The aspect of Renne's suit that should chill Americans to the bone is the cold realization that a non-profit, tax funded "charitable" organization has brutally attacked a small business owner who refuses to operate his business as the American Heart Association dictates. Louise Renne is now a lackey of a group of thugs whose quest for power places in our democracy in extreme danger.

OUTDOOR BAN MOVES AHEAD - Despite a lack of complaints, the San Francisco Park and Recreation Department is poised to prohibit smoking from an outdoor space. Its target this time is a tiny Japanese garden in Golden Gate Park. The newspaper article notes that Park and Rec began its campaign against smokers last year when it banned smoking from two dozen playgrounds. The reporter has forgotten that on the day of last year's vote, one of the designated playgrounds was the scene of a horrific gang assault where children were felled by a fusilage of bullets. The "smoke-free" playgrounds are still lairs of gang activity, drug dealing and drug taking under the No Smoking signs.

Since there have been only a "smattering of complaints" why is Park and Rec cracking down on smoking when the city's parks are generally run-down and need attention to improve real safety? A strong hint is provided when an anti-tobacco operative from the American Lung Association is quoted. The operative, Karen Licavoli, appears at every hearing in the city when tobacco issues are discussed and her support for the garden smoking ban assures its passage. Although the American Lung Association receives substantial funding from taxes collected from the state's citizens and is forbidden to lobby for or against legislation, the group, as well as the other body parts organizations, pretty much dictate tobacco policy in San Francisco.

The American Lung Association's license to thumb its nose at the lobbying regulations may be under closer scrutiny if a San Francisco City Supervisor prevails in his struggle to investigate whether another tax-exempt organization has violated its non-profit status by financially supporting a state inititiative. That story is below.

SUPE CALLS FOR NON-PROFIT INVESTIGATION - "It's pretty outrageous,'' Leno said of the church's letter."The Internal Revenue Service might weigh in on this.''

San Francisco Supervisor Mark Leno has asked the City Attorney and the State Attorney General to investigate whether activities by the Mormon Church violate the tax exempt status enjoyed by the Utah organization. The Church has taken a position supporting a voter initiative prohibiting marriage between individuals of the same sex. In a pastoral letter sent to local church officials, the Mormon leadership urges the nearly one million members to work for the passage of the initiative. The church is expected to donate money to the Yes campaign as well. Supervisor Leno believes such advocacy is political and should be stopped.

Leno may want to look closer to home to find abuses by tax-exempt organizations. Every anti-smoking, anti-tobacco action the city has taken in the past 10 years has been initiated and supported by non-profit organizations that are funded by state taxes. The American Lung Association, The Americans For Non-Smokers Rights, The American Heart Association and The American Cancer Society are all long overdue for investigation according to the standards enunciated by Supervisor Leno. If the Mormons are worthy of scrutiny for spending their own money on political activities then the above organizations should be thoroughly investigated for funding their politics with government grants.

TUSSLING OVER TOBACCO MONEY, FORGETTING THE VICTIMS - Powerful article by a non-smoking lung cancer victim. No more comments are necessary. Just read it.

CANADIAN COUNCIL, TAKE YOUR PATCHES AND SHOVE 'EM UP... - The answer to this article is simple and short:

Dear Canadian Council for Non-Smoking, take your false "humanitarian" garbage, put it into your nicotine patches, roll 'em up, and shove 'em up your --- BEEP!

We are not drug addicts. You, on the other hand, are addicted to your own lies and junk science in a way that is beyond therapy.

Drop the BS on secondhand smoke, and recognize our right to smoke aboard dedicated flights -- or you will find a hell of a lot more rage coming up in the air!

Your obtuse and mechanistic minds cannot comprehend that the air rage is about prohibition and THE ABUSE OF OUR RIGHTS -- not about the lack of nicotine.

CHASING SMOKE - In an occasional spur of intelligence, the "mainstream" press comments as follows:

"Cigarette smuggling in Michigan is becoming more sophisticated - robbing the state of millions of dollars in uncollected tax revenue while also straining law enforcement. But the Legislature need only reduce Michigan's exorbitant tobacco tax to eliminate black-market profits."

Hearing the obvious is sometimes reassuring in times of intellectual incapacity. But excuse me, who is going to take care of the anti-smoking liars, the looters, and other parasites that exist on state money if we reduce tobacco taxation?

Buying smuggled cigarettes is an effective way to both save a pile of money, and especially to fight the anti-tobacco cartel. Yes, yes, it is illegal. But after all, the anti-tobacco cartel and its political supporter are criminals who happen to be on the right side of the power structure.

It takes force and criminals to fight criminals. The respect for individual rights and freedom did not induce the end of the first Prohibition. Al Capone did. As tobacco is artificially made to be more and more "socially unacceptable" smoking rates go up and so does smuggling, while legal sales meant to rip off smokers and support their own persecution, as well as scientific frauds, goes down. Not a bad scenario.

As appalling as it may sound, are the new Al Capones the great hope for liberty and rights? If so, we really ARE at the end of the rope.

POOR AIR QUALITY ON BOARD? IT IS BECAUSE OF THE NON-SMOKING POLICY! - FLIGHT ATTENDANTS' SUIT CLAIMS BAD CABIN AIR ENDANGERS THEIR HEALTH - The buffoons and the cheats who keep insisting against all evidence that second hand smoke is harmful will not believe this article, nor will they believe the statement that cabin air quality is better when the rights of smokers are respected. Why? Let us borrow the comments of the Junkman:

' "Flight attendants' suit claims bad cabin air endangers their health" Not that I put a lot of stock in the claims of these flight attendants, but one of the reasons airlines were eager to ban smoking is that it allowed them to save money on fuel costs. With smoking on flights, airlines turned on their ventilation systems in full force. More fresh air had to be drawn in from outside [which is minus 40 degrees at least], compressed and then cooled before it reached passengers. That meant using more fuel and higher costs. Now that smoking is banned, airline ventilation systems don't function at full capacity, resulting in relatively poorer air quality in the aircraft. '

Of course, this is the same category of people who claim that secondhand smoke hurts them (!), and sues the tobacco industry on behalf of the anti-tobacco cartel while not minding at all an apartment downtown LA. Would these people, put in front of the squashing evidence of their own daily experience leading them to sue, accept to respect the rights of smokers? Of course not, they'd rather choke or get airborne TB... be our guests, then! It is not a coincidence that all the airlines mentioned in the article HAVE BANNED SMOKING.

Poor airlines -- so thoughtful, they violate the rights of one quarter of the population "for our comfort..."

After all that lying about secondhand smoke, they may even be forced to crank up ventilation again -- and make less money! And the selfish imbecile passengers who supported (and still support) the ban may get really sick, in the long run... good on ya, mates!

CENSORSHIP ON GENITALIA: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?! - GENITALIA SNIPPED FROM KUBRICK FILM - The movie industry seems to be up in arms because in scenes from the latest film of Stanley Kubrick genitalia have been electronically removed. The obvious insult to freedom of expression requires no comment.

But what's wrong with that, anyway, when we have presidential airplanes with vice-presidents on board flying to Hollywood to "suggest" the censorship of smoking scenes from movies, or when we remove cigarettes from the photograps of great men such as Roosevelt, or Eisenhower?

We don't want the world to know (or we want the world to forget) that the greatest modern men and women were (and are) mostly smokers. How can we associate smoking with greatness when we are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars to lie to the public about disease, and to convince it that smokers are moral and social scum?

So, this (sick) logic concludes that since Roosevelt and Eisenhower were never-smokers, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman never had genitalia.

Europe is already laughing its face off, while having a smoke under a no-smoking sign.

THE ABSURD ABUSE OF LITIGATION IN AMERICA - DIVORCE LAWYERS POST NASTY SURPRISES - The disgusting decision in Florida against tobacco is certainly not the only one in the orgy of looting and exploitation by litigation lawyers.

How would you like to know that your spouse divorced you from a brochure?

"... Some Florida residents have been finding out about their impending divorces through the advertising flyers of lawyers seeking their business."

The same kind of predator who uses junk science and hatred to instigate smokers and non-smokers against smoking and the tobacco industry is the one who has found the way to steal from the pocket of people -- no matter who they are and what they do -- and to safely stay out of jail.

How can we believe the anti-tobacco "science" when is backed up by this breed, and by their counterpart in the medical/pharmaceutical establishment?

RULING OF AMERICA - Read this piece and think -- think hard. This article by Balint Vazsonyi -- a man who has experienced totalitarianism -- should make us think of what Americans are throwing away.

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 PEOPLES' ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOVERNMENT ADVICE - "...But, for decades, the public health message about smoking, for example, could hardly have been more insistent. The fiscal back-up has been ferocious. It has mainly hit the poor, for whom a pack of cigarettes takes up far more, proportionately, of their income; yet it is, disproportionately, the poor who smoke. This may disappoint the nannies, but it is well to remember that once the warnings have been sounded, people have a right to go to hell their own way."

CAPITOL HILL SMOKE-OUT? - Only one correction maybe needed in this fine article from the Law News Network:

"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.

THE "MAINSTREAM" PRESS BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF ANTI-TOBACCO, BUT... - ANTI-TOBACCO GESTAPO: PAST AND PRESENT - If you live in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and some other country, when you read this article you will feel right at home, though it is talking about something that took five years of war and the life of millions to eradicate.

Nazi Germany's anti-tobacco "health campaign" and today's anti-tobacco are one and the same -- and so is the mentality behind it. Congratulations, National Post, for your courage to highlight this identity between Nazi Germany and the anti-tobacco cartel. You will be intimidated, that's for sure. However, the ever-present, politically correct end-of-the-music "bang" could not be missing from a mainstream newspaper such as yours:

" Even so, smoking is rightly not permitted in many areas, and yes, it is bad for you" -- even though passive smoke is a joke, that oh-so-common sentence is actually vague and meaningless, and there is absolutely NO PROOF of causality for virtually ALL disease linked to smoking -- lung cancer included.

It is alright, National Post, you have been fairer than most already: we understand that, after all, you have to sell newspapers.

THE COLOURS OF AN ANTI-TOBACCO CON - SPECIAL INTERESTS - DR.KOOP.CON sells himself to the pharmaceutical industry for a million dollars. What's wrong with that? Nothing, according to the good doctor and his minions.

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.