Hooray for the WHO
FCTC! This garbage will be turned into international law on February 28, 2005.
If ever there was a call for a new dark age, the WHO FCTC trumpeted it.
I've read the treaty
and the accompanying manual by the name ”Building blocks for tobacco control: a
handbook”. And I've rarely read anything as secteric, oligarchic and
discriminatory as this manure.
The treaty itself
calls for the (forced) protection against environmental tobacco smoke.
Presumably even the smokers of tobacco must forcibly be protected from it. Even
someone that does not bother about it must also be protected.
An alarming aspect of
the treaty is that twice a year its committee holds meetings that are secret.
Nobody except the self appointed oligarchy has access to these meetings. Why
aren't we allowed to know what goes on during these meetings? Presumably we will
be fobbed off with an explanation that the meetings are secret so the tobacco
boys don't know what is happening. But that is a trash excuse.
I assure you that the
first to know what goes on, are the tobacco boys. The true purpose of this
secrecy is to keep the public in the dark about what goes on. We must not know,
because we are unfit to know.
In a truly disturbing
language, the treaty indirectly admires and promotes unfree constitutions, by
implying all sorts trickery to avoid the unfortunate free constitutions of some
coutries. What the WHO is endorsing, is the idea that constitutions should not
be free! Imagine if someone actually came to a conclusion contradicting the
views of WHO, based on information that was available thanks to free
constitutions. Now we can't have that, can we? The oligarchy must be allowed to
rule without the interference of informed citizens.
The treaty even
prohibits the use of terms that imply that one form of tobacco products is less
risky in use than another – even if it is true! It thus mandates
misinformation! The treaty also denigrates the use of smokeless tobacco
even though it is virtually harmless. What kind of dung treaty is that?
When it comes to the
manual that accompanies the treaty, matters turn from bad to worse.
The manual denigrates
tobacco smokers unbashfully. It calls for discrimination of tobacco smokers. It
claims that smokers are bad employees. It claims that smokers involve health
treatment costs that prevent the treatment of nonsmokers. All of the usual
collection of baseless lies.
The manual also,
quite unprecedented in any UN affiliated organization, advocates committee
rigging by suggesting a number of tactics to be employed in order to avoid
that anyone sympathetic to tobacco smoking be part of decision making concerning
'smoking policies' (prohibition). [*]
Finally, the manual
suggests a number of tactics to use to manipulate the media and the public, in
order to achieve the tobacco free society.
The UN was founded
during the second World War, to promote world advancement and freedom. Today,
one of its suborganizations employ the very tactics that the founders of the
organization went to war to combat. Amazing!
Welcome to the
smokefree freedom, founded on the basis of discrimination, committee rigging and
secret meetings. I wonder what other similar freedoms these leeches have in
store for us?
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[*]
Check page 63. "The composition of these committees should be carefully
studied. As a general rule: aim for the broadest possible representation but
take care not to include those who would impede or counter the committee's
efforts at controlling the tobacco epidemic. The following groups or
institutions should be carefully evaluated for their potential to advance the
development of the national plan of action for tobacco control, based on the
particular situation in each country. Select only the essential members to keep
the size of the committee manageable.
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