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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!


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To: Kenny Bunkport
You have nailed it. The Nazis hid behind the "rule of law"
just as our pols & judiciary have done with this "legal" homicide.There is no difference between pols who profess respect for innocent human life, do nothing about it's destruction & Germans who did not stand up to the evil of Hitler's Holocaust. They are cowards all - as was Pontius Pilate.
61 posted on 03/31/2005 12:23:25 PM PST by Apercu ("Rep ipsa loquitor")
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To: thoughtomator

I don't think the dropping of bombs was unintentional, though, do you?


62 posted on 03/31/2005 12:23:43 PM PST by dmz
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To: Apercu

Official flag of Pinella county, Florida - The State of Human Torture and Prolonged Starvation

" 9. Between September 1939 and April 1945 the defendants Karl Brandt, Blome, Brack, and Hoven unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly committed war crimes, as defined by Article II of Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, and were connected with plans and enterprises involving the execution of the so-called "euthanasia" program of the German Reich in the course of which the defendants herein murdered hundreds of thousands of human beings, including nationals of German-occupied countries. This program involved the systematic and secret execution of the aged, insane, incurably ill, of deformed children, and other persons, by gas, lethal injections, and diverse other means in nursing homes, hospitals, and asylums. Such persons were regarded as "useless eaters" and a burden to the German war machine. The relatives of these victims were informed that they died from natural causes, such as heart failure. German doctors involved in the "euthanasia" program were also sent to Eastern occupied countries to assist in the mass extermination of Jews."

[ Count 2, section 9, of the indictment in "the Doctor's Trial" at the Nuremberg war crimes trial;
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
]

HEALTHFUL DRINKS WITH WARM MEALS EATEN SINCE THE ORDER-TO-MURDER-AN-INVALID BY JUDGE GREER
BEFORE HIS GREER'S and THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM'S Latest VICTIM WAS MURDERED

Scumbag Torturer and Murderer-At-Will, The Imperial Pinellas County Judgenfuhrer Greer ..... 60
............................................................................................ Terri Shiavo 0
............................................................................................ Lee Malvo 55
...................................................................................... Scott Peterson 54

63 posted on 03/31/2005 12:24:27 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: conserv13

"Can we please stop the insanity? And by that I mean comparisons to Nazi Germany and Terri as Jesus. Enough, please. "



Agreed, but don't hold your breath. Hell, there are still many Freepers convinced that the liberals are dancing with joy over Terri's death, even AFTER Jester Jackson (King of the whiny liberals) showed his liberal self to be on the side of the pro-lifers!!


64 posted on 03/31/2005 12:25:04 PM PST by Blzbba (Don't hate the player - hate the game!)
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To: hoyaloya
What about the innocent children our bombs unintentionally shred?

The key word is "unintentionally". This woman was killed deliberatly, which is another thing entirely.

The old argument that you cannot fight war because innocents may die is old. The answer is that you cannot sit frozen and do nothing while even more innocents die by your non-action. If you do, then civilization will inevitably sink to its lowest common denominator, with the most violent in charge.

It's a sad commentary on humanity. But it is a fact that to maintain civilization, it is necessary to be able to act in uncivilized ways when necessary. The trick is keeping those acts of uncivility in tight control, which I think this society has accomplished very well.

65 posted on 03/31/2005 12:25:53 PM PST by narby
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To: mozrock
[The fact is that she would have lived a lot longer had she been provided with sustenance.] How does ANYONE know this? Simple question...

How does ANYONE know what?

That she would have lived longer had she not been starved/dehydrated by court order? Are you seriously denying that?

Well, I guess that nobody "knows" that anyone will live tomorrow if fed today. So on that logic I could starve you and then say "I'm not killing you. Because, you don't know you would've lived otherwise. You could've gotten hit by a car. Can't prove otherwise."

How much sophistry are you willing to engage in? I'll match.

66 posted on 03/31/2005 12:26:14 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Blzbba

See post 63 to see what I mean.


67 posted on 03/31/2005 12:26:16 PM PST by conserv13
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To: dmz

The killing of innocents was unintentional.


68 posted on 03/31/2005 12:27:11 PM PST by thoughtomator (Fight terror - strangle a caribou!)
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To: grassboots.org
No, you just don't want to take any responsibility for the murder of this poor woman. Well, we are guilty. If we remain silent and don't work for change, Pre-Hitler Germany will be a pale memory compared to the brutalism and barbarous murders that will take place under our very noses. We will not be able to claim we didn't know it. The arrows of God's judgment cannot be far behind. There are already millions of unborn children being murdered each year - Have we forgotten 9/11?

No, YOU trashed an entire race for something Florida did. It has nothing to do with me, the Germans or 9/11 and you are going off topic. It had something, historically, to do with the Nazis, but you didn't say that. You said "Arent' we good Germans?" -- painting an ENTIRE people for something they had nothing to do with these past months. This wasn't even Hitler's fault either. The state of Florida allowed this, in our own country, in the year 2005.
Try to put away your tired old hatreds of something that happened for 13 years in a country's history....and is not GERMANE to this.

Now GOD'S JUDGMENT is another story. This really IS about GOD'S JUDGMENT on our society.
If our society has come this far down the path of perdition then we are all partly to blame -- even you.

Stay on topic and keep a realistic approach and I would listen.

69 posted on 03/31/2005 12:27:25 PM PST by starfish923
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To: mozrock

I don't mean to imply that you individually are responsible. The idea is called Federalism. As an American, you are part of the corporate responsibility we all bear for this.

God judges individuals and nations. Nations are generally judged for their corporate and public actions. That is why there is a difference, in regards to judgment, between back-alley abortions and Main St Abortions. There is a difference between the scores (hundreds? thousands?) of folks murdered just like Terri behind closed doors and those murdered as we watch on Cable Television. We are more responsible for that which we know and that which we "lawfully" sanction.

Psalm 94:20, 21: Can a throne of destruction be allied with You, One which devises mischief by decree? They band themselves together against the life of the righteous And condemn the innocent to death. (New American Standard)


70 posted on 03/31/2005 12:27:36 PM PST by grassboots.org (I'll Say It Again - The first freedom is life.)
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To: grassboots.org

Ok, this is really pissing me (and many others) off now.
Terri IS NOT millions of Jews
Terri IS NOT Jesus

Please stop making parallels as you are marginalizing both holocaust and true Christians who properly understand what it means to not use The Lords name in vain.


71 posted on 03/31/2005 12:27:42 PM PST by PissAndVinegar
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To: Thanatos
What horrors await us?

Apparently, the horror of movie critics suddenly imbued with the desire to blame this debacle on their carefully constructed straw men, coined with the nebulous and obfuscating term 'Neo-Nazis'. The sad truth of the matter is the Neo-Nazis, whomever they are, had nothing to do with this; for this author they simply are the easiest, most comforting target to strike.

I would infinitely prefer the talking heads embrace the truth and correctly identify the blame where it lies; at the hands & feet of Michael Shiavo. The Shindlers' legal advisers were simply out-gunned by barrister Felos and his merry band of cohorts.

Welcome to American justice, where the shrewdest lawyers and the fattest wallets usually prevail.

72 posted on 03/31/2005 12:28:17 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: theFIRMbss

"a private matter"

Neither the murder of unborn children or the starving to death of an innocent person is a private matter.


73 posted on 03/31/2005 12:29:15 PM PST by grassboots.org (I'll Say It Again - The first freedom is life.)
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To: PissAndVinegar
1. The Holocaust is capitalized.

2. Even the murder of six million began with one (1).

74 posted on 03/31/2005 12:30:42 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Thanatos
One euthanasia movie, based on a novel by a National Socialist doctor, actually won a prize at the world-famous Venice Film Festival!

The parallels to today are eerie.

75 posted on 03/31/2005 12:30:50 PM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Thanatos

If I read the news and the posts on FR correctly, it was not a policy of the US, nor the actions of a political group that did in Terri Schiavo. It was not the failure of many sincere people to break in to her hospice chamber and forcibly re-insert her feeding tube or give her food and water that killed her.

No, the way I read it, it was the intent of Michael Schiavo, a scheming, brutal little man, to get her out of his way when she was no longer of any use to him. It was a state judicial system gone horribly wrong. No surprise that it was Florida. The actions and decisions of a few hijacked a woman's life and took it out of her parents' control. Period.

My God, I thought I would only see this much hand-wringing on DU. What's next? Are people going to start saying that they can't go into to work because they feel sick to their stomachs? Are they going to give up on the entire foundation for this country?

Pull yourselves together, people! Mourn the tragic loss of this innocent woman, yes. Curse the names of those responsible for her cruel death. But please, please do not turn your backs on an entire nation because of the evil machinations of a few individuals! This country did not kill Terri Schiavo. She died because a few people were able to manipulate the laws to their advantage. These people should not be allowed to prosper for their actions, and with any luck, the truth will come to light and justice will prevail.

Get mad, get busy, get involved. But leave the nazi charges and hatred of the administration to DU. It suits them much better. We're supposed to be the rational ones.

/frustration


76 posted on 03/31/2005 12:30:51 PM PST by SlowBoat407 (Everything that I've written on it for the past two years is GONE!)
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To: grassboots.org

You must live in a Fool's Paradise.

But to satisfy you, I AM...


a. in favor of abortion IF the "mother" is a child
rape victim.
b. in favor of euthanasia when the case is hopeless and
the end is nowhere in sight (doctors do this all the
time for terminal cancer patients...I know I've had
several personal experiences with administering
prescribed morphine dosages)
c. in favor of capital punishment for the most heinous
crimes such as raping/murdering a child


Further, I don't think my stand on these issues classify
me as a Nazi! BTW, I'm 75 years old and I LIVED THROUGH WWII. Did you?


77 posted on 03/31/2005 12:30:53 PM PST by Grendel9
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To: dsat4life
"I'm sorry but you are reaching"

I didn't write this.
You are a registered nurse?
I hope you read better in your work place that you do on this thread.
Scary.

78 posted on 03/31/2005 12:31:24 PM PST by starfish923
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To: Blzbba; conserv13

HERE HERE!!!!

Wait, maybe one of us can hijack this thread to make it into a discussion on the economy or WOT since just about every other thread was jacked into becoming a Terri thread.


79 posted on 03/31/2005 12:32:54 PM PST by PissAndVinegar
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To: SlowBoat407
It is not the POTUS who did this.

This Atrocity is Judicial Murder by Starvation and Dehydration

ALL JUDGES INVOLVED SHOULD BE IMPEACHED FOR CONSIPIRACY TO MURDER


Guilty - Pinellas County Judges, Hospice, LE, and Crematoria

Guilty - the Nazi-proTerrorist Judiciary.

80 posted on 03/31/2005 12:34:16 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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