The good Reverend Anthony Carr walked into a police station in England and said he wanted to report a crime. When the cop asked what crime he would like to report, he pulled out his pipe, lit it and said: “This.”
“Will you please put that out” the officer said. “This is a no smoking area.”
“I will not,” replied the priest.
The police told him that he would not be “bundled into the back of a van” to which Rev Carr said: “What a pity.”
I like this Rev Carr. He’s got some balls and balls are what the world needs right now. The smoking of tobacco should be permitted indoors. So should the smoking of pot, opium and various other things. You should be able to light up a joint in a movie theater or restaurant. Society should become more free – not less free.
We could actually win that war in Afghanistan if we legalized opium and hash. We’d just import it. That would give those farmers a nice fat and legal market. (If we just became a little less hysterical, we could be using their opium for medicine.) Instead of doing this we’ve burned down their farms, murdered the people who are trying to squeak out a living from a rather inhospitable country, forced them to ally with a vast, illegal trade that kills far more than the products they pedal, congratulated ourselves on our nice smoke-free bars and wondered why they hate us. We’re a bunch of drunken hypocrites. I hate us and I am us.
And no one out there should make any mistake. The anti-smokers have just started. These pinch-faced tyrants will be not be done when smoking is illegal. People like that are never done. They will only be encouraged. Pretty soon they’ll move onto the next thing — You. And they’ll have precedent on their side.
You will never increase liberty or security by taking away from someone else. It exists in exact proportion to the liberty and security that you grant others. Even smokers.
2 comments
Anonymous
July 11, 2007 at 1:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’ve seen smokers with LC during chemo sessions. They seemed to complain the most of all the suckers there. Take this for what it’s worth, which ain’t much to the living.
Ryan Oakley
July 11, 2007 at 5:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
An integral part of smoking culture is complaining. What do you think we’re doing outside in winter? I mean, besides smoking.