UKIP Yorkshire & Lincolnshire
Prohibition Conference goes ahead despite covert attempts to prohibit
Friday, 6th February 2009
"Attempts by Big Pharma and taxpayer funded groups to block freedom of speech will not work", said Godfrey Bloom MEP today on the eve of the first World Conference on Prohibition. "The truth will out".
Mr Bloom the host of the Conference now renamed 'Thinking is forbidden', was speaking as scientists, economists and social commentators from around the world were converging on Brussels for the event.
"We have been concentrating on some of the bad science around the smoking ban on this occasion", he said, "but the plan is to highlight the use of such tactics against a host of lifestyle issues at future events".
The Conference had initially been planned to take place in the European Parliament, under the auspices of Mr Bloom and TICAP (The International Coalition Against Prohibition). But after a mass lobbying campaign by Smoke Free Europe and the European Public Health Alliance, two bodies largely funded by taxpayer handouts and big pharmaceutical firms (who wish to sell 'quit smoking' products) the Bureau of the Parliament in closed session decided to ban the Conference.
"That the subject was not on the agenda, not in the meeting notes and the decision was taken in camera speaks volumes", said Mr Bloom. "The fact that they didn't have the courtesy to inform me for well over a week, making it nigh on impossible to re-organise even more so".
These well funded people are frightened of free speech and differing points of view, they make false claims and allegations to bully and denigrate. They claim that having differing opinions aired, 'undermines the dignity of the Parliament'. Pull the other one. They are a bunch of control freaks whose only pleasure in life is to disrupt another's pleasure. Well I have got news for them. You cannot win when there are still people prepared to make a stand against you"
