Smite A. Hippie

Shocking this comes from a town in Massachusetts, where like every other liberal-run government municipality, has become a ‘nanny-state’ that thinks they know what’s better for you and I.

Town Bans Bottled Water Sales

“We only have one planet and I just don’t want to see it spoiled,” said Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord’s Town Meeting.

Now, you’d actually at first think it was the added plastic being tossed into trashcans or recycling bins that has Jean Hill’s panties in a twist, but it’s actually the issue of how much oil is used to create these plastic bottles.

Yes, that’s right… every time you buy bottled water, you’re lining the fat-cat pockets of Big Oil and Big Beverage, and worst of all you’re killing the planet and funding terror around the world. You evil bastard, have you no conscience! Get a Brita filter, already! Think of the children! heh.

The ban on plastic water bottle sales may be largely symbolic. Town officials aren’t sure they have the power to enact the ban without approval from the state.

So in the mean time, Concord will probably just start handing out fake-tickets, like those idiots that leave them on gas-guzzling car’s windshields in the parking lot.

“Water is something we can get from the faucet. You can’t turn your faucet on and get soda,” said Selectwoman Virginia McIntyre

Now while I do share this sentiment, I’m also a freedom-loving American that doesn’t agree with imposing my view on everyone else in the form of some idiotic government regulation.

It’s funny isn’t it? Under our new regime, the Federal government has mandated that I buy something, and this little municipality is trying to mandate that you can’t buy something.