A 92 year old Republican state legislator resigned after advocating shipping all “defective people” off to Siberia to die. Oh yeah, and he probably told you to get off his lawn too.
The Daily Caller reports:
New Hampshire’s Martin Harty, a freshman state legislator who turns 92 this month, has resigned from office after saying he wished “defective people” could be exiled and left to die in Siberia.
Last week, Harty told a constituent running a community mental health program that “the world is too populated” and there “are too many defective people.” Harty, a Republican, then reportedly told the constituent he wished “we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and die and clean up the population.”
“I mean all the defective people, the drug addicts, mentally ill, the retarded — all of them,” the elderly lawmaker said when asked to specify what kind of people he was talking about.
According to Harty, nature has a way of “getting rid of stupid people” and it’s a shame “we’re saving everyone who gets born.”
Harty announced he was resigning on Monday due to what he called the “slightly unfavorable publicity” generated by his comments.
No word yet on whether the GOP is sending him off to Siberia with all the other stupid people literally or just figuratively.
March 15, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Sadly, Republicans are just as likely, sometimes even more likely, than Dems to swallow the eugenics lie. Somehow they think it fits nicely into the capitalist meme. Unfortunately they cannot see that profits and people are not the same.
March 15, 2011 at 9:09 pm
He can always get a job at Planned Parenthood! LOL!
March 15, 2011 at 11:09 pm
I find it interesting that an elderly person would say those things. Doesn't he realize that many people who would agree with him include "elderly" in their definition of the useless?
March 16, 2011 at 12:21 am
Excellent points by all three of you! Ninety-two is pretty darn-tootin' old (no pun intended) and even Margret Sanger would agree with him and then turn on him.
March 16, 2011 at 1:57 am
Two words, tick and tock.
March 16, 2011 at 2:23 pm
"Two words, tick and tock." Yes! Indeed, nature does have a way of dealing with this sort of person.
March 16, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Wait, did that article really say he was a "freshman state legislstor?" Without trying to be mean, how did that happen?
March 16, 2011 at 8:03 pm
Not sure where "sometimes even more likely" came from, Rebecca. Why not leave it as "just as likely" in the absence of any statistics?
Dave
March 17, 2011 at 1:59 pm
I'll pay for his ticket to Siberia.