June 2007 - Page 4 of 7 - Forces International

Fighting the social disintegration

Soon to be a correspondent of the FORCES Multimedia project, Michelle Gervais from Ontario has set out to relieve the segregation of her smoking colleagues, who have been progressively pushed out of their offices into the smoking room first, then out of the smoking room outdoors, then away from the buildings and now… who knows.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Eliminating the competition while charging $1,500

When a particular group of citizens is targeted, one of the most important things to do is to erode their sense of unity and their cultural solidity.  Of course we are stating nothing that Machiavelli did not write already in his masterpiece The Prince.  In the case of smokers we can see the social disintegration at work with the prohibition of assembly, for example, and with the attack on their self esteem by public humiliation – smoking outside and at a distance from buildings, for example.  But a good despot who knows what is doing must do more than that: he must destroy the target’s culture.  So, that is what Canadian “public health” has set out to do with Indians.  The last lesson from Machiavelli is that — of course — the cultural disintegration must be implemented under the guise of “help”.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Learning from history; public health is fascism

Once upon a time there were distinctions between totalitarian regimes: Communism was different than Nazism on the basis of ideology, although the methods were identical.  Now that we have replaced the cross with the no smoking sign, God with “public health” and real scientific facts with opinion attributions, we can get rid of the ideology altogether and keep just the methods and the techniques, happily marrying Hitler with Stalin.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Smoking ban High Court challenge

"A group challenging the legality of the smoking ban has given the Government a ‘last chance’ to consider amendments or face them in the High Courts.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

If you act you get

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Son of a smoking ban

As England will have a smoking ban in a few days, one lawyer is “warning” (read: he’s trying to lobby for) smoking “exclusion zones” to address the “problems” expected to arise because of the congregation of smokers outside buildings.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

BBC report damns its ‘culture of bias’

The Romans used to say “asinus asinum fricat” (the jackass talks back to the jackass) to indicate the hypocrisy of those who badmouth shortcomings in others that they themselves have.  That sure seems to be the case of this BBC report done on BBC itself.  We read:

By webmaster, 18 years ago

From Michael Siegel’s Blog

We apologize to our readers who follow both FORCES and the Michael Siegel blog for having neglected his important postings. To make amends, we publish here a collection of his latest postings. For the purpose of not cluttering his opinions with our blurbs, we have reduced our blurbs to telegraphic comments.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Chubby smoker prevails

<!–webbot bot="PurpleText" PREVIEW="http://www.data-yard.net/10b3/cabrera.pdf" –>Angel Cabrera won the U.S. Open by one stroke over Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk, becoming the only golfer in the tournament to shoot below par twice.  Cabrera, who had never won a tournament in this country, is a resident of Argentina, which could explain why he puffed away unabashedly between shots.  While golf is not known for the stringent physical regimen associated with other sports, it is never the less inspirational that a man whom anti-tobacco teaches us to hate aced out the hyper physically fit Tiger Woods.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Anti-tobacco operative dies young

It’s with a great sense of irony that we report the death of an anti-tobacco operative who made a very good living suing tobacco companies.  Judith D. Wilkenfeld died last weekend of cancer.  She was 64 years old and did not smoke.

By webmaster, 18 years ago