Posted on 02/04/2005 10:20:11 AM PST by Concerned
ALL TERRI FANS MUST READ the synopsis found at the listed URL!!!
The Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America - Smith, Wesley, J.
http://www.hebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=C5766
What's tragic about this is that even though information like this is known, the evil of euthanasia continues to spread like a cancer and no one (with power and clout) seems willing to stand up and say enough is enough.
What's tragic is that actual article is not posted.
You can either click on the words "Human Events" (i.e. the link) just below the headline or capture the following URL and paste it into your URL line:
http://www.hebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=C5766
BTTT
Something is a little wrong with my computer. I get on this and several Web sites (that I used to access) the sign "This page cannot be opened."
You can run out to the story and pick up a copy of Human Events too, as well as possibly phone the author and have him read it to you.
Whatever you do though, don't post the article here where people can easily read it.
Try disconnecting, then reconnect to the internet. Sometimes for some reason my ISP connection will not connect to the internet properly, and produces those messages.
I tried but it still does it to some sites, not all. However, it might have worked for some. Thanks for the comments.
When that happens to me, I have to turn my modem completely OFF for 10 minutes, and then when I turn it back on, it comes back to life after another 2 minutes' delay. Just some of those techno-gremlins.
The clergy seems willing.
I hope Smith mentions the fact that it's THE WELFARE STATE that has a vested interest in killing people -- because GOVERNMENT-regulated health care ALWAYS winds up scarce -- and rationed. See: http://freedomkeys.com/medicare.htm
Thanks.
Since you didn't bother to post ANY of the story here, I've got to think it's a waste of time.
It's that DNS thingy all cattywhompus.
Ohhhh, good!
ELKGROVEDAN WROTE: "Whatever you do though, don't post the article here where people can easily read it."
BALDING_EAGLE WROTE: "Since you didn't bother to post ANY of the story here, I've got to think it's a waste of time."
I didn't have time to learn how to format the article and I still don't. Is it really THAT hard just to click on the link or copy and paste the URL in the address line?
Why your doctor may be trying to kill you And what you can do about it — all in this spectacular exposé of the euthanasia movement Printer Friendly Version “Culture of Death,” says Club reviewer Mary Walsh, “is a stunning indictment of the pro-euthanasia ‘philosophies’” which have come to dominate American medicine. This book tells the whole chilling story of what’s happened since doctors began trashing the Hippocratic Oath to “do no harm” — as a claque of self-appointed bioethicists have begun to decide who among the sick should live and who should die. Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America shows that the murderous influence of these “experts” in hospitals and medical schools is enormous — and growing every day. Author Wesley J. Smith, an attorney for the Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, reveals just how completely these pro-death forces have eroded America’s remaining respect for the sanctity of life. His message could become crucially important to you in the years to come — for he details how you can demand life-saving treatment for yourself or someone you love in a culture increasingly unwilling to care for those it deems inconvenient. The alarming details of America’s war on the infirm: Bioethicists and the doctors they train: how they sneer at the sanctity of life as an “outmoded religious idea” How legalized abortion was the foot in the door that pro-death advocates needed to begin to realize their entire murderous agenda Why words matter: what euthanasia advocates really mean when they call for “compassion” and “dignity” Desired medical treatment: how it’s denied to the dying and disabled in hospitals and nursing homes all over the country — to the extent that some patients have called 911 from hospitals to get treatment! The sickening facts about how doctors pressure family members of brain-damaged patients to authorize removal of their feeding tubes, so that their loved ones will die a horrible death by dehydration Research animals: the astonishing story of how they now enjoy greater legal protection under federal law than do many human subjects who participate in medical experiments Places where your tax dollars are already paying for assisted suicide — and details about nationwide pro-death victories in court and at the ballot box How euthanasia advocates are literally getting away with murder all over the U.S. — aided and abetted by courts who refuse to give them anything more than a slap on the wrist The little-known philosopher who developed a vastly influential fifteen-point scale for measuring the quality of life: if you flunk, you die A small light amid great darkness: the English heroine whose deep Christian values animated her ground-breaking work to care properly for dying patients The Nazi doctors whose theories are chillingly echoed by euthanasia advocates today The heart-rending “experiment” in which doctors advised parents not to authorize treatment for their handicapped children — and watched 24 babies die Baby Jane Doe: the child who was condemned to die by order of her parents, while couples begged for the right to adopt her Dr. Peter Singer: the monster who claims that infants are not persons and have no moral right to live — and was rewarded with a professorship at Princeton! What the founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said about human rights (hint: Hitler would have applauded!) The grisly truth about partial-birth abortion: it isn’t nearly as rare as the media ballyhoo hoped you would believe — and that isn’t even the worst of it The Nancy Cruzan case: how it paved the way for murders in all fifty states The death business: how pro-euthanasia groups are profiting from people’s misery (you can even buy a plastic suicide bag for $32!) How the media has portrayed murderers as heroes as they try to paint “mercy killing” as an act of compassion (including the truth about the media darling who wrote in his diary that “no one asks about my needs,” and then killed his ailing wife!) Ruth Oliver: the woman who addressed the Canadian parliament some time after being declared “brain dead” — and more about why “brain death” is such a dangerously vague concept How HMO’s and other medical organizations play — and pay — into the hands of euthanasia supporters “The duty to die”: the roots of this increasingly influential notion Organ donation: a last act of charity, or an occasion for physician profiteering? How such profiteering has become common Why abortion advocates who insist that abortions should be “rare” are self-contradictory When the plugged wasn’t pulled: the woman who awoke after being in a coma for sixteen years — and who immediately walked unaided, dressed herself, and wrote a letter! Caring for the terminally ill: the unexpected fruit it bears in the lives of those who are willing to make the sacrifice Cases like this one are occurring every day: [John Campbell’s teenage son Christopher] had been unconscious for three weeks because of brain damage sustained in an auto accident. The boy had just been released from the hospital intensive care unit when he developed a 105-degree fever in the hospital’s “step-down unit.” Campbell asked the nurses to cool his fever. They replied that they first needed a doctor’s orders. Campbell asked them to obtain it, but Christopher’s physician was out of town and the on-call doctor said no. “It was an evening of hell,” Campbell says. “My son’s life meant less than hospital protocol. When the doctor refused to order treatment, the nurse said that there was nothing they could do.” Campbell desperately tried to reach the on-call doctor himself, but the physician refused to take Campbell’s phone calls or respond to his increasingly urgent messages. Meanwhile, Christopher’s condition worsened steadily, his fever rising over a period of some twenty hours, to 107.6 degrees. Finally, the nurses — caught between a desperate father’s pleas and a doctor’s steadfast refusal to treat — insisted that the on-call doctor take Campbell’s call. Campbell demanded that his son’s fever be treated immediately. The doctor refused. When Campbell grew more insistent, the doctor actually laughed. The boy was unconscious. His life was effectively over. What was the point? “‘By this time,’ Campbell recalls, ‘my son’s eyes were black as if he had been in a fight. He was utterly still. He was burning up. The back of his neck was so hot you couldn’t keep your hand on it. I said to the doctor, ‘“This is not a joke! This is my son. His life is at stake. His temperature is over 107 and you are going to do something about it.”’ Hearing the angry determination in Campbell’s voice and perhaps fearing legal consequences if Christopher died untreated, the doctor finally acquiesced. “A clarion call to defend the fragile, yet enduring principle that all people are created inherently and equally valuable. Culture of Death is a book every American should buy, read and discuss with family, friends and neighbors.” — N. Gregory Hamilton, M.D., President of Physicians for Compassionate Care “Demands that attention be paid to the fundamental human values and caring impulse that underlie the profession — science and art — of medicine. In his role as iconoclast, Wesley Smith performs a valuable service for bioethics — and, by extension, for all of us who will eventually be patients of American health care.” -- Ira Byock, M.D., author, Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life Plus: the names and addresses of ten anti-euthanasia organizations * Appendix detailing what humans have gained from animal research -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Member Book Reviews Harold Helbock Not Rated As a physician working in the area of neonatal critical care I deal with these ethical problems frequently. Although I do not agree with all of the authors' positions I think this is a book of major importance and urge all to read and consider the implications of the professional ethics groups being allowed to define the moral value of various positions on end of life care and care of the disabled. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:' The Assault on Medical Ethics in America shows that the murderous influence of these “experts” in hospitals and medical schools is enormous — and growing every day. '
A little background on 'Medical Ethics' in America -
TOM VALENTINE INTERVIEWS EUSTACE MULLINS-- British Control and.....[excerpt - sometime you must read all]
'....Anyway, Eustace Mullins is my guest. [...info on how to get books...] And "Murder by Injection" [ see Murder by Injection - The Rockefeller Syndicate http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=murder+by+injection ] is where I'm going next. It's a very interesting book. And because of my interest in health, my favorite of his many good books.
Now. Eustace. You have money and the federal reserve and these guys behind it. And then there's schools, with your new book on the "Education for Slavery". Then the law and judges, and I believe that was in "The Rape of Justice".
MULLINS: Yeah, "The Rape of Justice". Each one is a separate, *** monopoly study. I became interested in monopolies through the federal reserve system. And I realized that because they now had the power to print money, since 1913, they were printing the money and taking over other areas. *** So that's why you now have the medical monopoly, the American Medical Association, the medical trust. *** You have the legal monopoly, which controls the courts of the United States. **** And when you go into court, you are at their mercy because they can do whatever they wish. [CN -- See, for example, "Defrauding America" by Rodney Stich.]
VALENTINE: Yep. And you've got the school monopoly.
MULLINS: *** And the education monopoly! And they found "that" was the most important one of all, because, by training the children to accept these other monopolies [and] never question authority. [CN -- *** Also, the media monopoly, e.g. "The Media Monopoly" by Ben Bagdikian.] Don't forget, the 14th amendment said, "It's illegal to challenge the national debt!"
TOM VALENTINE: Is that right!? The 14th amendment actually makes that statement? I gotta read that again. [EA note: the fraudulent 14th amendment makes Terri PROPERTY of the State and the International Banksters, unable to pay her 'fair share' to the debt they fraudulently dumped on all Americans born and unborn, and deprives her of her GOD-GIVEN right to life and a fair trial.]
EUSTACE MULLINS: Oh yes. It says that it's a violation to question the validity of the national debt! In other words, you say, Tom Valentine says, "Well, they create this money out of nothing!" Well you've just committed a violation of the 14th amendment by saying that!
VALENTINE: By the way, they had a meeting of law enforcement police chiefs and so on down in "Albasqueeky", New Mexico here, a few months ago. And I've just recently heard about it. And they've listed the "terrorists". And people who oppose the federal reserve, and people who oppose the income tax, and people who oppose "NAFTA", are now on the list of terrorists in this country.
MULLINS: Yeah, they call it "Constitutional terrorists".
VALENTINE: Well! Aren't we something.
*** Well "health", to me, is a big one. If you control the people's health, they're not gonna think so clearly.
MULLINS: **** Well, and that's why John D. Rockefeller himself, the same man whose son-in-law created the federal reserve system at Jekyll Island, he also, in 1907, John D. Rockefeller decided to go into the health business. And you see, his father, the founder of the Rockefeller dynasty, was William Rockefeller -- who was a side- show barker who called himself "the world's greatest cancer specialist" and sold bottles of oil for $5 apiece in the 1860s. That's how far this goes back. They were into cancer over 100 years ago. And so his son, John, the original John D. Rockefeller, went into the health business as early as 1907.
VALENTINE: And in the health business, of course, ******* they found themselves a "quack", and used that "quack" to establish the American Medical Association [AMA]!
MULLINS: They certainly did. Because a "quack", by definition, is an unapproved doctor, a doctor who has no training. And any medication which is not approved by these same "quacks" -- they call it "quack medicine"!
VALENTINE: That's right. And who was that first AMA founder, and the AMA journal?
MULLINS: That was Abraham Flexner(sp?) and "Doc" William Simmons(sp?) of Lincoln, Nebraska. "Doc" Simmons was a man who had **** 2 fake medical degrees. And he is the person who created the American Medical Association as we know it today. He took it over in 1898.
VALENTINE: This Dr. Simmons -- they made a famous movie based on him, that he tried to drive his wife nuts.
MULLINS: Uh yes he did. Because she objected to his having a mistress there in Chicago. And so he decided he would give her drugs and drive her insane and put her in an asylum. And that would end this criticism. [interesting!]
Well it didn't work. She took him to court and got a divorce. And do you know that that became a very famous movie, "Gaslight", with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman!
VALENTINE: Yep. I was just sayin', "Gaslight", [with] Charles Boyer [and] Ingrid Bergman, is based upon a true story of the original head of the AMA. And you mentioned the name of the guy who set him up -- Abraham Flexner.
MULLINS: Yeah. **** Flexner was John D. Rockefeller's "stool pigeon" in setting up the takeover of the entire medical school industry by Carnegie Foundation, which was a Rockefeller Foundation subsidiary at that time.
VALENTINE: Yes, that's interesting. The Carnegie Foundation is also the Carnegie Endowment, [which] is the big one behind education. [CN -- To see how the Carnegie Foundation encroached on our universities, ca. 1880-1920, see "Universities and the Capitalist State", by Clyde Barrow, published by the University of Wisconsin Press.]
MULLINS: It certainly is. And they're totally controlled by the Rockefeller Foundation. When you say "Carnegie Foundation", you're talking about something that has no substance. It's entirely under the domination of the Rockefellers.
VALENTINE: Interesting stuff.
Now. Abraham Flexner. Wasn't there a thing called "The Flexner Report"?
MULLINS: **** He did "The Flexner Report", and this changed the medical schools of the United States from homeopathic, naturopathic medicine, to allopathic medicine -- which was a German school of medicine which depended on the heavy use of drugs, radical surgery, and long hospital stays. That's what we've got today, allopathic medicine.
VALENTINE: *** Yes. And then the next thing you need to control is the insurance industry and the hospital industry. And then you nationalize it and you've got everything!
MULLINS: That's right. And what Hillary Clinton was hoping to do for Senator Jay Rockefeller, the man behind health care "reform", she was going to deliver the health industry of the United States to him in a package tied up with a red ribbon. But she didn't make it.
VALENTINE: Yeah, let's hope the American people keep getting smarter. Thanks to books like [by] my guest, Eustace Mullins, you can do it.'
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There must be some decent doctors out there who will stand up for Terri EN MASSE lest we tar them all with the same brush, and believe me there is a revolt waiting to happen. Ritalin and Vioxx are just the tip of the iceberg, which is why they are so hot to trot to cap lawsuits. More people are killed by the medical profession every year than accidents, guns, etc. combined, and a lot of the time, these little 'gods' don't care. I could write a book about what I witnessed when my mother lay dying, but I try to keep those memories suppressed. That article you posted revived some of the anger.
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