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Friday, January 07, 2005

Pinning Ears Back Of Pro Ban Lgislators.

MINNESOTANS AGAINST SMOKING BANS
227 OAK ST. S.E. MINNEAPOLIS, MN 554146
PHONE: 612-384-4374 FAX: 651-458-5649

January 7, 2005


Ladies and Gentlemen of the
Minnesota House and Senate:

Those of you who are in favor of a smoking ban remind of such animals as ostriches, turtles, lemmings and even Chicken Little. You have for the past several weeks been receiving numerous articles e-mails and commentaries exposing the fallacious campaign of the anti-smoke hating Nazis. Some of you have withdrawn into a shell or buried you head in the sand, no doubt out of the fear that being exposed to an alternate point of view you might be forced you to re-evaluate your own misperceptions concerning SHS and smoking. Others of you in your solipsistic self-righteousness, are like “lemmings to the sea”, willing to destroy the very tax base you need to bail the state of Minnesota out of the miasma of its $700 million deficit. As to the issue of smoking and health, you all act like Chicken Little running around in a panic crying, “The sky is falling; the sky is falling!”

These sorts of behavior are insupportable. You have been elected to your positions by people who expect you to deal with the business of government and only that. They have not elected you to be Social Engineers, the dupes and lickspittles of special interest groups, nor the violators of our personal freedoms, private property rights, and Constitution of the United States of America. I have read where some of you have pontificated that we need these bans for the “sake of the children.” This is nothing more than sophomoric sophistry in its worst form and is based directly on the on the writings of Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf. "The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people." Hitler believed “that as long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation…. In the name of the children, incursions into the private lives of American citizens have been made that the Nazis would have gazed at with open mouthed admiration. If these words and this concept make you feel uncomfortable---good. You should feel uncomfortable knowing your actions in supporting a smoking ban have their genesis in the nightmare of the Third Reich.
BANS ARE BAD! Read it again, BANS ARE BAD! Banning blacks from white facilities---BAD! Banning books---BAD! Banning Beer---Bad! If you agree that these bans are bad, then you must also agree that banning smoking is also BAD! I would certainly hope at this juncture you are starting to realize that any action, that would favor a smoking ban of any type, will only create far more harm than good. The financial burden that will be forced on Minnesota by a smoking ban, will be crushingly enormous. This fact is already being recognized in New York State, Toledo, Ohio, Ireland, and Canada. Their bans are already beginning to crumble and debate has started to greatly modify and even in some cases repeal them.
Sincerely,

Robert Hayes Halfpenny
Vice President
Minnesotans’ Against Smoking Bans

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