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Rick Santorum's 'Involuntary Euthanasia' Claim Outrages Dutch
The International Business ^ | February 20, 2012 | MELANIE JONES

Posted on 02/20/2012 4:56:52 PM PST by BarnacleCenturion

Rick Santorum's claim that the Netherlands advocates mass murder through involuntary euthanasia has prompted a furious backlash from the Western European country, with local news sources calling the Republican a "crazy extreme" candidate making up facts to stir up his political base.

"Rick Santorum Thinks He Knows the Netherlands: Murder of the Elderly on a Grand Scale" fumed the headline of the newspaper NRC Handelsblad on Saturday.

The article references an interview, barely played up by the American press, in which Santorum claims that euthanasia makes up "10 percent of all deaths" in the Netherlands," and that many of those people were essentially murdered by the state.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...


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To: BarnacleCenturion

The Emperor’s New Clothes. It’s not just a children’s story.


101 posted on 02/20/2012 6:32:42 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: muawiyah; Christie at the beach; All
"Seriously, are you trying to defend involuntary euthanasia?"

Now if you don't support Sanitarium you support involuntary euthanasia. Get it?

102 posted on 02/20/2012 6:33:10 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Euthanasia Statistics from 2009 Sharp Growth in Dutch Euthanasia Deaths
103 posted on 02/20/2012 6:34:38 PM PST by Girlene
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To: CainConservative

I wasn’t anti anybody...but that is changing.

Santorum doesn’t have what it takes and he doesn’t ‘get it’.

Gingrich keeps hammering at current issues that are happening daily.


104 posted on 02/20/2012 6:34:38 PM PST by Outlaw Woman (When does the shooting start?)
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To: muawiyah
"Nederland (sic!) is not a place to visit."

I understand you've never visited it. It's a wonderful tourist place to see: Amsterdam, Hague, Delft. Been there, saw them all.

But don't worry, no one will put a gun to your head to visit Netherland.

105 posted on 02/20/2012 6:38:43 PM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: Rational Thought

Good points.


106 posted on 02/20/2012 6:38:43 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Beware the Sweater Vest)
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To: Toespi
That's you ~ not them. Did you realize that until recent times most of our dead were set up in their front room for a viewing ~ and in some groups lots and lots of alcoholic beverage and sandwich consumption.

Imagine that, dead bodies, right in the home!

My great grandfather had a small infant graveyard next to his house where close family members who had an infant die would bury their child.

Mexicans, God bless them, hold picnics in graveyards!

107 posted on 02/20/2012 6:39:15 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: ConfidentConservative
"NOW, after reading the NASTY, Attitudes coming from the Santurom followers on Threads today...."

Santorum and all his followers are all the same. Believe as they do or you are toilette scum.

Personal attacks are their hallmark. They have only the severe lever of moral superiority.

They're the people you endeavor to avoid in your day to day life.

108 posted on 02/20/2012 6:40:16 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: dforest

I really am trying to follow you in your last post.

The electric car didn’t bankrupt us. If the Dems where in such a frenzy about throwing our money away the electric car “could” have been a GREAT DREAM.

And the Choo choo’s as you called them ;) are what brought us to the west, for real, and made this country able to expand.
(and there were those calling the idea outrageous at the time)

Newt also talked about the “Wright Brothers” and the Airplane, they had a HUGE DREAM and had many failures, people called them ‘strange’ too. But look what we have today!!!

The point and you actually said it...
We can still think big.

THAT was Newt Gingrich’s point. Obama does not inspire us to think Big when he has shown over and over how much he hates this country.

THAT is where Newt was showing us the difference between him and the big “O”.

The Media, Romney took “the Moon” out of context, completely. BUT Hey! That is what they do!
Now they don’t want Newt Gingrich to debate because they KNOW he will Kick their ARSE!


109 posted on 02/20/2012 6:41:16 PM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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To: chris37
The Obama response to yout' was to extend unemployment benefits. That doesn't work well for folks earning barely above minimum wage in part time seasonal jobs.

Then he gave GM and a cashbonus to the UAW ~ again, not much of a message to yout' who are not union members, nor even eligible to be in a union (most of them have closed entry to unemployed people).

The Republican response has been much more positive. Every candidate has said something about it, and Newt has a solid plan ~ Mitt less so.

Right now the battle is for Republican votes ~ not Democrat votes.

By Mid-summer Republicans will all be campaigning with a unified JOBS script.

110 posted on 02/20/2012 6:44:08 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Mariner

NO,

“Now if you don’t support Sanitarium you support involuntary euthanasia. Get it? “

Wrong.


111 posted on 02/20/2012 6:45:11 PM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Netherland's Groningen Protocol Gains Acceptance In America

Yes, it has. According to the Remmelick Report, 8% of patients were euthanized in the Netherlands.

They own this horror. Why are they screaming about it?

112 posted on 02/20/2012 6:47:19 PM PST by TheWriterTX (All in now for Newt Gingrich)
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To: WorkingClassFilth
Netherland's Groningen Protocol Gains Acceptance In America

Yes, it has. According to the Remmelick Report, 8% of patients were euthanized in the Netherlands.

They own this horror. Why are they screaming about it?

113 posted on 02/20/2012 6:47:41 PM PST by TheWriterTX (All in now for Newt Gingrich)
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To: Marguerite
"Most of the reported cases concerned terminal cancer patients."

You mean like when a son gives his father that one last boost of morphine and his father lies wasting away from Pancreatic Cancer? When he's delirious and begging to die? 94lbs a p!ssing black tar into a tube?

Is that euthanasia too? Or is it just plain murder to these folks?

114 posted on 02/20/2012 6:47:57 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Marguerite; BarnacleCenturion; onyx; b9

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848393/posts ~ Euthanasia is an issue in current French Presidential Race. It is apparently something the big dogs there see as having vote getting value! They will be using Nederland as a bad example ~ both sides of the issue in fact.


115 posted on 02/20/2012 6:48:50 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Berlin_Freeper
There are a lot of Dutch in Michigan where he is running for the primary. I don't see where he gets elected or even voted for by picking a fight with Holland.
116 posted on 02/20/2012 6:50:59 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Berlin_Freeper

No, most of the Dutch are in Michigan — the “Pennsylvania Dutch” are more of German (Deutsch) decent.


117 posted on 02/20/2012 6:51:52 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: ConfidentConservative

Apparently the voters didn’t get it because he didn’t win Florida.

I am aware that Romney fights dirty. He has the money to keep it up too. There are things I like about Newt. When he says something that I agree with I am not going to slam him.

Same should be done for Santorum. it is far easier to agree as a conservative that euthanasia is a bad thing than to try to slam the guy for making a point in favor of life. I would assume Newt would agree with him on that as he is a Catholic.

In the end, it will be one of these guys and hopefully not Romney. All this sniping at both of them for not being the other guy is going to take them both out.


118 posted on 02/20/2012 6:52:15 PM PST by dforest
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Was the man born with his foot in his mouth or is it an acquired talent. Geez could we pick a worse candidate to run against OBama in a year dominated by horrible economic issues. Let’s nominate Saint Rick and then run a completely crazy, over the top social issues campaign. That should win us maybe 2-3 states. The OBama people must feel they are the luckiest people in the world. Their two most likely opponents are either the liberal, architect of Obamoney Care or a sanctimonious twit who doesn’t engage his brain before opening his mouth. Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good and right now OBama looks pretty lucky.


119 posted on 02/20/2012 6:54:48 PM PST by redangus
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To: The Great RJ
Dear Great RJ:

On one point your are mistaken. Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel is one of the few bioethicists out there arguing AGAINST the "life without life" (Groningen Protocol) being adopted here in the US.

I know Glenn Beck went on a tear over this guy two years ago. Dr. Emmanuel was given a set of parameters for a proposed report, and created that useful life chart. Glenn's reporting overlooked the fact that he didn't advocate for it - but went 100% against it. That was some selective editing on Glenn's part and overlooked the majority of Emmanuel's work advocating FOR LIFE.

Like the Newt Gingrinch "death bed divorce," years later the misinformation remains in the public mind.

120 posted on 02/20/2012 6:56:43 PM PST by TheWriterTX (All in now for Newt Gingrich)
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