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September 21, 2009
British Nanny State Confiscates Children for Being Overweight
If you want to know just how far authoritarian do-gooders will push statist intrusion in a country still widely regarded as "free," have a look at the surreal dystopia known as Airstrip One, where bureauweenies continue to confiscate children for not conforming to the government-mandated body mass index:
A couple soon expecting their seventh child has had their fifth and sixth taken by social workers after warnings that the family needed to slim down their overweight kids or risk losing custody. …
The family's 3- and 4-year-old have been moved into foster care, and STV [Scottish Television] reports the parents have been told "active steps" are being taken to remove the remaining children as well.
Experts contacted by STV warn that local authorities in the U.K., such as Dundee's City Council, which oversees the decision to remove the children, now treat obesity as an "abuse issue."
It is now "child abuse" not to regulate your child's weight according to official expectations. This is why it matters when liberals distort the meaning of terms.
To an extent, the parents asked for it:
The couple originally contacted social workers last year, seeking help with managing their children, STV reports, but local officials soon began to grow concerned about the children's weight.
Let that be a lesson to anyone who would consider asking Big Government for help.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 21, 2009 12:58 PM
Comments
Solution to all problems: Force people to get a license to reproduce. You need a license to own a dog, own a gun, own... basically everything. But fat stupid people making dozens of fat, stupid kids have no governing body in the way.
This is how we have ended up with far too many fat, stupid people around.
Too fat? Too stupid?
No kids!
Posted by: Anonymous at September 21, 2009 1:11 PM
BMI is bogus anyway; it takes no account of body type. I myself have a BMI that goes well into not just overweight, but obese, yet my percent body fat is so low I don't even float in water. I'm heavy not because I'm fat, but because I have a lot of muscle on a stocky frame. What's the problem with that? I suspect these kids were still a little baby-fattish, but are far too young to be trained into the stick-figures these bureaucrats desire us to be.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at September 21, 2009 1:46 PM
Mr. Evilwrench is correct. For example: According to BMI, every Running Back in the NFL is 'obese'.
Posted by: Naqamel at September 21, 2009 1:50 PM
People who are too stupid to pick a name and go by "anonymous"?
No kids!
Gee it's fun being God!
Posted by: Judith M. at September 21, 2009 1:53 PM
Can we start confiscation children for having brain-dead Liberals as parents?
Posted by: Fuzzlenutter at September 21, 2009 2:22 PM
Anon:
So now you favor the government getting to decide who has children. Is there anything that you think the government should not get to decide (besides, of course, whether a woman should be permitted to slaughter her own child in the womb)?
Posted by: GeronimoRumplestiltskin at September 21, 2009 2:23 PM
Ooops. confiscating. Sorry about that...
Posted by: Fuzzlenutter at September 21, 2009 2:25 PM
I wonder if Sir Winston Churchill, himself rather plump, would have fit within the of his once great his country's nanny state government-mandated body mass index. It's too bad his country has gone so far down to pot from the days when he was PM. Even compared to the imbeciles that currently run his once great country, at least he, like Ronald Reagan, had a keen sense of humor:
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
"A sheep in sheep's clothing"
On Clement Atlee
A modest man, who has much to be modest about
On Clement Atlee
"An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, Atlee got out"
On Clement Atlee
"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened"
On Stanley Baldwin
"He looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe"
On Neville Chamberlain
Lady Astor to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison"
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it"
Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, your drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober"
"What could you hope to achieve except to be sunk in a bigger and more expensive ship this time"
On Admiral Mountbatten
Posted by: Clingtomyguns at September 21, 2009 2:25 PM
Coming soon to your neighborhood, via Obamacare! Just wait until they want to haul YOU, me and everyone else off to some excercise camp because we've all eaten too many Big Macs (all for your own good as well as the greater good of our World and the enviiiiiironment!.... plus it'll help keep future healthcare costs down!!!
George Orwell, I hear ya, bro!
Posted by: Essaicheyetee-Bird at September 21, 2009 2:34 PM
Hey, Clingtomyguns ---- W.C. Fields used a similar line to Churchill's in one of his movies - when a woman tells Fields he's drunk, he says she's crazy, but tomorrow he'll be sober and she'll be crazy for the rest of her life!
Classic.
Posted by: Essaicheyetee-Bird at September 21, 2009 2:48 PM
I agree with yall. I'm just gonna go have sex with my sister now, too.
No, I apologise for my immaturity, but I cannot believe the ridiculousness of everything I'm reading on this site.
Posted by: Mr Elephantitis at September 21, 2009 4:04 PM
Oh, to live in Anon's progressive utopia. This is the wonderful world they envision for the advancement of humanity -- an all-powerful gov't involved in every aspect of our existence. The mere pursuit of health always leads to something unhealthy -- such as wicked laws that confiscate kids from their parents. Progress.
-Clingtomyguns- Here is one from (the very large) GK Chesterton (born in the same year as Churchill):
GKC: I see there has been a famine in the land.
GB Shaw: And I see the cause of it.
GB Shaw: If I were as fat as you, I would hang myself.
GKC: If I were to hang myself, I would use you for the rope.
Posted by: lvb-rocks at September 21, 2009 4:34 PM
Anon I have a better idea. Too stupid...too liberal....NO VOTING RIGHTS.
Posted by: Farmer Ted at September 21, 2009 5:57 PM
After millenia of struggling against famine, it should be seen as a sort of perverse accomplishment that obesity is now a sign of poverty and neglect.
Posted by: James McEnanly at September 21, 2009 7:10 PM
Look what happens when the wheatgerm inhaling health freaks take over a nation BIG BROTHER takes away your kids to wheght reduction classes to be force to abide by the dictates of a bunch of wackos with alfalpha sprouts stuck between their teeth and the wackos from CSPI,PCRM, and others want to do the same to us
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at September 21, 2009 9:20 PM
The problem here is clearly the greedy CEOs in Big Food, who are forcefeeding the helpless masses their MSG-enriched poison to prop up shareholder earnings for the next quarter.
When you think about it, the prohibitively high cost of organic food, and the lack of time to cook among the lower classes (who spend all their time working to pay for the cheap processed food) is racist and discriminatory. Even capable adults can't feed themselves in a healthy manner by making their own choices. After all, big business has taken away all their choices, and racist right wingers want to keep them enslaved to obesity for profit.
When you think about it, food shouldn't be about profit. Who are we to profit from the hunger of another.
What I propose is universal food care, which will ensure that everyone can have as much high quality organic food as they want, just so long as the government says it isn't too much.
We will allow private food companies to co-exist, so we aren't taking away your choice. What we will do is create a public food option to ensure that the best organic food will be given to all citizens, regardless of income, with no need for payment. We will do this by taxing private sector food.
But remember, you are still free to choose your private sector food, just so long as you can afford it.
Don't worry about competition. The private sector will still be able to sell their heavily taxed food right along side the free government food.
Of course, the government's generosity in making free organic food available is such a wise plan that the government will also make organic meal plans available. Don't worry about shopping or cooking, we will see to it that all meals are also planned by insightful government workers, and served by caring SEIU members.
This is such a great thing. We will all get the good food we need, based on what the government says, and we won't have to worry about choice or other people using too much.
Hey, it worked great for health care in Britain, so why not moonbat-ize the entire food industry?
Coming soon to America: The national food service. We'll combine the best of the socialized NHS distribution model with our groundbreaking REAL ID database (and lots of IT spending) to ensure that the government feeds everyone while making sure that the government knows what every citizen is eating and in what quantity.
What could possibly go wrong with moonbat logic like this?
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at September 21, 2009 11:25 PM
Isn't it time for a revival of the IRA?
Posted by: oldguy at September 22, 2009 5:41 AM
How about broken homes and ruined lives annon you liberal dork you
Posted by: Flu-Bird at September 22, 2009 8:09 AM
