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DEATH TO DEFECTIVES: The Groningen Protocol and the Resurrection of the Third Reich
The Question Fairy ^ | 12/03/04 | Becki Snow

Posted on 12/3/2004, 10:02:51 PM by dandelion

The Groningen Protocol has left little doubt - there are those humans whose lives are so worthless they are deemed disposable. These useless, undesirable babies are better off dead because their doctors say they must be culled from our midst.

Defective babies must be killed when their parents want them killed - and sometimes even when they don't want them to be killed:

Under the Groningen protocol, if doctors at the hospital think a child is suffering unbearably from a terminal condition, they have the authority to end the child's life. The protocol is likely to be used primarily for newborns, but it covers any child up to age 12.

The hospital, beyond confirming the protocol in general terms, refused to discuss its details.

"It is for very sad cases," said a hospital spokesman, who declined to be identified. "After years of discussions, we made our own protocol to cover the small number of infants born with such severe disabilities that doctors can see they have extreme pain and no hope for life. Our estimate is that it will not be used but 10 to 15 times a year."

A parent's role is limited under the protocol. While experts and critics familiar with the policy said a parent's wishes to let a child live or die naturally most likely would be considered, they note that the decision must be professional, so rests with doctors.

But what constitutes such "sad cases"? According to the doctors who are writing the protocol, spina bifida, "incurable diseases" and "extreme physical deformities" are among such "sad cases" worthy of deathi

Dr. Eduard Verhagen, of the hospital's pediatric clinic, told NPR that the babies who had been euthanized were born with incurable conditions so serious "(we) felt that the most humane course would be to allow the child to die and even actively assist them with their death."

"They are very rare cases of extreme suffering. In these cases, the diagnosis was extreme spina bifada," Verhagen added.

How humane, how worthy, how noble! To react to those who are suffering - not by curing their afflictions - but by exterminating the afflicted! ! It is truly worthy of those great Doctors of the Third Reich...

The first officially sanctioned infanticide in Germany occurred in 1939 after the father of a disabled baby, "Baby Knauer," wrote to Chancellor Hitler seeking permission to have his son euthanized. Hitler, believing the time was ripe to begin eradicating the "defectives," sent his physician, Dr. Karl Brandt, to inform Baby Knauer's doctors that there would be no legal consequence for killing the infant. This was done, so pleasing Hitler that he issued a secret directive licensing doctors to kill disabled infants.

In The Nazi Doctors, Robert J. Lifton quotes a 1973 interview in which the father of Baby Knauer recalled the reasons Brandt and Hitler agreed to the killing of his son:

He [Brandt] explained to me that the Führer had personally sent him, and that my son's case interested him very much. The Führer wanted to explore the problem of people who had no future-whose [lives were] worthless. From then on, we wouldn't have to suffer from this terrible misfortune, because the Führer had granted us the mercy killing of our son. Later, we could have other children, handsome and healthy, of whom the Reich could be proud.

Come, let us destroy that which does not meet our high standards for beauty and excellence. Walk with me through the cold hallways of the hospitals, and breathe in the sterile scent of death done deliberately to those "Unworthy of Life" for the pleasure of those "Worthy of Life".

Lay the imperfect and the inferior aside to be destroyed - make the birthing rooms execution chambers, let their worthless bodies be burned in the incinerators. They are not worthy of burials, these cretinous, deformed wretches we once treasured as children...

May their blighted existences plague society no more. May their idiot babble and radiant smiles never push us to understand! May their tiny hands, their tear-stained cheeks, their pathetic mewling cries for love never move us to pity again -

Kill them. They are only worthy to be ashes in ovens.

Life is precious only when we say it is precious.

We are the Master Race...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: babies; baby; babyknauer; defect; defective; dutch; eugenics; euthanasia; fourthreich; handicap; hitler; holland; infants; kill; nazi; netherlands; reich
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1 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:02:51 PM by dandelion
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To: dandelion
READ MORE at "The Question Fairy"
2 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:04:15 PM by dandelion (http://thequestionfairy.blogspot.com/)
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To: dandelion

"doctors can see they have extreme pain and no hope for life."

Yes, these decisions are best made by those with the training and wisdom to make them. Like Dr. Mengele.


3 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:06:15 PM by Spok
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To: dandelion
"They are only worthy to be ashes in ovens."

Thank GOD America had and STILL HAS the moral fortitude to stand up against these demons and cast them into history's ashcan. The struggle will never end. We must always be vigilant.

4 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:07:32 PM by glennherman (Just another evil right wing extremist!)
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To: dandelion
A parent's role is limited under the protocol. While experts and critics familiar with the policy said a parent's wishes to let a child live or die naturally most likely would be considered, they note that the decision must be professional, so rests with doctors.

So now parents need to fear Doctors every time they take their Downs Syndrom child in for a flu shot....

5 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:07:56 PM by konaice
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To: dandelion; All
--Archives and miltiple Links

International Task Force
on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Archives of News Items on Euthanasia and End-of-Life Decisions (2004)

From a Slippery Slope to an Avalanche

The Nazi Euthanasia Program

EUTHANASIA in EUROPE

Now They Want to Euthanize Children
In the Netherlands, 31 percent of pediatricians have killed infants. A fifth of these killings were done without the "consent" of parents. Going Dutch has never been so horrible.

6 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:09:40 PM by backhoe
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To: dandelion

Monstrous...good God.


7 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:11:51 PM by Regulator
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To: dandelion
Rats. I just noticed that my italic boxes (indicating excerpts from other articles) didn't show up on here. Let me repost so there's not doubt as to the excerpts:

The Groningen Protocol has left little doubt - there are those humans whose lives are so worthless they are deemed disposable. These useless, undesirable babies are better off dead because their doctors say they must be culled from our midst.

Defective babies must be killed when their parents want them killed - and sometimes even when they don't want them to be killed:

According to Hugh Hewitt of "The Weekly Standard":

Under the Groningen protocol, if doctors at the hospital think a child is suffering unbearably from a terminal condition, they have the authority to end the child's life. The protocol is likely to be used primarily for newborns, but it covers any child up to age 12.

The hospital, beyond confirming the protocol in general terms, refused to discuss its details.

"It is for very sad cases," said a hospital spokesman, who declined to be identified. "After years of discussions, we made our own protocol to cover the small number of infants born with such severe disabilities that doctors can see they have extreme pain and no hope for life. Our estimate is that it will not be used but 10 to 15 times a year."

A parent's role is limited under the protocol. While experts and critics familiar with the policy said a parent's wishes to let a child live or die naturally most likely would be considered, they note that the decision must be professional, so rests with doctors.

But what constitutes such "sad cases"? According to the doctors who are writing the protocol, spina bifida, "incurable diseases" and "extreme physical deformities" are among such "sad cases" worthy of deathi

Dr. Eduard Verhagen, of the hospital's pediatric clinic, told NPR that the babies who had been euthanized were born with incurable conditions so serious "(we) felt that the most humane course would be to allow the child to die and even actively assist them with their death."

"They are very rare cases of extreme suffering. In these cases, the diagnosis was extreme spina bifada," Verhagen added.

How humane, how worthy, how noble! To react to those who are suffering - not by curing their afflictions - but by exterminating the afflicted! It is truly worthy of those great Doctors of the Third Reich...

The first officially sanctioned infanticide in Germany occurred in 1939 after the father of a disabled baby, "Baby Knauer," wrote to Chancellor Hitler seeking permission to have his son euthanized. Hitler, believing the time was ripe to begin eradicating the "defectives," sent his physician, Dr. Karl Brandt, to inform Baby Knauer's doctors that there would be no legal consequence for killing the infant. This was done, so pleasing Hitler that he issued a secret directive licensing doctors to kill disabled infants.

In The Nazi Doctors, Robert J. Lifton quotes a 1973 interview in which the father of Baby Knauer recalled the reasons Brandt and Hitler agreed to the killing of his son:

He [Brandt] explained to me that the Führer had personally sent him, and that my son's case interested him very much. The Führer wanted to explore the problem of people who had no future-whose [lives were] worthless. From then on, we wouldn't have to suffer from this terrible misfortune, because the Führer had granted us the mercy killing of our son. Later, we could have other children, handsome and healthy, of whom the Reich could be proud.

Come, let us destroy that which does not meet our high standards for beauty and excellence. Walk with me through the cold hallways of the hospitals, and breathe in the sterile scent of death done deliberately to those "Unworthy of Life" for the pleasure of those "Worthy of Life".

Lay the imperfect and the inferior aside to be destroyed - make the birthing rooms execution chambers, let their worthless bodies be burned in the incinerators. They are not worthy of burials, these cretinous, deformed wretches we once treasured as children...

May their blighted existences plague society no more. May their idiot babble and radiant smiles never push us to understand! May their tiny hands, their tear-stained cheeks, their pathetic mewling cries for love never move us to pity again -

Kill them. They are only worthy to be ashes in ovens.

Life is precious only when we say it is precious.

We are the Master Race...

8 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:18:15 PM by dandelion (http://thequestionfairy.blogspot.com/)
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To: dandelion

bumpage


9 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:18:45 PM by Constantine XIII
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To: dandelion

The Netherlands has socialized medicine. How long before the hospital administrators are killing children for economic reasons (too expensive to treat them)?


10 posted on 12/3/2004, 10:23:42 PM by So Cal Rocket (Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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To: dandelion
there are those humans whose lives are so worthless they are deemed disposable

Bill Clinton, are you reading this?

11 posted on 12/3/2004, 11:13:01 PM by IronJack (R)
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To: So Cal Rocket

"The Netherlands has socialized medicine. How long before the hospital administrators are killing children for economic reasons (too expensive to treat them)?"

You are so right.

The Netherlans is on the cutting edge of every suicidal degeneracy.


Maybe the Muslims there are doing us all a favor?


12 posted on 12/3/2004, 11:34:42 PM by JFK_Lib
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To: Spok
This is where we baby boomers get it back. When we are old and weak our children will turn on us like wolves and exterminate us in the thousands to relieve us of our "pain" but really to get our money and reduce the burden on Social Security.

Condign punishment for the arrogance and moral and intellectual shallowness of our generation.

Regards,

13 posted on 12/3/2004, 11:35:07 PM by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: konaice
So now parents need to fear Doctors every time they take their Downs Syndrom child in for a flu shot....

You are so right. Here, I was imagining what it would be like to have to decide whether or not to take a sick child to the doctor for fear that the doctor would decide to kill it, but you brought my consideration to a whole new level. How terrible, to have a handicapped child and know that a doctor's visit might be a death sentence!

Holland is a suicidal society, more and more actively seeking its own destruction. I've visited there twice--remind me never to go again!

14 posted on 12/4/2004, 4:57:46 AM by exDemMom (Victory! Victory! Victory!)
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To: dandelion

Margaret Sanger - Founder of Planned Parenthood

In Her Own Words

"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race (Eugenics Publ. Co., 1920, 1923)

http://dianedew.com/sanger.htm


15 posted on 12/4/2004, 5:54:48 AM by Search4Truth (When a man lies he murders some part of the world.)
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To: Calpernia; Velveeta; lacylu; Alabama MOM; Honestly; SevenofNine; Cindy; TapTheSource

#6 has links to more info.

Old plans coming to be used today.

as they said they would do.


16 posted on 12/4/2004, 6:19:28 AM by nw_arizona_granny (Today, please pray for God's miracle, we are not going to make it without him.)
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To: glennherman
Yes and no.

Until we stop slaughtering an estimated one million of our own innocent unborn people every year, I don't think we can boast too loudly about our own moral fortitude. It's time for us to get as fired up and righteously indignant against these wicked murders in our own country as we do against the "mercy-killing" murders elsewhere.

17 posted on 12/4/2004, 6:24:55 AM by MarcoPolo
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To: dandelion

Bingo!! THANK you.

I was just explaining to someone today, how one could draw a direct line of causality from the first "mercy killings" of "defectives" in the Third Reich, to the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

The "experts" who pioneered the methods of exterminating mental patients, old people, and other "useless eaters" (anyone know the German term for that?) went on to become the managers for development of the gas vans and the gas chambers, and devised the experiments to determine which types of gas were most effective.

Europeans are scum.

***SCUM!!!***


18 posted on 12/4/2004, 9:34:21 AM by fire_eye (Socialism is the opiate of academia.)
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To: dandelion

bump^


19 posted on 12/14/2004, 8:48:58 AM by FBD ("You have enemies? Good-That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." Churchhill)
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