Posted on 12/10/2011 5:45:05 AM PST by Perdogg
Charles Holt, 62, spreads a cache of vintage government records across his trailer floor. They are the stark facts of his state-ordered sterilization.
The reports begin when he was barely a teenager, fighting at school and masturbating openly. A social worker wrote that he and his parents were of “rather low mentality.” Mr. Holt was sent to a state home for people with mental and emotional problems. In 1968, when he was ready to get out and start life as an adult, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina ruled that he should first have a vasectomy.
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Obama voters?
Warning to the future?
Yet we have a democratic supported life style of single moms with 10 kids on public assistance.
Not surpised to see Margaret Sangers name as a supporter of this.
Note, this all started around the same time the Nazis came to power in Europe.
Throw in a few million 3d generation brood sows, random sperm donors and pedophiles and you’ve got a good start.
I saw something on the history channel how this was practiced by the Nazis.
this is not all a bad thing here, needing gene pool cleaned
When are the welfare slave owner/creators going to give restitution for the burden on society they create?
No, it started before, in the teens and twenties, and inspired the Nazis to some extent, who then took it to an industrial scale to the point of killing those deemed undesirable outright.
State eugenics boards were fairly common as were state-ordered sterilizations. It was regarded as a progressive, enlightened thing at the time, but is painted as being anything but now. The progressives have now progressed to just killing them in the womb, and are horrified at the actions of their ideological predecessors, feigned by the knowledgable among them, genuine among the naive.
Low mentality and masturbating in public? I thought the story was about Rosie O’Donnell there for a minute.
-——this is not all a bad thing here, needing gene pool cleaned-——
Certainly you fogot the sarcasm tag?
Are saying that what these states did was okay? I thought freepers were pro-life anti-death panels maybe I was wrong.
Everything I’ve read says that consent was signed, either by self or parent. They got free sterilization surgery; mine cost over $4000.
“... not all a bad thing here, needing gene pool cleaned”.
Who would decide if someone was sterilized or not? Would it be some government committee? If so, do you think that rural people, people who are Christian, people who have moral values... won’t be targeted? This type of power should never be given to a government nor should it be seen as a good thing. IMHO.
,,,,,,, like I said
There was actually a medical journal, “Journal of Eugenics” published in the early 1900s. One university I attended had the entire publication run of that journal in the library. I remember picking one up and thumbing through it; unfortunately, I do not remember what I read there.
Eugenics was considered the wave of the future, until the Nazis came along. Its adherents then changed its name, but the belief system is still with us.
“... consent was signed, either by self or parent”.
Did you read the article? One so called “Dad” signed the permission form for his daughter. The same daughter he had been sexually abusing since 12. Were you sterilized before you had children or at 18? Or, did you willingly choose to go through a medical procedure based on your own free will and nothing else held above your head?
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