Do you remember when lefties insisted President Bush, at the head of a “theocon” conspiracy, wanted to take dictatorial control of the whole nation, assume the power of life and death, and impose its awful agenda by force?

As always with this sort of thing, I refer you to Berg’s Seventh Law.

And then this piece in the Hot Air Green Room by Jim Treacher:

It turns out that John Holdren, Obama’s new “science czar,” has expressed some unusually radical ideas about stemming population growth. Or to put it more simply, he’s a totalitarian eugenicist:

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A “Planetary Regime” with the power of life and death over American citizens.

The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both?

These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — informally known as the United States’ Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.

Please read the whole thing for the details, along with photographic proof that Holdren’s book, Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, exists. Holdren really did say all that stuff, and he even lists the book in his cirriculum vitae. If he’s changed his mind about these things in the last 30 years, now might be a good time to say so.

If this is true – and it’s the kind of thing that passes as normal among a certain strain of scientists, like Robert Ehrlich (who advocated international triage to deal with the population and famine bomb that was going to kill billions by 1990) or some of the radical environmental crowd (who believe the worldwide human population should drop down into the tens of millions, living as hunter-gatherers) – then Holdren is going to need to do something radical.

Like take the media out for cheeseburgers and talk about John and Kate’s divorce.

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