"This is Communism!"

Thomas DiLorenzo reports:

The Maryland legislature is about to pass a statewide ban on smoking in all bars and restaurants. The only debate left is whether private, nonprofit clubs will be included. One of the local news channels this morning reported from an American Legion hall (which wants to be exempted) and came up with this great quote from a crusty old Korean War veteran with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other: "This is communism. It's what they did in Russia. I didn't fight for my country to come home and live under communism!"

How naive of the old veteran to believe that the totalitarian impulse only existed in Soviet Russia. We just use a euphemism for it: political correctness.

Socialists can't stand privacy.