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Thread ID: 5499 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2003-03-12
2003-03-12 16:02 | User Profile
Eugenics was intended to ``clean up the gene pool,'' said Paul Lombardo. Too bad it didn't work...maybe then we wouldn't have had so many politically correct jellyfish apologizing for daring to believe in genetically-based inequality.
[url=http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20030312%2F084161947.htm&sc=1110]Calif. Gov. Apologizes for Sterlizations[/url]
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Gray Davis apologized for a state law passed nearly a century ago that resulted in the involuntary sterilization of about 19,000 Californians.
Davis' announcement Tuesday places California among a handful of states that have issued formal regrets regarding eugenics, a movement that eventually sterilized 60,000 mentally ill people in 32 states.
To the victims and their families of this past injustice, the people of California are deeply sorry for the suffering you endured over the years,'' Davis said in a statement.Our hearts are heavy for the pain caused by eugenics. It was a sad and regrettable chapter in the state's history, and it is one that must never be repeated again.''
California enacted its eugenics law in 1909, becoming the second state to adopt forced sterilization as law. It accounted for a third of the total cases nationally during the years eugenics was state policy. Officials said most of the sterilizations in California were before World War II.
Eugenics was intended to ``clean up the gene pool,'' said Paul Lombardo, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
It is unknown how many forced-sterilization victims are now living in California because there are no case records, and it would be difficult for survivors to collect damages anyway, because the Supreme Court had upheld the constitutionality of forced sterilization in 1927.
Davis' apology followed similar actions in other states, including North Carolina, Virginia, Oregon and South Carolina, and did not propose any form of compensation for the victims or their families.
2003-03-12 17:34 | User Profile
...the Supreme Court had upheld the constitutionality of forced sterilization in 1927.
Another reason to be glad you don't live in California. Davis is an idiot, and hopefully a soon to be recalled idiot.
The program made no sense anyway in light of the ongoing program in CA of importing the mentally impared, criminals, the sick, and the impoverished from Mexico that it would make no difference anyway, drop in the bucket.
Note that according to the supreme count the action was legal and constitutuonal. But of course the Ninth Circuit would see it differently.
2003-03-12 20:03 | User Profile
Too bad it didn't work...maybe then we wouldn't have had so many politically correct jellyfish apologizing for daring to believe in genetically-based inequality.
It may have worked, albeit briefly since it was discontinued. Whether or not forced sterilization was implicated, it is a fact that a number of prewar works in psychometrics revealed that the denizens of California had higher IQ as a group, perhaps the highest in the nation. I recall one book in particular, concerning case studies of children prodigies, which offered some background material elaborating on the genetic riches of California.
Of course, Eugenics was widely practiced in many western countries until (perceived) German excesses etiolated the practice. The province of Alberta may have been the last to cease operations, sterilizing a handful of exceedingly retarded individuals as late as the 70ââ¬â¢s. It goes without saying the government (under Klein) has performed a Davis long time ago and its serfs had compensated the victims on account of having ancestors with the audacity to act for the betterment of their province and people.
Viable societies have a little bit of Sparta in them, non-viable ones peddle bunk and more so as degeneracy and squalor grow unabated. :angry:
2003-03-13 01:01 | User Profile
Moronic (Gay/Red - take your pick) Davis is living proof of the dysgenics going on in CA. He jumped the state budget 37% in THREE YEARS (while the population rose 5%), thus bankrupting CA. There's more to it than illegal mexicans. There's an experiment going on here that will soon be applied in each of the provinces (formerly known as states) under the control of DC.