Posted on 08/12/2009 9:36:38 PM PDT by euram
It puts levers in place that are too dangerous to allow to exist.
The so-called "Euthanasia" program was National Socialist Germany's first program of mass murder, predating the genocide of European Jewry, which we call the Holocaust, by approximately two years. The effort represented one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial "integrity" of the German nation. It endeavored to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered "life unworthy of life": those individuals who--they believed--because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented at once a genetic and a financial burden upon German society and the state.In the spring and summer months of 1939, a number of planners--led by Philipp Bouhler, the director of Hitler's private chancellery, and Karl Brandt, Hitler's attending physician--began to organize a secret killing operation targeting disabled children. On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree compelling all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability. Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. The clinics were in reality children's killing wards where specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation.
At first, medical professionals and clinic administrators incorporated only infants and toddlers in the operation, but as the scope of the measure widened, they included juveniles up to 17 years of age. Conservative estimates suggest that at least 5,000 physically and mentally disabled German children perished as a result of the child "euthanasia" program during the war years.
Source: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Also see Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica.
Observe the "creep" of this program in two short years.
If Obama gets his way, we are stepping out onto the slippery slope leading to the destruction of the United States.
She doesn’t sound so over the top anymore, does she?
Death Panels, under whatever guise or terminology, shows just how over the top this bill really is. This is life and death counseling, offered by the government. This is way, way over the line in the minds of about 90% of Americans, no matter how disengaged.
sarah palin wrote this??
What’s really scarey is that if the ‘Bama started rounding up the disabled and trucking them out to a rural gas chamber, as Hitler did long before the death camps were built, would the media report it? I sincerely believe they would not.
I don’t think we’ll hear much from Peggy Noonan anymore after this...
On another forum, I said at the time that she had laid out the perfect trap with “death panel” that she knew the left and the media (BIRM) could not help but fall in.
I personally expected mostly snipes from RINOs and Dem hacks...but the White House press secretary? The PRESIDENT??
That told me her trap probably worked even better than maybe even she envisioned. Or perhaps she was waiting for it to filter up to O before snapping the trap shut.
At any rate, she gave it time to percolate...and percolate it did...circulating through our culture and driving the debate on this health care legislation. She’s driving and Obama’s responding. I LOVE IT.
Death Panels?
Now, why in the world would the government want to sentence any old person to death or encourage them to die?
1. Reduce future government health care medical costs to this person.
2. Reduce future Social Security payments to this person.
3. Allow the government to get their half of the inheritance (via the inheritance tax, often called the death tax.)
Will there be a complicated formula combining age, quality of life, and other factors to determine how much health care expenses the government will spend on you?
No. The government will want you dead the moment that money spent on you by the government exceeds what you pay in taxes. It is a simple cash flow calculation.
You will be encouraged (at first) to die or required (later on) to die based upon the year that you take out more than what you put in.
You’re right—it’s a masterful setup and, now, pounding. I love what she’s done in Facebook over the last week. The tone of what she’s posted is first-rate.
Sadly, you are correct.
Bingo! Lifeboat-care. Musical chairs-care.
btt
Excellent. I want more attacks on the media as they are part of this conspiracy. It is time the media be equally put to the test here as they are part of this leftist agenda and nothing but propaganda.
Bump for later.
FReep On!
WOW! i’m jealous of you. ;) what makes me nervous, redpoll, is that she is taking on several corrupt individuals who will stop at nothing to get what they want...i honestly pray everyday to God to keep her and her family out of harms way...there are other leaders in this country that share our ideology but Sarah is our champion...atleast that’s how i feel — and i know it’s wrong of me to put her on such a high pedestal when she is only human...the people also have to help pull us out of this black hole...she can only do so much.
bttt
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