Laurence D. CohenI’ve never had a problem with the Trilateral Commission and its ongoing efforts to create a one-world government. Some of my best friends are wealthy, powerful Ivy League Protestants and, when they actually do take over the world, I expect to land a pretty good staff job to help them subdue the little people.

When the black helicopters fly high over New England, on their way to some secret mission, I simply wave and wish them well. My neighborhood is too dull to suffer an unannounced invasion.

It never bothered me that President Obama bought his birth certificate on eBay to disguise his foreign roots and Islamic faith. I know lots of former vegetarians from Vermont who go to great lengths to disguise their background and place of birth.

ObamaCare’s Death Panels? If they come after me, I’ll declare myself a proponent of faith healing, which is very inexpensive from an insurance point of view.

I’m not really one of those “Tea Party” kinds of guys. It’s enough for me to cope with the conspiracies in the newsroom of Banker & Tradesman, designed to keep the workin’ columnist down.

That being said, those conspirators plotting to take over the Commonwealth must be stopped. I’ll drink quite a bit of tea in an effort to fight off the despotic rule that Massachusetts faces.

Taking over the world, or even grabbing the United States as a first step, is a tough challenge, even for the international conspirators. State-by-state is the method they have chosen, with Massachusetts and Idaho very high on the list.

Protestors in one Idaho town last week caused a massive traffic jam, protesting the sneaky introduction of an International Baccalaureate curriculum into schools. As everybody knows, the IB program is closely tied to the United Nations. One day, your kids are studying English literature; the next day they’re advocating one-world government.

In the Boston-Cambridge metro colossus, where everyone is smart and well-read (especially the bankers and tradesmen), the shadowy conspirators have decided to focus on a takeover of communications by the government, as the first step in freezing out any protestors.

The Massachusetts Public Health Council, a subsidiary of the one-world-government forces, is poised to require Massachusetts retailers that sell tobacco products to post government-generated posters about the dangers of smoking.

Think about it. Using federal “stimulus” money, state despots would create, mandate and design government communication that freedom-loving retailers would be required to post prominently in windows and on doors and, perhaps, on their foreheads as well.

Today, a tobacco warning. Tomorrow, a photo of Gov. Patrick, President Obama and Joseph Stalin.

If you don’t post the government-mandated posters, you may face a fine of as much as $300, plus a three-year sentence in the Gulag, which I think is just outside Springfield.

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Apparently the poster propaganda would come in the form of graphic, horrific images of lung-cancer x-rays and the implicit message that “there but for the grace of God go you, if you don’t stop smoking and obey every government-mandated message you might hear or see.”

In the free world, it is usually the purveyors of goods and services that decide how and when and if to encourage, discourage or counsel potential customers.

For instance, early this year, the dating site BeautifulPeople.com banished 5,000 of its members who had eaten too much fruitcake over the holidays. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model,” the founder explained. That approach to healthy living is much less ominous than the government seizing control of the means of communication and nailing up mandated posters of overweight diabetics who can’t get a date.

The only hope for us all is that freedom is so embedded in the American way; that a complex, sort-of-free-market marketplace is so complex; that the conspiracy will fail through the sheer exhaustion of it all.

After all, Massachusetts does tax each pack of cigarettes $2.51, which helps fund the U.N. troops hiding in the foothills of the Berkshires. If the poster-warning thing actually works, and cigarette consumption goes down, then funding for one-world government will also go down.

It’s not so easy taking over the world.

 

On The To-Do List: Take Over The World

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