The Governator and civil disobedience

by Phantom Stranger 2 Replies latest social current

  • Phantom Stranger
    Phantom Stranger

    I guess we can't break the law unless a good smoke is at stake...

    http://slate.msn.com/id/2096338/

    In a Feb. 13 New York Times piece, Charlie LeDuff related the following conversation between Schwarzenegger and James Cameron, who directed the first two Terminator movies:

    Mr. Cameron asked him how governing was going.

    "They're really shaken up up there," he said of Sacramento. "It's a trip. You should see it."

    He talked about the art of compromise, popularity polls, special interests, prison investigations and the atrium outside his Sacramento office, where he is able to smoke his Cuban cigars?20 feet from the entrance as state law requires.

    "A lot of business gets done there," he said. "Who doesn't like a good stogie?"

    In congratulating Schwarzenegger for scrupulously obeying California's anti-smoking law, LeDuff neglected to note that Schwarzenegger's apparent ownership of Cuban cigars violates the Cuban Assets Control Regulations issued in 1963 (under the Trading With the Enemy Act) by the governor's most famous in-law. The prohibition was subsequently reaffirmed by statute in 1996. You'll find the relevant laws and regulations here.

  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    He who is faithful in the least is faithful in the most... execpt for cuban import laws.

  • MorpheuzX
    MorpheuzX

    I know I should be over this by now, as it's old news. But I have to say that I'm still in "shock and awe" everytime I hear or see Governor Schwarzenegger! I still can't get over the breath-taking display of stupidity manifested by the Caliornia recall voters who installed the star of 'The Last Action Hero' in the state's highest public office.

    As for Arnold's new found sense of "morality", I suggest anyone who buys into the crock of you know what to examine the August 1977 edition of QUI magazine -- it presents a much more accurate insight into the mind of a man who is clearly not what he presently claims to be.

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