links for 2010-04-29 [one of 2 posts, thank you for screwing up today, delicious]

• WAR ON DRUGS: Electronic cigarettes don’t violate Virginia smoking ban, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says
  Good thing we’re a tobacco state, or this would rule differently. Public smoking laws have little to do with health, and more to do with people’s emotional desire to control behavior of others they find offensive. They just banned wearing deodorant in a Michigan city, because people have now learned that they have the “right” to control other people’s actions [smells] they find offensive.

  Don’t like something? Avoid it. Don’t like violence on movies? Don’t watch them. Don’t like smoke? Go someplace where there isn’t — there’s plenty of places. Of course, the people who don’t like smoke aren’t playing fair. They want to make it so that those who WANT smoke in public DON’T have a choice. “My way or the highway.” Typical fascist bullshit.

  For once, I say: Go Republicans! And for once, I say: Boo American Cancer Society. What a turnabout…

  (tags: politics WarOnDrugs drugs cigarettes nicotine e-cigarettes Virginia AttorneyGeneral KenCuccinelli legal rulings smokingBans smoking smokers rights ChrisPeace Republicans AmericanCancersociety FDA)
• POLICE STATE vs IMMIGRATION: Arizona “Papers, Please” Law May Hit Tech Workers
  First off, I am absolutely against illegal immigration. With all the money we spend on the war on terror, the real threat to security is someone coming across our unenforced border and attacking us that way. Iraq or Afghanistan are not threats to us; Mexico and Canada are.

  And it’s nothing to do with race: I’d vote to send every illegal back RIGHT THIS SECOND, if that was an option. MY grandparents came here legally. You want to live here? You do the same.

  HOWEVER, the way it is written, this law is a total bullshit police state unconstitutional racial-profile-inducing piece of shit law that is going to result in justified lawsuits costing taxpayers tons of money.

  This law will be struck down. Look forward to YouTube videos of brown americans getting their rights trodden on by police. There is no legal requirement to carry ID when you’re not driving, so people are going to be detained. Immigration detentions do not give you a right to a lawyer, you know…

  Interesting comments.

  (tags: politics policeState immigration Airzona bad laws InnocentUntilProvenGuilty GuiltyUntilProvenInnocent police racism racialProfiling Slashdot news articles InterestingComments uncontitutional legal rights ConstitutionalRights freedom Papers,Please)
• SEXUAL FREEDOM: Southern High School Erases Lesbian Student From Yearbook
  Martha Traxler’s email address is martha.traxler@copiah.ms. She also shows up in a poorly-copy-edited article about the issue from October of last year: http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1… wherein she claimed that “the issue goes beyond just clothing.”Email her. Tell her she’s a discriminatory cunt. I did. Fuck this shit, and fuck the south for perpetuating conservative ideals of racism and discrimination. Of course this shit still happens in the north, but you just don’t hear about it as often, do you?

  (tags: politics SexualFreedom homosexuals gays lesbians yearbooks highSchools schools students censorship sex freedom MarthaTraxler Mississippi VeronicaRodriguez WessonAttendanceCenter CearaSturgis tuxedos TheSouth TheStranger news articles)
• Delicious fucked up today. Made 2 posts, neither identical. Great. Manually fixed it finally.