Mass Extermination…A solution to mental health and drug abuse?

The Red Oak Mayor’s Youth Council hosted an invitation only Candidate Forum at the Red Oak Public Library on Wednesday October 15th. KCSI was not invited or in attendance, however following the forum, received multiple comments about this question and answer of “What to do about drug abuse and mental health in Red Oak”.   Below is the audio from Mayoral Candidate, John Haidsiak’s response to that question.  KCSI reached out to Haidsiak for comment, which is included in the audio. KCSI is working to obtain the complete audio from the event.

 

 

 

Text from John Haidsiak response to the question, What to do about mental health and drug abuse in Red Oak:

“It’s a cruel fact, but people who’ve went through drug abuses, teenagers and young people, when they have children, they do two things. They get them involved, and they steal from ’em. There’s… They’ve, they’ve got that habit so bad that that kid will go without before I go without. And it just escalates the problem to where there’s no reasonable fix-it solution other than mass extermination. I mean, you know, it’s…

If you’ve got a neighborhood full of rabid cats, you go out and shoot ’em, then you don’t have to worry about the rabid cats. But, you know, it’s… People become little bit horrified when you talk about putting other people down. But life is life. You’re born, you’re gonna live, hopefully in a good way, then you’re gonna die. Nobody lives forever. The time of your death is… A lot of it’s predetermined by how you grow up and act in your younger years as to how good your older years are gonna be.

So, you know, it’s… In a way, there’s a, there’s a cure, but, see, the cure just scares the living hell out of people. While they may agree with it, if you hand them a pencil and say, “Oh, no, no. Not me, not me,” I mean, they’ll, they’ll be for it until, until they got to be a part of it, and then it’s a different story. It… And it is a problem that’s handed down, because that child, when he’s young, has no idea or any conception of difference between right and wrong.

I mean, he learns by making mistakes. He learns not to touch the stove because he knows it’ll burn his fingers. But if he’s never given that opportunity to learn, he never will. And after a certain amount of time, it, it’s too late to try to teach him because his mindset is already set. His vision is zeroed in on, uh, on what he wants to do, or what he thinks he’s going to do. So, in, in a lot of instances, it’s…

Sorry to say it, but it’s too late to do anything. You just have to try to deal with it the best you can.”