LEST WE FORGET ...

...how inhumane humanity can be.

Today is to remember the futility of war, the deaths of those who fought for freedom as opposed to qualified freedom, and the civilian victims of such conflicts who no one stood up for until it was too late.





Never can such horror ever be allowed to happen again - even to the Palestinians - and just because the official Nazi Party no longer exists that doesn't mean the danger of race hatred and ethnic cleansing is gone.

The Israeli nation should know better than anyone about the sanctity of life and the respect of different cultures but when former PMs say things like : "The Palestinians should be crushed like grasshoppers - their heads smashed against boulders and walls..." it makes me fear that history at some near point in this modern future will be repeated somewhere in the Western world soon.



The Nazis gave nothing but hatred and puritanism to the world in terms of health and race and it is frightening to think there are nutters out there who praise Hitler's work

It is because Hitler invented the concept of SHS and set the template for modern tobacco control that I know it is evil and morally wrong. It comes from a perverted and twisted mind wracked by hatred and intolerance. It it what my grandfather and father fought against. Their lives, and those of the war dead, should not sacrificed on the bonfire of modern civil liberties for any old paid for excuse. Modern Govts should distance themselves instead of embracing any part of Nazi ideology as socially beneficial including smoke free. It never was good for anyone - ever - and never could be because it depends on socical division, exclusion and the promotion of fear and hatred to succeed.

It cannot be said with one breath that what Hitler did to the Jews and other "undesirables" was evil while saying in another that what he did to smokers was good - unless it comes from a mind that already thinks that some people deserve to be treated better than others based on who they are and what they do when it hurts no one else.

Lest We Forget - people died in harrowing circumstances to promote a brand of ideology that should be the template of all things to avoid rather than the template to rebuild society in the ideological perfect image of one of the worst butchers of humanity in modern times.

CORRUPTING OUR KIDS

As we are simply the parents of our children it would appear we have no rights to decide that our kids should not be force fed ideological propaganda especially if they are in state schools.

My tolerant never smoking sister was recently very concerned at the reaction of her son after he witnessed a heinous crime. She said :

I met son off the train yesterday. He took me to one side and asked if we should tell the authorities something really bad had happened on the train. Had he been approached by a paedo, or seen someone stabbed or trespassing on the line? I was really worried. But no - apparently someone was smoking. Who says the propaganda doesn't work!!!

I said I hoped that she'd told her son that the crime he witnessed was against the smoker by a tyrannical Govt that would divide communities by lies, propaganda and misinformation to set one half against the other.

She told me it was a great concern :

The trouble is that the propaganda gets through stronger than the other stuff. If people want to know why a non smoker supports the pro smoking lobby look no further. any other group and it would be an "ism" and illegal.

I should have corrected her because as far as I am aware, the only representation made to Govt, the authorities and the public is freedom of choice and an end to the hate crime against smokers. Not one smoker I know actually promotes the act of smoking to others but rather their right to be left alone to smoke in peace without harassment.

Instead, I said she had to educate her son about Fascism, why it is dangerous and why anti-smokerism is Fascism. I said his generation is the future and they must learn not to hate because the Govt tells them to. I said to tell him that the next time he sees a smoker he should say he supports his right to choose to smoke in a separate cabin because it is the fair way.

One of the most cruel aspects of the anti-smoker fascists is that they are working to turn families and friends against smokers in a bid to isolate us from society even further. I'd hate it if my nephew grew up as an intolerant Nazi who hates me because of what the bigots have drilled into him.

He is 14 and well brainwashed by now and because my sister doesn't smoke, she had no idea what they were putting into her son's head. They tried it on my son when he was 8. He came home crying after his teacher told him I was going to die because I smoked. I came fourth in the mum's race that year at school sports (I would have done better but one mum cheated!)

My son's been on the side of choice ever since and especially now he is almost 18 and can see his beloved computer games are the next on Nanny's list of things to ban on false information from yet another fake charity.

That experience taught my son to continually question propaganda. I'm pleased I was able to control what he learned about smoking. I don't think that would be possible today. Incidentally, he chose not to smoke.

My three daughters went through school when information on smoking was just that. Information. It was NuLabour's scandalous TV ads that got to my nephew - especially the smoking baby. He was too young to understand how the film had been edited to achieve an effect, how the Govt paid £350 million for those adverts which aimed to pervert the truth to achieve it's ideological aim of a smoke free country, or how many of them were rapped by the Advertising Standards Agency as "misleading."

Now that my sister realises how corrupted her son has been by the state, she tells me she will be having a talk with him and bring him round here for a cuppa while I fill him in on some truths and tell him that there really are two sides to every story.