Earlier, Richard Lamm, the three-time governor of Colorado and a current member of FAIR’s advisory board, had voiced similar concerns. Sounding very much like the deadly physicians of the Third Reich, he said that “terminally ill people have a duty to die and get out of the way” (quoted in Beirich 2007). Lamm also expressed fear of race wars in his 1985 novel, Megatraumas: America at the Year 2000. Tanton has also expressed pro-eugenics viewpoints, for example in a 1996 letter that explained how FAIR’s new website emphasized how mankind used eugenic principles in breeding programs for plants
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