No longer is it socially acceptable to publicly humiliate Black people, or put women in their place - barefoot and pregnant; or question the homosexual's ways, but its OK to harass smokers and fat people. Who are these browbeaters who are not satisfied unless they have someone to make fun of?

The new, so-called study that has decided to make overweight people the brunt of public harassment and soon-to-be source of judicial welfare is yet another tool used by the supposed "angelic-American." One would now suppose that if you are not Black, a stay-at-home mom, a homosexual, a smoker or overweight, you must be an angel. This would leave who, non-smoking heterosexual white boys and career women, all skinny people with degrees in social humiliation.

Institutes of higher education in cahoots with politically correct activist and neo-liberal humanist sit together in conference rooms devising ways to tax the nation and this is what they come up with. From these people's perspective, the idea is to make people stop smoking and stop eating fatty foods so that they can live healthier lives. But the real reason is so they can find ways to drag big businesses into the courts.

In other words, they are funding their agendas at the expense of the very victims they are using to bait the corporate lawsuit hook. It's the game of a schoolyard instigator; talk about the fat kid really bad to get them upset and then put your arm around the fat kid and point to the one you hate the most and say "it's his fault, get him." It is the same game with the smokers and who knows whose next, probably Pepsi drinkers.

They complain that the nation spends billions of dollars every year on health care because of people who smoke and people who are overweight, and because of these two vile sins, the cancer rate is sky high, so if they can humiliate people into not choosing these unhealthy habits, the country would be a better place.

What they do not tell you is that the smoking campaign, which is suppose to keep children from smoking is not working like they expected, in fact, children (college kids included) are not only smoking like never before, they are doing other drugs like ecstasy and cocaine, and they are binge drinking on college campuses like crazy. They are having sex like crazy, contracting diseases like crazy, and committing other vile and disgusting crimes and immoralities that the media, scholars and activist are not reporting on or even care about. The point is to direct a crisis toward companies that make the most money.

Never mind that alcohol causes just as many deaths as smoking and obesity, or that marijuana and cocaine causes many other health defects that cost the nation billions. Never mind that STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) are costing the nation billions as well as Aids, the medically uninsured due to overpriced medical insurance, overpaid lawyers and judges, overpaid congress people and political demagogues, gluttonous capitalist CEO's, overpaid and over-praised scholars of higher education (the creeps who write these studies), and many more channels of greed that drain the country of unnecessary funds. They pick and choose their targets very carefully.

This country has become so pathetic in its practice of morality that it is no wonder American ethics are in question in many parts of the world. It is also a possibility that the twisted ethical standards in America were interpreted as a weakness, which caused terrorist to attempt annihilation. When fate and prophesy has its way, because this country has chosen to stoop to public humiliation to fulfill a political agenda based on simple greed, there will come a day when a plague will hit this country so vehemently that not only will all Americans be thin, but will be made a spectacle to the world.

© 2003 by C.R. Hamilton