The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: National Obesity Forum – Dr David Haslam.

Follow the link to see the face of the affable family doctor who believes the State has the right to assault your child.

Speaking of a government survey on childhood obesity which has failed to gather enough data to be useful, David Haslam, clinical director of the National Obesity Forum, said:

“This is potentially a very useful tool but is turning out to be worse than useless. The main problem is that parents have been given the choice of letting kids opt out.”

I always wonder if such men understand the implications of what they say. If parents were not “given the choice” then the State would logically be entitled to compel children to be weighed and measured. How? At gunpoint? How many parents would the good Doctor be prepared to fine or imprison in order to compel them to present their unwilling child?

Incidentally, I just love the idea that they are “given” the choice. Who gives it to them? In Dr. Haslam’s world-view, do the parents and the children belong to the State? How does he distinguish – in his own mind – between such hapless zeks and full-blown slaves?

For once, the Government is (no doubt temporarily) on the side of the angels. A Department of Health spokeswoman said:

“Children and parents obviously have the right to withhold consent.”

It’s not so obvious to Dr. David Haslam, evidently. Such are the, often well-meaning, imbeciles who are delivering us to tyranny.