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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

LIBERAL FASCISM: NANNY-STATERS BAN NEW FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS IN L.A.'S POOR NEIGHBORHOODS

FOOD FACSISTS.

EXCERPT:
“What we’re beginning to see is almost the monopolization of our dietary intake by a handful of corporations,” said David Zinczenko, editor in chief of Men’s Health magazine and the author of several diet books, including “Eat This, Not That! for Kids!” (Rodale, 2008).

“Add to that the financial reality of feeding ourselves today, where a single grapefruit from a corner fruit stand costs two or more times as much as a few Chicken McNuggets,” he said, “and I think you can begin to put together a case for governmental intervention.”

But not everyone agrees, including Joe R. Hicks, a radio talk show host who was the executive director of Los Angeles’s Human Relations Commission under Mayor Richard Riordan a decade ago. The two now work for a think tank that focuses on race relations.

“The crime in all of this is that people are sitting around meddling into the very minutiae of what people are putting in their mouths,” he said. He argues that the ban assumes the 500,000 people who live in South Los Angeles are intellectually incapable of deciding what to eat.

“It’s insulting, and you could almost infer a racial insult out of the interference,” he said.
BOTTOM-LINE: No one is forced to go onto any restaurant. And the fast-food restaurants employ many people - especially young people, from right in the community --- the POOR community, right thee in the neighborhood. And these restaurants are all built with private funds. Therefore: the government has NO BUSINESS and NO RIGHT to get involved. It's fascist.

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