I already have a mother, thanks.

“As a public health person, my job is to make sure we’re protecting as many people as possible.  We can’t just sit around and twiddle our thumbs until the state Legislature decides to come back in session. That’s why we need to go to the local level again and work that way.”

–  Maureen Busalacchi of Smoke-Free Wisconsin

And there it is, my friends.  The quote above is a clear picture of exactly what Smoke-Free Wisconsin are:  Tyrannical busybodies on steroids disguised as nuns.

Think about the first statement Ms. Busalacchi made, where she presents herself as a saint, doing the Lord’s work by “protecting as many people as possible”.  To ‘protect’ them, she must convince the citizens of this state that they cannot possibly make an intelligent decision as to where they’ll enjoy a burger.  She is telling the media, for all the world to see, that you people in Wisconsin cannot be trusted with your own lives.  You need the government to tell you what’s best you, because you’re obviously too primitive and dim to figure it out on your own.

Has she ever considered that maybe we don’t always like to do what’s ‘good’ for us?  Did she ever think that maybe some of us still like to remember that we’re human, and that we sometimes like to do things that may not facilitate our health or general well-being?  Has she ever thought about the idea that folks don’t go to the bar to get healthy?  I wonder if  Maureen has ever enjoyed a big, greasy burger or a bag of cheese curds washed down with a cold beer… 

If Ms. Busalacchi would like to ‘protect’ people as she claims, I would call on her to take a few pointers from the anti-abortion activists.  She should stand at the entrance of places that allow smoking and beg patrons not to enter.  She could even get some shocking posters made up of lung cancer autopsies that say: “Your lungs will look like this if you enter this death-trap!”, or something like that, just for the shock value.  If she truly cared about the health of Wisconsinites, she’d send her minions out to taverns and small-town cafes to save these ignorant people from themselves.

While the Alpha Nannies are busy convincing you that you cannot be trusted with your own body, their little helpers are busy infiltrating your city councils, getting your board members to believe that they’ll somehow look ‘progressive’ to the rest of the state and country if they simply choose to go smoke-free, and how ‘behind the times’ they’ll appear if they don’t.  It doesn’t take much.  The city councils who have passed bans are more concerned with their appearance to the rest of the state and the country than they are with the sustainability and property rights of their own business-owners.    

Once they have successfully infiltrated enough city councils, those same community leaders will begin chirping endlessly about a ‘level playing field’, saying that it isn’t fair for their business owners to watch their profits pour into the neighboring cities and towns.  (As if they ever really cared about the business owners in the first place.)  Then, the Alpha Nannies will begin pouring their efforts into statewide ban legislation, using the ‘patchwork of bans’ mantra.

If Smoke-Free Wisconsin gets away with this ‘divide and conquer’ scheme, they will have done it by successfully convincing Wisconsinites that they are too stupid to make their own life-choices, and that this heavily-funded propaganda machine truly has a heartfelt concern for our well-being.

PROVE IT, Smoke-Free Wisconsin.  Prove that you care so much about us.  I want to see it.  Get your prima donna butts out of your cozy little city council meetings and take a clue from the anti-abortion protesters, who seem to be truly concerned and dedicated to preserving life…so concerned that they stand outside in the shivering cold while passersby curse at them loudly and throw trash at them.   

How much do you really care about us, Ms. Busalacchi the Health Care Person?  Show us, because we’re not buying it.  Sell your babysitting services someplace else.