Jeremy Irons, Nanny State “Very, Very Dangerous”

Jeremy Irons recently made an iconoclastic splash in an interview with Huffington Post. Responding to a question about mayor Bloomberg’s new food laws,

I think it’s terrible, it’s the tip of the iceberg, because it’s an attitude, it’s an attitude where the governors think “we know what’s best for people, and they’re so stupid that they would only not do it if we ban it…I’m a complete libertarian. I think it’s very, very dangerous. I really mean that. I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society — the leaders of society telling us how to be,”

Mr. Irons also gave an unorthodox response to a question about “gay marriage.” Asking, in return, “could a father not marry his son?” Read more: http://iroots.org/2013/04/04/should-gay-marriage-allow-a-father-to-marry-his-son/