-=> On 01-02-98  15:20, Mark Logsdon did testify and affirm <=-
-=> to Justin Baustert concerning JUSTIN VS. TOM JEFFEF <=-
 JB> How should I know?  It's not my deal...
                                                                        
 DH> Perhaps I am wrong, but did you not indicate that you were a 
 DH> part of the process which produced the tobacco settlement?
 JB> I don't believe so.
The archives say you're in error [again]: "We are getting
tax money back to the states that are being hit hard in the
Medicaid department."(next to last line appended message)
 Area: LIMBAUGH(F 
  Msg#: 17299                                        Date: 07-07-97  07:56
  From: Justin Baustert                              Read: Yes    Replied: No 
    To: Mark Logsdon                                 Mark: Reply              
 
  Subj: Re: cigarette advertisins
 ML> Since you're such an expert on the Constitution, see if you can find
 ML> where the federal government is given the authority to regulate
 ML> tobacco or to "cut deals" with tobacco companies.  Let me suggest you
 ML> won't find it, unless you attempt to pervert the interstate commerce
 ML> clause as the liberals often do.
Like I already said, there doesn't have to be anything in the Constitution 
concerning this type of litigation.  The states are going after money, first 
and foremost.
 ML> Your so-called case was only "solid" because the mainstream press did
 ML> such a fine job of demonizing tobacco companies (not that the press
 ML> really needed to do much).  If the case was solid today, then it was
 ML> solid twenty years ago too.  The fact that you didn't file the case
 ML> twenty years ago suggests that you had to first demonize the tobacco
 ML> companies and to use the press to sway public opinion. It takes years
 ML> of brainwashing of the public in order to get your way.
Sorry Mark, you are quite mistaken.  It was just a few years ago when a 
collection of heads/spokespersons of tobacco companies sat in front of a 
Congressional panel and flat out denied that smoking either caused harm or 
was addictive.  Out of those companies came one traitor to their cause, to 
remain nameless, and they have since fed us thousands upon thousands of 
documents showing *exactly* what smoking has done.  The tobacco companies 
demonized themselves by lying about the problems in the first place.
 ML> correct causes.  Nobody daresspeak out against it for fear of being
 ML> labeled an extremist by the mainstream press.  Well, I have no fear
 ML> of speaking out against what is unequivocally wrong.
Since this type of litigation doesn't require to be placed against the 
Constitution, your whole thought process is skewed.  We are getting tax
money 
back to the states that are being hit hard in the Medicaid department. 
Explain to us why making someone pay to "clean up" their mess is wrong..
JB
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