Redrant: 200 posts total on this blog! Greg Lang
Hello Everyone -
It is rather sad to see this type of damage caused by smoking bans. One has to ask, what is this world coming to? The government steps in and bans smoking legal products in almost all venues including private businesses, raises taxes on the product to make it unaffordable to some, socially stigmatizes smokers and then we are faced with the fall out or consequences of their actions. What is wrong with this picture? But perhaps the bigger question is, "Who are they going to attack next?" Something needs to change and that starts with all of us....we cannot be silent any longer....we need to act! We hold the power to elect our government officials so lets use it!
Shawn Gertken and I have been working on vetting the legislators running for the House and it is shaping up real nice. We will have an updated scorecard on them soon. The San Francisco article that Greg posted on his website www.freedomtoact.com is worth reading!
Thanks to the Smokers Club Inc for the articles below.
Sheila
Police Search For Man Who Killed Over Cigarettes
May 5, 2008BALTIMORE (WJZ) ― A woman is murdered over cigarettes. Police are asking for help as they try to catch her killer.
Derek Valcourt reports it happened in Southwest Baltimore over the weekend.
Police say the killer asked the victim and her boyfriend for something and when he didn't get it, he shot her in the head.
A makeshift memorial marks the spot on Brunswick Street where 29-year-old Dawn Shipley fell to the ground after being shot by a killer who, police say, wanted cigarettes.
Family members were left devastated by the tragedy that happened just after 1 a.m. Saturday.
Police say that's when Shipley and her boyfriend were walking home from a corner store and were approached by the man asking for cigarettes.
Dawn refused to hand them over.
"This angered the man. At some point he engaged her verbally, some words were exchanged. He produced a handgun and shot her," said Nicole Monroe with Baltimore City Police.
Shipley died a short time later at Shock Trauma. As friends of the victim and her family are coping with grief, police are now turning to the public for help.
They're asking any witnesses to come forward.
"The person that done this to my niece, if he's any kind of a human being, he would turn hisself in," said a relative.
Dawn's boyfriend, an eyewitness to the crime, is working with detectives to help identify the killer.
Elisa Shipley, the victim's sister-in-law, says she's now worried about Dawn's 9-year-old son Norman who is left grieving the loss of his mother.
"I don't want him to think God took her. God didn't take her. God accepted her, but he didn't take her. Evil took her, it wasn't her time," said Elisa.
Her family says they don't have enough money to cover funeral expenses, so they've set up the Dawn Shipley Memorial Fund. Donations can be made at any Provident Bank Branch.
Anyone with information on the case can remain anonymous and earn some reward money by calling Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7-LOCKUP.
http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4274
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