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by linkup
on Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:24 pm |
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http://www.forces.org/disgust/disgust.htm
September 21, 2006 [15:30 GMT] - Smokers, beware when traveling to India! - French reporter roughed up for lighting up - On lighting up a cigarette recently, a vacationing French reporter was physically assaulted by local officers in India. As of this news report, the journalist and his wife were still waiting to get their passports back in order to leave the country. The officers who jumped on the man after he lit up claim they thought he was a terrorist (sure). "Just before boarding I wanted to smoke and lit a cigarette. But suddenly this officer came and slapped me. Some others roughed me up and hit me on my legs," Ugin alleged. No doubt the American anti-smoking movement will find it gratifying that their message is taken so seriously in countries where the authorities feel a little less constrained than they usually do in the States.
March 22, 2004 - Anti-smoking Councilman Blames The Victim - A Pueblo bar owner says the smoking ban that forced his female employee outside is directly responsible for her rape. When the woman went outside the Irish Brew Pub for a cigarette break last month, a 33-year-old man attacked her, dragged her into an alley and raped her.
Owner Ted Calantino says people like his employee wouldn't be exposing themselves to dangerous situations if it weren't for the recent smoking ban.
Bill Sova, anti-smoker and rape apologist
City councilman Bill Sova's response to this deplorable incident is to label Calantino's outrage over his employee's rape as somehow "inappropriate." Sova, an ardent supporter of prohibition, then goes on to lay the blame on Calantino for not providing a secure work environment. Calantino, Bova advises, should hire security and install extra outdoor lights to make sure such a deplorable event never reoccurs.
Calantino is expected to hire more security and install an expensive outdoor light system to protect his workers who used to be able to smoke indoors in comfort and safety. He's expected to pay for all this even while his business is declining because of the smoking ban. Had Pueblo not stuck its nose into places where it wasn't needed, the unfortunate woman would not have been raped and Bill Sova would not find himself in the awkward position of blaming those victimized by his bad public policy.
Bill Sova is the face of anti-tobacco. A self-righteous demagogue who imposes his narrow moral view on others while refusing to take responsibility for his actions. The rape victim should get a lawyer and sue the city of Pueblo. |
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by Jay
on Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:08 pm |
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| And antis online wonder why I sound so arrogant wheneva I try talking about antismokers. Maybe if they learn to stop attacking and killing folks who smoke a legal product, I'd ease up on my words for antis. |
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