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TORY DEPUTY MAYOR: THE BEST THING FOR DISABLED CHILDREN IS THE GUILLOTINE
A TORY deputy mayor has sparked outrage by calling for disabled kids to be guillotined to avoid wasting cash on their care. Retired GP Owen Lister made his sick suggestion to fellow councillors as they discussed sending the youngsters to a £3,000-a-week care home. Mr Lister, 79, told them: "I would guillotine them." He has now quit as deputy mayor but yesterday stood by his outburst. He said: "I indicated at that point that perhaps the guillotine might be better. "These are children you can't educate. It's merely a matter of caring for them until they die.
"The only difference between a terminally ill patient and a severely handicapped child is time." The councillor, of Swindon, Wilts, argued the funds should instead be used to cut NHS waiting lists.
He added: "It shows how peculiar we are as a society on this matter that we spend this vast amount of money caring for disabled youngsters to very little purpose at all.
"It would be better spent on those who might actually benefit, such as cancer sufferers. We have 5,800 people waiting to go into hospital in Swindon. A percentage of those will die as a result of waiting too long."
His remarks came as the borough council's children's committee debated putting youngsters in a Cornwall home. Labour councillor Fay Howard said: "There was a slight pause and looks of disbelief. Everyone was totally shocked."
Labour colleague Barrie Thompson, the committee's vice-chairman, likened Lister to one of Hitler's henchmen. He said: "The last time I heard remarks like that were from Heinrich Himmler."
And the Disability Rights Commission added: "It's chilling that an elected representative with responsibilities for deciding on support to disabled children should view the slaughter of innocents as legitimate public comment."
Mr Lister also quit the children's committee and now faces a council probe.
A council spokeswoman said: "He recognised he'd said something deeply inappropriate that could cause offence and resigned straight away." |
Hand him over to the jihadis.
A product of socialized medicine at his best...
Nice eyebrows, too.
Ok, who forgot to get the keys to the drug cabinet back from him when he retired...
The Doc should use a guillotine on those eyebrows of his...or at least some hedge trimeers.
His offense evidently is not that he advocated euthanasia, but that he suggested last century's humane method, not this century's (lethal injection).
Is that really in the article? Where are editors these days...? PEER is the word that should have been used instead of PIER, and the whole sentence is then incorrect and not a joke.
From a nation that is too enlightened to sentence murderers and rapists to death. I'm floored...
"The only difference between a terminally ill patient and a severely handicapped child is time." The councillor, of Swindon, Wilts, argued the funds should instead be used to cut NHS waiting lists.
He added: "It shows how peculiar we are as a society on this matter that we spend this vast amount of money caring for disabled youngsters to very little purpose at all.
"It would be better spent on those who might actually benefit, such as cancer sufferers. We have 5,800 people waiting to go into hospital in Swindon. A percentage of those will die as a result of waiting too long."
I don't doubt for a minute these sorts of decisions would happen in this country if the 'rats ever succeed in forcing socialized medicine on us.
ok...why doesn't he kick it off? Let's start with him since he has a mind that is disabled. You first dude.
You know, when people hit 75, 80, they start to run up an awful lot of medical costs. . . .
Do you know how many Democratic Party constituents we would have to kill off if this principle took hold? ;)
fyi.
Sounds like A Modest Proposal...
I recommend the guillotine for the severely Islamic.
I'm disabled, and if they come for me, they best bring the whole crew.
~Corey