Beck to the Future II: Three Scary ObamaCare "Czars"

LifeSiteNews ^ | 8/28/09 | Peter J. Smith

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See Part I
Beck to the Future: Glen Beck Exposes Dangerous Link Between Nazi Eugenics and ObamaCare Reform Experts

By Peter J. Smith

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Germany's experience with National Socialism is one of the darker moments of human history. FOX News host Glenn Beck has taken on the challenge of applying the lessons of Nazi Germany (government-controlled health care, combined with the principle of valuing human beings based on "quality of life" and a severe economic crisis) to "question with boldness" the direction American health-care is heading under President Barack Obama and his policy advisors.

Beck hosts a radio program and a 5 P.M. television program on the FOX News Channel five days a week. But the anchorman's passion is for taking an honest and fearless look at Obama's advisors who have taken positions so radical out in the open that exposing them seems like melodramatic fiction.

In his health-care reform special, Beck looks at three critical advisors or "Czars" in President Obama's Administration. These policy advisors manage new offices and exercise power within the Executive Branch, but are unaccountable to Congress in the way that cabinet appointees confirmed by the full Senate are.

In the first part Beck focused on Nazi Germany, because a system that valued the worth of human beings based on "quality of life" led inevitably to Hitler's "final solution." However it began when Germans became used to the idea that human life ultimately had a value related to qualities valued by the state as a collective whole. That thinking led to the acceptance of "Lebensunwertes Leben" or "life unworthy of life," and crimes against humanity most Germans, other than the National Socialist elite, did not foresee as a consequence.
 
"Well-intentioned people can produce systems that raise serious questions," admonished Beck, asking his viewers to take a hard look at several advisors in Obama's inner-circle whose intentions are undermined by very serious flaws when it comes to judging which human lives have dignity - or even qualify for life at all. These advisors or "czars" are designing America's new government-controlled health-care system. Beck names them as Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, Health Reform Policy Advisor, John Holdren, Science Czar, and Cass Sunstein, the Regulatory Czar, and reminds his audience to take up President Obama's advice: to know his policies and who influences his thinking, look at his advisors.

Dr. "Zeke" Emmanuel and the Complete Lives System

Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel works in the White House Office of Management and Budget as a health-policy advisor and he is a member of the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. Dr. Emmanuel is one of the pillars of Obama's reform. However Dr. Emmanuel has stated repeatedly in public forums such as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that doctors were driving up health-care costs because they value the Hippocratic Oath as "an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of cost or effect on others."

Instead, Dr. Emmanuel raises the possibility of a new ethical system, the "Complete Lives System" that would ration care away from the elderly, away from infants, and away from human beings judged unable to rationally participate in society (such as those with dementia), in favor of those aged 15-44, who have the best chance "to live a complete life."

Dr. Emmanuel's theory of rationing, however, could end up being applied in a severe national economic crisis, far worse than the current recession, and not unlike the Great Depression that crippled Germany. Germany had made the mistake of trying to dig itself out of its staggering national debt by heavily inflating the money supply in order to save its economy. Beck makes the point that this is not too dissimilar to the United States' attempt to stimulate its economy, which unable to borrow more money from creditor-nations like China, has instead borrowed cash from the printing presses of the Federal Reserve.

Such a system could be implemented and recommended to the government insurance programs or private companies participating in the Health Insurance Exchange by means of a Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research and its advisory panels as proposed in HR 3200 "America's Affordable Health Choices Act," which soon enough may be named for the departed Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.). Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin brought attention to this fact in a Facebook statement that charged Obama and Dr. Emmanuel would turn the health-care system into a "death panel." (see coverage here  and here)

But as Beck points out, Dr. Emmanuel may not believe that people who can't become developed citizens are not "basic" and "should not be guaranteed," but he is not alone in his thinking. Obama's "Science Czar" John Holdren does him one better: some people are not yet human.

John Holdren: Not Even Born Babies are Human … Yet

John Holdren is President Obama's Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Beck says he is another key player in Obama's health-care reform. But Holdren has a life-long obsession with population control and has written two books outlining a host of options to deal with what he sees as a global crisis of "human overpopulation."

Beck points out that Holdren has this to say about who is human and who is not, and babies do not qualify as human beings: "The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experience and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being."

Holdren co-authored a college textbook called "Ecoscience" in which he advanced the idea that forced abortion and sterilization of women is justifiable under the US Constitution, and that sterilizing agents could be added to the drinking water in order to curb the growth of human populations.

That background does not sick well with Americans trying to judge for themselves whether to trust the safety and effects of the hastily approved H1N1 "swine flu" vaccine. Holdren has urged Americans to take the vaccine warning that up to 90,000 Americans could die from the virus this season - although to date less only 500 Americans have died of the virus. Many are wary of taking the fast-tracked vaccine citing the 1976 swine flu scare in which the vaccine killed more people than the disease and left many more with a nerve disease called Guillian Barre syndrome.

 Cass Sunstein and Rationing by QALY

Cass Sunstein, Obama's appointed advisor to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, shares opinions in common with Dr. Emmanuel and John Holdren when it comes to health-care rationing and the dignity of the human person. If Sunstein's appointment is not rejected by the Senate, then Sunstein will oversee the OIRA, which creates government regulations for federal laws.

Sunstein advocates rationing  based on "quality-adjusted life years" (QALY), meaning that the government would evaluate statistically whether a person's life is worth the cost of living.

Sunstein is a radical animal rights thinker, who believes that animals such as dolphins and whales should have legal representation. Sunstein counts Princeton philosopher Peter Singer among his closest friends. Singer believes that children under the age of seven do not have sufficient rationality to count as human beings, and for that reason parents could commit infanticide.

Sunstein has also stated a desire to regulate the internet in order to fight what he calls a "system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government."

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However it began when Germans became used to the idea that human life ultimately had a value related to qualities valued by the state as a collective whole. That thinking led to the acceptance of "Lebensunwertes Leben" or "life unworthy of life," and crimes against humanity most Germans, other than the National Socialist elite, did not foresee as a consequence.

And what makes this all the more evil is that Americans DO see the consequences and Zero still wants to impose it on us.

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[rvoitier]

Van Jones, EPA Brown and the FCC dude aren’t walks in the park either.

[usnavycdr]

Can you believe these people are making decisions that will impact our future generations? This is scary stuff.

[freespirited]

Here are links to the entire week of Glenn’s special on America’s future. I stayed up until 2 pm EST several nights in order to not to miss a single one.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327430/posts

[Kenny]

I’m not that up on czars, will someone please explain to me what powers they have and where that power comes from? Constitutionally, I don’t see it but maybe I’m just naive.

[Salvation]

Very scary -- it was an excellent series.

New Republic: America's Future, Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times, GLENN BECK TV THREAD! Monday, August 24, 2009

New Republic: America's Future, Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times, GLENN BECK TV THREAD! Tuesday, August 25, 2009

New Republic: America's Future, Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times, GLENN BECK TV THREAD! Wednesday, August 26, 2009

New Republic: America's Future, Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times, GLENN BECK TV THREAD! Thursday, August 27, 2009

New Republic: America's Future, Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times, GLENN BECK TV THREAD! Friday, August 28, 2009

[GWMcClintock]

The thought comes to mind that if these “people” are successful—WHAT FUTURE GENERATION?!

[justiceseeker93]

I am so revulsed by Zeke ("The Freak") Emanuel's paper (actually, he co-authored it two others from the NIH "Department of Bioethics", where he was attached at the time) that I can't get by the the first paragraph.

The mere fact that a "Department of Bioethics" exists at a government institution - and apparently did so even before Obama - is a big (but silent) scandal in and of itself. "Bioethics" is a term coined within the last several decades by leftist command and control health care freaks seeking to legitimatize their perverse notions within academia. That the American taxpayer actually supports masters of this macabre "science" like Emanuel is a step short of the Nazi government supporting Dr. Mengele's "research."

Bioethicists demean the value of human life by envisioning a government run system of health care where they can perpetuate "scarcity" of health care resources to achieve bureaucratic control over life and death. Their motto, as Emanuel et al say in the very first sentence of their article, is "scarcity is the mother of allocation." While the general population is made miserable by scarcity, these monsters sadistically wish to create shortages in life sustaining resources to give themselves the most powerful roles in their new perverse "paradise."

[firebrand]

They are unelected and Congress has no control over them (except to eliminate their funding, which this Congress is not about to do). They therefore give too much power to the executive branch and unbalance the separation of the three powers of government.

They are also increasing at an breathtaking rate--a czar for everything.

[firebrand]

I'm going to make an unpopular statement here, but I think the pro-life movement would do much to advance its cause by admitting that there is a population problem.

When I say this to conservatives, I invariably get the answer that there is no population problem. And I know the standard answer about poverty and starvation being due to the poor distribution of resources and I don't buy it.

I am a staunch pro-lifer. I think we just have to stress that unethical solutions will harm us and we have to find ethical ways to stop the rising tide.

[Atom Smasher]

This entire administration needs to go! If this House & Senate won’t begin impeachment proceedings, then we need to get butts in those seats that will.

Someone let me know when we are exiting the twilight zone...

[ExTexasRedhead]

“Mr. Mengele” is a more accurate description of this Satan follower, IMO. What an American disgrace reminiscent of 1940’s Germany. Physicians calling in to talk shows concur that he’s sick and evil.

[MestaMachine]

That is just not true. There is more empty space on this planet than there is inhabited space. There are more than enough resources to feed, house, heat, cool, and clothe a much larger population. The greed of dictators and the global elite that control populations is the problem. Man’s inhumanity to man is the problem.
Every new life is a hope for the future. The way populations are being controlled is evil. There are nature’s own barriers to overpopulation should it ever occur. This world has never reached that point despite what stupid men say.

[firebrand]

Well, I disagree. I already said I don't go along with the "poor-distribution" counterclaim.

We have had nature's own barriers for quite a while now: war, starvation, rampant greed, plagues that have wiped out millions, a lowering of inhibitions against unethical termination of human life . . . I've had about enough of all of them.

I'm curious to know what kind of nature's barriers you are thinking of.

[rodguy911]

THey will advance just as far as we let them,sometimes we can stop them but not all the time.

[Kenny]

Thanks for the reply, but I still don’t understand what they can do. Can they affect taxes? I thought that was just Congress. Can they make laws? I don’t see how?

I just don’t understand what the American people would be bound by that would originate with these czars.

[MestaMachine]

Populations are skewed in these countries, way out of balance with the space they have. It is misleading to say that any of these countries are overpopulated. They are herded into urban centers. That is something else again. Look at the wide open spaces of the US. And yet we are discouraged from having children. There is no reason for it except to keep the population UNDER control.

[MestaMachine]

“...war, starvation, rampant greed,...”

None of these things are nature’s barriers. Perhaps disease is, but here is a point to ponder. No matter how many people, earth seems to make room for more. It is a naturally occurring process, as is weather. Oceans narrow and deepen leaving more land on the surface. Hawaii is land creation in progress. It isn’t the only place. Undersea volcanoes create new land masses continously.
Resources, including oil replenish themselves. The control exercised over these resources is strictly man’s doing, not nature’s.
Forests are thriving, but we are told they are not. Forests and any other kind of vegetation will grow and grow and regrow. If you don’t tend to an asphalt highway, grass will grow on the highway or a cement sidewalk through the tiniest crack even if you can’t see it before the blades of grass poke through.
Nature provides and those in control manipulate it to their own benefit.