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Neo-Nazis Kill Terri Schiavo
Movie Guide ^ | 3-30-2005 | William Federer (MovieGuide)

Posted on 03/31/2005 11:49:50 AM PST by Thanatos

Neo-Nazis Kill Terri Schiavo
Mar 30th, 2005

by William Federer

Even before the rise of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich, the way for the gruesome Nazi holocaust of human extermination and cruel butchery was being prepared in the 1930 German Weimar Republic through the medical establishment and philosophical elite's adoption of the "quality of life" concept in place of the "sanctity of life."

The Nuremberg trials, exposing the horrible Nazi war crimes, revealed that Germany's trend toward atrocity began with their progressive embrace of the Hegelian doctrine of "rational utility," where an individual's worth is in relation to their contribution to the state, rather than determined in light of traditional moral, ethical and religious values.

This gradual transformation of national public opinion, promulgated through media and education, was described in an article written by the British commentator Malcolm Muggeridge, entitled "The Humane Holocaust," and in an article written by former United States Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, M.D., entitled "The Slide to Auschwitz," both published in The Human Life Review, 1977 and 1980 respectively.

Malcolm Muggeridge stated:

"Near at hand, we have been accorded, for those that have eyes to see, an object lesson in what the quest for 'quality of life' without reference to 'sanctity of life' can involve.... the great Nazi holocaust, whose TV presentation has lately been harrowing viewers throughout the Western world.

“In this televised version, an essential consideration has been left out - namely, that the origins of the holocaust lay, not in Nazi terrorism and anti-Semitism, but in pre-Nazi Weimar Germany's acceptance of euthanasia and mercy-killing as humane and estimable....

“It took no more than three decades to transform a war crime into an act of compassion, thereby enabling the victors in the war against Nazi-ism to adopt the very practices for which the Nazis had been solemnly condemned at Nuremberg."1

The transformation followed thus: the concept that the elderly and terminally ill should have the right to die was promoted in books, newspapers, literature and even entertainment films, the most popular of which were entitled Ich klage an (I accuse) and Mentally Ill.

One euthanasia movie, based on a novel by a National Socialist doctor, actually won a prize at the world-famous Venice Film Festival!

Extreme hardship cases were cited which increasingly convinced the public to morally approve of euthanasia.

The medical profession gradually grew accustomed to administering death to patients who, for whatever reasons, felt their low "quality of life" rendered their lives not worth living, or as it was put, liebensunwerten Lebens, (life unworthy of life).2

In an Associated Press release, published in the New York Times, October 10, 1933, entitled "Nazi Plan to Kill Incurables to End Pain; German Religious Groups Oppose Move," it was stated:

"The Ministry of Justice, in a detailed memorandum explaining the Nazi aims regarding the German penal code, today announced its intentions to authorize physicians to end the sufferings of the incurable patient.

“The memorandum...proposed that it shall be possible for physicians to end the tortures of incurable patients, upon request, in the interest of true humanity.

“This proposed legal recognition of euthanasia - the act of providing a painless and peaceful death - raised a number of fundamental problems of a religious, scientific, and legal nature.

“The Catholic newspaper Germania hastened to observe: 'The Catholic faith binds the conscience of its followers not to accept this method'...

“In Lutheran circles, too, life is regarded as something that God alone can take....

“Euthanasia... has become a widely discussed word in the Reich....

“No life still valuable to the State will be wantonly destroyed."3

Nationalized health care and government involvement in medical care promised to improve the public's "quality of life."4

Unfortunately, the cost of maintaining government medical care was a contributing factor to the growth of the national debt, which reached astronomical proportions.

Double and triple digit inflation crippled the economy, resulting in the public demanding that government cut expenses.5

This precipitated the 1939 order to cut federal expenses.

The national socialist government decided do remove "useless" expenses from the budget, which included the support and medical costs required to maintain the lives of the retarded, insane, senile, epileptic, psychiatric patients, handicapped, deaf, blind, the non-rehabilitable ill, and those who had been diseased or chronically ill for five years or more.

It was labeled an "act of mercy" to "liberate them through death," as they were viewed as having an extremely low "quality of life," as well as being a tax burden on the public.

The public psyche was conditioned for this, as even school math problems compared distorted medical costs incurred by the taxpayer of caring for and rehabilitating the chronically sick, with the cost of loans to newly married couples for new housing units.6

The next whose lives were terminated by the state were the elderly in institutions who had no relatives and no financial resources.

These lonely, forsaken individuals were needed by no one and would be missed by no one.

Their "quality of life" was considered low by everyone's standards, and they were a tremendous tax burden on the economically distressed state.7

The next to be eliminated were the parasites on the state: the street people, bums, beggars, hopelessly poor, gypsies, prisoners, inmates and convicts.

These were socially disturbing individuals incapable of providing for themselves, whose "quality of life" was considered by the public as irreversibly below standard, in addition to the fact that they were a nuisance to society and a seed-bed for crime.8

The liquidation grew to include those who had been unable to work, the socially unproductive, and those living on welfare or government pensions.

They drew financial support from the state, but contributed nothing financially back.

They were looked upon as "useless eaters," leeches, stealing from those who worked hard to pay the taxes to support them.

Their unproductive lives were a burden on the "quality of life" of those who had to pay the taxes.9

The next to be eradicated were the ideologically unwanted, the political enemies of the state, religious extremists, and those "disloyal" individuals considered to be holding the government back from producing a society which would function well and provide everyone a better "quality of life."

The moving biography of the imprisoned Dietrich Bonhoffer chronicled the injustices.

These individuals also were a source of "human experimental material," allowing military medical research to be carried on with human tissue, thus providing valuable information which promised to improve the nation's health .10

Finally, justifying their actions on the purported theory of evolution, the Nazi's considered the German, or "Aryan," race as "ubermenschen," supermen, being more advanced in the supposed progress of human evolution.

This resulted in the twisted conclusion that all other races, and in particular the Jewish race, were less evolved, and needed to be eliminated from the so-called "human gene pool," ensuring that future generations of humans would have a higher "quality of life."11

C. Everett Koop, M.D., stated:

"The first step is followed by the second step. You can say that if the first step is moral then whatever follows must be moral.

“The important thing, however, is this: whether you diagnose the first step as being one worth taking or being one that is precarious rests entirely on what the second step is likely to be...

“I am concerned about this because when the first 273,000 German aged, infirm, and retarded were killed in gas chambers there was no outcry from that medical profession either, and it was not far from there to Auschwitz."12

Can this holocaust happen in America?

Indeed, it has already begun. The idea of killing a person and calling it "death with dignity" is an oxymoron. The "mercy-killing" movement puts us on the same path as pre-Nazi Germany.

The "quality of life" concept, which eventually results in the Hegelian utilitarian attitude of a person's worth being based on their contribution toward perpetuating big government, is in stark contrast to America's founding principles.

This philosophy which lowers the value of human life, shocked attendees at the Governor's Commission on Disability, in Concord, New Hampshire, October 5, 2001, as they heard the absurd comments of Princeton University professor Peter Singer.

The Associated Press reported Singer's comments:

"I do think that it is sometimes appropriate to kill a human infant," he said, adding that he does not believe a newborn has a right to life until it reaches some minimum level of consciousness.

"For me, the relevant question is, what makes it so seriously wrong to take a life?" Singer asked.

"Those of you who are not vegetarians are responsible for taking a life every time you eat. Species is no more relevant than race in making these judgments."13

Singer's views, if left unchecked, could easily lead to a repeat of the atrocities of Nazi Germany, if not something worse.

Add to that unbridled advances in the technology of cloning, DNA test which reveal physical defects, human embryos killed for the purpose of gathering stem cells to treat Diseases...and a haunting future unfolds before us.

President Theodore Roosevelt's warning in 1909 seems appropriate:

"Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much.

“I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

“The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming.

“The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us."14

In his State of the Union address in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt stated:

"There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality.

“What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality.

“There is only one morality. All else is immorality.

“There is only true Christian ethics over against which stands the whole of paganism.

“If we are to fulfill our great destiny as a people, then we must return to the old morality, the sole morality....

“All these blatant sham reformers, in the name of a new morality, preach the old vice of self-indulgence which rotted out first the moral fiber and then even the external greatness of Greece and Rome."15

In biblical comparison, Jesus showed mercy by healing the sick and giving sanity back to the deranged, but never did he kill them.

This attitude was exemplified by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whose version of "death with dignity" is to gather the dying from off the street, and show compassion to these rejected and abandoned members of the human race, all the while knowing that they may only survive for another half hour.

Her "mercy-living" movement goes to great trouble to house, wash and feed even the most hopeless and derelict, because of inherent respect for the "sanctity of life" of each individual.

This attitude is summed up in her statement:

"I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve because I love Jesus."16

Will America chose the "sanctity of life" concept, as demonstrated by Mother Teresa, or will America chose the "quality of life" concept, championed by self-proclaimed doctors of death court decisions - such as in the case of Terri Schiavo - and continue its slide toward Auschwitz?

What kind of subtle anesthetic has been allowed to deaden our national conscience?

What horrors await us?

The question is not whether the suffering and dying person's life should be terminated, the question is what kind of nation will we become if they are? Their physical death is preceded only by our moral death!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: cultureofdeath; schiavo
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To: Thanatos

My father's aunt had Polio she was one of those killed in the Nazi effort to eliminate life unworthy of life. Others died as well in the camps I have had rather heated debates with people who insist that my family must be Jewish if we had relatives who died in the camps. Not that I think being Jewish is a bad thing- not at all. But the lack of education on the history of Nazi Germany's march to the Holocaust is reason the pro death crowd have been succesful in pushing their agenda.


181 posted on 03/31/2005 2:12:04 PM PST by lastchance (Life is sacred.)
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...


182 posted on 03/31/2005 2:12:09 PM PST by Coleus (I support ethical, effective and safe stem cell research and use: adult, umbilical cord, bone marrow)
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To: AndyTheBear
If your touting of your credentials has any meaning, then you would be acutely aware of the complete disconnect between Ms. Schiavo's situation and the Nazi drive to achieve a master race.

But apparently you are not.

183 posted on 03/31/2005 2:12:19 PM PST by lugsoul (Wild Turkey)
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To: Thanatos

Thank you for this jewel of a post. I will keep it in my arsenal.


184 posted on 03/31/2005 2:12:46 PM PST by jonrick46
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To: Diogenesis

Oh, oh, oh. Call on me. I know why.

Because the scientologists have taken over the bodies of the Florida state insurance commissioners. Right?

Wait a minute ... Let me think about that.


185 posted on 03/31/2005 2:13:08 PM PST by atlaw
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To: Thanatos

It's entirely appropriate to consider Nazi-like any person who supported disallowing water and food to Terri.


186 posted on 03/31/2005 2:13:51 PM PST by k2blader (The state sanctioned murder of Terri Shiavo happened on the Republicans' watch.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Yep the fruits of Eugenics is Terri Schiavo's death.


187 posted on 03/31/2005 2:15:48 PM PST by lastchance (Life is sacred.)
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To: Blzbba

Like I said many times now, if we allow individual cases like these to draw our attention and resources away from the rest of the world, we are guilty of negligence and have failed our duty to preserve life. It's one thing to learn from individual cases it's another thing entirely to exclude them.


188 posted on 03/31/2005 2:26:27 PM PST by Gava
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To: theFIRMbss

How do you equate the defense of the Judeo Christian ethic for life with Muslim terrorism? Muslim Terrorists believe that Jews, any supporters of Israeli statehood, people who speak out for woman's equality and Muslims who support a secular government are enemies of Allah and deserve to die. Not only that but to kill such infidels is a matter of pride and assurance of future glory. We who defended Terri believe that every human life is worthy of dignity and a gift of God. If the killing of Terri at the bequest of her husband and sanctioned by judicial fiat is a private matter so is every other domestic crime. One of the stated and right purposes of Gov't is the protection of life.


189 posted on 03/31/2005 2:26:37 PM PST by lastchance (Life is sacred.)
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To: atlaw
You have a point. Have the scientologists gotten money from the Hospice, too?

Do they get money from Felos?

Thank you for opening this scientology nexus up. FReepers?

scientology_and_terri_schindler_schiavo_death_connection


The Rule of Terri's Case Strikes Again. -2004- Judge Greer's crimes


Law conveniently changed by Hospice where Terri is dying

190 posted on 03/31/2005 2:27:56 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Phantom Lord
Mention of or calling a nazi is an automatic disqualification and loss of debate.

It's about time this bit of internet debate etiquette comes to an end, because it serves only those who refuse to consider evil. If we agree as conservatives and Christians that evil is to be shunned, fought, and rejected, then how can we even discuss it unless we compare present instances of evil to past instances of it. Claiming you can't mention Nazis, facilitates, if nothing else, holocaust denial. Is that what you're pitching?
191 posted on 03/31/2005 2:30:49 PM PST by farmer18th ("The fool says in his heart there is no God.")
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To: lugsoul
If your touting of your credentials has any meaning

If I were to apply my "credentials" to support my views on the Schiavo case et. al. it would indeed have been an appeal to authority fallacy. However, there is no such fallacy presenting such evidence directly against the charge that I need more training in logic. I thought it was clear that I was doing so.

Similarly, I will grant you that if your assertion about TerriRepublic hysteria, was not intended to support "letting Terri die" et. al. then there was no ad homonym fallacy.

Since you maintain it was not, so be it. Its certainly not worth arguing about at this point.

192 posted on 03/31/2005 2:32:21 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: Diogenesis; All
As a public service, I feel compelled to point out that Diogenesis is now claiming that Governor Bush and President Bush are in cahoots with scientologists, and that they were complicit in a scientology-based conspiracy to murder Terri Schiavo, referring his loyal followers to this site:

http://libertytothecaptives.net/scientology_and_terri_schindler_schiavo_death_connection.html

The lunatics are now in charge. All hail the lunatics.

193 posted on 03/31/2005 2:32:39 PM PST by atlaw
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To: PaRebel
What are they?

Murderers.

194 posted on 03/31/2005 2:36:56 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: atlaw
As a public service, I feel compelled to point out that Diogenesis is now claiming that Governor Bush and President Bush are in cahoots with scientologists, and that they were complicit in a scientology-based conspiracy to murder Terri Schiavo, referring his loyal followers to this site:

I did not say that. You know that.

However, it is clear that as you point out, the Scientologists ARE linked to Greer, Felos, etc.

Many were not aware of that.

195 posted on 03/31/2005 2:38:28 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Diogenesis

Don't bother reading the sites you refer folks to, eh?


196 posted on 03/31/2005 2:43:14 PM PST by atlaw
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To: atlaw

ANDRE LENOGE: "Where was Congress? Where were the Senators?
Nobody knows. Their chambers were empty. No one was there.
There has only been only one case like this in all of American history.
That was Roanoke Island [North Carolina] in 1587 when everyone disappeared. Every man, woman and child.
Hope is dimming for the missing residents of the US Congress
but .... there is word carved on the wall of the Senate Chamber, "Croaton".
No one knows what it means. Maybe its a place favored for pork? No one knows.
But I do know one thing. Congress will ALL need to be replaced in the next election."

197 posted on 03/31/2005 2:52:44 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Victoria Delsoul

Ping.


198 posted on 03/31/2005 2:59:00 PM PST by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but lord I'm free.)
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To: Diogenesis
I see you have exhausted your repertoire. I'll leave you in peace.
199 posted on 03/31/2005 3:16:30 PM PST by atlaw
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To: grassboots.org

So youre advocating murdering THEM?? Yeah, seeing local police battle it out with national guard troops *really* would have helped....not.


200 posted on 03/31/2005 3:16:46 PM PST by Windsong (FighterPilot)
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