As I’ve said before, I am not a smoker. I do, however line up alongside the smokers in their fight against the massed ranks of the fake charities, junk scientists and health fascists – for their liberty is my liberty.
I am not a drinker, but I line up alongside the drinkers in their fight against the fake charities, junk scientists and health fascists – for their liberty is my liberty.
All of this comes to the fore in a number of little stories that I have been reading recently. The first, via the Angry Exile is laugh out loud funny. A site called Tobacco Tactics (a propaganda puff piece for the anti-tobacco movement) seeks to do a demolition on Dick Puddlecote. The opening statement pretty much covers the quality of what follows beautifully:
Richard / Dick Puddlecote is a libertarian pro-tobacco blogger who has the same name as a Medieval wool merchant.[1] He is a member of the smokers’ rights group Freedom2Choose.[2] Puddlecote says he runs his own transport business,[3] yet there is no “Puddlecote” listed as a Director at Companies House.
Well, no, Dick Puddlecote was executed back in the middle ages. It is a nom de plume used by a blogger who prefers to write pseudonymously. I had thought that this was common knowledge. I had not reckoned, however, on the sheer wanton stupidity of the anti-tobacco lobby. I note that these evil little Nazis have also got Frank Davis in their sights.
Apparently they don’t like being called Nazis, yet that is precisely what they are, and we should not shy from stating it – repeatedly – so that people get the message. As Frank says, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably canard a l’orange in the making. The same illiberal controlling tendencies of the repressive regimes that festered in Europe during the twentieth century are alive and well among the totalitarians who would control our lives today, casting the shadow of their cancer across the human spirit – from what we may say to what we put into our bodies, when, of course, none of this is any of their damned business. They are vile – and as Frank mentioned in the quote Tobacco Tactics used, they need to have respectability removed from them, for they are not respectable – they are evil. They are Nazis.
So, yeah, I stand alongside the smokers, the drinkers and the salad dodgers, despite being slim, non-smoking and teetotal, because, you see, one day they might come for something I like.
Bugger me, they already are… (h/t Chris Snowdon)
“Juice is just like soda, and I’m saying it right here on camera,” pediatric obesity specialist Robert Lustig said in the documentary “Weight of the Nation,” produced in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “There is no difference. When you take fruit and squeeze it, you throw the fiber in the garbage. That was the good part of the fruit. The juice is nature’s way of getting you to eat your fiber.”
Is there nothing that these evil shits won’t try to control or ban? I don’t drink tea – never much liked it. I no longer drink coffee – love it but it doesn’t love me, I’m afraid. So, much of the time, I am glugging fruit juice. Not because of any particular supposed health benefits, but because I like it and that is surely good enough, is it not? Well, no, not according to the health Nazis who think that my body is their business – it isn’t.
And, while we are over at Chris’ place, the logical next step when these nasty cunts are allowed a free reign with their denormalisation process, we get the same mentality that led to the concentration camps and ghettos in Eastern Europe during the nineteen thirties:
PATIENTS whose conditions are “self-inflicted” should be driven out of Surrey into concentrated poor areas with low-quality healthcare, a councillor has said.
Councillor John Butcher, an elected member of Elmbridge Borough Council and Surrey County Council (SCC), wants people who become ill due to alcohol, smoking, drugs or obesity to “move away from Surrey” to ensure better healthcare for those who remain.
Bring back the ghettos of Warsaw, eh? And, for those of you who think that a Conservative vote is a good thing, this arsehole is a Tory councillor – yup, the rot has spread wide and deep. There is no difference between any of the major parties in this country – all are nasty, authoritarian and spendthrift. All are deeply illiberal and all think that they have the right to tell you how to live your life – what to eat, what you may or may not imbibe and what to think.
And, if you think that your healthy lifestyle with your regular exercise is going to keep you out of their sights, think again, for Mr Butcher and those who think like him have already got you sorted:
In a leaked e-mail to an SCC officer, he wrote: “If the NHS in Surrey were to be run on the basis that patients with self-inflicted morbidity (mainly – smoking, alcohol, narcotics, obesity) and injury (dangerous activities) are, following due warning, placed in a much slower-moving queue for healthcare than ‘other’ patients, this would encourage the self-inflicted to move away from Surrey, to areas where there is no differentiation between patients on the grounds of their contribution towards their condition.”
Evil scum, the lot of them. Every single one.
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Update: One consequence of the TT wiki is that I have now discovered some new and interesting blogs. Thanks guys – unintended consequences and all that, eh?
Great article and so so true.
I hope they don’t investigate me. They might find out that I died in 1649.
I’m alright, Jack; as a 17th-century inkeeper’s daughter who chooses to present as a Captain Macheath the highwayman, I can doubtless count on Peter Tatchell leaping to my defence.
What is it with these people that they are incapable of living their own lives and leaving everyone else alone to get on with theirs? They also seem to have this strange meme that by stopping people from doing things that are bad for them that they can “prevent deaths”. Presumably living a totally healthy lifestyle will make you immortal. If that were actually true it might make the sacrifices worthwhile. Back in reality land we are all going to die eventually and I for one don’t think that it is worth sucking every ounce of pleasure out of life just to gain a few more years at the shitty end.
On the subject of banning or restricting things that you like, motorcycles have long been a target of the for your own good brigade. For that reason I consider MAG membership to be quite important.
I also consider MAG membership essential for all motorcyclists, especially considering the current situation with the latest EU Comission garbage that is being pushed through without even conforming to their own rules on the proper process and implementation of new legislation.
LR, I was intrigued by Leg-Iron’s recent post that fructose can cause damage to your liver, just as alcohol can.
Life, eh? We all get through it, it’s just that we could do without these obsessive nanny statists in the meantime.
Nazis isn’t an inaccurate description for these people; I’m sure they get their kicks out of wearing uniforms and carrying walkie-talkies.
That was my job once (in a university), and I always got along with the students (never had a bad word with any of them). One guy I worked with though, let it go to his head.
I think in the US, he would have probably have been described as a typical Mall Ninja.
Indeed they are.
It’s telling that they are changing tack in this manner. If I were confident that everything was going well in my neo-prohibitionist garden, I’d look on a few comments in a tiny corner of the internet as pretty inconsequential. Calling in the Guardian big guns smacks of fear IMO.
Excellent! 🙂
Pay for your own treatment if you fall off a motorbike or a horse, and no games of squash in case you put your eye out. Badmington or tiddlywinks only. Don’t take your dinghy out of the harbour. Smoking kills but living in the 4th Reich doesn’t and never will. Happy on the reservation with the wind turbines and smokeless pubs and five hundred pound fines if your dog takes a dump.
Scary, huh?
Yes
What the hell is the matter with these utterly nasty little cunts?
I smoke, I drink, I broke various parts of my body during my rugby playing days, so in this twat’s view I should be exiled to … well where exactly is he suggesting? I spent most of my childhood growing up in Surrey and I can just see it now, Godalming in 25 years full of dribbling old dementia ridden bed-wetters unable to cope with overwhelming demands on its “Health Service”.
A family friend of my wife’s is just about to die. Early 50’s, 3 teenage kids, PE teacher who never smoked & drank little apparently. Liver & pancreatic cancer is taking him away from his family far too early though. Would he have been put in a “slow-moving queue” by this cunt because of some manufactured reason that he must have lived a wicked life somehow? What exactly are his criteria for who deserves treatment? Where would he go if he develops skin / lung / liver cancer? Just fucking unbelievable.
You’re more likely to get something nasty from being in hospital than getting a cure these days anyway, so to be honest in some ways I hope his wish comes true. My limited experience of the NHS has been nothing short of awful and as long as it remains in existence I will continue to be very happily covered privately.
I really fucking despair at the state of this country.
Sorry to hear about your friend; I hope he gets the best – and most considerate – treatment available.
What worries me is that the hard-of-thinking the the NHS ranks have taken on board the ‘unhealthy lifestyles cause cancer’ and are applying the converse in a false syllogism:
Cancer is caused by unhealthy lifestyles.
You have cancer.
ergo You have an unhealthy lifestyle.
In the past few years, several of my friends and family have been diagnosed with so-called ‘lifestyle cancers’, and, to a man (and woman) subjected to repeated lectures by medical staff about their supposedly unhealthy habits despite a clear family history of the disease in each case.
Quite, Macheath, to live long and healthy, choose your parents wisely and don’t run in front of vehicular transport.
TT Wiki – so the Righteous & Judgemental can have self-induced high blood pressure, strokes and heart attacks too 😆
Ghastly assholes – activist whores with no stomach for actual debate and scant regard for reality – on bloated tax payer funded stipends…
They’ll try to ban this blog next.
Call a nazi a nazi and call a nutter a nutter.
Anti-smoking nazis.
Anti-smacking nutters.
If the language gets used often enough it will stick.
See how many times you can use such terms today and every day.