EXECUTE ‘ILLEGITIMATE’ PARENTS, ADOPT OUT THEIR KIDS

[Heather MC]

Anybody else think this is nuts?
LET GOD SORT 'EM OUT

12:10 PM OCTOBER 11, 2012

GENTLEMAN IN VIRGINIA ROMNEY OFFICE HAS NOVEL IDEA FOR WELFARE REFORM: EXECUTE ‘ILLEGITIMATE’ PARENTS, ADOPT OUT THEIR KIDS

BY DOKTOR ZOOM

Clifford Russell, a nice man working in the Mitt Romney campaign office in Bedford, Virginia, has a plan to reduce this awful entitlement culture that we have here in US Amercia. During a visit from freelance writer Christopher D Cook., Mr. Russell expounded on a number of important issues, proclaiming that global warming is “a total fiction,” that the NAACP is “the most racist organization in America,” that “Everyone in Iraq under Hussein was a terrorist,” and of course that the best way to address poverty would be … well, let’s let Clifford Russell speak for himself, with Cook offering him chances to walk back or clarify his views:


I’ll tell you what really need to do with these illegitimate families on welfar — give all the kids up for adoption and execute the parents.”

I stare at him and blink in a glaze of shock.

Just to be sure I heard him right, I ask him to repeat it, twice.

“Yes, I mean it. Get rid of all of them, give the kids up for adoption, execute the parents, and you get rid of the problem.” (When I call him back to revisit the issue, he elaborates: “put the children up for adoption and execute the parents, and word would get out soon” that poor people shouldn’t have kids.)


When Cook points out that most people getting food stamps and other assistance actually do work, Russell explains that is no excuse for being poor, because our economy is structured in such a way that everyone should be an investment banker:


He tells me if they were smarter, like Romney, they would earn more money. “Obama got all his money through his charisma, Romney got his because of his brains,” he says. “Some people are just smarter than others, and not everyone is equal — but everyone has to pull their own weight and stop making excuses for being poor. Get up and do something. Some people just don’t want to work.”

http://wonkette.com/486378/gentleman-in-virginia-romney-office-has-novel-idea-for-entitlement-reform-execute-illegitimate-parents-adopt-out-their-kids

[Flashmann]

2. Off topic,but......

I once posted a reply with a variation of the R word,fucktard,as I recall.....Someone,ignoring context and thus missing the entire point,got totally bent over that one word.....Since then,I've seen many other instances of people fixating over a choice of wording,to the end of obscuring the point trying to be made.....Just a heads up....

[RavensChick]

3. It's not only nuts,

but this is why it's all the more reason to vote. As for the so-called "nice man", I simply say this: Sir, FUCK YOU!

That is all.

[Enrique]

4. I bet he is a "small government" conservative

and I bet he "loves freedom". So much so that if you parent a child in a way he doesn't like, he wants the government be able to KILL YOU.

[Heather MC]

5. I bet he is staunchly prolife too

[PD Turk]

6. Hmmm....

So is it ok to compare this moron to Hitler?

I mean....really

[coalition_unwilling]

7. Back in the early 80s, when I was in the process of finishing my

B.A., I bumped into an erstwhile acquaintance who had just been admitted to law school. This acquaintance had been 'Born Again' and had become a Christian Fundamentalist. As we stood there talking, he said dead seriously that he thought all homosexuals should be gathered together and burned alive. I'm sure my jaw must have hit the ground. I passed word of the exchange along to my younger brother who also maintained an acquaintance with this person. My brother bumped into him a few weeks later and confronted him about what he had said to me. The Fundy tried to laugh it off as "I was just joking." But what is weird is that when he said it to me origianlly, there was no hint whatsoever that he was joking.

It creeped me the fuck out and does to this day when I remember it or an anecdote like the OP's triggers it. And to think this former acquaintance of mine is probably practicing law in the Kansas City area and, for all I know, may well be sitting in the judiciary by now.

Creepy as all fuck.