Another Editorial Rant

Another Editorial Rant
By: Robert Turk	It amuses me that tobacco companies are claiming that recent Administration proposals impede their Right to Free Speech, as if the First Amendment had anything to do with a business organization's Rights. Uh, folks, the Constitution is about Citizen's rights (inalienable ones, at that) and it is designed to keep the government from violating people's personal liberties. According to the logic I've heard defending the tobacco industry's Right to Hype itself to impressionable youngsters, the government has been slighting its constituency for years in banning the possession, harvesting, sale or exchange of another crop -- one that the tobacco industry, along with the pharmaceutical companies, timber/fiber/paper industries, and the alcoholic beverage industries have all faught hard to keep illegal, censored, maligned, unreasearched, marginalized, and villified. And the funny thing is that while cigarettes kill 400,000 people per year, and alcohol is involved in many deaths per year, the plant I'm referring to has never been proven to cause a single death. This plant also could provide the textile mills, the rope factories, the paper mills, and foodstuffs with an abundant and effective raw material, hemp. This plant's effects on sufferers of chronic pain, glaucoma, and other maladies have been entirely positive as well! So when Big Businesses try to hype their Rights when it comes to shoving garbage down the throats of every consumer (human being) on the planet, and when they claim that "Big Government" is getting in the way of theses so-called Rights, I must choke back my breakfast and pretend to live in a sane world...one where products are not designed to break after 3 months of their intended use, where cars are built so well that they last 15 years or more, where mountains and forests are not converted into parking lots for megamalls, where the Government's position is to do the Greatest Amount of Good for the Greatest Amount of People, not the Greatest Amount of donations, junkets, and other creepy kickbacks. I'd buy plenty of stock in a Corporation that would stand up for these Principles and treat people fairly, and the world with respect. Too many businesses are run by cowardly, venomous, two-faced con artists, and too many Government officials would gladly sign-off the future of our Country in order to get a little media exposure or positive press. Bob Dole's tax-cut plan is a joke, and he is plainly manipulated by covert behind-the-scenes puppetry by sophisticated New World powermongers. Oh yeah, Ross Perot should not have set up Dick Lamm for such a fall. I believed in the Reform Party until they "selected" Ol' Ross to lead them (not just finance them) into November.

It amuses me that tobacco companies are claiming that recent Administration proposals impede their Right to Free Speech, as if the First Amendment had anything to do with a business organization's Rights. Uh, folks, the Constitution is about Citizen's rights (inalienable ones, at that) and it is designed to keep the government from violating people's personal liberties.

According to the logic I've heard defending the tobacco industry's Right to Hype itself to impressionable youngsters, the government has been slighting its constituency for years in banning the possession, harvesting, sale or exchange of another crop -- one that the tobacco industry, along with the pharmaceutical companies, timber/fiber/paper industries, and the alcoholic beverage industries have all faught hard to keep illegal, censored, maligned, unreasearched, marginalized, and villified.

And the funny thing is that while cigarettes kill 400,000 people per
year, and alcohol is involved in many deaths per year, the plant I'm
referring to has never been proven to cause a single death. This plant
also could provide the textile mills, the rope factories, the paper
mills, and foodstuffs with an abundant and effective raw material, hemp.
This plant's effects on sufferers of chronic pain, glaucoma, and other
maladies have been entirely positive as well!

So when Big Businesses try to hype their Rights when it comes to shoving
garbage down the throats of every consumer (human being) on the planet,
and when they claim that "Big Government" is getting in the way of
theses so-called Rights, I must choke back my breakfast and pretend to
live in a sane world...one where products are not designed to break
after 3 months of their intended use, where cars are built so well that
they last 15 years or more, where mountains and forests are not
converted into parking lots for megamalls, where the Government's
position is to do the Greatest Amount of Good for the Greatest Amount of
People, not the Greatest Amount of donations, junkets, and other creepy
kickbacks.

I'd buy plenty of stock in a Corporation that would stand up for these
Principles and treat people fairly, and the world with respect. Too
many businesses are run by cowardly, venomous, two-faced con artists,
and too many Government officials would gladly sign-off the future of
our Country in order to get a little media exposure or positive press.
Bob Dole's tax-cut plan is a joke, and he is plainly manipulated by
covert behind-the-scenes puppetry by sophisticated New World
powermongers.

Oh yeah, Ross Perot should not have set up Dick Lamm for such a fall. I believed in the Reform Party until they "selected" Ol' Ross to lead them (not just finance them) into November.