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

[theaocp]

via Think Progress:

State “budget writers looking for cash to balance the books have stripped a cumulative $1.8 billion from mental health services over the last 2 1/2 years,” with some states like Kentucky slashing their spending by as much as 47 percent. This is particularly alarming when viewed alongside incidents like the mass shooting by Jared Loughner, who many suggest was mentally disturbed.

In light of this huge wave of cuts, Sharon Omand, a community health care center manager and resident of Stafford, New Hampshire, called her state senator Martin Harty (R) recently to request more funding for community mental health programs and for the homeless. Omand was shocked by Harty’s response. The state senator told her “the world is too populated” and that there are too many “defective people.” When Omand asked what should be done with these “defective people” that are mentally ill, Harty suggested sending them to Siberia, something that he said Hitler was “right” to do:

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. <...>



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.” Omand said Harty appeared to be serious. After Omand responded that his idea sounded like what Adolf Hitler did in World War II, Omand said Harty responded, “Hitler did something right, and I agree with (it).”



Read the full piece at: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/11/gop-senator-siberia/

Good fucking lord. Hitler-worship!

[walldude]

1. Judging from the game plan the Republicans are using

It's not that they worship Hitler, it's that they are taking lessons from him.

In Europe he would be arrested for talking like that.

[Scuba]

2. Another compassionate conservative. n/t

[KamaAina]

Not a senator, a member of the lower house

which has 400 members (by way of comparison, the House of Representatives has 435).

In a state of around 1.2 million population, that yields districts of about 3,000 people each. This is NH's twisted idea of "grassroots democracy". So it's almost a guarantee that at least a handful of whackballs like this will be inhabiting Concord at any given time. :eyes:

[defendandprotect]

3. How did a GOP thug like this get elected in NH?

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. How could he not get elected...

...is more like it.

[defendandprotect]

17. Is NH a red state .... ? Was it pre-computers ... ?

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. The 'baggers are taking over up there.

Ayuh.

[defendandprotect]

23. Well, thought NH was rather a sane state -- I'd better catch up --- !!

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. "was" is the operative word here.

[defendandprotect]

28. Do the computers have anything to do with this?

Is this solely the Koch Bros/T-BAGGERS -- ?

IMO, I'd question every election back to Nixon/Humphrey --

I don't think there ever was a Nixon "Southern Strategy" -- only the new voting computers!

Keep in mind also that the LARGE computers used by MSM/corporate-press began to come in

during the mid-1960's and which gave them huge new powers to PREDICT and CALL elections.

To PREDICT and CALL winners and losers -- what we saw in 2000 was simply a REVERSAL of those

new powers!!

These are GOP voting computers -- I imagine they are still having some effect on their

ability to steal elections?


Here's an interesting web site of an investigation by two journalists of the computers

in Florida during the late 1960's -- they wrote a book which was immediately taken off the

shelves --


Votescam -- The Stealing of America --

http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm


Book is available here and there for about $3 -- but you should be able to read it at the

website.

[Andy823]

4. Guess he forgot

Republicans like him are " mentally ill", so he can Walker, Rove, Bush, Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. and himself, all of to "Siberia" where they belong, at least according to him!

[Posteritatis]

11. Given the context is someone taking a hideously discriminatory broad-brush view on mental illness...

...Do you really need to do the same by pulling out that tired "mentally ill = Republican" meme that DUers seem to love so much?

By and large this place really doesn't get to throw many stones when it comes to attitudes about mental illness.

[northoftheborder]

5. OMG

This "person"????? has no business representing anyone. I can't believe he would be so cavalier. That's unforgivable. What has happened to New Hampshire??? They used to be this little quiet, quaint state, that didn't seem to make any ripples in the news. Now it seems that somebody does or says something outlandish every other day.

[Canuckistanian]

6. They didn't have to put the "(R)" there

It's kind of obvious.

[rgbecker]

7. New Hampshire needs to ban "Siberia" law like Oklahoma did....

Wait...Oh, Sharia...

[Cleita]

9. Can we start with him? Anyone who thinks this way

is a morally defective person, IMHO.

[Initech]

19. I'm starting to define conservatism as a complete lack of empathy.

And this guy displays it proudly.

[Cleita]

29. That's what's scary these days. They display it

proudly. Just a couple of decades ago people would have been ashamed to be seen that way.

[LiberalEsto]

10. Sounds like fascism to me

He's probably a big fan of Hitler

[movonne]

12. It seems to me that these repugs just say the most hateful garbage

and get away with it...BELIEVE ME PEOPLE THIS IS OUR BRAND SPANKING NEW CORPORATE RUN COUNTRY...I guess we better get used to it or fight to our deaths...or die a slow death..

[RagAss]

13. Nice job New Hampshire. Where did you dig up this Purple Headed Dick?

[Ghost in the Machine]

14. You can tell his parents knew he was an asshole when he was born.. Marty Harty?? Really??

I bet he heard a lot of "Marty Farty" jokes as a kid.. :rofl:

Omg! I just did a quick search of him.. this ignorant fuck is 91 years old and a "freshman lawmaker" WTF?!?!?

[eShirl]

15. Everyone is a defective person

none of us is perfect, we all have our faults

I suggest he should volunteer to go first if he thinks it is such a good idea

[Cassandra]

16. Hitler was running Russia?

That would have been news to Stalin.

[get the red out]

20. And he should have known that

At 91 years old, he can recall that being current news!

[AmandaMae]

18. wtf!

I would say I can't believe he actually said that, but these people really don't seem to have any kind of filter anymore. Whatever thought pops into their hateful little minds just comes spewing right out.

[get the red out]

21. Beck/Limbaugh impersonation syndrome

It might be a mental illness. ;)

[MaeScott]

24. Well there goes lil Trig. nt

[undeterred]

25. The GOP Are ‘Morally Ill People’ That Should Be Shipped Off To Siberia

[sarcasmo]

27. Someone from the corporate party saying this does not surprise me.

[Chris_Texas]

30. unreal