King Doubles Down: Allowing Sale Of Loose Cigarettes Is A “Breakdown’ Of Our “Quality Of LIfe’
Congressman Peter King, said Eric Garner’s problem is that he was just too fat, amplified his views on Fox News. He was asked if the police don’t have better things to do than go after people for selling lose cigarettes.
This goes back to the whole “quality of life” thing, that if you allow someone to flagrantly violate the law […] By him standing outside the store, he was disrupting the community, he was preventing customers from coming in, and he was selling cigarettes that people were not able to sell in their convenience stores. If you have a legitimate, legal convenience store, and you’re selling cigarettes in there, and this person’s outside violating the law — this goes back to what started in 1993, with the “quality of life.” You can’t have people spitting on your windshield, and you can’t have people jumping over the turnstiles. As minor as those crimes seem, once you allow that to happen, it’s a breakdown.[su_center_ad]
mea_mark December 4th, 2014 at 3:06 pm
And what happens when you start allowing the police to kill minorities without having to face consequences. My guess is you have a major breakdown in the ‘quality of life’, especially for those being killed.
rg9rts December 5th, 2014 at 8:34 am
Collateral damage
Larry Schmitt December 4th, 2014 at 3:26 pm
Yes, we can’t allow anyone to destroy the integrity of the full pack.
R.J. Carter December 4th, 2014 at 4:35 pm
Man, I’ve been playing it dangerous selling those fun-pack M&M bags for a quarter each. They’re clearly labelled “Not packaged for individual resale.”
neworleans878 December 4th, 2014 at 5:16 pm
I’d go on the lam if I were you. Rumor has it they’re already after you for tearing tags off of mattresses…
neworleans878 December 4th, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Spoken like a true a**hole.
R.J. Carter December 4th, 2014 at 4:34 pm
There not being a whole lot of moonshiners in New York, I guess they had to go after the other taxable vice.
edmeyer_able December 4th, 2014 at 7:15 pm
Why not go after this you fu(king hypocrite….http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/congress-insider-trading/
Congress Just Quietly Made It Easier For Top Federal Employees To Inside Trade
Larry Schmitt December 4th, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Because he’s right in the middle of that. How do you think most congressmen end up a lot richer coming out than they were going in. It’s not from saving in their 401(k).
allison1050 December 5th, 2014 at 4:46 am
ie Wino Boehner
rg9rts December 5th, 2014 at 8:33 am
How about when he outed the King of Jordan??
Spirit of America December 4th, 2014 at 7:48 pm
King is correct, you don’t let the stuff slide, it harms law abiding people/businesses. If a cop is going by or is called in because of it, make the arrest.
Problem is, this isn’t about that, it is about excessive force for the situation.
This is a case(king’s statements) of misdirection. Say something that sounds close to the topic, say it correctly, and he gets to avoid the real topic. And people who already want to take the cop’s side just because of it being a cop jump up and say “yea, he shouldn’t be selling those cigarettes!”…
Negligent homicide was in my view perpetrated. And the involvement of such was by more than 1 man there.
Warman1138 December 4th, 2014 at 9:46 pm
It sure took an awful large amount of police and lethal force to stop a cig from being sold.
whatthe46 December 4th, 2014 at 11:26 pm
especially given he didn’t have any.
rg9rts December 5th, 2014 at 8:35 am
They were using him for training purposes
searambler December 4th, 2014 at 10:58 pm
“You can’t have people spitting on your windshield, and you can’t have people jumping over the turnstiles. As minor as those crimes seem, once you allow that to happen, it’s a breakdown.”
And no one says these should be allowed to happen, you colossal lobcock. But these are not CAPITOL OFFENSES in a civilized nation! Why is that so fcking hard for people like you to acknowledge?!?!?
fancypants December 5th, 2014 at 1:54 am
Happy holidays congressman
allison1050 December 5th, 2014 at 4:44 am
His non-thoughts says quite a bit about the assholes who voted to send him to Congress and we wonder what’s wrong with our federal gov.?
rg9rts December 5th, 2014 at 8:32 am
Long Island neonazis dear
Stuart McDonald December 5th, 2014 at 4:53 am
Peter King and others like him (aka Republicans — all Nazis nowadays and agents of the filthy rich) being in Congress is what is destroying not only our quality of life, but all life on earth.
rg9rts December 5th, 2014 at 8:31 am
Who pays any attention to what this moron says besides the dingleberries in his district….Long Island says it all