The Justice Department will follow the states' lead and sue cigarette makers in an effort to recoup hundreds of billions of dollars the federal government has spent caring for sick smokers, President Clinton said Tuesday.

``You know, the states have been right about this. Taxpayers shouldn't pay for the cost of lung cancer, emphysema and other smoking-related illnesses _ the tobacco companies should,'' Clinton told Congress in his State of the Union address.

No, Bill Clinton, you mean to say "smokers should pay for the lies that my criminal administration and its minions have created in order to loot 25% of the population."

Without elaborating, Clinton said Justice lawyers were ``preparing a litigation plan to take the tobacco companies to court and, with the funds we recover, to strengthen Medicare.'' He said smoking has cost American taxpayers ``hundreds of billions of dollars under Medicare and other programs.'' Through Medicare, the federal government pays for health care for 35 million elderly and disabled Americans. The states and the federal government jointly pay for Medicaid insurance for the poor. The Medical Care Recovery Act gives the government the right to recover the costs of treating people if a third party's negligence is to blame for their illnesses.

The facts are that tobacco is NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR 5% OF THE DISEASE ATTRIBUTED TO IT. This move by the criminal Junta of the White House is a prelude to total prohibition, which has been the anti-tobacco cartel's goal all along.

It is time for the American people, smokers or not, to put an end to the criminal activities of the White House and its minions with whatever means necessary. This is no longer a matter of health, or even damages. The politics of the White House, which is desperate because of the imminent impeachment of its President, indicate readiness to gamble everything to the extreme consequences, and are nothing short of highway robbery in the attempt to steal money for another failure of the Clinton administration: Medicare.

No need to use half words, here. The Clinton Administration is a criminal regime that has no boundaries or scruples about lying, stealing, bullying, and suppressing liberties while subverting the political, legal, and industrial system of the country that it is supposed to govern.

Scott Williams, a tobacco industry spokesman, called Clinton's announcement ``a blatantly political act,'' saying the Justice Department had looked at the issue in the past and decided not to act on it.

``The White House continues to choose confrontation over solutions,'' Williams said.

He said the federal government will have a more difficult time arguing its case than the states did because the Office of the Surgeon General has been filing reports for decades on the dangers of smoking.

``The federal government cannot claim ignorance to the health risks associated with tobacco use,'' Williams said. ``This is political. This is about money.''

The buffoons of the tobacco industry have not yet realized that they will not get out of the targeting system of the anti-tobacco cartel by conceding to the lies and falsification created by the criminals that are persecuting them.

If there were any dignity and backbone left in them, the tobacco industry would turn around and fight for its life while suing back state and federal government for restitution of the stolen money. They would also organize their customers to be a political force capable of destroying the Clinton administration and the anti-tobacco cartel, instead of being victims of them. But like every crustacean, once the shell is broken, all the predator has to do is to put a straw through the crack, and suck the guts.

Clinton did not say when the Justice Department would file the lawsuit, which would be one solution to the potential fight with the 50 states over the financial spoils of their litigation against tobacco companies.

There is no honour among thieves, but the head gangsters want it all. Now it is happening.

The president had said earlier that, as part of the new budget he will submit to Congress next month, he will seek an increase of 55 cents pack in the federal tax on cigarettes. A similar proposal last year failed with the tobacco bill. Clinton would use the increase to pay for some of domestic spending plans.

That is, forcing the poorest quarter of the population to sustain the nation. So much for the Party that supports the poor.

Four states reached independent deals last year with the tobacco industry worth a total of $40 billion, and the 46 others signed a separate $206 billion deal to recover the cost of treating Medicaid-eligible smokers.

Late last year, as leaders in New Hampshire and Maryland moved to allocate the settlement money to schools _ and the cry went up for tax cuts in New York, Minnesota and Massachusetts _ the Clinton administration demanded the money be spent on anti-smoking and other public health programs.

For Clinton, who was stung by the failure of his much-hyped anti-youth-smoking campaign last year, the wielding of a federal lawsuit also held out the political benefit of pressuring the tobacco industry back to the negotiating table.

Any effort to resurrect and enact comprehensive legislation for federal regulation of tobacco and advertising restrictions would likely require some acquiescence from the tobacco industry and its lobbyists.

We have no doubt that they'll get it. So far, the tobacco industry has done nothing but allow its customers to be looted, discriminated, and segregated out of society.

It is time for smokers to rebel, and restore political order and human respect. We are 60 million people in the US. We can do it. Let us join in the war cry: