"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Now in Brooklyn, Homegrown Tobacco: Local, Rebellious and Tax Free
Submitted by Derek Henson on Sat, 2011-02-26 04:00
"In the state with the highest cigarette taxes in the country, in a city that has become one of the hardest places in America to find a place to smoke, Ms. Silk has gone off the grid, growing, processing and smoking her own tax-free cigarettes from packets of seeds she buys online for about $2. "
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An retired NYC cop? I wonder if she was such a conscientious libertarian when she carried a badge? Doubt it.
They're probably organic, too! My grandmother lived to the ripe-old-age of 97 smoking, for the vast majority of that time, chemically-free cigarettes.
“The only way we’re going to win now, since you can’t reason with the irrational...” Ms. Silk said, “is you have to take the position of giving them the finger.” ;)