Zach LarkinsTYRANNY
This is a letter to the editor I wrote the other day. The smoking Nazis are feeling their oats and want to ban smoking in apartment buildings now. How long before they come to your private house and demand you butt out there? I warned about this some time ago and it looks like I was right. Beware folks. These guys will stop at nothing.
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Sir,
Some time ago, I wrote to the Star about the Ontario smoking ban implemented by Mr. Smitherman. In my letter, I compared him to Hitler. After being chastised for this comment, it seems I have been vindicated. He now wants to hold ‘discussions’ about making apartment buildings smoke free. Judging from his past performance, these ‘discussions’ will be a dog and pony show only and he will ramrod his ideas down the throats of every citizen in Ontario. He disagrees with smoking. Good for him. But he has already backtracked on allowing Casinos to have smoking shelters. He has backtracked on Legion halls having smoking shelters. As all good Liberals, he seems rather wishy-washy. He learns quickly how to play the political game. Hold discussions. Make it look like you care. Then take away the rights of the people to choose and let them seethe. The stats he uses are false, but they’re good enough for his purposes. And now to ban smoking in one’s own home? What do we have to look for next? You can’t eat broccoli because it causes gas, which in turn adds to global warming? Obesity has overtaken smoking as the number one killer, but is he doing anything about that? No. Mere platitudes that the issue should be looked into. When will he come after owners of private homes and tell them they can’t smoke inside their own domicile? He’s already tried it with cars having children in them. I will say again the man is another Hitler and the sooner he is removed from office, the better. Hopefully, when the province looks at all the broken promises of this Liberal government, come next election, they will be turfed a few time zones away. As Christina Blizzard of the Toronto Sun wrote, "Canadians fought repression, fear and intimidation in two world wars. We will not tolerate such elements in our midst now." It seems it is time for us to stand against tyranny.
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Sir,
Some time ago, I wrote to the Star about the Ontario smoking ban implemented by Mr. Smitherman. In my letter, I compared him to Hitler. After being chastised for this comment, it seems I have been vindicated. He now wants to hold ‘discussions’ about making apartment buildings smoke free. Judging from his past performance, these ‘discussions’ will be a dog and pony show only and he will ramrod his ideas down the throats of every citizen in Ontario. He disagrees with smoking. Good for him. But he has already backtracked on allowing Casinos to have smoking shelters. He has backtracked on Legion halls having smoking shelters. As all good Liberals, he seems rather wishy-washy. He learns quickly how to play the political game. Hold discussions. Make it look like you care. Then take away the rights of the people to choose and let them seethe. The stats he uses are false, but they’re good enough for his purposes. And now to ban smoking in one’s own home? What do we have to look for next? You can’t eat broccoli because it causes gas, which in turn adds to global warming? Obesity has overtaken smoking as the number one killer, but is he doing anything about that? No. Mere platitudes that the issue should be looked into. When will he come after owners of private homes and tell them they can’t smoke inside their own domicile? He’s already tried it with cars having children in them. I will say again the man is another Hitler and the sooner he is removed from office, the better. Hopefully, when the province looks at all the broken promises of this Liberal government, come next election, they will be turfed a few time zones away. As Christina Blizzard of the Toronto Sun wrote, "Canadians fought repression, fear and intimidation in two world wars. We will not tolerate such elements in our midst now." It seems it is time for us to stand against tyranny.
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However, I really resent the comparison of the folks' objecting to smoking or any other social ill to Hitler and Nazi Germany. To do so is to trivialize the Nazi regime. I feel the same way about socio-economic problems in poor communities being termed as living in a Ghetto! There are major differences between Nazi Germany and the anti-smoking advocates and poor neighborhoods to the ghettos of Poland and Germany.
With all respect, the over-the-top language weakens your main point -- of which I generally approve.
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opinionatedranter
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Thanks for bringing it to my attention and I apologize to anyone whom I might have offended. I'll watch it in the future.
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