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A community health program manager got a surprise when she e-mailed her NH State Congressman 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.
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.”
Read more at; http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/245163/lawmaker-advocates-eugenics
This sounds kind of “Death Panel” like. Hmmm… I wonder why republicans brought up the idea of a death panel?
It wasn’t the Republicans – it was ONE man! You liberals love to read things into articles that are not there.
Conservatism IS a mental defect. And the worst one of all, since it apparently makes you incapable of empathy and rational thought.
Not sure how I missed this last spring. But he is 91/92 ya know. Give this Alzheimers riddled old man a break. Question, what idiot elects a 91 year old man as their state representative? Apparently, there are quite a few such people in his NH district, probably senile old timers just like him.
It’s People like this ASSHOLE! that needs to be put in the ELECTRIC CHAIR and Slowly torchered TO DEATH! I am disabled and this is VERY OFFENSIVE! UNPROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR and to YOU! MR! MARTIN! HARRY REMEMBER THIS ASSHOLE!……YOU COULD END UP DISABLED AND IN A WHEELCHAIR AT ANY POINT AND TIME AND IN MY OPINION………….SOMEBODY NEEDS TO KILL YOUR ASS FOR THAT KIND OF THINKING!
I remember Stalin and Hitler saying the same thing. Perhaps the emotionally crippled should go to Siberia and be by themselves. Maybe work each other to death while they are at it to gain more power…Oh wait, that is the American’s job.
Non-compassionate people are by definition ‘mentally defective- looks like this guy is completely in that category. When does he leave for Alaska?
I can just picture Sarah Palin nodding in agreement with all of his usual diatribe right up to the point where he starts in on the “retarded people.” Then I would imagine her shaking her head quickly from side to side and going Huh! Say again? That would be priceless.
I actually completely agree with him and would do it to myself if I ever found myself in that situation.
that idiot should be voted out what person would say such a thing. did these people ask to be born with some form of handicap, i think not.. my heart goes out to anyone who is special needs we need to take care of them not punish them..my god that is cold and cruel..
Here is my YouTube response to Congressman Martin Harty’s violation of MY Civil Rights, and The Americans With Disabilities Act:
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I am not ‘pro’ abortion by any means, and I DO NOT think it should be used as a form of birth control by rich socialites or poor women. However, I think it is each woman’s decision to do it since she is the one ‘living with the decision’ and it is between her and her God or not, as she believes. This asshole can’t seem to decide if he is on the fascist fundie side or the Nazi genocide side. How about we send him to the Gobi Desert?
it wont work, he’s older than dirt ;)
Harty told the Monitor the world population has increased dramatically, and “it’s a very dangerous situation if it doubles again.”
OK. Let’s begin by castrating all Republican/Tea Party males. Marty, you’re first. The butter knife is ready and no, your health insurance doesn’t cover pain medication.
This is right out of Mien Kampf.For all of you kiddies who are victims of the public school system that’s Hitler’s little novel he wrote while in prison,always a good place to get your thoughts together.I don’t imagine the year he spent as a listener in the trenches in WW1.Those were the guys that sat in the dark listening for the sound of the enemy tunneling under you to plant explosives.Not a job with a big future.Did much for his mental health anyway.How come the GOP is so fond of quoting Adolph?After all,the man was a heroin addict.I bet those are some of the throw away’s this guy would send to Siberia,or toss in the ovens.That’s where this kind of thinking leads.
I meant : …moron isn’t even…
Unbelievable that this kind of thinking is present in our governmental representatives. This moron is even smart enough to censor himself.
As a far right fiscal conservative I am 100% ashamed that this moron represents my party. He’s gotta go.
and so, what about the people who acquire a disability due to an accident or an illness……….Siberia will run out of room…….I’d rather send him to a much hotter place, for eternity. I have a daughter who has multiple disabilities and she is a gift from God to us and everyone who meets her. Do you believe God creates mistakes? Are we all here for a reason?
I know I am a much better person for having gone through this experience and I abhor this kind of heartless ignorance……..I think he threw the first stone…….
As Pastor Martin Niemoller said:
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Pastor Martin Niemoller said:
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
I have a “mental illness” because some jerk decided having sex with a 5 year old would be fun. WHERE DOES HE GET SHIPPED?!!?
It is a fact that 20% of all Americans will become disabled at some point in their lives. This Representative obviously got his early on in his life.
You know, there are plenty of people who feel this way. Natural selection kept our species going for millenia… And now we’ve kicked it to the curb.
The difference is, none of them come right out and say it in such a fucked-up way, and they’re not usually politicians when they do say it. Oh, and added to the list of people natural selection should’ve taken care of: Marty Hold.
Everyone is disabled in one way or another.
Does that mean that Senator Hardy would also have shipped off Albert Einstein, who had ADHD…Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Polio), and who’s wife Eleanor helped set up some of the greatest social programs in this country, and anyone like that?
Does the senator suffer from a mental defect, which caused him to make his comment in the first place…and thus qualify HIM to be shipped off? I was left disabled from a life-threatening car accident at age six…when an off-duty city bus driver ran a red light. THAT guy didn’t get shipped off to Siberia for his mental defect of running a red light. I was almost hit head-on twice in the same parking lot last week, by people driving at 40mph the wrong way, down a one-way lane…would these people ALSO be shipped off? When I returned to school six months later, I tested into the Gifted Program for exceptionally smart students. I was in honors classes all through college. I’ve been told that I’m “over-qualified” for every job I’ve ever applied for, since the age of 18. (Unless that’s HR-speak for “we don’t hire the handicapped.”) In the past 4 years, I have gone on to create and produce my own musician-interview TV show, with guests such as Peter Tork, Brian Ray (from Paul McCartney’s band), WE FIVE, John McEuen (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), The Quarrymen (the band that John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison met in), and others, along with up-and-coming artists. This has earned me membership into The Grammy Association. I raised a daughter who became a professional ballet dancer. My life story has been printed twice, and offers to make it into a movie. “USELESS?” I think not.
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i am disabled and there are people that love me for who i am and not my disabilities. so as far as i am concerned this guy can kiss my a_ _ and go to siberia and freeze and die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my dads disabled i have seen him go through so much and hes had seizures on the floor before in front of me. he wasnt always that bad just little back pains here and there in the begining then the doctors can him a shot for his back they have done it 4 times now and his back has gotten worst to the point where he cant walk some days. the doctors gave him meds for his back which sent him into the seizures. so your going to say this when the doctors have made my dad worst?