Fat Activists Convention

(Newark, New Jersey) The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) is holding its 2004 annual convention this week in Newark and overweight activists are grouping to form a protest campaign against the campaign against obesity.

The activists complain that obesity is portrayed as "the next worst thing after terrorism." They insist obesity, which doctors say contributes to 300,000 premature deaths a year in the US, is not a disease.

"We're living in the middle of a witch-hunt and fat people are the witches," said Marilyn Wann of San Francisco, a militant member of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.

It appears that the people in the "Fat Liberation Movement" are enraged at the people who are trying to help the fat people. It's got me confused.