NH GOP Senator Says The Disabled and Mentally Ill Are ‘Defective People’ That Should Be Shipped Off To Siberia

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A community health program manager got a surprise when she e-mailed her NH Senator recently to ask him about why he had voted to cut money from mental health programs. The Senator told her that society would be better without disabled people, and he wishes he could ship disabled people to Siberia.

Via the Concord Monitor;

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."

Harty confirmed to the Monitor that he made the comments to Omand. Harty told the Monitor the world population has increased dramatically, and "it's a very dangerous situation if it doubles again." Asked about people who are mentally ill, he asked, apparently referring to a lack of financial resources, "Can we afford to bring them through?"

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."

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Wow is this true?

Its psychotics like this that deserve a coach-class ticket to hell.

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Wow is this true?

Its psychotics like this that deserve a coach-class ticket to hell.

psychotic?

I wouldn't go that far.

Sustainability of the human race in all considerations is something that is going to become more and more difficult the larger the population grows. He has a point there.

Now going around and singling people out like that, that's a bit too far imo as just because you are in a certain state, doesn't mean you can't be productive...

Though with the direction science has taken here in recent years, you can expect to see a lot more people talking like this.

While movies like "Gattaca" might be science-fiction, the actual 'science' in the movie is becoming science-reality.

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psychotic?

I wouldn't go that far.

Sustainability of the human race in all considerations is something that is going to become more and more difficult the larger the population grows. He has a point there.

Now going around and singling people out like that, that's a bit too far imo as just because you are in a certain state, doesn't mean you can't be productive...

Though with the direction science has taken here in recent years, you can expect to see a lot more people talking like this.

While movies like "Gattaca" might be science-fiction, the actual 'science' in the movie is becoming science-reality.

Are you also an expert in science?

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Yes, in my opinion, that was a psychotic thing to say, and that is exactly the kind of undesirable trait a modern population would not want.

Pseudo-Malthusian considerations have no place in a free society.

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If this is true then he does deserve the Nazi reference. Very dumb thing to say. However, why the reference to his party? Is this some sort of an attempt to paint all GOP the same way? Typical Steven tactic.

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If this is true then he does deserve the Nazi reference. Very dumb thing to say. However, why the reference to his party? Is this some sort of an attempt to paint all GOP the same way? Typical Steven tactic.

I wasn't even paying attention to his political affiliation. News stories tend to do this anyway. Now if we were to tally up references like these and cross-reference them...

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I wasn't even paying attention to his political affiliation. News stories tend to do this anyway. Now if we were to tally up references like these and cross-reference them...

This is the original title: Lawmaker advocates eugenics

Steven is the one that put the GOP in the title in his usual attempt to paint the GOP as a bunch of Nazi's. It is a common theme with him.

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This is the original title: Lawmaker advocates eugenics

Steven is the one that put the GOP in the title in his usual attempt to paint the GOP as a bunch of Nazi's. It is a common theme with him.

Shame on him then. Will I expect to see this kind of outrage every time someone refers to Democrats as Socialists and Racists?

That's also a pervasive theme here. Since we're making a big deal about it, I mean.

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If this is true then he does deserve the Nazi reference. Very dumb thing to say. However, why the reference to his party? Is this some sort of an attempt to paint all GOP the same way? Typical Steven tactic.

Were you hoping he was a union thug?

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Were you hoping he was a union thug?

I was hoping you would grow a brain.

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I was hoping you would grow a brain.

He is a politician who voted on cutting funding for the Disabled and Mentally Ill. His political affiliation is obviously relevant to the story.

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He is a politician who voted on cutting funding for the Disabled and Mentally Ill. His political affiliation is obviously relevant to the story.

That is kind of relevant to the context of what he said.

Sorry John, Steven has a point that is quite valid on this one.

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He is a politician who voted on cutting funding for the Disabled and Mentally Ill. His political affiliation is obviously relevant to the story.

Only to you. To everyone else his is just a nut.

That is kind of relevant to the context of what he said.

Sorry John, Steven has a point that is quite valid on this one.

And just how does his party have any relevence? Are you saying that he is following a party platform?

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But will you do this?

Only to you. To everyone else his is just a nut.

And just how does his party have any relevence? Are you saying that he is following a party platform?

Not in any way.

Although if we were to reference a pattern of actual votes against funding for things such as these, I have a gut feeling we'd see one party voting no more than the other. Maybe we can look up some of those stats.