Tobacco and the great power grab

The FDA is now taking on tobacco…

I know I’m not the only one bothered by this, but people have been shockingly silent about it. Even over on the FOX News website there hasn’t been a whole lot of outrage over this power grab by congress and the administration.

That’s what it is, after all. I have throughly gone over what this new legislation against tobacco entails, and it doesn’t do anything but give the government yet more regulatory power over us.

I can’t fathom why people would think that this is at all OK. The big excuse that I am seeing on the news sites and message boards is that this was passed with big bipartisan support so any dissenters should just shut up. Duh! Of course it passed with bipartisan support. No legislator who values his position in government over any sort of principle is going to stand up for tobacco. It’s tabboo. Untouchable. We might as well start calling tobacco users “lepers.” So to use the excuse that this won by a bipartisan vote is meaningless. What is of importance is that we now have tobacco under the wing of one of the most bloated, self-righteous and useless bureaucracies in the United States government. The FDA, by many accounts, has done more harm than good over the years (go to CEI and search FDA for some great examples). If anybody thinks that this is going to help do a damn thing other than tie things up in bureaucratic mazes needs to stop and think about things for a moment. After all, the FDA barely manages to tend the issues that it’s already charged with, and now we’re throwing the great tobacco boondogle into the fray.

When did tobacco use stop being a choice to be made by the individuals?

Want to know my little conspiracy theory? The war on drugs is lost and everybody knows it – so to save face, the government is hell bent now on winning the war on tobacco. Hell, they have to win something, right? If we allow people to think that they have free choice, then they’re not doing their job…