Here is an old European warning
that I have Americanized and updated for our time concerning increasing
governmental regulation and taxation:
They came first to over-regulate and over-tax tobacco and tobacco smokers and I didn't speak up because I hated tobacco.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax alcohol and alcohol drinkers and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t touch the stuff.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax all pornography and “R” rated movies and all consumers of erotica and I didn’t speak up because I was happily married.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax bad and offensive music and the listeners of bad and offensive music and I didn't speak up because I only listened to good music.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax guns and bullets and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t have a gun; and the sign on my doors inform potential violent intruders that my home is safe and gun free.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax Christian Churches and religious Bible thumpers and I didn't speak up because I didn‘t go to church or even own a Bible on which to thump.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax things that I like: my prescription drugs, my coffee, my ice tea, my lemonade, my beautiful music, my free speech and my freedom to listen to and read opinions that they suddenly oppose; and by that time no one was left to speak up.
“And it isn’t good for the children” will always be their cry for justification. But it is their vision of the future for which it is not good!
Kenny J. Wolf #70 (07-28-07)
July 28, 2007
They came first to over-regulate and over-tax tobacco and tobacco smokers and I didn't speak up because I hated tobacco.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax alcohol and alcohol drinkers and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t touch the stuff.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax all pornography and “R” rated movies and all consumers of erotica and I didn’t speak up because I was happily married.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax bad and offensive music and the listeners of bad and offensive music and I didn't speak up because I only listened to good music.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax guns and bullets and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t have a gun; and the sign on my doors inform potential violent intruders that my home is safe and gun free.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax Christian Churches and religious Bible thumpers and I didn't speak up because I didn‘t go to church or even own a Bible on which to thump.
Then they came to over-regulate and over-tax things that I like: my prescription drugs, my coffee, my ice tea, my lemonade, my beautiful music, my free speech and my freedom to listen to and read opinions that they suddenly oppose; and by that time no one was left to speak up.
“And it isn’t good for the children” will always be their cry for justification. But it is their vision of the future for which it is not good!
Kenny J. Wolf #70 (07-28-07)
July 28, 2007
NOTICE: The following DICTATE OR Warning was not submitted to the newspaper or printed in the letter to the editor.
If it was good enough for Nazi Germany to control and ban tobacco,
Then it must be good enough for America to control and ban tobacco!
Or, so, that is what the anti-tobacco health Nazis of America are saying.
4 prints of the above DICTATE OR Warning cards to print out and pass out to your anti-tobacco regulators.
In PDF format
Other letters discussing tobacco
Making Tobacco Industry Scapegoat
'Big' Mistake