Re: Eugenics: Kingston 1 -- Kennedy 0
samsloan
wrote:
> He has since cited not a single source to support his claim about
> the USA and Canada committing "very similar crimes against humanity."
> He has merely fallen back on a lame and trivial argument that it was a
> matter of degree, not principle, apparently implying that if the USA
> or Canada has ever committed even one injustice, they're essentially
> no better than the Nazis. My point is that however unjust such things
> as the Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Bell were, calling them "very
> similar" to Nazi crimes is a gross distortion.
>
> BTW, Buck v. Bell is the one specific American case of involuntary
> sterilization that has been mentioned in the discussion. I brought it
> up, not Kennedy, but of course our Greg keeps saying he's the one who
> knows history.
You should have asked me. I know all about this. Don't you understand?
I have been trying to tell you this for years.
The case of Buck vs. Bell is all about what happened to me and my
family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
The case of Buck vs. Bell is about the Virginia State Colony for
Epileptics and Feebleminded. My mother, Dr. Marjorie Sloan, was a
psychiatrist on the staff there, except that by that time the name of
the facility was changed the Lynchburg Training School and Hospital.
It is now called the Central Virginia Training School. Buck vs. Bell
was not just one isolated case. There were at least hundreds and
possibly thousands of mentally ill and mentally retarded people
involuntarily sterilized there. This was taking place while my mother
was a doctor on the staff there and she would have been the one to
decide whether the patient ought to be sterilized or not.
The facility in the picture, I know the place well. I have been there
many times. I often came there to pick up my mother at work.
http://www.cvtc.dmhmrsas.virginia.gov/
Years later, when my daughter Shamema was kidnapped in the United Arab
Emirates, she was taken to a place only two or three miles from there,
where she was held by the kidnappers for ten years until she grew up.
The judges of Amherst County Virginia who allowed the kidnappers to
get away with this crime were the same judges who routinely passed on
these involuntarily sterilization cases.
I have always suspected that Charles Roberts, the man who kidnapped my
daughter and got away with it, was an escapee or an outpatient from
the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded because he
was and still is a profoundly stupid man who believes that it was OK
to kidnap my daughter so that he would go to heaven.
Comparing the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded to
the Nazis was probably not even a matter of degree. I would wager that
as many of these involuntarily sterilizations were done at the
Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded as were done by
the Nazis. In fact, the Nazis always stated that they were following
the example provided by the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and
Feebleminded.
Judge Norman K. Moon, the same judge who recently stated that it was
OK for Mr. Roberts to kidnap my daughter, was involved in this.
The sterilization of the mentally retarded was brilliantly portrayed
by actor Montgomery Clift in the 1961 movie Judgment at Nuremberg.
However, do not think that this is a historical event that happened a
long time ago. It certainly happened while my mother was working there
and is probably taking place there now.
Sam Sloan