White House science advisor John Holdren wrote a book on population control measures in 1977. It includes a number of ideas that don’t take individual rights into account whatsoever.

Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the oposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock…Again, there is no sign of such an agent on the horizon. And the risk of serious, unforeseen side effects would, in our opinion, militate against the use of any such agent, even though this plan has the advantage of avoiding the need for socioeconomic pressures that might tend to discriminate against particular groups or penalize children.

Who talks seriously about poisoning the water supplies? Is General Ripper going to have to replace this clown?

This isn’t the first we heard of a Holdren mad scientist idea. From April:

John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being confirmed last month that the idea of geoengineering the climate is being discussed.

One such extreme option includes shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays. Holdren said such an experimental measure would only be used as a last resort…

So this guy’s had ideas about controlling global fertility and recently discussed intentional anthropogenic climate change.

Why doesn’t Obama just use common ground with the Pope to pump up the Junior Anti-Sex League? Or is that not quite evil enough?

In a truly freed market, technology and entrepreneurialism can improve life for everyone except powerlusting maniacs. But the Obama administration talks of taking political control to its planetary extreme – in ways that even the Bush Supervillain Administration didn’t speak of.

H/T Dan Patrick

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