Life in the Wingnut World

Via Digby, one of the most preposterous right wing ideas ever.

First, a little background:  The State of New Hampshire removed a child from the custody of its parents because the father had a long history both as a wife and child abuser.  Unfortunately, the guy happens also to be a hard core wingnut too, which naturally brought out the usual right wing displays of phony outrage.  Which led one "libertarian" (i.e. idiot) to make the following helpful suggestion:

""The family should be left to resolve it on their own...Or private enterprise - private companies can contact the family and say, 'We heard you were hitting your kids. Can you stop that?' "

And just which private companies would that be?  Maybe Comcast, or Halliburton?  And to whom, exactly would those private companies be sending the bill?  Or maybe the first suggestion is the best one- leave the family to "resolve" the situation.  For example, the father could just beat the child to death and be done with the whole thing.  At which point, he could be contacted by a private company, and asked "Can you stop that?"

But think of the positive side to this suggestion.  At least this dick could have his taxes lowered, because he wouldn't have to support a police force or a court system to deal with criminals.  We saw recently how well that sort of thing works out with fire departments- why not leave it to the free market to produce someone to come forward and stop parents from beating their kids.  Of course, if the kids don't pay their subscription fee, they're just out of luck.

Comments

magpie said…
The family should be left to resolve it on their own...?

Oh.

Like this...?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39673288/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

As an aside, note the comment about the medical treatment in the fourth last paragraph... it will probably be the only thing in the whole article that outrages your Right-wing trolls.
Green Eagle said…
That was in Australia. In the paradise that IS the United States of America, someone from Goldman Sachs or Citibank would have contacted the family and politely asked the parents not to kill their daughter, and then everyone would have lived happily ever after.

As soon as Obama was impeached, anyway.
magpie said…
It was in America actually, so Goldman Sachs and Citibank have some explaining to do.

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