Rolling Stones under government’s thumb

Hey! think the time is right for a palace revolution!
— The Rolling Stones, “Street Fighting Man.”

40 years ago, the Rolling Stones got busted for smoking marijuana.

Now they’ve just been busted for smoking — cigarettes. Oh, the evil weed of tobacco!

So far this time, they’re not going jail, as they did in the 60s. But they have run afoul of Britain’s new fascist anti-smoking law.

Yet can you imagine Keith Richards without a smoke in his hand? If you see videos of him, he always has a guitar and a cigarette. When he plays, he pops the cig in his mouth, or somehow keeps the cig in his right hand while he’s also pickin’ his ax.

The Stones are right: It’s time for a “palace revolution” against the “Phony” Tony Blair/Gordon Brown dictatorship. Abolish the British “Parliament,” which resembles the Reichstag under Hitler, and give all political power to Queen Elizabeth II, a nice old lady who wouldn’t begrudge Keith Richards a cig.

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