“It’s Dead, Jim!”

“It’s dead on arrival at my desk.”
- Mississippi House Public Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Steve Holland (D – Plantersville) concerning Mississippi House Bill 282

ISAA would like to thank all of you for your participation in this activism effort. The Mississippi lawmakers heard you loud and clear! Ding, dong, the bill is dead!

ISAA would also like to thank NAAFA and COFTA for their participation in bringing attention to this ill-advised bill.

Mississippi HOUSE BILL NO. 282: No Fat Person May Dine Here

Mississippi House Bill 282, full text, was introduced in the 2008 Mississippi legislative session on Friday by Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., a retired pharmaceutical salesman with DuPont-Merk. Its co-authors are Bobby Shows, a businessman, and John Read, a pharmacist.

This proposed bill would make discrimination and segregation based on a person’s body size and composition legal in the state of Mississippi and needs to be addressed by any and all Americans who value their own liberties and rights.

Of course, whenever there is a contact made with a legislator or any other public official, politeness is very important to the message. 

As a disclaimer, neither ISAA nor I are advocating hate mail, vandalism, or anything else illegal or ethically questionable in posting this info. Again, please be polite, informative, and as brief as possible when contacting these honorable, albeit misguided in this proposed bill, legislators. Thank you.

So, the contact information is as follows:

Lead Author: Representative W. T. Mayhall, Jr. (R)
Capitol:
P. O. Box 1018
Jackson, MS 39215
tmayhall@house.ms.gov

Co-Author: Representative Bobby Shows (D)
Capitol:
P. O. Box 1018
Jackson, MS 39215
bshows@house.ms.gov

Co-Author: Representative John Read (R)
Capitol:
P. O. Box 1018
Jackson, MS 39215
jread@house.ms.gov

 My personal email to these honorable legislators:

Mississippi HB 282

Please reconsider and withdraw the Mississippi House Bill 282 (http://billstatus. ls.state. ms.us/2008/ pdf/history/ HB/HB0282. xml), authored by Representative W. T. Mayhall, Jr. of District 40 and co-authored by Representative Bobby Shows and Representative John Read, which is “an act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese.” This bill is nothing less than the proposed segregation of people according to the size and composition of their bodies and based on a flawed measuring device, the BMI, and false reasoning based on assumptions, failed/ incomplete/ corrupted/ disproven supposed research if citizen’s health, medical research, or even balancing budgets are blamed for this proposal. This proposed legal discrimination against people based on fat phobia and hatred would not only harm those deemed of legal and enforcable arbitrarily-set dimensions but would also harm businesses and, ultimately, your state budget and reputation.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ms. Daphne Bradshaw

Raped Fat Females Should Be “Glad of Attention”? I Don’t Think So!

 This is fat bigotry, misogyny, and violence against women/vicitms at its most blatant. Words fail me on this one. It is just too horrifically outrageous and imflamatory. Read for yourself. A snippet of the article is here–

Lawyer: ‘Rape’ girl should be ‘glad of attention’

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=49517&in_page_id=34

Thursday, May 17, 2007

A barrister provoked outrage yesterday by claiming that the victim of an alleged gang rape was so fat she would have been ‘glad of the attention’.

Sheilagh Davies, defending one of three boys accused of raping two girls, said the 16-year-old girl had ’slimmed down a lot’ since the alleged attack.

She told Inner London Crown Court: ‘She was 12st 6lb – not quite the swan she may turn into. She may well have been glad of the attention….

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