Who is this guy? On his photos I see this vain oldy looking guy trying to look young with his pathetic black crayoned eyes (which I have to confess I find charming on gothickly inclined young males) and he comes out with all this crap. Does he not have advisors who can tell this Nationalistically challenged sad sack of shit when to engage his brain before he opens his mouth.
And when will New Zealand Pakeha’s distance themselves from a man who espouses the same claptrap as the Nazi’s when the sterilised and killed all those they thought of as the unworthy underclass?
Wanganui Mayor Michael Laws says giving the “underclass” money to be sterilised will address our child abuse problem.
Critics last night labelled the suggestion “totalitarian”, “draconian” and “reprehensible”, and questioned his appropriateness as a city leader.
Mr Laws said the children of beneficiaries, drug addicts and criminals had little chance in life. He was speaking five days after the death of two-year-old Wanganui boy Karl Perigo-Check, the son of a convicted murderer and gang member.
“If we gave $10,000 to certain people and said ‘we’ll voluntarily sterilise you’ then all of society would be better off. There’d be less dead children and less social problems.
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Tags: Eugenics, Michael Laws, Underclass
30/10/2009 at 9:19 am |
Talk to some family lawyers or social workers who see first hand how bad some parents are.
Behavioural traits are significantly heritable and even if they weren’t, these kids being raised by terrible parents will end up like them.
Laws suggestion is sensible to stop abuse – at the very least people should be offered incentives by WINZ to people to use contraception.
Otherwise you get a future demographic disaster as these kids end up in crime & leading dysfunctional lives.
31/10/2009 at 8:13 am |
I’m not denying that there are some very bad parents and I would rather they did not have children either but when one group of people starts to decide for another group of people than you are on a very slippery slope to nowhere.
The Nazi’s, the Australian government, The Communist leadership, the UK and US governments to name a few all went that way leaving broken families and generations of misery in their wake.
The reparation of the positive sides of Maori and Pasifica culture (which for all intends and purposes has been destroyed on many levels) education geared to respect the different ways of learning other than the Pakeha system of discipline would be good ways towards that.
Forced sterilisation is just another form of colonialism and racist exploitation because trust me it will be mostly Maori and Pasifican people who will be subjected to this cruel way of population control.