PAY OUR RESPECTS TO THE 
VICTIMS AND HEROES 
OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK and Our American Freedoms

PART II - "...With Liberty and Justice for ALL"
 
 

It took such a cataclysmic assault on the shores of our United States to awaken Americans to the realistic threat that freedom as we know it, many who have taken it for granted or were imperceptive to its grand meaning, can be jeapordized.  What many thought was a given have been jolted into understanding that is it not.  It is to be defended at all times and worn proudly like a badge.  Eyes have been pried open by the despicable actions of a fanatical faction that hates our western influence and feels humiliated by our success.  They find fault in our American dream where if you work hard you can achieve anything without being under anyone else's thumb.

We've become educated in lightning quick speed that to cower in our homes would be giving in to terroristic demands. They will have won. So we defy their attempts by returning to work, returning to the skies and waving our flag proudly and strongly in the streets unafraid. The same lesson rings true in our determination to preserve our national freedoms which.our forefathers brilliantly and with deep honor carved out for us on a piece of parchment called the United States Constitution. They were men of great foresight because their ideals and philosophy has stood the test of time.  Our existence as we know it and now verociously defend is proof of that.

These terrorists wanted us to ante up our freedoms in order to win a hand that is nothing more than a bluff. That was, and still is, one of several of their goals, one pot in the game but the biggest of them all. Our actions since their attack tells them that we'll absolutely have none of that.  But it's not enough to go through the motions of patriotism or only feel it during war time against outside enemies. You have to live it in your heart, each and every day, understanding that it is not simply saying you're an American but knowing the foundation that makes you an American and remaining committed to it daily in peace time and in war.

We are the land of the free and the home of the brave......

Sadly, there are some in this country that haven't gotten
"Liberty and Justice for All"
and still won't even when the message surrounds them.  They are selfish people who project that character flaw onto others in their quest to dominate their fellow American by dictating how they should live
according to their rules.
They only believe in freedom for themselves,
all others be damned.

NYC C.L.A.S.H., A SMOKERS' RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUP, ASKS ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE SAT ON THE FENCE WHILE WATCHING THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN SMOKERS AND ANTI-SMOKERS (as distinct from civilized people who don't smoke but respect each other's comfort and freedoms), TO DENOUNCE THEIR BRAND OF "FREEDOM FOR SOME" IN THIS LAND OF
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.









We have some of our own worst enemies living amongst us. They are American citizens but have somehow managed to grow a foreign heart.  They are unblinking as they cut through our country, abridging the rights of those that disagree with them. They use lies and manipulation to put doubt that everyone deserves to live life the way the choose to in the minds of those who have forgotten what our country is about, allowing them to run roughshod over good and decent people. Their intent is ugly and counter-productive to what we seek to preserve.

The time has come to question WHY, within our own borders, ARE THERE FELLOW AMERICANS WHO FIND IT ACCEPTABLE TO DENY LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL?

It's a revolting prospect no matter who the perpetrators are and no one should be immune to recriminations.
 
 
 

THE U.S.A. IS AT A PIVOTAL MOMENT WHERE OUR FREEDOM IS FINALLY CHERISHED IN UNITY RATHER THAN TAKEN FOR GRANTED.
IT IS TIME TO TURN YOUR BACKS ON THOSE WHO DENY OTHERS THE SAME FREEDOMS THEY SEEK AND SPEAK UP, IN A LOUD VOICE, FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL AND AGAINST SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS THAT SEEK TO UNDERMINE THE FREEDOMS OF MANY, NOT JUST SMOKERS.
THE ANTI-SMOKING CRUSADERS, BY NO DEED OF THEIR OWN BUT BY A MIRROR IMAGE OF THEMSELVES, ARE FINALLY EXPOSED BECAUSE THE OUTPOURING OF PRIDE IN AND DEDICATION TO OUR COUNTRY'S FREEDOM CAN NO LONGER BE DENIED OR ATTENTION TO IT BE DIVERTED.

 
IN THE FACE OF THE DEVASTATION THAT OCCURRED, THE GENUINE ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY, THE STARKLY REAL AND INESCAPABLE LOSS OF INNOCENT LIVES AND THE BILLOWING CLOUD OF DEBRIS FILLED SMOKE THAT HANGS OVER THE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD TO THIS DAY, ASK YOURSELF.... 

HOW INCREDIBLY UNIMPORTANT IS WHIFFING A BIT OF CIGARETTE SMOKE?

THE MAGNITUDE OF THE HEALTH CONCERN IS PERVERTED
IN THE FACE OF TRUE DANGER.
IT'S PETTY.
 IT'S DRIVEN BY FEAR MONGERERS.
IT'S A MOVEMENT TO DIVIDE.
 

THE "OUR WAY OR NO WAY" CAMPAIGN SACRIFICED THE FREEDOMS OF YOUR FELLOW AMERICANS, THAT YOU NOW SEND YOUR SONS, YOUR HUSBANDS, YOUR DAUGHTERS, YOUR WIVES, YOUR NEIGHBORS TO DEFEND

WHY?

ALL BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT SOME OF US DO! - SMOKE CIGARETTES

CONCERN FOR OTHERS' HEALTH HAS TURNED INTO CONTROL OVER OTHERS' LIVES

DISLIKE FOR AN INDUSTRY HAS TURNED INTO A HATE FOR ITS CONSUMERS

SIMPLY STAYING IN THEIR OWN TERRITORY BECAME 
A QUEST TO BRING DOWN OTHERS' TERRITORY 

THROUGH WELL-FUNDED STRIKES THEY BLITZ THE MEDIA AND OUR REPRESENTATIVES
WITH PROPAGANDA IN ORDER TO CONVERT OTHERS

 DOOM FILLED MESSAGES CONDEMN INDIVIDUAL CHOICE OF LIFE-STYLE FOR "OUR OWN GOOD"
The Taliban has a sign on the wall of their Ministry of Justice in Kabul. 
It reads: "Every breath you take is a breath closer to death."

Sounds like one of the Quit Yet? commercials.
 

How familiar does all this sound to you now?


Our own "Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice"

The entire secondhand smoke charade is nothing more than a campaign to eventually win a smoke-free society by applying similar scare tactics as described above. Put fear in the people and they will comply with an agenda forced upon them. It began in the 1970s and gained steam in the late '80s. 

In 1975 Sir George Godber, British delegate to the World Health Organization (WHO), presented the WHO with his blueprint for changing individual behavior by changing social attitudes.  His published address to the WHO contains the following statement: “...it would be essential to foster an atmosphere where it was perceived that active smokers would injure those around them, especially their family and any infants or young children who would be exposed involuntarily to ETS.”
His proposal may in fact be the anti-smoking movement’s best-kept secret - 
that the ETS agenda was set years before any research had been published.

Since that time there are many statements made that prove that ETS is the trojan horse by which the attack on cigarette smokers has arrived.  More recently, Stanton Glantz, Americans for Nonsmokers Rights,  has said (one of numerous examples): 
"Clean indoor air is the most cost effective strategy for achieving former US surgeon general 
C Everett Koop's vision of a smoke free society."

In 1998, commissioned by a Congressional cadre of anti-tobacco legislators in response to the tobacco settlement, ex-FDA czar David Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop hand-picked representatives from twenty-three organizations to constitute an expert tobacco control panel. [Click here to learn who these representatives were]

They met three times and provided to President Clinton and Congress a 60-page document that is one of the most chilling displays of disregard for American tenets in existence today. Defining the choice to smoke as a "chronic disease" and declaring "no value" to the use of cigarettes, the panel proposed an Orwellian "blueprint" for "control" of the problem on a global basis. The commission recommended the immedicate implementation of what clearly must be seen as totalitarian means, backed fully by the power of police state enforcement, to achieve an almost classically totalitarian goal, a kind of mandated behaviorism. Or, to use their own words, "the goal is to change the behavior of smokers."

In a booklet entitled "Tips for Kids," the CDC commented that smokers were, in fact, "second-class citizens"and would eventually be treated as such.

An excerpt from a NY Daily News report [Life Beneath the Veil, Oct. 4, pgs 61-63] on the living conditions of the Afghan women mostly but also of all Afghan citizens living under Taliban rule states:

To ensure that their dictates are followed, armed religious police -- part of the "Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Suppression of Vice" -- roam the streets.

Women are not the only targets of this perverted God squad -- no Afghan citizen is permitted to have TVs, VCRs, videos, tape recorders, cassettes, children's toys, cameras, photographs or paintings of people and aminals, cigarettes and alcohol, magazines and newspapers, and most books.

"Whatever we are doing in our country, it is not for the world to be happy with us," says Sher Abbas Stanakzai, a Taliban deputy minister.  "Time should be spent serving the country and praying to God.  Everything else is a waste of time, and people are not allowed to waste their time."

Okay, so the Taliban thinks everything else is useless compared to praying to God and they will see to it by removing all other distractions that you abide by their interpretation of their religion.

The antismokers think there is no higher priority than enforced health practices and they will see to, it by removing your choice to smoke (*like the Taliban?), that you abide by their interpretation of how you should live your life.

How familiar does all this sound to you now?


*If and when bin Laden's private army is finally dislodged from its hideout, the contents of the mountain fortress are expected to throw light on the secretive workings of al-Qa'eda and the Taliban.

For now, a few glimpses have emerged at Tora Bora after the retreating Arabs left behind pick-up trucks. In one, there were leaflets proclaiming support for Abdul Rahman, who is in prison in America for his role in the 1993 attempt to blow up the World Trade Centre.

Another contained a book marked "Official Guide, high priority" of the teachings of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the former Taliban supreme leader who is now on the run. 

His advice ranged from instructions on how to deal with criminals to exhortations not to smoke. "See how he tried to control everything," said one veteran mujahideen warrior as he leafed through the pages, before dumping the book on the ground.
~UK Telegraph News, 12/9/01


We have no intention of addressing this to the true anti-smoking extremists in our country.

They are hopeless.

They know who they are.

They can't see past their own piety to agree to a request for a reasonable solution, not their idea of unconditional surrender.



My open question to one in particular who could have been a victim of the carnage that now lays waste where the World Trade Center used to stand is this...

How did you like your cigarette smoke-free air?

I don't hold my breath that you have gained any *perspective on what is truly important in life even while you had to hold your own.

You have no more of a "right" to breath smoke-free air than I have a "right" to smoke.
What we have are privileges and the right to PURSUE happiness,
not be guaranteed happiness by way of terrorist tactics.



*Jill Coffey, Daily News Assistant City Editor and resident of Battery Park City that was caught in the destruction, wrote in her October 7, 2001 column, "Like everyone else, I have gained some perspective."  She was discussing her previous complaints of overcrowding on the nearby esplanade and the local opinion that bicycles should be banned.  Now that her neighborhood is a ghost town she craves the people that have abandoned the area.

One would think that someone who thought that a mere whiff of cigarette smoke was killing them is now a joy - or at least meaningless - compared to the ash and dust that exploded around them.



Our veterans have gone to war with the knowledge that their ultimate goal was to preserve and to protect the sanctity of our freedoms.  That was their drive.  That was their pride.  And that will again be what our soldiers will be protecting for us now with as much drive and pride.  Many of the very people you've called "socially unacceptable" will be defending your sorry excuse for citizenship.
 
 
      NOTICE IS SERVED
 
We will never expect you to understand or respect that beyond your own "nose" but we who hold our freedoms in sanctity serve notice on you that we will no longer allow you to trample on our freedoms from within our own borders.

That you cannot understand that smoking is something that can be ENJOYED, a risk we take willingly like race car drivers or mountain climbers or the police officers or firefighters in their own sense of the word "enjoyment," is for you to wrestle with in your warped and twisted mind that seeks ways to save us from ourselves and which insists that we relinquish our freedoms to appease the control you wish to have on others.

ANTI-SMOKERS = ANTI-FREEDOM

PART III - Behind the Scenes of the Anti-Freedom Campaign.
Their tactics of terror and their effect on others

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