Posted on 08/05/2009 10:20:19 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
In the speeches I have given over the years supporting the pro-life cause, I have often pointed out that the calculated disregard for innocent life first aimed at babes in the womb would eventually claim the lives of the elderly, the infirm and anyone else judged to represent what the Nazis called "life unworthy of life." Once "quality of life" replaces the God ordained right to life as the criterion that assures the safety of the innocent, no one can live free of fear except those who are certain the shifting winds of popular esteem will never shift against them.
A new report from WND's Whistleblower magazine makes clear the likelihood that the Obama faction's proposed government takeover of the health care system will subject the American people to the terrifying consequence that I (and other pro-life advocates) have predicted. It will erect a totalitarian bureaucracy empowered to exile the elderly (and eventually others whose lives are judged to cost more than they are worth) to a hellish medical gulag, bereft of the choices that today allow many to determine for themselves the moment at which they surrender with dignity to the inevitable prospect of their mortality. "If this dire end-of life scenario sounds too awful to be possible, that is only because the reality of Obamacare has not been sufficiently reported. For this is not a fantasy - it is what is already occurring in other 'civilized' nations, including Canada and Britain, that have adopted the same government-run system."
Of course, it doesn't require much thought to realize that the sentence to death without dignity won't fall equally upon everyone. People who are part of the power structure of the dominant political faction will live in a different reality, like that which the politicians even now are setting apart for themselves and the people they love or favor. As gatekeepers who control access to this realm of privilege, they will have the opportunity to build and secure the political power base from which to manipulate the hopes and fears of those they wish to win over or intimidate.
Though today the dividing line between care and neglect seems to be defined by age and infirmity, once the system of political and bureaucratic control is firmly ensconced, it will be defined by factional favoritism. Those in good standing with the factional bosses will be treated one way. Those unwilling to tow their line will live in one administrative gulag or another.
Read more at loyaltoliberty.com...
Good post!
Sadly, we know Dr, Keyes is probably on the mark here.
Dying is messy business—it will be too much for working families to take care of elderly, “untreatable” family members, government hospitals will not want to have them taking up bed space, so what to do with the dying masses?
House them in dirty nasty, gov’t employee run “Death Camps”
There, the image is complete.
bump
Logan’s Run
Get a load of the pack of lies that the AARP is throwing at its members. Apparently, evil conservatives are trying to "scare" them.
Yep.. Well, I’m going to be retirement age before long, and before I let someone drag me off to a gulag to die, I’ll do my part by making that same decision a little early for some of them...
Obama lies, Granny dies.
Kill Grandma and the Babies.
I’m sorry Mr Keyes but I’m going to have to report you to flag@whitehouse.gov. Bring your toothbrush.
But Obama is a genius from Harvard, certified by George Soros and the Council on Foreign Relations (or certifiable?), so whatever he says must be true, right? If he wants seniors denied medical treatment and moved into government hospices, the people have to just go along with it. The One has spoken.
Population Control
"We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
- Barack Hussein Obama, Harvard Law
We are America
I like that one!
We should report every pro-socialized medicine post to that site. They'll get so flooded that they'll have to take it down. Remember how the Democrats turned on their creation, the Independent Counsel, once we used it against Klintoon.
We have the option to do that now without govt giving it to us - and we have the option not to.
Yes, that's the problem! We're obviously choosing the wrong option and govt wants to ensure that choose the correct option.
Why am I not surprised that AARP is involved in this?
Are you Aged? Rest in Peace
It's the "not to" that irritates their caring little hearts.
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