NC州の強制不妊事業の犠牲者への補償調査委員会から中間報告書
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NC州で、かつての強制不妊事業の犠牲者への補償に向け知事命令(2011/3/21)
知事の命令を受けたタスク・フォースから中間報告が出たらしい。
What Sorts of PeopleのWilson氏がエントリーで紹介している
最終委員会でのLarry Womble議員のスピーチが胸を打つ。
最終委員会でのLarry Womble議員のスピーチが胸を打つ。
和訳するだけの余裕はないので、とりあず英文のまま。
……と思ったのだけど、
コピペしているうちに、あまりにも熱くて、またも感動してしまったので
どうしても……というところだけ、日本語に。
コピペしているうちに、あまりにも熱くて、またも感動してしまったので
どうしても……というところだけ、日本語に。
Eugenics [is] a fancy name for sterilization. I am very compassionate about this issue and have worked on it for 10 years. If I’ve been involved for 10 years, what do you think about the victims themselves and it is a shame and disgrace what has happened to them. I thank the Task Force for all their work. But at the same time, I cannot be timid about this, I can’t be Mille mouthed. I cannot be cute about this because it’s not a cute and nice subject. We did to humans what we do to animals, we spade and neuter animals not people. And we did this to children 10 and 11 and 12 years old, they were not criminals, they did nothing wrong. We talk about we are the land the free and the home of the brave and when we do this to children and I’m wondering how sincere we really are.
And whatever term we want to call it to make it seem nice, it is compensation. That’s what I’ve been calling it in my bills and in my legislation. You compensate people for something you’ve done to them that they do not deserve. And I understand being on a committee and being on a Task Force, I’ve been on one myself. Some things you may not say and you don’t want to say, something you may feel are inappropriate. But when you have those live human beings come before you like they did at the last meeting how in the world can you stand to dismiss them?
How do you have victims come forward and speak before you and you don’t stand aggressively for them? I don’t care how much it hurts the State, the State did it. The State should have to pay for it! I’m here to represent the state of NC and not for anyone to like me. This is horrendous. It almost borders on genocide. We talk about the communist countries, Osama Bin Laden, third world counties. Well we have done things just as bad, if not worse. To children!
I come just a little frustrated when I see people try to skip around it. Dance around it, rather than face an issue for what it is. It’s an ungodly thing that we have done to these children. I’m here because right is right and right won’t wrong nobody. It is no amount of money that you can give to somebody. But it can’t be something that will be a double whammy to them. You’re victimizing them again! What is $10,000? What is $20,000? What is $50,000? It is really nothing, that you have destroyed your family. And this was done forcibly, by the welfare department, county departments, and you talking about private rights and citizens rights. They didn’t have any rights and if they did you violated them! I’m not talking about you personally on the panel or the staff. I’m talking about the state of North Carolina, the government. And yes I’m talking about the legislature, I serve in the legislature and it’s a wrong thing what the legislature did.
優生思想とは、うわべはきれいな名前が付いていますが、不妊術のことです。
私にはこれをきれいな言葉で語ることはできません。きれいではない醜い問題だからです。我々は動物にすることを人間に対して行ったのです。……それを10歳や11歳や12歳という子どもたちに行ったのです。犯罪者でもなければ、何の罪もない子どもたちに。アメリカは自由の国だとか勇者の祖国だとか言いながら、子どもたちにこんなことをする。なにが自由の国なのだ勇者の祖国なのだと私は思います。
どんなにきれいごとの名前で誤魔化そうとしても、これは償いです。だから私は提出した法案でも法文でも、そう称してきました。不当な理由で誰かにやってしまったことには、償いをするものです。
それが州にとってどれほど手痛い出費になろうと、州がやったことなのだから、州が償うのが筋というものでしょう！……行われたのはむごいことです。ほとんど大量殺戮に近いほどの。共産圏がどうの、オサマ・ビンラディンがどうの、第三世界がどうのと言いながら、でも我々がやったことだって彼らとちっとも変らない。しかも、子どもたちに対して！
カネをいくら払おうと、そんなものは何にもならない。家族を崩壊させたのですよ！ 強制的に、福祉局が、郡の機関が。それで、よくも個人の権利だの市民権だのと言えるものだ。この人たちには何の権利もなかったではないか。あっても踏みにじったではないか。……（略）
And whatever term we want to call it to make it seem nice, it is compensation. That’s what I’ve been calling it in my bills and in my legislation. You compensate people for something you’ve done to them that they do not deserve. And I understand being on a committee and being on a Task Force, I’ve been on one myself. Some things you may not say and you don’t want to say, something you may feel are inappropriate. But when you have those live human beings come before you like they did at the last meeting how in the world can you stand to dismiss them?
How do you have victims come forward and speak before you and you don’t stand aggressively for them? I don’t care how much it hurts the State, the State did it. The State should have to pay for it! I’m here to represent the state of NC and not for anyone to like me. This is horrendous. It almost borders on genocide. We talk about the communist countries, Osama Bin Laden, third world counties. Well we have done things just as bad, if not worse. To children!
I come just a little frustrated when I see people try to skip around it. Dance around it, rather than face an issue for what it is. It’s an ungodly thing that we have done to these children. I’m here because right is right and right won’t wrong nobody. It is no amount of money that you can give to somebody. But it can’t be something that will be a double whammy to them. You’re victimizing them again! What is $10,000? What is $20,000? What is $50,000? It is really nothing, that you have destroyed your family. And this was done forcibly, by the welfare department, county departments, and you talking about private rights and citizens rights. They didn’t have any rights and if they did you violated them! I’m not talking about you personally on the panel or the staff. I’m talking about the state of North Carolina, the government. And yes I’m talking about the legislature, I serve in the legislature and it’s a wrong thing what the legislature did.
優生思想とは、うわべはきれいな名前が付いていますが、不妊術のことです。
私にはこれをきれいな言葉で語ることはできません。きれいではない醜い問題だからです。我々は動物にすることを人間に対して行ったのです。……それを10歳や11歳や12歳という子どもたちに行ったのです。犯罪者でもなければ、何の罪もない子どもたちに。アメリカは自由の国だとか勇者の祖国だとか言いながら、子どもたちにこんなことをする。なにが自由の国なのだ勇者の祖国なのだと私は思います。
どんなにきれいごとの名前で誤魔化そうとしても、これは償いです。だから私は提出した法案でも法文でも、そう称してきました。不当な理由で誰かにやってしまったことには、償いをするものです。
それが州にとってどれほど手痛い出費になろうと、州がやったことなのだから、州が償うのが筋というものでしょう！……行われたのはむごいことです。ほとんど大量殺戮に近いほどの。共産圏がどうの、オサマ・ビンラディンがどうの、第三世界がどうのと言いながら、でも我々がやったことだって彼らとちっとも変らない。しかも、子どもたちに対して！
カネをいくら払おうと、そんなものは何にもならない。家族を崩壊させたのですよ！ 強制的に、福祉局が、郡の機関が。それで、よくも個人の権利だの市民権だのと言えるものだ。この人たちには何の権利もなかったではないか。あっても踏みにじったではないか。……（略）
