{"id":4282,"date":"2011-03-12T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2011-03-12T06:23:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:23:04","slug":"republican-rendition-to-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/republican-rendition-to-siberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Rendition to Siberia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I bet you\u2019re thinking old TC has lost his mind, huh?&#160; Believe it or not, there actually is an elected public official that has publicly endorsed rendering American citizens to Siberia, but not just any citizens.&#160; To be rendered to Siberia NH state Senator Martin Harty thinks they must have committed the crime of being mentally ill.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"12GOPSiberia\" border=\"0\" alt=\"12GOPSiberia\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/12GOPSiberia.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/>State \u201cbudget writers looking for cash to balance the books have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/03\/09\/AR2011030900507.html\" target=\"_blank\">stripped a cumulative $1.8 billion<\/a> from mental health services over the last 2 1\/2 years,\u201d 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2011\/01\/10\/jared-lee-loughner-s-mental-state.html\" target=\"_blank\">was mentally disturbed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In light of this huge wave of cuts, Sharon Omand, a community health care center manager and resident of Stafford, New Hampshire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concordmonitor.com\/article\/245163\/lawmaker-advocates-eugenics\" target=\"_blank\">called her state senator<\/a> Martin Harty (R) recently to request more funding for community mental health programs and for the homeless. Omand was shocked by Harty\u2019s response. <strong>The state senator told her \u201cthe world is too populated\u201d and that there are too many \u201cdefective people.\u201d When Omand asked what should be done with these \u201cdefective people\u201d that are mentally ill, Harty suggested sending them to Siberia, <font color=\"#ff0000\">something that he said Hitler was \u201cright\u201d to do<\/font><\/strong>\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/11\/gop-senator-siberia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m almost at a loss for words here.&#160; Note here that I did not compare this Republican to a Nazi.&#160; He did so himself when he invoked Hitler as a reference for his beliefs.&#160; I wonder how long it will take him to make his way to Fox, the Republican Reichsministry od Propaganda, to get endorsements from, Beck, Hannity, and O\u2019Reilly.&#160; I hope the good people of New Hampshire set a repeal in motion immediately.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bet you\u2019re thinking old TC has lost his mind, huh?&#160; Believe it or not, there actually is an elected public official that has publicly endorsed rendering American citizens to Siberia, but not just any citizens.&#160; To be rendered to Siberia NH state Senator Martin Harty thinks they must have committed the crime of being <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/republican-rendition-to-siberia\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}