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Monday
Mar012010

Denise Hogan on SunTalk Radio

I may have mentioned it but earlier today I was on SunTalk Radio discussing the Nick Hogan situation with presenter Jon Gaunt.

Ninety minutes later Jon spoke to Nick's wife Denise who gave her reaction to Nick's imprisonment.

Both interviews are featured on THIS SunTalk podcast.

Reader Comments (3)

Will SunTalk make a donation?

The TMA?

BAT?

JTI?

Some support from the tobacco companies wouldn't go amiss. Dig deep lads, dig deep.

We can have the man out by lunchtime tomorrow.

Colin.

March 1, 2010 at 19:43 | Unregistered CommenterColin Grainger

£50 just donated by paypal. Let's get the guy out. Prison is no place for a decent, honest citizen who just happens not to agree to become an enforcer for the bullies in Parliament.

March 1, 2010 at 21:51 | Unregistered CommenterJunican

Well said. For me the Ban has always been a civil liberties issue and it annoys me when people whine about "Oh, so you can't smoke in pubs anymore. Grow up."

It was never about that for me. It's always been about:

1) State intrusion into private property rights. Is your paid-for property really "public" just because you allow people in?

2) The junk science behind it. We're currently seeing Phil Jones squirm at the CRU email hearings, and The Royal Society of Chemistry have now come out as saying that not sharing data is bad scientific practice. The goons at ASh and their trained scientists have been using the same techniques (and worse) to distort, manipulate and even "invent" science for decades. I want to see them purged from the scientific community before they do real damage to scientific integrity and the public's trust in science. It's bad enough that they have revived the Mediaeval belief of "ill health being caused by bad smells" without them truly plunging us into a new Dark Age.

3) The expectation that landlords are now legally liable for the actions of other people. In one of Nick's prosecutions he wasn't even in the country at the time! This is a distortion of English Law - citizens are NOT expected to uphold the law, that is the job of the Police. If I see a rape or a murder and I do not intervene (other than by calling the Police) I can not be prosecuted - we don't have a Good Samaritan law here, thankfully. Yet smoking is apparently alone in its nastiness in justifying a distortion of our entire legal system.

I gave up my decade-long membership in Liberty when they refused to consider the ban, seeing it only as a "you smoke, I choke" issue. My God, there's so much more to the ban that that! And personally, that is why I will keep fighting it. It truly is a political issue. And in my experience a damn good barometer for testing politicians' opinions of civil liberties, too. If they're pro-Ban they're generally not tolerant or liberals in the way I understand the term, and this normally shows itself in other ways, too.

March 2, 2010 at 1:01 | Unregistered CommenterMr A

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