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Social Engineering Gone Wild!
Capital Research Center ^ | March 31, 2008 | Matthew Vadum

Posted on 04/02/2008 7:40:57 AM PDT by vadum

Your ability to father children in exchange for a speedy gun permit.

Does this sound like a good deal to you?

According to the Saturday Washington Times article, "India uses gun license as sterilization incentive," it's actually happening in India:

Government officials in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have begun offering fast-track gun licenses to men who agree to undergo sterilization, so they will not feel less manly.

The region is part of Chambal Valley, notorious for its rampaging gangs of robbers and bandits, and many villagers desperately want to possess firearms. Vasectomy camps - regularly set up in many parts of the country as part of a solution to India's population explosion - often fail to meet their targets. Most men refuse to be sterilized, thinking the process strips them of their manliness.

The region has failed repeatedly to attract villagers to government family planning programs, said Maneesh Srivastava, chief administrator of the district of Shivpuri. "In fact, we never managed to meet even one-fourth the annual sterilization target." After a survey found that most men refused vasectomies because they did not want to lose their "manliness," the government adopted a new strategy. "We decided to match it with a bigger symbol of manliness: a gun license," Mr. Srivastava said, and "it has worked wonders."

Of course getting a firearms license is still easier in India than in the District of Columbia, where local laws make it virtually impossible. In India "tens of thousands of applications have been pending for years. To be eligible, an applicant has to prove that he faces a grievous threat to his life and does not have a criminal record," the article notes. (At least there's a waiting list in India, unlike D.C.)

But here's the money quote from the article: "Vasectomy camps are viewed with suspicion in India."

Only in India?

Nonprofit advocacy groups and foundations in the U.S. haven't said much yet on this innovative progressive approach that blends involuntary family planning with gun control, and has the side benefit of preventing the birth of a new generation of gun rights enthusiasts.

It is liberal, statist efficiency at its best.

But despite the policy's Nazi overtones, at least one U.S.-based group does favor vasectomizing the poor of the Third World. The Indian program has the support of Pathfinder International, which has received more than $600,000 in donations from the Palo Alto-based Erik E. & Edith H. Bergstrom Foundation since 2003.

(This post originally appeared at the blog of Capital Research Center.)


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; india; vasectomy

1 posted on 04/02/2008 7:43:26 AM PDT by vadum
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To: vadum

Wow! The ultimate phallic symbol, a gun, in exchange for a vasectomy. A psychologist could make a career out of studying this program.


2 posted on 04/02/2008 7:53:15 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: vadum

After the Vasectomy, the guns may shoot blanks too!


3 posted on 04/02/2008 7:55:07 AM PDT by SeabeeDet01 (OOORAH SEABEE!!)
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To: vadum

hahaha, I’ve had a vasectomy for years and I don’t feel any less manly. In fact my woman enjoys it, takes the birth control off of her and no ‘little surprises’ at 41 years of age.


4 posted on 04/02/2008 7:55:26 AM PDT by Intimidator (Its not unilateral,just try saying you're a Progressive Dem in your typical Evangelical chur)
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To: vadum

This is old news. This specifically is old news, and the entire period since WW II contains example after example of the efforts of the Eugenicists and the World Bank to reduce population. The one baby policy in China was one of those programs.


5 posted on 04/02/2008 7:57:48 AM PDT by RightWhale (Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
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To: vadum

Gives new meaning to Cap-and-Trade...


6 posted on 04/02/2008 7:59:33 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: vadum
Your ability to father children in exchange for a speedy gun permit.

How 'bout for a crack rock?
7 posted on 04/02/2008 8:16:09 AM PDT by rock_lobsta (Client #10)
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To: vadum

—Of course getting a firearms license is still easier in India than in the District of Columbia, where local laws make it virtually impossible.—

1. Who on earth would want to live in DC in the first place, gun or no gun?

2. If you are so unfortunate as to be stuck in some crime-ridden armpit of Our Nation’s Capitol (Anacostia springs to mind) you can purchase a handgun as easily as crack or a stolen DVD player.

Just some thoughts.


8 posted on 04/02/2008 8:51:24 AM PDT by paleorite ("Oy vey, Skippa-San" The immortal words of Fuji, formerly America's favorite POW.)
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To: vadum
The reason why India has an overpopulation problem in the first place is that women are looked upon as inferior as in most countries with overpopulation problems.

In the western world where women are treated as equals, we have the exact opposite problem.

Ironic, isn't it?

9 posted on 04/02/2008 9:08:45 AM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: vadum
We could also fast-track gun licenses to make up for loss of manhood for:

Owning a hybrid vehicle.
Belonging to PETA.
Being gay.
Listening to NPR.
Being a Democrat.
Drinking lattes.

10 posted on 04/02/2008 9:30:08 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: vadum
You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!! And my gun!
11 posted on 04/02/2008 10:55:20 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("How'd you get that scar, mister?" "Nicked myself shaving.")
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To: TheThinker
No not really. China and India had cities of millions long before women were treated as equals. A Plague in Europe certainly didn't help either.
12 posted on 04/03/2008 5:49:35 AM PDT by diablojig
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