Reflections From a Murky Pond

As I’ve posted before, if Obama’s FDA and HHS were really trying to curtail smoking by Americans, the ads they’ve chosen will fail just as every previous attempt at social engineering of people’s habit through fear-mongering have failed.

On the other hand, disgust and loathing work better than fear in almost all cases. It’s just a matter of marketing.

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Beginning September 2012, Obama’s FDA will require larger, more prominent cigarette health warnings on all cigarette packaging. They claim that the introduction of these warnings is expected to lower medical costs, a necessity if ObamaCare is not undone by the American courts and/or Congress.

It’s a just another of Obama’s many lies though.

It strains rational credulity to believe that this bit of fear-mongering will work any better than any of the plethora of such campaigns have worked in the past. It strains rational credulity past the breaking point to think that Obama and his appointees in the FDA and HHS don’t know this fact.

It well might meet Obama’s and his Liberals’ true goals though – the further destruction of the economy of the South where the vast majority of America’s tobacco is grown and processed. After all, these are historically red states and the Liberals’ best hope is to crush their economies in order to either cause people to leave or be shackled by government subsistence level hand-outs.

The placement requirements for this propaganda make their goal of brand destruction and impeding sales quite clear:

1. On the top 50 percent of both the front and rear panels of each cigarette package.
2. In the upper portion of each cigarette advertisement, occupying at least 20 percent of the area of the advertisement.

The actual, and I believe planned, effect of Obama’s FDA’s new cigarette label regulations will be to make it harder for smokers and retailers to swiftly identify brands and types of cigarettes at the time of sale.

Such backhanded tactics by Obama and his sort don’t actually sink to the legal definition of a prior restraint, but they do certainly approach the functional level of such due to the added aggravation and time such labeling regulations will cause both shoppers and retailers.

These delays will also aggravate others waiting in the check-out lines, a bit of social engineering designed to further vilify and isolate American smokers that I’m sure is part and parcel of the Liberals’ plan.

Of course, if this goes like ObamaCare has so far, Newports and Kools will be given exemptions due to the “disproportion impact” upon Blacks, i.e., trusted Democrat sharecroppers voters.

The warning ads are useless, graphic propaganda that will be, like all other such things, ignored by the majority. The placement requirements, however, will do much to further Obama’s real goals, which is something for every man and woman in the southern states to remember as we approach the 2012 elections.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

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For the past several decades the Liberals and their minority tenants have been repeating the same old, tired mantra that states:

When a minority succeeds it’s despite America’s endemic and systemic racism, and when a minority fails it is because of it.

And they’ve had more than their proper share of success with this tactic since, if you repeat a lie often enough – especially if you repeat to children during their formative years – it will eventually be believed.

So, of course, they followed near to the the tenets of their spiritual godfather, the neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky and applied this same mantra to their other agenda items, hoping to have similar or even greater levels of success.

With a very limited repertoire at their disposal, it makes perfect sense for the Liberals to stick with this singular tactic.

This is a classic example of faithful – orthodox even – adherence to Alinsky’s 2nd Rule for radicals seeking to destroy a society:

Never go outside the expertise of your people – When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear and retreat….

Naturally, when the Heirophant of Global Warming, Al Gore started his doomsday cult these Liberals realized it was a good vehicle for promulgating their neo-Socialist, ethno-guiltist agenda and applied the same mantra to it:

Any cooling trend, no matter how long or general, is despite Anthropogenic Global Warming, and any warming trend, no matter how brief or localized, is because of it.

And they failed! The loyal citizens of the Civilized World, Americans especially, rejected them and the Warmists’ cult of AGW largely because these Liberals used this same tired mantra to argue the point.

We had in the intervening years realized the falsehood of their earlier claims about race and racism and weren’t going to believe those same false arguments again just because the nouns had been shifted around to fit a new methodology of achieving the Liberal agenda.

These Liberals, obviously not quite as literate and educated as they want us to believe, forgot Alinsky’s 7th Rule for Radicals:

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag – Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time….

It was an Alinskyian Failure of global proportions and one that each and every citizen of the Civilized World should be thankful for. Which is not to say that we shouldn’t stay alert for a resurgence of this cult and be ready to crush it again by and and all means at our disposal.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

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