So, Janet, ''Please let me keep my job,'' Reno, consigliare to the Clinton crime family, after saying in 1997 that the government had no legal standing to join the lawsuit against the tobacco industry, has not only changed her mind, but has somehow decided to use the RICO statutes - created to combat organized crime - to attack a legitimate industry producing and selling a legal product.
Furthermore, the corrupt, hypocritical government not only sanctioned, but subsidized this product, and is the No. 1 profiteer from the product. More than 60 cents of every tobacco dollar goes to government in taxes.
That is more than goes to the growers, makers, distributors and sellers combined.
The greed and arrogance of this government is unprecedented in our history.
It is the government that should be sued for conspiring to cause the deaths of millions of citizens by permitting this dangerous product to remain on the market some 30 years after requiring warning labels detailing tobacco's dangers.
Products less damaging, such as alar or red dye No. 6, were banned with little or no proof that they were harmful.
But then, the government crime family did not reap billions in profits from those products.
We can by simple choice avoid tobacco; we cannot escape the dangers from our own out-of-control government as in Ruby Ridge or Waco.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
September 30, 1999
Thursday, September 30, 1999
Tuesday, July 06, 1999
Tobacco settlement cash belongs to the taxpayers
In a recent editorial you advised state lawmakers as to how to dispose of some of the funds extorted from the tobacco industry in a recent settlement.
The funds are supposedly a reimbursement for medical payments made by the state to cover tobacco-related illnesses. First, since it is reported as factual that all treated illnesses were due to the use of tobacco, I must assume that all of the affected patients were at or near their recommended weights, ate low-fat diets, exercised at least three times a week and had no family history of their particular illness.
Second, the state did not pay for medical treatment; the taxpayers of the state paid. Since they confiscated the money from me to pay for medical treatment for people I don't know, and since they then extorted those funds again from the tobacco industry, there is but one honest option as to the disposition of said funds: They should be returned to taxpayers.
Why does that simple logic escape our corrupt lawmakers and apparently you in the Fourth Estate, whose duty it is to be a watchdog over government excesses?
You instead become shills for corrupt politicians.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
July 6, 1999
The funds are supposedly a reimbursement for medical payments made by the state to cover tobacco-related illnesses. First, since it is reported as factual that all treated illnesses were due to the use of tobacco, I must assume that all of the affected patients were at or near their recommended weights, ate low-fat diets, exercised at least three times a week and had no family history of their particular illness.
Second, the state did not pay for medical treatment; the taxpayers of the state paid. Since they confiscated the money from me to pay for medical treatment for people I don't know, and since they then extorted those funds again from the tobacco industry, there is but one honest option as to the disposition of said funds: They should be returned to taxpayers.
Why does that simple logic escape our corrupt lawmakers and apparently you in the Fourth Estate, whose duty it is to be a watchdog over government excesses?
You instead become shills for corrupt politicians.
Tony Moschetti
High Point
News & Record
July 6, 1999
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