Wednesday, February 20, 2008

On This Day in History

1907- President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics and insane persons" from being admitted to the United States.

A hundred years later we can see that President Roosevelt was prophetic: The U.S. is able to produce home-grown idiots and imbeciles.

2 comments:

Don the Baptist said...

uh, hunner' percent!

Kathleen Flynn said...

Many of them are related to me. . .