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Open Letter to Governor Bill Owens , Colorado
http://www.CoSy.com/Liberty/OwensLtr.htm
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cc: General Assembly
Subject : Freedom
Dear Governor Owens ,
Freedom is not suppose to be something one must argue for in this country ;
it's almost supposed to be part of our name . But we know more and more
that the fight , which is by definition , of the individual , does not
end -- and in fact in many ways is more critical than any time in my 61 years .
Freedom offers great competitive advantage . Nevada's main product may be
said to be Freedom and that is surely a factor in it's US leading rate of
rate of attraction of people and wealth from other states .
I moved here to Woodland Park from Manhattan New York six months ago . Among the reasons I'll quote this from my parting letter to my City Councilman , Alan Gerson :
Perhaps the first of us to get out are those like me for whom the discomfort of not being able to relax with a drink and a smoke as our fathers did or as George Burns did to the age of 100 is secondary to our gut level disgust and fear seeing some bullying pisher who was a junior when we were freshman now have the force of police behind his assertion of control over details of our peaceful voluntary choices .
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I'm referring of course to Michael Bloomberg who never jepardized his election by hinting at his plan to extend substance prohibition to nicotine .
I must confess , the drive to control other citizen's peaceful behavior is something I just don't have . But I've seen the glee in the smiles of tobacco prohibitionists in New York that they get by crushing your freedom ; they can't hold it in . Of course they are doing it for our own good . They might as well quote Marx .
It's personal behaviors rather than economic decisions , but the arrogance is the same .
The decision whether to allow tobacco smoking in a place of business does not have to be made at the state level ; it can be made at the county level and let counties compete with distinct personalities . Or it can be decided on the town level where towns can choose their rules . Or , abiding by the founding principles which made us the envy of the world , these decisions can be made by the Owner of a business depending on their tastes and goals .
In New York the false claim was made that there weren't any non-smoking choices available . That is patently not true here . So what charitable face can possibly be put on those who want to replace this freedom of choice with police force ? I see only arrogance . I hope I won't have this motive to move once again .
Peace thru Freedom ,
Bob Armstrong
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See previous comments on the extension of the drug war to nicotine at NYC Smoking Ban and on the Manhattan LP Forum Prohibition topic .
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Posted in response to Scientific Amerian's respone to FDA self serving dismissal of any medical value of Marijuana :
When you "follow the money" you don't need to look beyond the Government itself . It is the State itself which has a drive to criminalize even the peaceful behaviors of its citizens thus rationalizing the taking more money for more , and more militarized , police and a gulag now number 1 in the world .
Since the substantial collapse of traditional Marxist economic socialism , those with the drive to control others have been perfecting Nanny Socialism based on the same scam that "it is for your own good" . These NaSi's are more dangerous to our domestic tranquility than anybody on the other side of the world .
April 23, 2006 @ 17:32
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My guest editorial in the Teller County CO May 2 Mountain Jackpot paper :
Criminalizing the Population
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By 17 to 18 in the Senate (link to individual votes below) and signature by outgoing Governor Owens, on March 27, Coloradans lost a chunk of their liberty to a well funded in and out of state minority of zealots so enamored by the drug prohibitions we already have that they have now succeeded in criminalizing the peaceful relaxation of perhaps a million of their fellow citizens.
These zealots are not interested in health, science, or truth. They are not interested in compromise. They want to engage the State police, both uniformed and secret, in stopping any proprietor or any veterans' or other "private" club from allowing the consumption of nicotine and alcohol together within their doors. I put private in quotes because that word clearly means less than it used to.
To quote one of the most rabid, District 59 Representative Mark Larson:
Absolutism would be what I would like to do which is make tobacco a Classification One Controlled Substance, Until tobacco is banned altogether, I guess we'll just have to make certain that you don't take us along with you are {as} you slowly kill yourself."
Hint, "Representative" Larson, if you were just one of us ordinary citizens instead of one of our "more equals", to use Orwell's "Animal Farm" phrase, you would have the freedom of the market to turn around and walk out the door of any individual's business or club which didn't cater to your beliefs and tastes. That applies whether you are a customer or an employee. While there are, in fact, a lot of no-smoking restaurants, bars and clubs around, and non smoking sections in many more, if you feel the desire for one more your style or closer to you, get together with some friends and open one up yourselves; apparently there's an under-served market and some money to be made.
These neo Carrie Nations are latter day Marxists. They use the same scam that "it is for your own good". When I was growing up, "Nazi" referred to Germany's National Socialists. Now we face our own "NaSi"s, Nanny Socialists who do not believe in the adulthood of their fellow citizenry, both majority and minority, whose rights they were elected to defend. With blacks and gays having very effectively won their civil rights, these "more equals" have found in smokers a new minority attackable by their own minority while a majority of bystanders just look on not considering the implications for all our personal freedoms.
The United States was founded on the recognition that Government is one of the most dangerous entities in our lives. Jefferson's idea of the proper purpose of the State was to provide a fair court to redress and deter harm of one citizen by another. The notion of individually owned private property was the bedrock upon which any decision of who was aggressing or who defending, who the criminal and who the victim, could be based. And indeed, the right to make your own decisions about the use of your own property is the foundation of freedom.
The State has a natural drive to expand just like any other monopoly. One method, because the number of true criminals harming their fellow citizens by force or fraud, while substantial, is finite, is to criminalize even the voluntary peaceful behaviors and transactions of the citizenry, thus rationalizing the taking of more money for more, and more militarized, police and an expanding prison gulag. Just on the basis of our existing nanny statist prohibitions, the US now has the number 1 gulag in the world.
It is no overstatement to describe this new prohibition as creating a new opportunity for snitches and secret police to enter private establishments and selectively extort them over personal choices by owners and patrons which have been legal since long before any of us were born. "Smoke-easy"s are inevitable and exist everywhere Governments have embraced these new revenue sources, oops, prohibitions. (I moved out here from Manhattan, NY last year, in part because my right to relax with a cigar and a beer among friends had been criminalized. Still, I can steer you to a number of places on the Lower East Side where, if you know the right door to go to, you can light up if you want.)
Last Tuesday, I got to a standing-room-only meeting of a newly revived group of bar and restaurant owners, VFW and DAV representatives, ordinary concerned citizens like myself, and a couple of courageous House candidates who believe defense of liberty and property may in fact still be a winning stance in their districts. The group is raising money to get an injunction, based initially on the unequal exemption of casinos, which shows that even for the zealots, "health" is for sale, against the July 1 imposition of the new prohibition.
I must admit being moved by seeing the size of the gathering of, perhaps 80% smokers, but 20% not, gathering their small moneys together to battle the massively funded (largely with their own taken money) government nanny health lobby.
While for many of the bar owners, their potential bankruptcy motivates their donations, the pervading theme and sense in the room is of a battle for freedom of individual choice against tyranny no American should countenance. The Colorado Springs members of their group, "The Coalition for Equal Rights", are holding meetings every Tuesday afternoon at Walkabout Pub, 1919 E. Boulder. Details and contacts are on their just set up website stopthebans.com .
Peace thru Freedom,
Bob Armstrong
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Votes of each Senator and Representative
http://www.lpcolorado.org/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=89
Both Teller County Representative James Sullivan and Senator Tom Wiens voted against Liberty and for the extension of the Nanny State.
I'm sure some of the 17 Senators and 24 of 65 representatives who voted to retain our liberty are personally pissed that their own freedom to relax with a smoke and a brew has been crushed.
See also : CoSy.com/Liberty.htm#SmokingBan .
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I recently posted "Progress towards 4th.CoSy" on http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.apl and also on http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth . I must say I find both groups , but more so the Forth group mired in minutia . Here's the post anyway :
Since moving to 2500 meters up in Colorado last August , I'm now
finding time ( besides having to fight the nicotine nazis here who
helped make NYC not worth the effort to remain there . See
www.CoSy.com/home.htm#20060512 ) to make some significant progress
towards a next generation CoSy built from the FORTH up .
I've been working in a very new and mimimalist FORTH by Ron Aaron named
Reva ( hebrew for 1/4 ) running on both Windows and Linux . I've just
posted the first code which provides some real utility from the
perspective of someone used to working at the FORTH level . Namely , I
have reference counted character , integer and float lists in useful
form , tho still pretty naked , for someone with an APL headset . I've
uploaded some examples at www.CoSy.com/CoSy/CoSy/UserManual.htm
which links to further information .
My interest is simplicity of expression so it is borrowing a lot from K
other than its syntax . It is purely lists of lists ( bushes ) with
modulo indexing so there are no notions of dimension per se , and
rather than scalar extension , shorter lists are just indexed ( modulo
) to the length of the longer . In a sense , the only multidimensional
function is "flip" which transposes 2 dimensions if they are
rectangular , ie , all items of second dimension are of the same length
.
At this point , I could use some help from people who really know how
to write an APL as to the best way to structure the overloading words
to bury all the type specific verbs and adverbs and implement
traditional APL infix . While I am aiming at a more word defined syntax
than traditional APL structure , I really need to see how it has been
done to see what I need to do .
I'm looking , for instance for a copy of Whitney's one page prototype
of J . And , of course to pick the brains of the brilliant like
Bernecky and Ryan . If Chapman's I-APL is available somewhere , that
might be useful to look at too . Since the whole system is going to be
open code up to a very high application level , I look forward to input
from others . Reva which really became pubic last summer has evolved
spectacularly because of contributions from a number of brilliant
FORTH/assembly programmers scattered around the globe . The system
provides and will provide an APL that is unique in being open and
easily customizable right to the assembly language level .
Anyway , I invite you to take a look at what I've done so far . I
apologize for the script being as messy and unsegmented as it is , but
this is the very earliest point at which it's useful and makes sense to
invite feedback .
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