In true cradle to grave big government intrusion style, Democratic hopeful John Edwards has stated that under his presidency every citizen in the U.S. would be forced by law to enroll in a state- managed socialized health care system where regular check ups, including mental screenings, would be mandatory.
This was originally posted on my DC: Infowarrior blog on September 3, 2007.
CSPI has taken it upon itself to act as the nation’s diet police. Unfortunately for the Americans who rely on CSPI for “information,” two specific problems exist with the group’s activities that make most of its nutritional nagging highly suspect.
This was originally posted on my DC: Infowarrior blog on September 3, 2007.
Funny how L.A. lawmakers consider banning new fast food restaurants, considering how the “food police” criminally conspired with the fast food industry in the poisoning of Americans with trans fats.
This was originally posted on my DC: Infowarrior blog on September 12, 2007.
Lew Rockwell.com | September 10, 2007
Charley Reese
More and more Americans, especially urban do-gooders, are becoming enemies of freedom.
Have you ever thought about what freedom is? It is simply the freedom to make your own decisions without outside interference. If you choose to smoke, drink and gamble, you should be free to do so. If you can’t, then you aren’t free.
There is an excellent book on this topic. The title is Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America Into a Nation of Children . The author is David Harsanyi, and the publisher is Broadway Books.
I confess that I have very old-fashioned values. I believe the government’s sole duties are to guard the coast, deliver the mail and protect us from violence and fraud. It is not the duty of the government to protect us from large restaurant servings, trans fats, saturated fats, tobacco smoke, and books and magazines the prudish disapprove of. It is not the duty of the government to make sure that parenting is easy, that no one ever offends us, and that our eyes never see a liquor ad or a Confederate flag.
It is not the duty of the government to tell me what I must eat, drink, smoke or chew. It is not the duty of the government to tell me how to rear my children. Personal health and personal safety are personal responsibilities, and the government should butt out.
It’s OK with me if the government wishes to come pick up the body of a would-be burglar, but when someone attempts to invade my home, I consider it my personal responsibility to stop him. I consider that it is my unalienable right to acquire the means to do so.
It’s distressing how easily Americans are accepting the Nanny State, which is tyranny, pure and simple. An oligarchy of do-gooders who are going to force you to live the way they think you should live is tyranny. That’s why the holy concept of limited government is so important. Once you allow government to encroach on your personal life in the name of doing what’s good for you, you are on the slippery slope that leads to slavery.
I don’t understand how Americans can buy the blather that our armed forces are dying for freedom in Iraq while the same Americans turn their backs on freedom at home.
Just because you disapprove of how someone lives does not give you the right to control his or her life. Only if the person attempts to harm or defraud you can you interfere in his or her life, and only then to the extent of preventing the harm or the fraud.
I thank God that I was born with Celtic blood and am genetically addicted to freedom. I have always despised being told what to do by anybody, and I always resist it. The very notion of molding my life according to someone else’s rules and regulations is an anathema.
I started working when I was 11 years old, and it never, ever occurred to me to ask the government if I could work. That was between me and my employer. It was, as far as I was concerned, none of the government’s business if I worked, under what conditions I worked, how long I worked or how much I was paid for my work. The only person I ever consulted was my father.
I learned a lot from all of my employers, including how to look out for myself working around machinery and lifting heavy objects. There again, I considered personal safety my responsibility. I didn’t need the government to regulate the workplace. I simply surveyed the hazards and took appropriate actions.
Americans had better wake up and start taking responsibility for their own lives, or they’re going to end up slaves to a despicable, incompetent bureaucracy. What greater horror can you imagine than to be ruled by the likes of Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.?
This weekend I dipped a toe into the sewers of right-wing talk radio, and listened to a rant by Michael Savage, during which the nationally syndicated commentator suggested that America’s health-care problems could be solved by relocating fat people to “work camps.”
This was originally posted on my DC: infowarrior blog on December 20, 2007.
In the Rockefeller-orchestrated obesity epidemic (thanks to trans fats, aspartame, and MSG), the fake liberals and fake conservatives each have their phony solutions, both of which involve total erosion of liberty.
This was originally posted on my DC: Infowarrior blog on December 20, 2007.
COMMENT: Of course the true villains, the Rockefeller-funded fake “food cops” and the Rockefeller-funded Big Food and Big Pharma corporate neo-fascists, go unpunished, and the borders remain wide open.
So how long before the criminal elite say “if you’re against the fat tax or the food police, you’re with al-Qaeda”?
This was originally posted on my DC: Infowarrior blog on January 4, 2008.
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Oklahoma City Mayor Puts City on a Diet
Jan 4, 5:56 AM (ET)
By SEAN MURPHY
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – With a button-popping spread of cornbread, sausage and gravy, chicken fried steak and pecan pie designated as Oklahoma’s official state meal, it’s no surprise that Oklahoma City’s mayor wants to put the city on a diet.
Mick Cornett has challenged the city to shed 1 million pounds as its New Year’s resolution.
Prompted in part by his own struggle to lose weight, Cornett wants to end Oklahoma City’s dubious distinction as one of America’s fattest cities.
“The message of this obesity initiative is that we’ve got to watch what we eat,” Cornett said Thursday. “Exercise is part of it and the city is trying to change into a city that is less sprawling, has more density and is more pedestrian friendly, but you’re not really going to take on obesity unless you acknowledge that we eat too much and don’t eat the right foods.”
As part of the initiative, residents can sign up and track their weight loss on a new Web site, . More than 2,600 people had registered by Thursday. They’ve lost more than 300 pounds.http://www.thiscityisgoingonadiet.com
Besides a body mass index calculator, the site includes recipes and links to metro-area fitness centers. Plans call for expanding the site to include the opportunity to blog and network with other participants, Cornett said.
“It’s always easier if you’re doing something hard if you have other people to do it with,” he said.
The mayor timed the start of the weight-loss program to the beginning of the new year, when many people begin exercise programs after holiday feasts.
Oklahoma City ranked 15th in a 2007 survey of America’s fattest cities conducted by Men’s Fitness magazine. The survey examined lifestyle factors in each city, including fast-food restaurants per capita and availability of city parks, gyms and bike paths.
“I can’t tell you exactly where you rank in our 2008 survey, but I can tell you that Oklahoma City is in the top 10,” magazine spokeswoman Jennifer Krosche said. “That’s not good.”
The Oklahoma Legislature designated an official state meal in 1988. The menu also includes fried okra, squash, barbecue pork, biscuits, grits, corn, strawberries and black-eyed peas.
Cornett, 49, stands about 5-foot-10 and weighs 183 pounds. He began a personal fitness initiative eight months ago when he weighed 217 pounds.
“I would like to get down to 175, so I’ve made a goal to lose 8 pounds over 8 weeks,” he said.
Carrie Snyder-Renfro, a 44-year-old teacher working out at a fitness center Thursday, said she made a resolution last month to eat healthier and exercise. While she was unaware of the mayor’s Web site, she said she would consider signing up.
“Last year I dieted and lost about 10 pounds a month for three months, but I left out a key component,” she said, huffing and puffing on an elliptical machine. “I didn’t exercise regularly. I ended up losing muscle mass instead of fat, and I ended up gaining almost all of it back.
“Now I’m making it more of a priority to put everything in balance. I have to get the eye of the tiger back.”
Cornett wants to make exercise more attractive to residents by increasing the number of bike trails and sidewalks in the sprawling city, where public transportation is minimal, most people are wedded to their cars and outdoor activities for some might be limited to watching a football game.
“In Colorado, you ski, you climb, you run … something,” said Karen Massey, community nutrition coordinator at Integris Baptist Medical Center. “In Oklahoma, we’re either involved in competitive sports or we do nothing. We’re spectators.”
This isn’t just “nanny state run amok”. This is out-right MURDER.
UPDATE: Thankfully, it didn’t make it very far. But still, to merely advocate banning fat people from restaurants to to advocate genocide. The lawmaker who proposed this bill should have been arrested for attempted murder.
“Consuming cut up pieces of animal corpses is not enlightened,” said Yourofsky Monday after a presentation before a journalism class at the University of Southern Indiana. He went on to say he supports the killing and raping of humans who kill animals in the name of meat and fur production, and medical and pharmaceutical research.
Looks like even the “food police” thinks Mississippi’s proposed “ban restaurants from serving the obese” law goes too far.
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