COME AND TAKE THEM
Posted on 08/15/2014 7:36:20 AM PDT by wagglebee
Although he admits it “sounds blatantly authoritarian” and “violates just about every core value we possess in a free society,” a noted transhumanist author has said a world government body should forcibly sterilize anyone “deemed unworthy” of parenthood by using implanted microchips.
Constitutional attorney and civil liberties expert John W. Whitehead, founder of The Rutherford Institute, warned LifeSiteNews.com earlier this year that political officials would long to use this seminal technology.
In an article for Wired.com today, philosopher Zoltan Istvan wrote that the notion first crossed his mind when he heard a blonde nurse say, “with 10,000 kids dying everyday around the world from starvation, you'd think we'd put birth control in the water.”
After careful thought, in an effort to “give hundreds of millions of future kids a better life, I cautiously endorse the idea of licensing parents,” Istvan wrote today.
The process, he said, “would be little different than getting a driver's license.” Parents must “pass a series of basic tests” in order to “get the green light to get pregnant and raise children.”
“Those applicants who are deemed unworthy” for a variety of reasons – he lists homelessness, criminal history, and poverty among his examples – “would not be allowed until they could demonstrate they were suitable parents.”
However, he questions how far governments would go to enforce its birth control mandate. “Would governments force abortion upon mothers if they were found to be pregnant without permission?” he asked, saying the idea seems “unimaginable in most societies around the world.”
Istvan writes that he finds “near-term hope” in a contraceptive technology funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a remote-controlled injectable microchip that could effectively sterilize someone for up to 16 years.
“The implanted microchip lasts for up to 16 years -- three times current implantable devices, including IUDs -- and can deliver hormones into the body via an on-off switch on your mobile phone,” he wrote. “It's not a huge jump to imagine governments seeing opportunity in using this.”
However, due to the national government's spotty record on fiscal and other issues, he believes its control should be outsourced to a world government. “Perhaps a nonprofit entity like the World Health Organization might be able to step in,” he wrote, adding WHO's participation would inspire “more confidence.”
The concept of a birth licenses, even those run by the United Nations, is not new. Istvan noted the support of ethics professor Hugh LaFollette and Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb.
The Ehrlichs co-authored the 1977 book Ecoscience with current Obama Science Czar John Holdren. They endorsed a “comprehensive planetary regime” to control fertility, adding that “compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” President Obama recently said he relies on Holdren to formulate his science policy.
The concept of government-regimented reproduction was also supported by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger some 80 years ago. Sanger wrote in a column for America Weekly in March 1934 that even then it may have “become necessary to establish a system of birth permits.”
Istvan believes new technology places their dream closer than ever to reality. Pre-clinical testing of the new microchip begins next year. A development team at the Massachusetts-based MicroCHIPS Inc. hopes to introduce the product by 2018, pending approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
COME AND TAKE THEM
Finally people are starting to see the trap.
Simply cut welfare benefits by 50 percent or more and see immediate and long lasting improvements.
Exactly. They are having babies because it's financially expedient to, and then they neglect them, letting them wander the streets, the neighbors feed them when they're hungry, getting their free school breakfasts and lunches.
I know. Been there and done that and seen it with my own eyes for more years than I can count.
(Not being on the dole, just for those who choose to misunderstand)
My state (NC) is still in the process of compensating eugenics “victims” via reparation claim payments. There’s some interesting reading on the official website.
http://www.sterilizationvictims.nc.gov/
Between 1929 and 1974, an estimated 7,600 people were sterilized by choice, force or coercion under the authority of the N.C. Eugenics Board program. The exact number of
victims alive today is unknown. However, the State Center for Health Statistics estimates that 2,944 victims may be living as of 2010.
Well, as long as it’s Them and not Us, I guess it’s okay. /s
Monetary assets and contributions are not a very accurate measure of human worth. You don’t get to void human rights based on arbitrary measures of the worth of others. It just doesn’t work that way.
The idea behind it is not bad, but the implementation would be a nightmare. Forced sterilizations and abortions would just be for starters. What would they do if someone was found to have secretly given birth? Take the baby and kill it?
It took a Hitler to create the legal conditions in which this program could be implemented and the Nazis, long before the concentration camps with the Jews, Gypsies, etc., had begun emptying out Germany facilities for the mentally and physically handicapped and eliminating their occupants.
Why do you put the word victim in quotation marks?
Do you not believe that someone is a victim when they are forcibly sterilized against their will?
Do you not think that they are entitled to compensation from the same state that did this to them?
The Nazis used an effective PR campaign to gain acceptance of eliminating the dross.
Good God. I wouldn't trust bureaucrats to control everyone's credit card. I wouldn't trust them to control everone's LIBRARY card. Why would I trust them to control everyone's genital tract?
"Requiring" physiological alteration of one's sexuality means using force. Therefore "requiring" temporary sterility is assault and battery. Even coerion of such by offering rewards and punishments to produce a bogus "consent" is a crime.
And such was the judgment at Nuremburg.
“Why do you put the word victim in quotation marks?”
Because I was QUOTING it from the website. I didn’t offer an opinion one way or the other.
Paranoid much?
This libnuts always think they’re gonna do things their way. I say if we want to control population, have them kneel, place their libpsycho face in the dirt, my boot on their neck, and a bullet in the head.
But oh no, they don’t want that. But if they keep pushing, millions of Americans just might give it to them anyway.
Well said, Mrs. Don-o.
“Paranoid”? I also wondered if you meant to be sarcastic.
Odd, they don't put the word victim in quotation marks. You weren't quoting an exact phrase.
I didn’t offer an opinion one way or the other. Well then I'll ask again:
Do you not believe that someone is a victim when they are forcibly sterilized against their will? YES or NO
Do you not think that they are entitled to compensation from the same state that did this to them? YES or NO
Paranoid much?
Nope, I just have a lot of experience with certain types of comments on threads like this.
Especially since the souce you cited, didn't use the quotes.
So you possibly gave an inadvertent wrong impression.
Evidently so.
The thing that many fail to realize is that once something like this gets started it starts to snowball.
Playing God ALWAYS ends badly.
And I really don't like Blacks Either, too many are on the Dole, maybe their Population Numbers Should Go Down.
Or I REALLY don't like the Jews, that whole race needs to go away....
Oh? Did I play the "Hitler Card" Too Soon?
Well when the Suriving Nazi's were questioned about the Holocaust, their defence was that the United States had set precedence in Buck V. Bell in the 20's. Where the state could streilze any "defective"
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