Jeremy Irons Slams Bloomberg "Nanny State" | HPL
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
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Jeremy Irons joins Josh Zepps in studio to discuss Mayor Bloomberg's drink ban in NYC.
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This man's voice is magic.
I'm a big Jeremy Irons fan, but hearing such a rational, objective point of view on volition makes me respect him even more. Thank you for actually speaking sense.
Very cool. I always liked Jeremy Irons as an actor, now I have an immense amount of respect of him for his political views.
I'm now a fan of Irons. Liberty!!!
Very interesting interview with a wonderful actor.
Exactly! Thank you! Your my new and only Hollywood hero!
I am now officially a stronger Irons fan. WTG, Jeremy!
I've never smoked in my life and I agree with you. Our society treats smokers like plague victims.
Jeremy Irons just got some respect points.
I completely agree! Love the fact that he openly spoke up re these important issues! It makes me respect him even more.
Well articulated!
jermy lrons is my regular customer where i work in london , is very friendly and nice man
This is one Actor who has some brains. Big fan.
Absolutly Correct
Amen, Jeremy.
respect, Sir Jeremy Irons (always respected his acting & respect him even more as a human being)!
I now LOVE this man!!! Kudos to Jeremy Irons!!!
Three cheers for Jeremy Irons!
I like Jeremy Irons now. Both of us are on the same page.
Excellent video! Wish more smart people had the common sense Jeremy has -- and the eloquence to make a good argument.
eheheh...I have to learn to speak like that...I get mad and furious also...and people don't like that...Jeremy put it in a human level, you just can argue that. Thanks so much for the post and thank you jeremy
One of my favorite actors
Go Jeremy!
JI takes the correct stand on all issues as far as I can see.
Darn good actor, great human being!
Thank you!!!
Good to hear this from Jeremy Irons.
I love this man more now.
A Brit who's not a left wing authoritarian? I thought these people weren't suppose to exist! Good to see Mr. Irons speaking up.
Thank God for Mr. Irons
Loved him especially in Appaloosa. Awesome movie.
well said sir...
hit the nail on the head. Brom lives !
And Jeremy Irons is describing the spirit of American independence, and Americans should listen carefully to this man....He is exactly right.....Young comrades should take note and special heed......
To: Jeremy: A men to that brother!
very good!
As someone who is studying Public Health, I have a few different thoughts on these types of topic. I don’t think that banning anything works...We tried that with alcohol in the 1920s. I think that we need to educate people.
its good to see not all celebrities are tools!
I concur!
a sensible actor! i knew there was one!
Finally, someone from the Hollywood crowd with a little common sense! I'll be checkin' out his movies going forward! That is unless he's pushed out of the industry for actually thinking for himself and straying from their agenda with these remarks, as has happened to so many.
Amen Jeremy Irons!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Amen 🙏 Scar Simon and Police 🚔 Officer 👮♀️ great Jermey Irons Icon
He got even more awesome.
Mr.Irons is correct on this one.
I remember being teased endlessly by non-smokers calling me and my friends "stupid" and saying that we "deserved to die of lung cancer." Smoking is not the smartest decision in the world but I would appreciate if programs like DARE, TRUTH, other anti-tobbaco groups and the US/USDA would refrain from maligning smokers.
I lit up a cigarette in a small town bar one night just for the hell of it. The owners twenty something daughter and her friend saw me, and the look on their faces was I imagine precisely the same as if I had dropped my drawers and taken a dump on the floor.
It was priceless, but at the same time scary. The next generation will be easily led.
Agreed!!
Jeremy for president!
Mr. Irons is correct.
A thousand likes! Hollywood elite sometimes makes sense!
It's telling that he avoids mentioning the gun control, which is the elephant in the room and closer to the real nature of all these laws aimed at control. Irons is the first celebrity to speak out against all this. It will be interesting to see if he works again.
New York's whole upstate economy is built on prison industry. There simply no jobs in upstate New York. The majority of the people that live there work for a prison. To fill those prisons they enacted the Rockefeller drug laws. Those laws where repealed so they have to come up with new laws to incarcerate it's people. All they have to do is get you in the system. Once there they can easily hold you forever. Talk back to a correctional officer more time is added on. If a correction officer provokes you to hit him that's 10 years added to whatever sentence you already have.
Wow... I'd have been cursing the Government by now. He showed a lot of restraint.
I lived in nyc in 2003 he was a great mayor compared to the guy who is running things now but his no big drinks and smoking bans were just plain stupid.
When the simple act of smoking can be considered an act of rebellion we have the certain that State stepped out of its limits.
Agreed, he's absolutely right. Are we or are we not adults ? It's about choices we make...Letting government make choices for you in how you live your life is a slippery slope, we're seeing it roll down hill now.
Can't argue with that.
I KNEW THERE WAS I REASON I LOVED HIM
That's a smart man
Wake UP wake UP!! wake UP for GOD sakes. How much more do you need. How can anyone tell you that they are going to far with this. Wake up!!
love this brit
I'm just surprised and disappointed that he referred to our employees as "leaders."
I disagree with some things Irons has publicly said, but he right on with this one! The Nanny State is the proverbial camel's nose. Imagine with all the warrantless surveillance going on how a crackdown on anything could result in horrible abuses - all in the name of "it's for your own good." My aunt was a chain smoker from the age of 17 (5 packs a day). She quit work (co-owned a small shop) just before her 90th birthday and then went back out of boredom. She worked well past her 90th, still with the constant presence of a lit cigarette. She finally had to quit work because she became legally blind. She lived four more years, smoking and loving it. And if not for the Big Gulp (or comparable) I - now also up in age - would have the energy to do nothing. Bloomberg can kiss my ashtray.
Thank you, comrade....I believe sincerely coming from you that this is a great compliment......You would do well to keep talking....We listen very carefully now.......You will have to learn the hard way...Lo siento...I tried to warn you....
If I might paraphrase, when the government is wrong, it becomes dangerous to be right.
Tobacco, fizzy-drinks, firearms, alcohol, speeding, riding bikes without helmets, ...
No single thing kills more people in any given calender year than government.
I liked your comment in support of this fact.
Bring more English people like him. Leave Morgan in the hole he came out from.
I didnt say smoking should be illegal, but the cigarette companies must take some responsibility for the dramatic effects of their product.
it would be the equivalent of Bloomberg already outlawing the killing of tomatoes and carrots,which makes it quite reasonable to believe he is going to outlaw the killing of lettuce also.
I don't think they should advertise it though.
no he is saying it sometimes promotes bad health choices.
Well said, Charles Ryder!
"it doesnt only effect you"
So how does it affect others?
what a voice, what an actor. Wonder if he's ever thought about setting up a political party or running himself in the UK?
People have the right to be stupid. Get out of their arse.
I'm dropping Carrey and adding Irons.
it's not really about cigarettes and fizzy drinks, it's about the government mandating personal health choices for you. These may seem like small gripes, but it's the whole "slippery slope" idea. where does one draw the line...he made a good point about the government eventually being in a position to control the calorie count of food portions at restaurants. Yeah, these aren't the biggest issues of the day, but rather small annoyances with the potential to become a problem.
woop woop! add 1 more badass to the Libertarian lineup!
we're growing!
-FFM
I agree with you ...it's difficult to understand how/why people opt for being treated as an owned imbecile. Thanks for your comment!
Gotta love the tooth-picking mid interview.
Jeremy's Iron.
Anti-smoking busybodies give us non-smokers a bad name.
I agree. I believe these are the opposite of "mild laws", as they are the MOST intrusive of laws. It then becomes a slippery slope into the realm of Hugo Chavez (via con diablos).
You surprise me again, McClane.
A slippery slope indeed. As Hayek details in The Road to Serfdom, individual intrusions on part of the government does not necessarily lead to tyranny, however, it becomes progressively likelier with each individual intrusion.
I'd guess he means something pertaining to a minor aspect of our lives, like the convenience of buying 32 oz of a drink in a single container. There's no way to make Bloomberg's law work except to track every individual and ban them from buying 32 oz of a drink in a day, regardless of the size of the container, and that simply won't happen. This law sounds to me more like a wake up call to ease off the sugary drinks, more than an actual attempt to make people healthier.
@John Belarus
Good point. :)
He's discussing personal responsibility and individual liberty. Does Obama know he's speaking such outlandish things?
and who are YOU to tell other people how to live? Why don't YOU just leave other people alone ?
Can we pass an amendment to allow him to run for president?
I clicked this because I thought the thumbnail was of a guy that had palms on both sides of his hands...
(right click the video => stop download)
Irons is perfectly correct that when governments start taking away your freedom of choice its a slippery slope. Smoking in Bars is a good example because its up to you if you want to go there. But banning smoking in public places has nothing to do with the customers health, its those who work in those places that concerns the authorities for fear of lawsuits.
I've the same view as Irons... with respect to smoking.Albeit I'm a non-smoker.
first they attacked your smoking, now your guns
Again, nothing of substance is said. You have not attacked any specific point I've made, but instead attack my character. “One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”
I addressed this in another comment.
So who's business is it when 450,000 people a year need health care for smoking and then die? The state winds up paying for a lot of this so the state does have an interest.
You mean....an actor is no a leftist? Rejoice!
Should read up more on Jeremy Irons. I'm a conservative and his open discussion of father's having sex with there sons because it does not offer the outcome of procreation is frightening. Just because a person makes a statement that a conservative may think is pithy doesn't make the person a "good one". ....
Oh man I'm going to watch Die Hard 3 right away...
Simon says so...
The government not only uses laws, it vilifies smokers through aggressive campaigns so that they will be hated as people, not just as smokers.
Non-smokers (I'm a non-smoker) are taught to hate and discriminate against smokers, to freeze them out, and we go along with it.
But it will be used with something you like too. Just a test, as Irons correctly says.