Ann Tolley’s vicious ramblings about sterilizing the poor didn’t arise out of nothing.
Another National M.P. has denigrated “low-lifes”, “ferals” and “the handicapped” for years.
RadioLIVE, Friday 18 February 2011, 10:50 a.m.
Another National M.P. has denigrated “low-lifes”, “ferals” and “the handicapped” for years.
RadioLIVE, Friday 18 February 2011, 10:50 a.m.
In 1978 the late, great Larry Hagman had a choice to make. He’d been offered the lead role in two new television series: a comedy called The Waverly Wonders and a soap opera called Dallas. He eventually opted for the latter “because there’s not one redeeming nice character in the whole show.” Hagman explained that during a highly entertaining interview on National Radio in February 2011.
Later that same morning, listeners to another radio station had the dubious pleasure of hearing someone who, even in that cast of villains at Southfork, would have been an exceptionally nasty character….
MICHAEL LAWS: No. No. The government shouldn’t put another cracker in. The intellectually handicapped get enough money. I’m pretty reluctant to give them ANYTHING more. No more money should be thrown away on the intellectually handicapped. They’ve chosen the most expensive way of living. If they have to go back to large aggregations of them, so be it. Welcome to living within your means. …. I tell you what, that Indian chap that’s been given life, he should be given a BULLET. There are too many people alive in this country that should be dead. … We’ve got Margaret on the line.
CALLER MARGARET: Institutions are not good places. People deserve to have some kind of life.
MICHAEL LAWS: Yeah, but, uh, I went to a boys’ boarding school….
More wit and wisdom from Michael Laws here….
