Somethings are hard to believe and here is one of them coming to you courtesy of Charleston City Councilman Larry Shirley. His solution to juvenile delinquency is a real good example of great Family Values in action. After the attempted robbery of a video store by children ages 14, 12 and 9, Councilman Shirley has offered an enlightened solution to FIX this problem.
And one of the things he says needs to be talked about is whether bad parents should be sterilized.
Now this is just a warm up for the rest of his statement. Follow me below the fold to find out more about how this great statesman's mind works.
What we've got is a failure in society, whether it's in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it's on the East Side with poor crackhead parents," Shirley said Friday. "We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs. ... Once they have a child and it's running the streets, to let them continue to have children is totally unacceptable." Deadbeat dads might ought to be sterilized as well, he said.
Since in the article he said this is not about race, I have to assume that the children in the story are from the East Side with poor crackhead parents rather than the yuppie parents (who we all know never take dope) from Mount Pleasant. He does claim to be an equal opportunity FIXer upper though. Of course I did notice that dads are only subjected to sterilization if they fail to support their children not if they just get into trouble and mothers need to be spayed if they can't take care of theirs which could be interrupted as financial as well.
The great mental thinking of Council Shirley was brought to my attention by Crooks and Liars and the original source is The Post and Courier. As an aside the Crooks and Liars Headline states he is a Republican Councilman, but that information is not contained in the original article nor have I been able with my primitive googling skill been able to confirm that statement is fact.