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.

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.

IN PURSUIT OF HYSTERIA - Secondhand smoke is not harmful. It is not a carcinogen. It is infinitesimally small when compared with any source of emission. It is proven scientifically. Federal courts agree that it is a scam, even outside of the US. It is proven even by the anti-tobacco cartel by its inability to procure any proof. Millions and millions of dollars wasted in this useless research have at least proven that.

But it does not matter. In California, center of the anti-tobacco cartel, the hysteria on smoking, the false information, the ignorance and the selfish attitude of people who find it suitable to their purposes to believe lies make secondhand smoke a great danger. The corrupt health officials knowingly lie to the population to instigate even more intolerance.

The hunt for smokers, the plague-spreaders of these dark years continues, financed by tobacco tax, and by "heath officials" who belong in jail rather than holding public office. But smokers do not rebel -- yet. Let us not despair. The greater the repression now, the more violent the reaction will be later, for force is the only way to break anti-tobacco.

THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY DOES IT AGAIN: BETRAYS SMOKERS - PHILIP MORRIS U.S.A. WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR NATIONAL SMOKERS ALLIANCE - Well, the tobacco industry does it again: it lets down those who are fighting for freedom and sells out their best and only customers. This time it is the turn of the National Smokers Alliance, the (ex) tobacco-funded Smokers' Rights Organization.

Because of the NSA's latest attack on the anti-tobacco cartel, Philip Morris has withdrawn all funding. It is clear that the sell-out of the tobacco industry is not just limited to what is contained in the settlement. It is also clear that the NSA's attack on McCain was the pretext the tobacco industry was looking for to implement the last phase of its betrayal. Behind the scenes, the industry is selling out much more than the money of its customers.

Will the NSA survive? It is too early to tell.

FORCES and NSA had philosophical differences in the past, but we are fighting the same battle. We would like to express our solidarity with these co-fighters who have been stabbed in the back by an industry that has a long history of sell-outs. We reiterate that it is time to join forces all together and realize that smokers are truly on their own.

As we always said, only politically directed force, used without fear, can change the tides of our persecution. The persecution of smokers cannot be ended with peaceful debates. Just like the black, gays, and other discriminated-against groups, smokers will be persecuted into extinction unless they are ready to march in the streets, rebel, face jail when necessary, and offer resistance in any possible way in order to damage the machinery of the very society that is persecuting them.

The anti-tobacco cancer wants to uttely eliminate us, and our rights. But too many SRGs still think that they can solve this with "good PR and the display of moderation". Let us end this nonsense. It is abundantly clear that THIS IS A WAR, NOT A DEBATE, and in war the goal is to ELIMINATE the enemy, not to argue, negotiate, or kiss his ass. These are "politically incorrect" words, but they spell the terms of the problem.

Politics are by definition the use and balance of force. It is clear that politicians do not respect smokers -- or anyone else who does not have, or use, enough FORCE. It is therefore time that politicians fear the social instability a smokers' rebellion can bring. This is not about smoking. It's about liberty. The tobacco industry realizes that smokers are getting organized and restless, and does what it can to break this process and help its supposed enemies to eliminate smokers while it diversifies its interests in other fields.

MORE AND MORE AWARENESS ON ANTI-TOBACCO AND LEGAL LOOTING IN GENERAL - LAWYERS AND JUDGES AND TAXES, OH MY! - "And of course, there was the recent lawsuit brought by state attorneys general against tobacco companies supposedly to recoup smoking-related costs of Medicaid..." [...] " In this gross political misuse of the law and the courts, the facts are simply ignored, such as: existing tobacco taxes more than cover any such costs; smokers elected to smoke and took on the risk of smoking; federal and state governments obviously chose to cover any smoking-related costs when they established such programs; government benefited from smoking through tobacco tax revenues; the federal government subsidized (i.e., tobacco farmers) and even encouraged smoking (i.e., giving cigarettes to soldiers); and tobacco products can be legally produced and sold."

GLANTZ - OLD DOG, OLD TRICKS - These days when an anti-smoking study appears with the name of Stanton Glantz attached, legitimate researchers roll their eyes and make the sign of the crazy pinwheel. As his studies, one by one, are thoroughly debunked, only his hometown newspapers give him the credence he once enjoyed. A notable exception is The Journal of the American Medical Association which still give his shoddy work print.

Glantz' technique hasn't changed much since he produced a study so flawed that even he was forced to admit "mistakes". Despite his bad reputation JAMA has published Glantz' latest and The National Smokers Association has again set the record straight. How many times will JAMA play Charlie Brown to Glantz' Lucy before it wises up that the football will always be yanked away?

JOIN THE CROWD LADIES - The California Assembly narrowly rejected a bill that would have provided additional protection against harrassment for gay and lesbian public school students. It's failure to pass was a significant defeat for so-called gay rights.

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.

APPLAUDS TO THE NATIONAL SMOKERS ALLIANCE - AD FROM THE NATIONAL SMOKERS ALLIANCE CHALLENGES JAMA STUDY: CONTINUING POLITICIZATION OF PUBLICATION CHARGED - CHICAGO, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- "An advertisement issued by the National Smokers Alliance challenges the research methodology and findings of an economic study conducted by Stanton Glantz of the University of California San Francisco that has been submitted to The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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.

SMOKING LAMP IS STILL LIT IN CHEERY LONDON - This very strong article by Sidney Zion says it all about ETS, and the fascist mentality that disregards all proof in favour of a political agenda of repression and exploitation.

"I'm mad as hell at what the Nicotine Nazis have done to New York and to America. They have turned us into lemmings, marching to the sea at the behest of hustlers promoting junk science in the name of health," he says.

But being angry is not enough, Mr. Zion. It is time to rebel, and fight back. Fascism does not care about people's feelings -- it never has. Too many Americans still fail to realize that fascism sprung from socialism, and socialism is what governs the US and endorses the anti-tobacco cartel today. One of the successes of fascism was to project the perception that the overwhelming majority of people and even science was supporting it. That projection is a success again -- even in the field of health.

In fact, Mr. Zion "agree(s) that (primary smoking) causes cancer and other diseases," while there is just NO PROOF of that being true -- just often-manipulated statistical associations, and mostly debatable evidence. While we applaud his statement that "secondhand smoke is a joke," we encourage Mr. Zion to take a closer look at the evidence on primary smoking. We have reasons to believe that he would get even madder.

HA,HA,HA! -- AND YOU THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE USING THE MONEY FOR HEALTH?! - The stupidity of those who support anti-tobacco is surpassed only by anti-tobacco's own orruption, and by shrewd politicians. ...So the anti-tobacco buffoons are happy with the settlement, and have the dollar sign stamped in their eyes. BUT... TOBACCO FUNDS TO BE USED FOR SIDEWALKS, PARKS - " ...That move defied the wishes of several public health officials, who asked the council to allow a task force to recommend how the money should be spent."

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.

NOW IT'S POLITICIANS IN LOCO PARENTIS - This article nicely describes the interference on the state into family life by Froma Harrop of the Providence Journal.

 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.

AMERICAN LUNG ASSOC - TRUE COLORS - "If the aim is to provide a vaccine so that people can take it and keep on smoking, we would be against it''

So speaks the American Lung Association regarding a partnership formed by Japan Tobacco with an American biotechnology firm to develop a vaccine to prevent lung cancer. At one time the suggestion that the anti-tobacco cartel would oppose the development of a cure for lung cancer or a vaccine to prevent it would have been greeted with disbelief. After all, isn't the ALA all about relieving human suffering? Not when humanitarian efforts affect its bottom line. The evidence is mounting that the cartel is motivated strictly by financial concerns and a malignant hatred of individual choice. The American Lung Association would rather people, including non-smokers, die of lung cancer than have a tobacco company finance a cure. The moral depravity of organizations such as the ALA is surpassed only by their inexhaustible quest for bigger piles of cash.

CENSORSHIP HITS EUROPE - Apparently the Clinton clones running Western Europe have forgotten the events that devasted their continent barely 50 years ago. Egged on by the American anti-tobacco cartel, Tony Blair's Labour government is hell bent to eradicate tobacco advertising to prove just how compassionate he is. In the process he spits upon the real men who brought England through the Nazi bombing campaign and put an end to Adolf Hitler's fascism.

TAX FAST FOOD - "Our research shows that strategically altering prices can potentially lead to better health. This opens up a whole new arena for public health policy."

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.

A BOTTOMLESS POT OF GOLD - With the capitulation of the tobacco industry before the government onslaught engineered by rapacious trial lawyers, the floodgates have been opened. One by one industries are targeted for looting with the cooperation of government entities. One use of the spoils will be enormous political contributions to the politicians that support the gutting of American industry.

ANTI-TOBACCO AS A BLATANT POLITICAL PLOY - It is well known that Bill Clinton's anti-tobacco stances are motivated only by political considerations. After all, the President is a smoker himself and, as the squalor of his oval office shenanigans makes clear, can hardly be considered a prude. As this story from SunSpot attests, Clinton now combines anti-tobacco politics with trial lawyer pandering at its rankest.

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 LIE, CONTRADICTION, AND FRAUD OF THE DAY ALL IN ONE ARTICLE! - In this AP articles we have a nice concentration of the frauds of the anti-tobacco cartel -- all in one piece. The irresponsible behaviour of the press divulging false information is self-evident here.

While the press cannot be punished for the dissemination of lies, people in official positions of public policy should -- and quite severely.

TOO CUTE BY HALF - Faced with an $80-million judgment awarded to the family of a smoker by some mush-headed Oregon jury members, Philip Morris rightly appealed the verdict. In the meanwhile a judge reduced the damages to $32-million. Now Philip Morris is contending that 60 percent of that judgment constitutes a released claim under the tobacco settlement. It bases that contention on a recently passed tort reform law that calls for 60 percent of punitive damages to be paid to the state rather than the plaintiff. If Philip Morris is right it will not have to pay 60 percent of the award at all.

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.