INSIGHTS

Anti-social solutions
from leader of the left

A FEW months ago there
was a fuss on account of a
Reform Party MP’s office
having used a Hitler quote.
More recently, a Glen Clark
speech came to light in which
he had this to say:

“Pm sure you can identify the
fascists who now work on your
hospital administrations. But we
can't simply fire them and replace
them all. We’ ll have to change the
way these people think.” A little
brainwashing, perhaps? Never
mind. What I’m getting at is that
according to some people there are
fascists everywhere.

Some people include Warren
Kinse!]a, a Liberal flack in Ottawa
who wrote that absurd book, Web
of Hate. He claimed that fascists
and nazis are a powerful force in
B.C. whose work was a factor in
putting the Charlottetown Accord
down the drain.

I'd like to introduce him, Clark
and other leftists to a popular politi-
cian who had definite solutions for
social problems. And he too was a
socialist. He once did a case study
on “sub-normal undesirables” and
this is what he wrote on a certain
family.

- “WMegal father. Illegal mother.
Icgitimate. Frequent abortions.
-Venereal disease. Dreadful house-
keeper. Impediment in speech. Vile
temper and language. Ancestors
French Irish. Low type of woman.
Steals.”

Proclaiming himself to be aiding
God's work, he went on to describe
what he saw as a typical sub-nor-
mal family.

“1) A family whose medical rat-
ing is low, i.e., anywhere from
high-grade moron to mentally
defective.

“2) A fariily whose moral stan-
dards are below normal and who
are delinquent.

“3) And as a usual but not nec-
essary ccrollary, subject to social
diseasz, and

“4) so improvident as to be a
public charge.”

This guy had ideas about segre-
gating sub-normals, too.

“By segregating we mean the -

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locating of this class in a communi-
ty by themselves where the physi-
cal, mental and moral effects listed
above would no longer affect the
community.

“Society does not hesitate to
segregate criminals, lepers or any
others who threaten the well-being
of society. There is little doubt that
this group exercises a detrimental
influence ... which could be
removed by segregating them.”

Our man, who would be cheered
by tens of thousands, did not hesi-
tate to grasp the thorny nettle of
sterilization, either.

“Sterilizing of the mentally and
physically defective has long been
advocated, but only recently has it
seeped into public consciousness.

“From the day Plato wrote his
Republic to the present, eugenicists
have advanced various solutions to
the problem of the defective. But

sterilization seems to meet the
requirements of the situation most
aptly.

“Medical science declares it is
possible to be sterilized and yet
have sexual intercourse (and) in the
main, that is all the defective asks.

“Among them, the parental
instinct is not paramount, but is
entirely co-ordinate to the sex
urge.”

There you have it. Segregation.
Sterilization. Down with the less
intelligent. Down with the incur-
ably sick. Away with the sub-nor-
mal. Look closely at those who
have “social diseases.”

You can be pretty certain that
this fellow would have favored
slate-permitted euthanasia, just like
Svend Robinson, who objected so
loudly to the Hitler quotes.

Who was this popular man and

" where did his thoughts appear?

Was he Adolf Hitler? Have we
been quoting from Mein Kampf?

No. He was Tommy Douglas,
who became premier of

Saskatchewan and leader of the

NDP, and the above sentiments
were expressed in the master’s the-
sis he wrote in 1933 at McMaster
University.

If he had written such things in
1993 he would have been up before
sonie NOP human rights cominis-
sion in less time than it takes to say
“Adolf.”

I interviewed him many tisnes
but never thought to ask him about
segregation, sterilization, sub-nor-
mals and social undesirables.

{ wouldn't know he had ever
harbored such thoughts. either, if
the stuff hadn’t been dug up by
Paul Jackson of the Calgary Sun.

Thanks, Paul. Very interesting.

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