Thread by 2ndDivisionVet.
I must say, writing for Big Hollywood has made me face the most belligerently intelligent among my readers, many of whom refuse to believe that murder is murder.
Even those who are willing to admit that abortion does end a human life, defend Roe V. Wade by saying that abortion, like alcoholism, cannot be stopped by Prohibition.
Hmmm …
Alcoholism is only terminal for the alcoholic, therefore, having experienced it myself, it is suicidal.
A law against suicide is utterly unenforceable for the obvious reasons, mainly that, in the case of suicide, “too late is too late.”
Alcoholism, though a disturbing disease, is not as unrelentingly homicidal as abortion.
Abortion, on the other hand, takes the life of an innocent human being and is therefore, both per se and ipso facto, murder.
Let us not, despite the verbal circumlocutions of the Supreme Court, deny that.
A trimester division of gestation is no more convincing than the racist diatribes of Hitler’s most devoted scientists.
They are both rationalizations for mass murder.
To call such a charge “preposterous” is as blind or criminally negligent as were the citizens of the Third Reich.
Now, however, that we are in the most mature years of William Clinton’s Third Way, it is not genocide we are talking about but the infanticide of legalized abortion.
The Third Way and Roe v Wade contain fine distinctions about murder that only Ivy League lawyers and their justices on the Supreme Court can justify.
We, of the rude multitude, must simply obey their judgments.
No wonder we have the arrogance of Harvard’s Barack Obama for President.
The Clintons paved the way and played John The Baptist for Barack Obama or BO, the Big One.
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Threads by iowamark and me.
The founder of controversial Swiss suicide firm Dignitas has become a millionaire since setting up the group, it has been claimed.
Ludwig Minelli was virtually penniless when he founded Dignitas 12 years ago.
But, according to a new probe into the organisation, by 2007 he was worth more than £1million.
Although assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, it is against the law to profit financially from someone’s death.
The investigation by respected Swiss magazine Beobachter says Mr Minelli is 'skating on thin ice'.
The report, headlined ‘Unexplained Wealth’, poses the question: 'How could a 77-year-old pensioner amass so much wealth?'
It says the former journalist, who is also a qualified lawyer, had no assets in 1998 but is now worth a fortune and owns a large house near Zurich.
Accounting records obtained by the magazine claim to show Mr Minelli’s personal wealth reached almost two million Swiss francs (£1.2 million) by 2007.
His taxable income was 162,000 Swiss francs (£97,800) and his taxable assets were 1,998,000 Swiss francs (£1.2 million)...
One nurse who assisted 30 deaths during her two and a half years at the clinic said she was so disturbed by its activities that she quit her job.
Soraya Wernli, who left Dignitas in 2005, has spoken to police about her concerns, saying she is convinced Dignitas is a money-making machine.
She said: 'I joined because I believed it was a good organisation which helped the terminally ill end their suffering but I came to realise it was really something different. It was all done for money...
Dignitas is often at the centre of controversy. Last month details emerged of a patient suffering from paranoid schizophrenia who was given drugs to end his life...
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A newspaper investigation has raised new questions about Dignitas and whether Ludwig Minelli, its founder and director, makes profit from his “mercy killings”.At the same time Stuart Weisberg, a psychiatrist, announced plans to open a Dignitas style suicide clinic in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal. The Oregon Medical Board has temporarily stopped Weisberg by suspending his license to practise medicine in Oregon. Nonetheless, the law in Oregon does not prevent doctors from competing with Compassion & Choices by setting up lucrative suicide clinics.
Previously a human rights lawyer and an attorney at the Zurich bar, Mr Minelli had no taxable personal fortune registered when he set up his suicide clinic in 1998.
A decade later, the Beobachter investigation found, he had an annual taxable income of £98,000 and a personal fortune of over £1.2 million, wealth that includes a luxury villa.
Mr Minelli, who said he would take no salary from Dignitas when opening the clinic 12 years ago, has insisted that his wealth comes from an inheritance, left by his mother.
But the cost of a simple suicide at Dignitas has risen from £1,800 in 2005 to £4,500, fuelling suspicions that the clinic may not be sticking to Swiss laws that are supposed to prevent people “selfishly” profiting from assisted suicide.
The cost of the clinic’s full service, including funerals, medical costs and official fees, is as high as £7,000.
Andreas Brunner, a Swiss prosecutor, has accused Mr Minelli, and Dignitas, of hiding behind Swiss privacy laws to refuse publication of their accounts for the last five years.
”We have never had a good look at their book-keeping but in order to demand that we need a good reason and a concrete example that there is something suspicious to investigate,” he said. “He has promised for years to make the accounts public but it has never happened.”
Dignitas has faced criticism for accepting donations from suicide clients, one patient is said to have signed over more than £60,000.
Soraya Wernli, a nurse employed by Dignitas between 2003 and 2005, has accused the organisation of being a “production line of death concerned only with profits”.
In April this year, police divers found over 60 cremation urns dumped in Lake Zurich. Each of the urns bore the logo of the Nordheim crematorium used by Dignitas.
Mr Minelli, in an interview in March, insisted that Dignitas did not make profits for personal gain but claimed that Swiss law did not prevent money being made from euthanasia.
”If you are helping and abetting without selfish motives, this is quite legal,” he told the American PBS broadcaster.
”If you would take a lot of money for this service, then it might be selfish. But if somebody would do it for normal profit, it would even still be legal. But Dignitas is not working for profit. We are an association, and the association does not make profit. If we make profit, we will take this profit in order to have a higher quality of our services.”
“Alcoholism, though a disturbing disease, is not as unrelentingly homicidal as abortion.
Abortion, on the other hand, takes the life of an innocent human being and is therefore, both per se and ipso facto, murder. ....”
He makes some great points.
