Subject: Endorsements for the City Council
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 14:54:58 -0500
To:        <letters@nytimes.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
To the editor:

 For the hundreds of thousands of us whose simple right to relax=
 with, eg, in my case, a cigar, a Guinness and friends, has been=
 criminalized, and for those of our fellow citizens who simply=
 believe in tolerance and freedom and property rights, our choice=
 is simple.

 Unless your incumbent is one of the brave few , Mssrs Addabbo,=
 Gallagher, McMahon, Monserrate and Reed in districts 32, 30, 49,=
 21 and 8 respectively, who stood against this extension of the=
 drug war to tobacco use among consenting adults in private=
 establishments, vote for individual liberty and responsibility;=
 vote against your incumbent.

 For, unless your incumbent is one of those few, they clearly do=
 not respect you, rights of private property, or even logic=
 itself basing this prohibition of all on a privileged=
 hypothetical class incapable of starting and running their own=
 establishments where they may set their own rules. 

 Perhaps most horrendous, at a time when the City is laying off=
 firemen and closing fire stations, these prohibitionists are=
 necessarily adding more than 20 secret nanny-police at a cost of=
 around $1,000,000 to persecute their newly criminalized fellow=
 citizens. 

 Vote Tuesday.  Vote to end this trend.
 Vote for individual liberty and responsibility.
 Vote against your incumbent.

Bob Armstrong,
Manhattan Libertarian drug affairs director