Government Sanctioned Sterilization

If we needed any more reason to despise the 1% in the US, and I'm not sure that we do, look no further than than the report in the NYT today that describes the sterilization program that was widespread in the US from the 1930s to the 1970s.  The report specifically covers the aggressive program conducted in North Carolina, but 31 other states also had programs.  You have to read the whole article to believe even a sentence of it.

The 1% have always been trying to screw the 99%.  From the article:

Wealthy businessmen, among them James Hanes, the hosiery magnate, and Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, drove the eugenics movement. They helped form the Human Betterment League of North Carolina in 1947, and found a sympathetic bureaucrat in Wallace Kuralt, the father of the television journalist Charles Kuralt.