tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post4574297949401844235..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: That Explains A LotDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-88200494517038733132013-02-20T05:53:03.308+00:002013-02-20T05:53:03.308+00:00When a country purports to be a democracy, and the...When a country purports to be a democracy, and then flagrantly and deliberately violates the properly set up and agreed upon democratic procedures in enacting its laws and regulations (which seems to have been the case at several points in the UK antismoking campaign, most notably in response to ban feedback and this current "airbrushing" of the 25,000 shopkeepers' input), then I'd say that that country has sacrificed any obligations its citizens should ordinarily feel to respect those laws and regulations. The shopkeepers, pub-goers, any general members of such affected groups should pay no more attention to the illegally instituted laws than they would pay to the pronouncements of a mafia don dictating some aspect of their lives and businesses.<br /><br /><br />Just as with the mafia don, you're basically unarmed and facing "the men with the guns: there's a price to pay for ignoring the dictates -- but just as with the mafia don there's a strong and compelling reason to pay that price in order to affirm one's status as a free citizen of a proper democracy or to declare that its rule has become illegal and illegitimate. <br /><br /><br />Because if you don't stop it early, it's only going to get worse. And that's a historical lesson no one can deny.<br /><br /><br />- MJMMichael J. McFaddenhttp://www.facebook.com/michael.j.mcfadden1noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-80923495362397697092013-02-19T18:58:32.411+00:002013-02-19T18:58:32.411+00:00Doesn't it go further back that that DP? The S...Doesn't it go further back that that DP? The SCOTH report 'grand jury' of the totally lopsided tobacco control panellists? Using that screwball Jamroziks 1+1=11 theory to conjure up millions of possible deaths from a singler wisp of SHS.<br />They are now showing themselves up nicely as the corruptness thickens and surfaces. Arnott & Bauld (the SheDevils) haven't given two hoots what they did in the course of indoctrinating so many ignorant MPs so as to get the law they wanted-and they certainly won't stop now!smiffy01noreply@blogger.com