Posted on 11/16/2008 12:34:38 PM PST by wagglebee
The United States government was founded on these principals: God created all humans equal and gave them certain unalienable rights, such as Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"; and the government's purpose is to secure these rights, ensure domestic tranquility, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our Posterity. Since its conception in 1776, great strides have been made in this nation regarding people's civil rights, but for millions of unfortunate people in America some of these strides have been in the wrong direction.
The United States' civil rights problems date back to the birth of the nation when black people were considered mere property. The Supreme Court stated in Dred Scott vs. Sanford that black people were a "subordinate and inferior class of beings" that were "altogether unfit to associate with the white race either in social or political relations". History documents the retribution that followed, but history repeats itself.
During WWII, government-sponsored racism shocked the world when the Nazis systematically tortured and exterminated millions of people through their eugenics program in order to promote the purity and welfare of the "superior" German race. Dr. Joseph DeJarnette, a leading eugenics advocate in Virginia wrote in 1938, "Germany in six years has sterilized about 80,000 of her unfit while the United States—with approximately twice the population—has only sterilized about 27,869 in the past 20 years... The fact that there are 12,000,000 defectives in the U.S. should arouse our best endeavors to push this procedure to the maximum... The Germans are beating us at our own game." The "defectives" this leading doctor spoke of were the "feebleminded", poor, alcoholics, criminals, epileptics, insane, constitutionally weak, promiscuous, deaf, blind, mute, deformed, people predisposed to certain diseases and children born to them. These forced sterilizations of United States Citizens even had the approval of the Supreme Court. In the deplorable ruling of Buck vs. Bell in 1927, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…Three generations of imbeciles are enough." By the time compulsory sterilization laws were reversed in the 1970's, approximately 64,000 Americans had been sterilized.
Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger shared Justice Holmes' sentiment. When writing of "the cruelty of charity", she called such "defectives" "a dead weight of human waste" and advocated decreasing and eliminating "the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world". Thanks to the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade, Sanger's legacy rages on. Today, Planned Parenthood is the world's largest abortion provider making over a billion dollars a year (including public funds) to decrease and eliminate people whom Sanger called "bad stock". Then, in a move that would have made Josef Mengele proud, aborted babies are sold for medical research.
Our Constitution guarantees the right to Life not only to us, but also our offspring. To deny humans their rights because of skin color, posterity through compulsory sterilization, or to allow a woman's freedom of "choice" to trump her unborn baby's inalienable right to live is heinous. In a world where Darwin's "survival of the fittest" is the law of the land, only God knows which group will be declared unfit next and the misery that will befall them. As Thomas Jefferson said, "…can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever..."
And we truly should be trembling now.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
I merely hope that the Almighty has a very sharp scalpel.
There may not be another group. Here is a rather brutal thought. Currently, about one half of all abortions are for black mothers. But the black population is slowly growing. If you increase the number of children 'harvested' each year by increasing the availability and pressure for 'choice services', the population decreases until there are relatively few left. Then the attention of the 'choice services' may turn to other groups they think are undesirable. On the other hand, if you find a 'harvest' level that allows very slow growth, such as now, you have an unending (steady state) supply of harvest victims allowing the attention of the 'choice services' to stay focused on the target group.
If you think this calculation inhumane, you are correct. If you think the 'choice services' would not do such a calculation, you are mistaken.
Other than the United States is founded on principles, not principals . . . .
Too bad most people are not aware of the roots of PP and the abortion industry.
Love this article. So many people are ignorant about the genocide taking place in this country.
“Abortion is VITAL to the Solution [of population control at home and abroad]” ... a Key Point from Kissinger's NSSM-200 http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39baebff09f4.htm
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There are some bizarre ironies about eugenics, both guided breeding and eliminating genetic defects.
To start with, it is at the same time mind-bendingly complex, it happens naturally, humans have long used it for animals and plants, and even today, it is almost totally reliant on luck instead of knowledge, and the odds greatly favor doing it wrong.
Selective breeding of people has been tried before, usually a failure because of a lack of understanding of heredity, such as Napoleon wanting to breed an army of giants.
But it did have amazing results in an idealistic commune in the United States. In just three generations, the guesses of its leader produced some 60 brilliant Americans from his followers, him ordering people to have children with those he chose. However, had his experiment continued just one more generation without new blood, there would have been a general genetic collapse through inbreeding. Good guesser.
The Chinese are trying to breed their best and brightest, but even with 1.2 billion people, their group of potential parents is so small they are having cross-breeding problems. They would dream of cross breeding a high party official scientist with a mere peasant.
One of the biggest uses of forced sterilization in the US and the rest of the world was against people who were retarded. The idea was to eliminate retardation from the genetic pool. But what they didn’t know is that retardation is often the flip side of brilliance and genius.
It is like thorns on a blackberry bush. The same gene that makes thorns also makes the blackberry delicious and sweet. Often, the same genes that cause retardation also cause high intelligence and genius, which may have been a lucky mutation in the first place. In primitive societies, it was less desirable than other abilities.
There are vast numbers of traits that people share, but only a tiny few ever actualize, for better or worse. A lot of what we now think of as genetic diseases were natural efforts to overcome obstacles.
Sickle cell anemia provides some defense against the deadly disease malaria, for example. Hemophilia might have been a way for people to protect themselves against a disease that causes deadly blood clots.
But this didn’t stop the French health ministry from intentionally issuing HIV-tainted medicine to kill off all the French hemophiliacs. From 1985 to 1991, they tried to systematically murder all these people, in the name of wiping out their genetic disease.
And genes are not cut and dried. People live their whole lives with many genes that could activate, but don’t. The events, circumstances, and conditions that make a protein suddenly activate and tell a gene to do something are anybody’s guess.
So the bottom line of eugenics is that we don’t know very much, but we are willing to harm endless numbers of people with cruel experiments.
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough”
E.g.: Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, the Clintons.
I agree with that sentiment.
Btt
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