Ted Turner: China a Good Example of Population Control, Despite Forced Abortions
Steven Ertelt - May 8, 2009
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Billionaire broadcast magnate Ted Turner is causing guffaws from observers with his latest comment on family planning in China. He lauded the Asian nation for its population control program and said it was a good example even though it is rife with forced abortions and sterilizations.
During an interview with the Diane Rehm Show gave China as a model for how to handle growing populations.
“We do have the example of China, and they’ve done it without, uh, draconian, as far as I can see, draconian steps,” he said.
Observers of the quote are surprised that Rehm let it go unchallenged and without any mention of the human rights abuses that accompany the Chinese family planning program.
The policy has resulted in epidemics of forced abortions and sterilizations and human rights abuses ranging from job loss and imprisonment to house arrest and threatening family members.
In fact, new reports show the forced abortions have resulted in high infertility rates forced abortions. A new report indicates that has sparked infertility and given rise to an underground network of surrogate mothers.
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May 12th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Man I hate that guy. Anyone remember that episode of Captain Planet (which was Turner’s pet project), where Wheeler (the American Planeteer) get’s knocked out and wakes up on an island civilization of tiny rat like people? (Shades of Gulliver’s Travels!) Their society is virtually identical to our own (cars, factories, etc) but they’re on the verge of destruction because they are grossly overpopulated. The better part of the episode is spent showing the many horrors of a large population. The whole thing is very one sided. Overwhelmed by a swarm of millions of rat like people, Wheeler awakens to discover it was all a dream. This allowed the show to backpedal away from criticism by claiming “it was all a fantasy episode.” The whole thing of course was a Turner funded Malthusian propaganda piece. It may have even recommend to the viewing audience (mostly a bunch of 5-12 year olds) that they should pledge to have 2 children or less. The choice to represent the swarming masses of people as rat-like beings was especially disturbing given the relationship between Malthusianism and eugenics. The Nazis depicted Jews as verminous rats in at least one of their propaganda films and Malthusians are largely rich white people focusing their programs on non-white third world nations. I seem to recall there being some controversy around the episode at the time of it’s original release. It may have even been titled “Population Bomb” after Paul Elrich’s alarmist Malthusian work of the same name. “My Name’s Ted Turner, over population is bad cause it consumed too much land and resources. Please ignore the fact that I’m the largest land owner in the United States.” Pathetic!
May 12th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEoHy-TH2c
May 12th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
I’ll say this Terry, you work quick! The fact that this was ever on tv (and no doubt still is in rerun) is scary as hell! If Turner and his ilk are willing to go this far in the public eye, imagine what kind of stuff they might pull in private. So big populations spawn dictators eh? Seems to me that essentially all officially Malthusian states (China for example) have been dictatorships. This whole thing makes my stomach churn. Wheeler why didn’t you listen to the two commies and get yourself chemically castrated? I’ve also heard that whenever the Planeteers would visit the Soviet Union they made it out to be a virtual Utopia. This was told to me by a friend who is quite left wing so it’s not like I heard it from someone who had any reason to lie. I don’t know if I’ve seen any of those episodes myself though. If I have I’ve long since forgotten. This sick crap could have rolled right of the pages of early 20th century Malthusians like H.G Wells. Note the Gaia Theory is in there too with Gaia being their mentor. “By your powers combined I am Lord Mantraya!” Like I said, I hate Ted Turner!