{"id":7412,"date":"2014-10-09T09:53:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T13:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=7412"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:38:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:38:47","slug":"lets-help-out-vince-lets-help-out-australia-lets-help-out-vaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/7412","title":{"rendered":"LETS HELP OUT VINCE, LETS HELP OUT AUSTRALIA, LETS HELP OUT VAPING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hi Phil,<\/p>\n<p>My names Vince van Heerden, you may have heard of the case in Australia where the government is trying to ban all ecig hardware in Australia. Unfortunately I am at the center of the case and have been criminally prosecuted for running a vape shop. I am the only person in the world who can say that&#8230; I am desperately trying to appeal the decision and overturn the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>I have been raising the funds to fight through crowd sourcing and have managed to raise around $70,000 but I wont be able to proceed unless I manage to raise at least another $30,000 over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>If I fail to raise the funds, Australia is set to become the first country in the world to ban ecigs and a great many people are going to be denied the right to choose a life saving alternative.<\/p>\n<p>This precedent will likely be used by other countries to push the anti ecig agenda. Australia has such a small vaping population that raising the funds alone seems out of our reach.<\/p>\n<p>I appeared on Russ Wishtarts show 2 days ago and subsequently $13,000 has been raised via the international support! What has become clear is that without support from our international vaping brothers we are doomed to fail.<\/p>\n<p>I am messaging you to beg for your help. To ask you to mention the battle being fought here in Australia or in a perfect world to let me talk with you on one of your shows to get the message out.<\/p>\n<p>We share I think the same beliefs and if we stand together we can fight the endemic corruption attacking vapers everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can find the link to the Click Bang Show Vince was on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/vp-live\/nyc-wants-to-ban-all-e-liquid-flavors-australia-wants-to-ban-all-e-cigs-and-bankrupt-vince?in=vp-live%2Fsets%2Fthe-click-bang-archives\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<br \/>\nYou can find Vince&#8217;s crowd funding effort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/Ecigs-Our-Right-to-Choose\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"LETS%20HELP%20OUT%20VINCE%2C%20LETS%20HELP%20OUT%20AUSTRALIA%2C%20LETS%20HELP%20OUT%20VAPING%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Phil, My names Vince van Heerden, you may have heard of the case in Australia where the government is trying to ban all ecig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}