In my opinion, the US Government, under the orange, is about to have its long term genocidal wishes fulfilled by a natural disaster, Hurricane Maria. Most people do not know about the forced sterilization program in Puerto Rico deployed in the 60s by ‘our’ government. There was a desire to reduce the population of Puerto Rico to reduce pressure to move to the mainland. By not insuring the rescue of the island during this critical week after the storm, trumplandia is having its most fervent wishes fulfilled.
A 1965 survey of Puerto Rican residents found that about one-third of all Puerto Rican mothers, ages 20-49, were sterilized. To put this figure in context, women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico in the 1960s were more than 10 times more likely to be sterilized than women from the United States
Since the United States assumed governance of Puerto Rico in 1898, population control had been a major effort.
In 1976, the U.S Department of Health, Education, and Welfare reported that over 37% of women of childbearing age in Puerto Rico had been sterilized. The vast majority were in their twenties.
Known as la operación, the women were coerced into sterilization without the knowledge that it was permanent, usually during the birth process. A student of mine realized that this had happened to her aunt when I described this program in class one day. She told me her aunt had never married and was a sad figure and that now she understood the origin of her aunt’s tragedy.
A prime mover of this outcome was Clarence Gamble,. . . heir to the Proctor & Gamble/Ivory Soap fortunes, and correspondent and colleague of Margaret Sanger
This endeavor was part of the US eugenics movement which Hitler cited as his defense of concentration camps. I’ve known for a long time that white supremacy and all its derivatives are fundamental to our country’s underbelly. Sometimes it surfaces in leaders like the orange.
Unless we get Congress to force the orange’s hand on Puerto Rico, we may be looking at still another genocide.
Call your representatives:
www.congress.gov/…
Tell them to get the USS Comfort to the island and to pass special legislation helping Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. There is no time to waste.
See also: Victims of Deception: A History of U.S. Mass Sterilization in Puerto Rico and Beyond
p.s. I am sorry if this story seems unhinged, but I fear we have very little time to stop this horror.
Tuesday, Sep 26, 2017 · 9:07:19 PM +00:00
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BlueDragon
DocDawg has just posted this update in his diary:
UPDATED: As of 3:30 PM Eastern, NBC is now quoting FEMA administrator Brock Long announcing, in a reversal of last night’s DOD comments, that USNS Comfort has just been ordered to sail for Puerto Rico. For those who are wondering, Comfort is normally required to be able to sail within 5 days after receiving the order, although it has occasionally done so within 3 days (there are about one thousand mostly civilian medical personnel + merchant seamen to mobilize, plus enormous stores of perishable medical supplies to load, plus all the usual ship’s stores to support a full complement of 2,000 souls). Comfort’s top speed is about 20 MPH, and it is (very roughly) about 1,200 miles from Norfolk to San Juan. So we’re looking at another 6-8 days before it arrives in Puerto Rican waters.
But we cannot let up. Keep calling Congress, asking them to pass an emergency bill to rebuild Puerto Rico, a 21st century Puerto Rico