From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 21:57:48 +0800
To: Declan McCullagh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Sweden's Social Democrats Sterilize the Inferior
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>>Not only did eugenics foresee an improved human race, it also was appealing
>>to Social Democrats, who were beginning to see that Sweden's welfare state
>>would be costly and wanted to limit the number of people who would have to 
be
>>supported, the newspaper said.
>>
>> AP-NY-08-25-97 1903EDT

No big deal.  When I was in law school in Oregon in the mid '70s, the Oregon 
Board of Social Control [I kid you not] was still on the statute books 
although I don't think they had sterilized anyone for a while.  

Eugenics, widespread sufferage, prohibition, central banking, the direct 
election of Senators were all popular causes promoted by US progressives at 
the turn of the century.

DCF

"Three generations of imbeciles are enough." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
writing for the majority and upholding eugenic sterilization in Buck v. Bell.

http://www.findlaw.com/data/us/274/200.html

BUCK v. BELL, Superintendent of State Colony for Epileptics and the Feeble 
Minded. 
                                          
274 U.S. 200 (1927)

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