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THE FAT POLICE HAVE LANDED.

Terry Gray

The rules of freedom are our self defense, and when the battle lines are drawn over the methods and tools of freedom we are no longer fighting for freedom; we are fighting for the right to fight for our freedom.  T.G.

           “In search of an ongoing raison d'etre, public health bureaucrats have taken on an activist mantle, "medicalizing" unpopular or politically incorrect behavior such as overeating, eating the "wrong" foods, alcohol consumption, smoking, not exercising and even gun ownership. CDC's own survey is called the "Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System." Your behavior is being watched by disapproving bureaucrats.”  Steven Milloy – Cato.

King size chocolate bars face axe.

Confectionery firms are to shelve some of their king size chocolate bars in a bid to tackle obesity.

“Companies will participate in a government-led campaign of public education on healthy eating and healthy lifestyle by delivering messages on product packaging.”

What we are seeing is only the beginning of another intrusion by nannies in our personal lives.  This campaign is already taking on the same tones of the highly successful anti-tobacco campaign.  Did you think these people really care that we are fat and we smoke?  Why should they?  What possible difference could it make in their lives?

          “Fighting obesity by telling Americans to eat less and exercise more isn't working, says a new report from a nonprofit public health group.  A major obstacle is inadequate or poorly focused government policies, says the Trust for America's Health.”

Obesity is being classified as an epidemic.  When something is said to be an epidemic, it is understood that it is a disease.  It then makes sense that, if one is a victim of an epidemic, one is sick.  If one has a sickness, then the blame lies not with the victim but with the sickness.  The victim has no control in battling this sickness.

          This is where the nannies have been successful in the anti-smoking campaign.  Because smoking is a sickness and smokers are victims, the government needs to step in and control the disease.

          But what about the fat guy who enjoys being fat and would like to be left alone with his obesity?  What about the smoker who likes to smoke?  The nannies insist that this is the disease talking.  Once the obese folks and smokers are saved and healthy, they will thank the nannies for ridding them of their addictions.  The nannies tell us that it is for our own good.  Many victims of illnesses fight the cure.  Many times they are in denial.  Other times they have lost the will to live healthy lives because their disease has such a strong and debilitating hold on them.  The nannies owe it to society to force sick people to take their medicine.  We are already collared.  If you buy into this nonsense, you are handing the leash to the nannies.

Many people who are fat today were not fat in 1998.  Did all the “normal” people start eating gobs of fat food?  Nope.  The feds changed the definition of overweight so that 25 million Americans became overweight overnight.  (Who's fat? New definition adopted)  Even former surgeon general C. Everett Koop commented about his concern for this changing of the rules.  He equated it to moving the finish line in a race.  I will lay odds that during the week that followed this new guideline, hundreds of fat police organizations were scripting stories about the sudden obesity epidemic.

I’ve said this before and there have yet to be any indicators that I’m wrong, money is the motivator of these nanny groups.  With money comes control but more importantly, flashy cars and big homes find comfort in being owned by big nannies. 

          “Recommendations (from Trust for America’s Health) come on the heels of a congressionally commissioned report that called for sweeping societal changes to combat childhood obesity, and an Emory University report that blamed obesity for a 27 percent increase in health care costs in the past 15 years.  It calls for increasing CDC obesity grants to states to at least $70 million, up from $45 million.”

In the American Revolutionary War there were many loyalist hold-outs who favored British rule.  The nannies issuing orders now would be those British loyalists.  They fear freedom.  They fear not being controlled.  Their security comes in pushing their agenda on others in order to bring about a more structured, less free world.  I believe that it is important for us to recognize their disease and hold their addiction responsible.  They know not what they do.  It is up to us freedom lovers to end their suffering in whatever means available.  They’ll thank us later.

The next time you think your actions don’t matter or the actions of others can’t affect you, remember, “No snowflake in an avalanche feels itself responsible.

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