"We can't pay and we wouldn't pay. Even if I had the money I would rather burn everything I owned, and I wouldn't even give them the ashes." PirateBay! FTW!!! Lasciate Ogne Speranza, Voi Ch'intrate.... Bitches.
"Jesus Died For Somebody's Sins... But Not Mine..."
~Patti Smith, Gloria, Easter 1975
Let It Burn,
Wanna Let It Burn,
Wanna Let It Burn,
Wanna, Wanna Let It Burn
Sublime
April 29th, 1992
Sad thing is, Senator Oddo isn't even original, he completely stole the "Get the fuck out of my office" line from Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP:
Steve: Tower Records told me to shove this record up my ass! Do you know what it feels like to be told to have a record shoved up your ass? Eminem: But, I- Steve: I'm gonna lose my fuckin' job over this. You know why Dre's record was so successful? He's rappin' about big-screen tv's, blunts, 40's and bitches. You're rappin' about homosexuals and Vicadin. Eminem: I mean- Steve: I can't sell this shit! Eminem: What- Steve: Either change the record or it's not coming out! Eminem: What, I- Steve: Now get the fuck out of my office! Eminem: What am I supposed- Steve: NOW! Eminem: Alright man, whatever.
From Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by way of sample on Big Audio Dynamite's first song, Medicine Show on their 1985 debut album, This Is Big Audio Dynamite:
"Wanted in fourteen counties of this State The condemned is found guilty of crimes and murder Armed robbery of citizens, state banks, and post offices The theft of sacred objects, arson in a state prison Perjury, bigamy, deserting his wife and children Inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion Receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods Passing counterfeit money, and contrary to the laws of this State The condemned is guilty of using marked cards... Therefore, according to the powers vested in us We sentence the accused before us Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez (known as the Rat) And any other aliases he might have To hang by the neck until dead May God have mercy on his soul... .... Proceed!!!! Duck you suckers!!!! (sound of rapid gunfire)"
Now that the above fate is also that of Saddam Hussein, partly for the one-time gassing of of 30,000 of his own people, (though I know that that isn't what he was on trial and sentenced for, but still....), using the poison gas that the Government of The United States of America sold him, wouldn't it be possible to apply the same standard to the Executives of Big Tobacco?
Hehehheh.
I ask this question as a life-long smoker.
After all the poison gas of cigarettes murders400,000 of our fellow Americans, each and every year, so I gotta ask, what's the motherfucking difference?
I know, I know, nobody puts a gun to anybody's head to make them smoke, I've heard that one, but the fact remains that even after the ill effects of cigarette smoking became widely known, as well as the efforts of Big Tobacco to supress those findings, this industry, and those that lead it, spend hundreds of millions of dollars, each and every year, to not only produce and distribute these death sticks, but to advertise them to the general public as well, in many cases targeting this advertising at children, in the hopes of getting them addicted and buying their products at an early age.
Once addicted, a lot of choice is removed from people that they would otherwise have, in fact that's the whole point of getting people addicted to something in the first place.
So, ask yourself here, just who is more evil?
Saddam Hussein who gassed his own people, for political advantage, or Big Tobacco who gasses to death 10 times as many people in The United States of America each year, as a way of making a buck?
If Saddam Hussein is being held to account for his "Crimes Against Humanity"then why can't Big Tobacco be held to account in the same way too?
