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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Every day, in every way, the GOP shows more of its true colors
Posted by Jill | 8:01 AM
Today's GOP outrage comes from New Hampshire, where a GOP state Congressman advocates the elimination of the mentally handicapped, drug addicts, and the physically disabled:
A 91-year-old state representative told a constituent that he believes in eugenics and that the world would be better off without "defective people."

Barrington Republican Martin Harty told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health program, that "the world is too populated" and there are "too many defective people," according to an e-mail account of the conversation by Omand. Asked what he meant, she said Harty clarified, "You know the mentally ill, the retarded, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions - the defective people society would be better off without."

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Harty said nature has a way of "getting rid of stupid people," and "now we're saving everyone who gets born."

Harty's conversation with Omand became public at a hearing on the state budget yesterday when Laurie McCray, a registered nurse and board member of the Disability Rights Center, read Omand's account to the House Finance Committee. Afterward, McCray said she wanted people to know about the representative - whom she did not identify publicly - because he "didn't deserve to represent people in New Hampshire."

In an interview and in an e-mail Omand sent to her friends, Omand said she called Harty, who represents her district, to tell him her concerns about the House Finance Committee's proposed cuts to mental health services. Omand said Harty said he disagreed with her and made the comments about eugenics.

Omand says Harty then stated, "I wish we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and die and clean up the population."


And don't tell me that he's senile and that makes it OK. Because the New Hampshire House Speaker says that the fact that this asshole is a World War II veteran gives him a free pass:
House Speaker William O'Brien said in a statement that he does not endorse Harty's comments but respects "his longstanding commitment to protect the values we cherish."

"As someone who served in General Patton's Army in North Africa and Italy against dictators like Hitler and Mussolini, he has given far more to our country and our ideals than most of us ever will," O'Brien said.


This guy is entitled to say whatever he wants to. But the inescapable fact is that there are people in his state who voted for him. So he's either a senile old man whose hate rhetoric gained him an elected office, or an irredeemable bigot whose hate rhetoric gained him an elected office.

Shame on anyone who voted for him.

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Blogger jurassicpork said...
"Nature has a way of getting rid of stupid people."

I guess that would include Hitler and the concentration camps.

Another way to get these people off the streets is to elect them to public office, especially when they run as Republicans.
3/13/11, 1:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I find it rather funny that the old guy is espousing the same policy as Mao followed when he conquered all of China except Taiwan. 60 years later, he's a Maoist in part.

Drug addicts were forcibly rehabilitated. Criminals were taken from prisons and killed.

Prostitutes were forcibly rehabilitated and procurers were killed.

Of course, the gallant american ally - Chiang Kai Shek, had his forced army draftees checked to see if they were "pinheads"(training officers had a circle of metal that was used for checking)and if they qualified, they were killed.
3/13/11, 2:45 PM  
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