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IT COULD HAPPEN HERE

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

IT COULD (AND HAS) HAPPENED HERE. Choosing life based on genetics. Ordering death or sterilization for those whose physical/mental appearance or abilities do not meet the standards of the State. Does Obama?s health plan call for death squads? Of course not. Is there constitutional authority for such squads? You tell me. ITEM: Between 1924 and 1972 in the US some 65,000 American men and women were involuntarily sterilized by state governments, 8,200 by the State of Virginia: A Virginia statute (Acts 1924, chap. 394, p. 569) provided that: Whereas, both the health of the individual patient and the welfare of society may be promoted in certain cases by the sterilization of mental defectives . . . Whereas, human experience has demonstrated that heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy and crime; now, therefore ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on August 24, 2009 (boomark / email).