Liars by Glenn Beck

other vagrants who had boarded in her own home because her father believed it to be a moral duty to help, are classic examples of events that triggerPTSD. The consequences can be varied, but they almost always include a powerful combination of ongoing shame, fear, and guilt.
    The fear comes from not having control or the power to stop the event from recurring, and the shame and guilt come from not being able to stop it.
    Sanger’s own description of the attack against her mother is surprisingly short, but it is told in the first person, so we know that she was at home and personally witnessed it. Absent from the short narrative, however, is any mention that Margaret herself stepped in to stop it or to help her mother in any way, even after the attack was over and her mother lay unconscious and bleeding on the ground. It wasn’t until her father returned home that Margaret had dared to come downstairs.
    Perhaps unsurprisingly, Sanger became a passionate advocate for abortion, eugenics, and forced sterilization of both men and women (with particular focus on minorities, such as African-Americans and Chinese immigrants). Her desire to rid the world of what she saw as troublesome underclasses that produced violent vagrants is probably a direct result of her childhood experiences and the shame she must have felt over her inaction.
    Merriam-Webster defines eugenics as “a science that tries to improve the human race by controlling which people become parents.” Eugenics research, funded by America’s elite industrialists, was carried out by scientists dedicated to the perfection of the human race. Their work influenced a generation of progressives and socialists—including Adolf Hitler, Woodrow Wilson, and, of course, Margaret Sanger.
    As Sanger grew older, she became an early and earnest supporter of this diabolical science, a field that formed a pillar of the early progressive movement in its fixation on manipulating genetics to “perfect” humanity. In words that might well be approvedby Hitler or David Duke, she wrote this about her plans for humanity:
    The first step would thus be to control the intake and output of morons, mental defectives, epileptics. The second step would be to take an inventory of the secondary group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployables, criminals, prostitutes, dope-fiends; classify them in special departmentsunder government medical protection and segregate.
    Sanger believed ina policy of “race improvement,” once saying that it was necessary to create a “race of thoroughbreds.” In 1926, she even saw fit to present her views before a women’s chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, which led to “a dozen invitations to speak to similar groups.”
    Sanger also believed that families with too many children (remember, she was one of eleven kids) posed an unnecessary hardship on the rest of society. “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its members,” she wrote in 1920, “is to kill it.” (It’s worth noting that Planned Parenthood claims that this quote is out of context, that it is really about the rising infant death rate among large families at the time. Let’s assume they’re right—does that make this statement OK? It’s merciful to have a child and then kill it just because there is some percentage chance that it might die anyway?)
    Sanger is perhaps best known as an early, staunch advocate of birth control, including abortion, and as the founder of the organization that would eventually grow into Planned Parenthood (its original name was more honest: the American Birth Control League). But the reasoning behind her zeal was deeper and darker than simply a disregard for individual human lives. Sangerbelieved that contraception, especially preventing birth among certain undesirables, was better for the human race as a whole.
    In 1922, she wrote:
    Those least fit to carry on the race are