Brandon9000 wrote:
My primary concern here is with "the agency will be able to...prohibit marketing campaigns, especially those geared toward children." To me, this sounds like a violation of the first amendment of the constution. I don't expect many people to care very much. People always have rationalizations for why their pet projects aren't actually free speech violations, even though they prohibit speech.
As a lover of freedom, and of reading the Constitution
truthfully,
I must
AGREE with u, Brandon.
It violates freedom of speech n freedom of the press,
as well as the 9th and the 10th Amendments.
There is nothing in the Constitution that I remember,
giving government authority over children,
nor over what information any private citizen (tobacco firms) can freely provide to them.
If THIS unconstitutional usurpation of power is tolerated,
then for how many
OTHER usurpations of
more power
will this one stand as precedent ??
Personal liberty and the domestic power of government are
INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL to each other.
Let the record indicate that I have
detested the stench
of cigarette smoke since the age of 4. The stink of violating the Constitution is
WORSE.
David
