GOP State Senator thinks we should ship the mentally ill & disabled to Siberia to die. Seriously.

[salienne]

Lawmaker advocates eugenics
By Shira Schoenberg / Monitor staff

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[, New Hampshire] Republican Martin Harty told Sharon Omand, a Strafford resident who manages a community mental health

Comments

[ubiquitous_a]

The movie Logan's Run was all about this idea, actually.

[ahkna]

Ah, the episode with David Odgen Stiers and Michelle Forbes before she was Ro!

I am such a nerd that I know that off the top of my head.

[cyranothe2nd]

OMFG, I was thinking the same thing. Also, Lwaxana Troi rocked that episode hardcore.

[baked_goldfish]

Oh, they weren't death panels for old people. They were death panels by old people. Good to have that cleared up.

[nothingmuch]

GOP: Party of Life, Family and Jesus

[phrenolepsy]

Needs an asterisk with all the exceptions, exclusions, and fine print.

[incarnated_joy]

Not enough fine print space in the WORLD bb to include all their batshittery-loco.

[erunamiryene]

Make it easy:

*offer is only good for straight, white, cis, christian males

There you go. Otherwise, your fine print is going to be the size of "War and Peace".

[mssarcasm]

"You know the mentally ill, the retarded, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions - the defective people society would be better off without."

Fuck you. No, really, FUCK YOU.

[beoweasel]

"You know the mentally ill, the retarded, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions - the defective people society would be better off without."

Like Stephen Hawking?

[kseda]

ESPECIALLY Stephen Hawking. He makes science after all. Can't have that.

[phrenolepsy]

I want my super power to be able to make people see life from someone else's perspective. [/Douglas Adams]

RAGE.