit has even been filed, may prove fatal to the federal government's attempt to recoup from the tobacco companies the hundreds of millions of Medicare dollars it has spent on sick smokers."
The American Government, like any other government on Earth, does not have to recoup a cent. In fact, even in the wild, far-fetched assumption that all disease attributed to tobacco is real, the "hundreds of millions of Medicare dollars spent on sick smokers" in the last decades have been more than compensated by the hundreds of billions of tobacco tax dollars collected by the state.
As usual, this is the case of keeping two ledgers for the same business -- the one with the real figures safely tucked away under a tile just in case the taxman comes to visit.
But how do we reconcile this with the accusations of "being sold to the tobacco industry" laid on whoever has enough integrity to raise his/her voice against the scientific frauds on tobacco by the anti-tobacco cartel?
Ah, but the pharmaceutical industry is a "moral" industry according to the anti-tobacco SOBs. We certainly can understand thier reasonong: the pharmaceutical industry finances a lot of the corrupt PhDs who hold chairs in universities for the sole purpose to push smoking cessation devices that are as useless as they are profitable. That is the very reason why that industry supports anti-tobacco.
WHAT MORALITY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? The investigations on the tobacco industry alleged "wrong-doing" have yielded a big, fat zero, while the pharmaceutical industry has fixed prices globally, financed junk science, given false hopes to cancer patients to increase the value of its stocks, put carcinogens in drugs, and bought out former Surgeon Generals -- that were already for sale, mind you.
The disgusting McCain bill would have taken 500 million dollars out of smokers' pockets to give them to a hungry state, and give plenty to the anti-tobacco cartel to carry forward its scientific frauds and hate campaign against smokers, as well as the removal of all smokers' rights.
Carter Eskew has distinguished himself for this great accomplishment.
Yes, Al Gore is a hypocrite because he has hired such man while whining the anti-tobacco blues, and crying the mindless, heart-bleeding, infantile story that cigarettes have "killed" his sister by "causing" lung cancer -- a still-to-be-proven "consequence" of smoking tobacco.
Certainly Al Gore does not deserve our admiration for it is an enemy of smokers -- though a smoker himself. But no one can say that he cannot pick the right man for sale.
The attorneys, who have brought one suit so far in Pennsylvania federal court and are threatening to bring two more in California, are filing the suits on behalf of cigarette distributors."
The Deal of Shame in trouble. Too many people have been left out of an agreement that should not exist in the first place.
Justice and common sense -- those extinct species -- would dictate that the whole anti-tobacco affair should disappear, and we should return to the normality of the last 500 years.
But present, bleak reality dictates instead that a final clash between free enterprise and personal liberties, and socialism camouflaged as health and science MUST take place, to finally determine if the next century will see us as free people or health slaves.
" Now we have the recent spectacle of state attorneys general pigging out on the tobacco industry (allegedly responsible for rising health-care expenditures) and now the gun-manufacturers (allegedly responsible for the costs of urban crime). Even our highest public officials, it seems, regard the courts as mainly a slot machine where the right luck can hit a revenue jackpot."
" If the American judiciary continues to allow these charlatans to perform in their courts, the day may soon arrive when foreign officials visit to instruct the U.S. on the need to join the civilized world by creating a rule of law."
As it has no relevance to smokers' rights, FORCES has no opinion on the failed legislation. FORCES does have an interest, however, in examining the hypocrisy of the bill's author and one of its major supporters.
The bill was written by Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, the first lesbian to be elected to the Assembly. Passage of the bill was also intensely important to Carole Migden, D-San Francisco, the second lesbian to be elected to the Assembly. The two lesbians are also ardent supporters of the campaign of discrimination against the 25 percent of Californians who smoke. They've never met a smoking restriction that they haven't embraced, they love to raise tobacco taxes and they never lose an opportunity to demonstrate their utter contempt for those who smoke.
A few weeks ago a bill that would have overturned the state's law forbidding smoking in bars died when members of the Labor Committee refused to release it to the Assembly floor. Both Migden and Kuehl were instrumental in denying the full Assembly the opportunity to rectify an enormous wrong. Migden, a member of the Labor Committee had announced prior to the hearing that she saw no need to have the bill come to the floor. On the day of the hearing she was absent but chose Kuehl as her delegate. Kuehl's bigotry to smokers is common knowledge and her vote for discrimination was a foregone conclusion. The bill died and now the two lesbians find themselves in the same place they relegated smokers.
"I want to tell you something, members: This is very much about me," said Kuehl, her eyes teary, her face red after her anti-discrimination bill died. One wonders where her tears were on the day she helped kill the smoking bill that was very much about civil liberties, property rights and fairness. Bar owner after bar owner had begged the Labor Committee to forward the bill to allow smoking in bars. What that bill meant to them was keeping their businesses alive and their families fed. Kuehl's face was stony that day as she ignored their pleas and voted as the anti-tobacco cartel wished her to vote.
Next year Californians will be voting on an initiative that will explicitly forbid the state to recognize same-sex marriages. Sheila Kuehl and Carole Migden will be crisscrossing the state begging the electorate to vote against the initiative. They have their work cut out since polls indicate the initiative will pass. To defeat it the gay political structure will need all the support it can get. With the contempt that Kuehl and Migden have shown smokers the initiative provides an excellent opportunity for an appropriate payback.
TRYING THE LAWYERS - A sign that somebody gets the message? The traditionally anti-tobacco, anti-smoker US News & World Report magazine has this to say:
" Something similar [to Russia] is happening in the United States. Trial lawyers who have been targeting major industries have been transferring vast wealth from major corporations to themselves. [...] Enormous sums have been transferred
from smokers, a downscale group, and tobacco companies, owned by many Americans through pension and mutual funds, to state governments and trial lawyers. [...] The tobacco cases, like the asbestos cases, are filed under color of law but are inconsistent with principles of law."
Maybe people will understand what anti-tobacco really is someday, and put an end to the greatest scam of the 20th century.
The study, entitled 'Tourism and Hotel Revenues Before and After Passage of Smoke-Free Restaurant Ordinances,'
was published in the May 26, 1999, issue of JAMA and was partially funded by the National Cancer Institute.
'Glantz's work is, and has been, political advocacy masquerading as sophisticated research,' said Thomas Humber, President of the National Smokers Alliance, which produced the ad."
WELL DONE, NSA! It is always time to challenge the corruption of the anti-tobacco cartel! Will Glantz answer the challenge? Let us bet that he will not -- as it is always the case when the frauds and falsifications of the anti-tobacco cartel are taken to task. Direct link to the NSA page
Cons, liars and thieves cannot trust one another. Anti-tobacco's uncanny ability to falsify science, create scares and non-existing epidemics, as well as instigating hate does not seem to be matched by the intelligence needed to hold on to the money, and to prevent other thieves from using the loot. Ha, ha, ha!
Good for the thieves of the thieves. Is this gloating? You bet it is. It would be nicer, however, if SMOKERS would quit being stupidly inert, would REVOLT, and put an end to this shameful display of dishonesty.
Regardless of the political credo, the state seems to be compelled to regulate even the smallest facets of our lives, making sure that we behave like well-programmed automatons, and obey their politics of total social control. The present immaturity
and insecurity of the politicians who are oppressing the public cannot be displayed better than by these insulting policies.
Another attack on smokers? No. Just an attack on us all. For years we have been saying that the issue ultimately is not tobacco. The issue is the gradual loss of freedom as an unelected elite takes control of the country by invoking Public Health. This press release has it all. Stupid people who are manipulated by advertising, government policies that can engineer better conduct, studies as sacred text and above all, good and wise people who toil tirelessly in the quest to make us all behave.
Attorney General Janet Reno cannot be bothered with nuclear weapons espionage or Communist Chinese election meddling but she can ask the taxpayer to pony up millions to persecute the tobacco industry. Considering the Justice Department has already spent millions to investigate tobacco industry wrongdoing and came up with a big fat ZERO, Reno's current misuse of her office provides the lagging Al Gore with an issue on which to run for President next year. She and Clinton also hope to exact payment from the lawyers who cashed in so fabulously on the tobacco settlement. The Republicans should put a stop to it the politicization of the Justice Department.
The state is in a dither, the anti-tobacco cartel is screaming "We told you so" and the public is again assaulted with an unedifying spectacle of a legal system and government completely divorced from justice. The legal "talent" at the cigarette companies will be spending the next 20 years devising meaningless loopholes to save a few bucks for the stockholders while continuing to screw the customers. The government and the anti-tobacco cartel will be wasting taxes devising means to hog-tie the tobacco industry ever more tightly. The only winners will be the lawyers reaping their obscene fees. Rather than taking the gloves off prior to bloodying their persecutors, the tobacco industry behaves like an enormous aircraft carrier where the captain fights his battles with exploding cigars.
The French Socialist government has seen "the light" of how to use fraudulent statistics to loot money from both the tobacco industry and its own citizen. The spreading of state corruption, and looting on smoking seems unstoppable.
Is moral and political integrity a totally lost value?
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