Lex responds to this bit of idiocy in this morning’s Journal Gazette aka The Daily Punctilio:
The only thing better than the New Haven City Council’s recent decision to uphold property and personal rights was the J-G’s hyperbolic reaction to that decision. Imagine, elected official taking a decision that protects the rights of their constituents. This is outrageous!
If the J-G actually believes the phony baloney sats on secondhand smoke, you know - anyone who passes within 200 feet of a smoker at any point in their life is 8,000 times more likely to die before age 103 than those who do not, why not make the product itself illegal? How idiotic is it to use junk science to establish the deadliness of secondhand smoke, when everyone already knows that sucking the residue of a smoldering weed into your lungs is bad for you? It’s the firsthand smoke that is killing people. How immoral is it for local, state and federal governments to profit – in the form of cigarette tax revenues - from the deaths of thousands of citizens each year? If the J-G wants to take a moral and consistent stand, it would be railing against cigarettes not secondhand smoke. But they don’t because they are liberals and we know liberals by their hypocrisy.
If I see Johnny Rebel riding his Harley down the street, cigarette in one hand, cell phone in the other, a can of coke between his legs and wearing nothing but shorts, t-shirt, flip-flops and a light coat of skin oil, I’m more likely to think, “what an idiot” than, “there ought to be a law against that”. Libs will say, “ahh, but we all pay when Johnny falls over.” Well let’s stop taking my son’s college tuition to pay for Johnny’s bad decisions. Americans should be free to pursue their dreams and desires to the maximum extent without interference from their government. By the same token, when they make poor decisions, like entering a smoking establishment, Americans should not expect the government to bail them out. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em or make ‘em illegal.
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