XPost: soc.culture.british, soc.culture.usa   
   From: allan@noemail.co.uk   
      
   "Mister Superstar"  wrote in message   
   news:2W8Di.23878$eY.15310@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...   
   > I'm an American of half-English descent,   
      
   Poor bugger! That is some mixture.   
      
      
   > and I'm disgusted at what   
   > happened to that country.   
      
   Quite so. President Bush eh! What can you do?   
      
      
   > Such intelligent and efficient people,   
      
   Oh sorry..........you can't be referring to the US after all! (sorry to most   
   folks in soc.culture.usa but I couldn't resist it)   
      
      
      
   > but something happened along the way and now their society is   
   > doomed.   
      
   Doomed you say. Dad's Army! Of course another catch-phrase from that show   
   was "stupid boy"   
      
      
   > They are so paranoid and getting more totalitarian in   
   > their attempts at social engineering, so that they have actually   
   > begun locking up obese people in mental institutions (danger to   
   > oneself)   
      
   No-one was locked up because they were obese. Chris Leppard, if that is who   
   you are referring to, was taken into care under the Mental Health Act and   
   allowed home after assesments. He wasn't just obese though. He was a   
   sufferer of Prader-Will Syndrome and he was assessed to make sure that he   
   was capable of making said decisions for himself. That in itself is a   
   tricky, complicated and moral issue. However the idea that people are locked   
   up simply for being fat is just a lie.   
      
   http://www.pwsa.co.uk/main.php?catagory=14&sub_catagory=48   
      
      
   Allan   
      
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