NH lawmaker suggests sending disabled 'to Siberia'

[Seedersandleechers]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A 91-year-old freshman Republican state lawmaker suggested New Hampshire's mentally disabled should be shipped to Siberia and said he is unapologetic about the comment.

State Rep. Martin Harty of Barrington said he was kidding around with an unidentified woman caller who supported funding for the homeless when he raised the issue of eugenics and the world's population growth.

"I was kidding with her and it kind of got away from me," he said of the conversation. "It was a girl that wanted money for the crazy people, the people ... a good percentage of the homeless people are mentally disturbed."

He said he didn't know what to do with them.




This 91 year old freshman republican need to retire

[d_r]

1. has there always been

crazy stuff like this, we just didn't have the internet to read about it?

[fascisthunter]

2. sounds just like a Nazi

[lumpy]

3. 91 year old freshman rep???? Voters are out of their minds!!!

That's all.

[KamaAina]

7. It's the lower house of the New Hampshire legislature

400 members for a state with about 1.2 million population. (The House has only 435 for the whole country.)

So yeah, in a district with about 3,000 people -- and even fewer registered voters -- pretty much anything can, and frequently does, happen. :eyes:

[Suich]

8. "Freshman rep" means he just got elected, right?

Am I missing something here?



:crazy:

[Posteritatis]

35. It means this is his first term in the office. (nt)

[jpak]

27. It's New Hampster - the same state that gave us Mildred "nuke 'em high" Thompson

:D

[PBS Poll-435]

41. And the same state that kept Al Gore from being President.

:shrug:

[Liberal_in_LA]

38. +5

[calimary]

4. Why not just turn them all loose on the street, like Saint ronnie once did?

:banghead:

[bobbolink]

20. King Ronnie didn't do that. The "turning out was done in the 50s and 60s.

What King Ronnie did was cut the low-income housing funds.

And that is exactly what Obama and the Congress is doing again.. by 8.9 BILLION.

Is that OK with you?

[kiranon]

29. Gov. Ronnie did do that when he transferred the mentally ill to so called

community care which didn't exist.

[bobbolink]

31. They had already been released. He killed the community centers, and LOW-INCOME HOUSING

which Obama is ALSO doing.

Yet, no outrage about that.

[Raksha]

32. Exactly. He closed down the state mental hospitals.

[Snoutport]

36. dumped them onto the streets

no meds, no money, just dumped on the streets.

one of the most cruel actions in the history of the United States, if you ask me.

[slackmaster]

5. Obviously he was referring to the Siberia Food Market in Manchester

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?client=firefox-a&hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=Siberia+Food+Market,+Manchester,+New+Hampshire&fb=1&gl=us&hq=Siberia+Food+Market,&hnear=Manchester,+NH&cid=10921718178303106684&t=h&z=14

[mmonk]

6. Link? I could use one for that.

[KamaAina]

14. Linkeroo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/10/martin-harty-republican-lawmaker-mentally-disabled-siberia_n_834329.html

:wtf:

[mmonk]

24. Thanks very much.

[Snoutport]

26. link to full AP story

http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=29&sid=2302609

[Raven]

9. This is my New Hampshire. Live free and fuck everybody else.

To say that I am embarrassed by these cretins in an understatement BUT, remember my words, the crazies have gone too far, cponservative folks are beginning to be really uncomfortable up here...it may turn if these folks keep this up...let them talk.

[jillan]

10. This mom of a disabled child says FUCK YOU - You should be shipped to Siberia.

[Snoutport]

37. This special ed teacher agrees with you Mom!

!!

[KamaAina]

11. I wonder if Raven is anywhere near Barrington?

The stalwart Granite State DUer is aghast at how quickly her small town has surrendered to the mindless teabaggers.

[Raven]

34. I'm in Marlborough and I work in Rindge. Rindge escaped the

crazies' wrath by 155 votes this time. It is going to be a long fight.

[Hannah Bell]

12. i vote we send him to siberia as i believe comments like that violate

some kind of public trust.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. His father should take him out to the woodshed.

Young whippersnapper.

[bobbolink]

15. Yet, homelessness isn't an issue with Dems, or a priority on DU, so this is the kind of thing

that can come to pass BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE SPEAKING UP FOR US.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I see the freshman did not get over the eugenics

craze in the 1930s... yes kiddies we had quite a bit of it HERE in the good ol' US of A.

He must have been a fan, and these days those words are acceptable again.

[Angry Dragon]

17. If you find any marbles they might belong to this guy

[mmonk]

40. Lol

[bluestateguy]

18. Notice how he doesn't apologize

People respect strong and wrong more than weak and right.

Dick Durbin blubbering on the Senate floor apologizing is not a sign of strength.

Saying what you mean and meaning what you say (even if it is backassward and STUPID gets respect).

[City Lights]

19. There's never a death panel around when you need one.

:nuke:

[Dappleganger]

21. A good percentage of the homeless are VETERANS...

FUCK YOU, Mr. Harty.

[bobbolink]

23. And? A large percentage are children. A larger and larger percentage are old women.

Are the rest of us of less value?

[steve2470]

22. Appalling.

If a Democratic lawmaker said anything like this, they would be forced to resign or impeached, stat.

[Desertrose]

25. Wait...WHAT? The 91 yo said that?!?

Seriously a 91 year old freshman republican??

What the what? I'd say he needs to retire cause if he doesn't have a clue by 91, ain't gonna happen.

[ThomCat]

28. What the Hell?

So this asshole refers to people with disabilities as "crazy people?"

I'd love to know what he thinks is "a good percentage" of homeless people, given that it's a very persistent but untrue myth most people believe that most homeless people have a mental illness, when in fact it's a very small percentage of homeless people. It was only right after Reagan emptied mental health care facilities that there was a big temporary spike in homeless people with mental health issues... um 30 years ago.

And let's be serious for a moment, any politician who would even Joke about stripping away the rights of a vulnerable group of his own constituents and shipping them away to a notorious wasteland needs to lose his job.

He is joking about it because he honestly does not value this group of people. And because he would honestly like to get rid of this group of people.
And because his personal censer was momentarily offline and he said what he normally wouldn't say, the truth about how he feels and what he'd like to do.

Someone like this cannot be trusted to ever work honestly and fairly to help homeless people get the services needed to get help and get off the street. He is going to find ways to hide homeless people and send them to Siberia. Even if that means sending them to jails, or prisons, or work farms, or anyplace else he gets the chance to ship them off too. He'll do it as soon as he gets the chance, because it will get them off the streets, and he'll think that it's better than offering real assistance. He has already said where his preferences lie.

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. How the hell did he even get elected? Read this >

http://vote-nh.org/Intro.aspx?State=NH&Id=NHHartymarty

A big blank page.

[Johonny]

33. Then they'll be neighbors with Sarah Palin

[RagAss]

39. Senile motherfucker.