January 8th, 2007
This is for an older audience, those of us who grew up in the ’50’s, ’60’s & even the ’70’s. Not to mention those well beyond our years, who will no doubt nod in agreement as they read.
When we were in school there were fat kids, skinny kids, kids with asthma and even a few with polio. I remember one particular girl in my school with a badly atrophied leg, the result of polio. While these instances may have been rare, and many of you had no experience with them, take my word for it, they were there. One thing I do not recall at all, however. Kids dying from merely smelling peanuts.
But this article is not about peanuts. It is about the way society has gradually taken control of our lives, telling us what to eat, drink and even breathe. It is about our schools sending our kids home with special report cards, tailored to our own child’s particular malady, or more specifically, his or her own body fat percentage report.
There is a movement afoot to virtually control every aspect of our lives, and most of us don’t even see it coming. The plot is cleverly disguised as something for the betterment of us all. And who, in good conscience, could be against that? More to the point, who would dare stand against anything designed to help the children?
I uncovered this tidbit today, which illustrates the extent to which those seeking control (or perhaps a paycheck) will go. It is a report issued by the WHO (World Health Organization) in 1998 regarding the dangers of second hand smoke, the be-all and end-all of our collective demise. What does it find? Shhh….
It found that there is no evidence, none at all, that second hand smoke is dangerous or that it causes cancer. How many of you have heard this? Not many, I’ll bet, and for good reason. That reason is that the WHO buried the story. Curious. Now why would an organization such as this do something like burying it’s own research?
Because it didn’t fit the agenda of the modern liberal mindset, that’s why. There is money to be made here, some in the form of cottage industries, but mostly in taxes. People will be gleefully surrender large portions of their incomes to keep folks healthy. Who wouldn’t? The question that these eager contributors never ask is: “Hey, if cigarettes are so damned dangerous why are people still allowed to buy and sell them?” (Yes, guns are another example. Should one be made to wait 7 days to buy a pack of cigarettes?)
The Rockefeller Law is one of contentious debate among liberals. They think that the law is unfairly punitive on those who want to consume illegal drugs. Yet they think nothing of imposing huge financial and societal penalties on those of us who consume legal substances, i.e. tobacco. (The tax on all tobacco products is universal, meaning that chewing tobacco is lumped in with cigarettes. Is there such a thing as “second hand chew”?)
What does it say about our once free society when the State can remove your children from their home if you smoke in your own house? What gives the State the right to charge you with child endangerment when the World Health Organization has determined that it is a false charge?
The facsist state is upon us, kids. The left bemoans the loss of “civil liberties” because they may be overheard making deals with al Qaeda. But the everyday things we once took for granted are disappearing, and no one seems to notice, much less care.
” If repeated often enough, a lie will become the new truth. “
Paul Joseph Goebbles, Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany
