In the short story, "Harrison Bergeron", people in the United States are now forced to be equal by wearing handicaps. Beautiful people were made to look average or worse and intelligent ones were made to use their brains less.
Harrison Bergeron was taken away by the Government because he was an exceptional specimen. He was a genius like his father and quite athletic with a height of seven feet.
His exceptional attributes were such that the government had to keep coming up with new handicaps as he kept outgrowing them.
