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Tyranny of the Heavyweightby
Jack Duggan
The Arkansas State legislature recently passed another unconstitutional law, this time forcing school teachers to log on report cards the weight of their students. Kids will be singled out and weighed and called "fat ass" even more than before because politicians pretend that they can fix hereditary and cultural problems by taking away the privacy and dignity of little kids. As incredible as this sounds, such a 'law' indeed has been written by the same State that brought us the Clintons. See the details here. As most politicians are cash-whores, you can bet that this is all driven by insurance companies who make campaign donations and give them free 'seminars' in Hawaii and the Caribbean. This is ultimately aimed at reducing insurance dollar payout in claims. If kids are 'fat' by their health charts, they will charge extra or perhaps refuse to pay. They are considering refusing to cover smokers, fat people, old people (they already won't fully cover anyone eligible for Social Security) or any of a growing list of lifestyles. Yet their policy is hands-off people with AIDS, which is far more preventable than obesity. Could AIDS deaths be reduced from similar childhood lifestyle tinkering? Can you imagine passing a 'law' that teachers have to log on report cards if students exhibited gay behavior? After all, that's a serious medical threat because of AIDS, which costs vastly more than an obesity-caused heart attack. The chances of students dying is exponentially greater with uncontrolled gay sex than by uncontrolled eating. I don't know what the mortality percentages are for a fat kid, but I know that AIDS would be 100% fatal to him. So why aren't the politicians busy passing laws that spot childhood gay tendencies? Not only would that be politically incorrect, but worse, there's no money in it. But there is lots of money in the obesity scam. Lawyers are already gearing up to sue fast-food restaurants like they did tobacco companies and this legislation is their first step to getting what they think are millions of bucks just waiting to be plucked. They get richer, the insurance companies get richer, the politicians get richer and you and I get poorer and breathless while our chains are pulled tighter. Soon it will be 'child abuse' if a kid is overweight and his parents will go to jail. The 'fat' kid goes to a foster home where the zoo keepers are paid $700 a month, the welfare agency that removed him from his home receives up to $7,000 in bonus federal grant money, while insurance companies get government money for his health care and gratefully give more money to the politicians. Jesus said the root of all evil is the love of money. It doesn't matter how many homes politicians wreck, how many children's hearts they break, how many parents they drive to desperation and violence, they want M-O-N-E-Y. Their insurance-company contributors want M-O-N-E-Y and most of all, the lawyers want M-O-N-E-Y. And God help anyone who gets in their way. All evil is done in the name of good. Those that pretend to 'care' and 'share,' care only for themselves and share your money with those that support their immoral despotism. Meanwhile they not only break up families and hearts, they break up nations, just like they did in Greece and Rome where they also grabbed all the power while good men did nothing. The state will decide how you must not only teach and raise your children, it now wants to regulate how much and what you feed them. Soon there will be government-approved lists of what we all can and cannot eat, drink and play at. Otherwise we will be arrested, our children taken away, our bank accounts emptied fighting the lawyers with even more lawyers, and then we will be forced into membership of yet another government-created class of 'criminals' that never existed in 1776, 1876, or 1976. It is no wonder that the average American fears politicians, judges and lawyers ten times more than terrorists. August 25, 2003 Copyright © 2003 LewRockwell.com
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