A nanny-state tobacco ban goes horribly wrong;
Twenty-five minutes into the meeting, the hearing was closed by Board of Health chairwoman Andrea Crete, “amid shouts of ‘America!’ and ‘Freedom Now.’ ”
WBZ’s Julie Loncich captured video of the crowd protesting at the meeting.
“The crowd’s getting out of control and the room’s filled to capacity,” Crete said. “We don’t want any riots.” Crete and two other board members were escorted out by the police. The crowd sang “God Bless America” as it was cleared out of the room.
It’s not enough to be angry. You’ve got to show them you’re angry. (Via)
Ya gotta love the nanny state liberals. Smoking tobacco is bad, weed is medicine.
Make that ninny state liberals becuase most all liberals are all mouth and no mind
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEMp6I4lSQ
If you look at that video clip, you see 500 white people sitting down. Maybe a couple of them shouting. That’s what constitutes a “riot” when “conservatives” do it. “Conservatives” defined as anyone who doesn’t recite this week’s DemocRat talking points on command.
As I said on the Soapbox today, compare and contrast with the Professional Left in Ferguson Missouri today.
Doesn’t take much to ruffle a mini-Hitler’s feathers, does it? Just show up, talk loud, and they bring out the cops.
Maybe if people were addicted to quality government instead they would get off their asses to demand access to that too.
You can slowly kill my country and steal my freedoms with one incompetent government after another all you want but don’t f*ck with my ciggy-butts!
Finally someone has the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the anti-tobacco zealots and let them know, in no uncertain terms, that they have gone too far and it would be in their best interests to just back off. The view of nanny state lefties regarding tobacco versus marijuana is indeed a strange one and reeks of inconsistency. The evils of tobacco which the zealots love to parade around (second hand smoke, etc.) also exist in marijuana use to the same degree, not to mention the fact that frequent use of marijuana has some rather unpleasant effects on the brain. Yet, tobacco is demonized and marijuana is considered quite acceptable. Go figure.
Unfortunately those that came up with the idea of banning the sale of tobacco products are subscribers to a cult-like and control freakish mindset and do not give up easily. Even though they have run into a rare roadblock thrown up by citizens who have finally had enough of their antics, I would be very surprised if they didn’t achieve their nanny state goal in the near future.
Like it or not, it is perfectly possible to use by-laws to prohibit the sale of legal products in a community. After all, some communities choose to be “dry” when it comes to alcohol.
However, on an issue like this, one ought properly to go to a plebiscite. Westminster has a population of just over 7,000; a public vote on banning tobacco products would not have been an overly onerous proposition, least of all one incorporated in 1759 with a tradition of New England village-common democracy behind it.
The good citizens of Westminster should send any “selectman” or petty bureaucrat connected with this packing the next chance they get – on principle alone.
“If this passes, what could be next? Sugar? Bacon?”
i don’t know what will be next, but you can bet your bottom dollar it will be something,for our own good.
We all need to quit being so damned polite and acquiescent,about everything.
Slight correction, scar, weed is entertainment. Which makes that different from tobacco…um….er
Slight correction, cgh, weed is “lifestyle”. Lifestyle trumps all.
Unless of course a diesel dyke goes for the trademark brush cut hair style and the Muslim barber refuses to serve her. Then lifestyle gets trumped by religion. Make that, “certain” religions.
It’s like you have to carry around a rule book in your back pocket nowadays.
Sheesh.
More like victimhood poker. Except it’s Dragon Poker, where the rules on what hand trumps what are constantly changing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxvT8KKdFw
Little bit by little bit, they will get you to agree that you are just a stupid voter and they have to decide things for you.
If you don’t agree, they will send the storm troopers (the socialist activists) until you agree.
Little bit at a time…….until you wake up and you have been had.
Little bit by little bit…..you won’t even notice.
Look who just flew in!
Welcome back SP.
660 News was positively a titter about this town hall, and was so pro banning tobbaco in their report it wasn’t even funny.
I pretty much gave up on 660 other than the minute and a half it takes for traffic and stuff when their bias anti-Harper/PC, pro-AGW/lefty BS was clearly evident during the ascendancy of Turdo.
Coming soon to a Canadian municipality near you.
No, no! Not the protests – the legislation!
“Swedberg believes that local non-tobacco using residents will pick up the slack suffered by the tobacco ban”
So in Swedberg’s world, non-smokers avoid businesses that sell tobacco products and if the sale of these products is outlawed these non-smokers will fill the void left by customers who have to go elsewhere to purchase a perfectly legal product. Her prediction is either totally dishonest or incredibly stupid. As with any other product ban, health is not the real concern. Being cool, trendy and wishing to appear progressive is the actual reasoning. By the way, what are the duties of a “Town Health Agent”? Obviously the position entails a whole lot of spare time that must be filled by embarking on silly little crusades.
If Swedberg is so concerned about tobacco products being on display, perhaps she should take a lesson from Saskatchewan’s “shower curtain law” and simply have such offensive items hidden from the view of easily offended adults and impressionable youngsters.
Time to unleash the liberal nuclear option on these guys (and a few others).
It is claimed by liberals, and backed up by (US) federal courts that those items specifically reserved to the Federal government may not be legislated or controlled by state or local governments – e.g. immigration related laws.
Well, the constitution confers the regulation of inter-state commerce to the federal government.
Tobacco products are almost certainly imported into MA, and so are interstate commerce. Even if not imported, the government has argued multiple time, and based a huge pyramid of otherwise unconstitutional laws on the fact that just about anything affects interstate trade.
So … Sorry guys, this infringes on federal territory. You may not ban anything.
Same has to apply to plastic bags, soda and Tesla cars…
Some interesting points in the comments:
1. Why did it take a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, but any hick town in the middle of nowhere can arbitrarily decide to ban tobacco products?
2. Why does said hick town of 7,500 folks need its very own board of health?
I stopped counting the number of posts that point out the level of stupid that we have witnessed during the past two days. it is freaking unbelievable.