The EU: Save Saddam But Kill the Innocent

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No death penalty for Saddam, the EU cries, but then go about their daily rounds “actively euthanizing” babies and the elderly. Sieg Heil!

After the more than appropriate death penalty the Iraqi court handed to mass murderer Saddam Hussein, the EU and England’s Tony Blair chimed in with haughty, holier-than-thou condemnations of capital punishment. They’re against it “whether Saddam or anybody else” bleated Blair. Funny, you wouldn’t know that considering the latest medical establishment plan in England.

England, in all of its anti-Death Penalty Moral Superiority, has also now become so much Better Than Everyone Else, that they are deciding how best to handle those pesky sick infants and others who pose a financial burden to the national healthcare scheme.

Plea to let doctors kill babies with disabilities

Senior doctors are urging health professionals to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies. The proposal, by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology, follows the increase in the number of such children surviving because of medical advances.

The college is arguing for “active euthanasia” to be considered for the overall good of parents, sparing them the emotional burden and financial hardship of bringing up the sickest babies.

Their submission to an ethical inquiry into increased survival rates reads: “A very disabled child can mean a disabled family. If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome.”

So, sick babies need to be wiped out, but a mass murderer of two million innocent people deserves to live and get public support for his life to be spared from government leaders. Hello Mr. Orwell.

And now to that bastion of Human Rights and Compassion for the Whole World, the European Union, which also proudly holds itself as against the death penalty, condemned the sentence and urged Iraq not to carry it out:

BRUSSELS, Nov 5 – The European Union urged Iraq on Sunday not to carry out the death sentence passed on Iraq’s former leader Saddam Hussein after his conviction for crimes against humanity.

“The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and it should not be carried out in this case either,” Finland, current holder of the rotating EU presidency, said in a statement.

Isn’t that nice? England and the EU are compelled to demonstrate their moral superiority that they’ll even stand up for the right of a mass murderer to live. After all, no one has the right to kill another person, that’s the foundation of the Morally Superior when dealing with heady issues like this.

Hey, wait a minute! Just like England, the EU is against the Death Penalty for the Evil Murderers of the innocent but do think it’s sick babies, the disabled and the elderly should get snuffed ASAP.

Dutch legalise euthanasia

The Netherlands has become the first country in the world to legalise mercy killing after a controversial law on euthanasia came into force on Monday.

The legislation allows patients experiencing unbearable suffering to request euthanasia, and doctors who carry out such a mercy killing to be free from the threat of prosecution, provided they have followed strict procedures. The country has already tolerated the practice unofficially for decades, but parliament finally enshrined it in law last April.

This was back in 1992. But these strident anti-Death Penalty advocates for mass murderers had actually been killing the sick for years before it even became legal to, uh, kill people because they’re sick or in pain, or just a pain to everyone else. Like these oldsters. Who told them they could live as long as they do these days? That damn ’scientific advance’ scourge, ‘eating right’ and ‘exercise’ thing.

Comparisons have also been made with Nazi Germany which put to death thousands of handicapped children and mentally ill adults, despite the fact that the Dutch law clearly stipulates that the request for euthanasia must come from the patient alone, while he or she is of sound mind.

Ya think? A patient is in such pain they want to die, but are still considered of ’sound mind.’ Last time I checked, wanting to die was the first indication to doctors and everyone else that you are not of sound mind. But that’s not all. Take a look at this:

The Netherlands Voluntary Euthanasia Society is also debating whether elderly people should be prescribed a suicide pill to be able to end their own lives when they feel the time is right.

Well, isn’t that nice? What a lovely suggestion to an elderly person–”Hey, you’re getting a little long in the tooth there, Dearie, why don’t you just take this little pill for the moment for when you know the time is right to kill yourself. We’ve made it all nice and easy for you.”

Yeah, no suggestion there about what your options are.

And make no mistake–when these bureaucrats speak of “financial burdens,” they’re not worried about the financial cost to a family. England and the Netherlands have nationalized healthcare and the governments have made a cost-benefit analysis and they simply do not want to pay for long-term care–for anyone. Especially a baby. because that could go on foreverand we can’t have that.

This is exactly what England, the EU and Hitler all have in common and have led them to the same depravity: Socialized or nationalized healthcare. The moment the government pays for your healthcare, the concept of long-term or intensive care, for infants or the elderly, simply doesn’t add up. Hence, “active euthanasia.”

So, the next time you hear anyone speak of the joys of nationalized healthcare for Americans, or suggests that the government knows best about your health, look funny at them and tell them about what the truly vulnerable face in the Oh-So-Progressive EU.

If Hillarycare ever does happen here, I can tell you a couple of thing: the Baby Boomers will be the first to get something free from the government–your grandchild will be murdered by the State if not perfect and then you’ll get your very own Suicide Pill.

And we wonder why Islamists are having such an easy time raping Europe. When you have no moral foundation of your own, you have no legs to stand on to defend yourself.

UPDATE:

Reader Sankpals just emailed me this story from 2005 about the Dutch “debate” about killing infants:

The Dutch Debate Euthanasia for Infants

“It’s beautiful in a way,” said Eduard Vehagen, M.D., a pediatrician who acknowledges he has enabled four infants in the last three years to die by a lethal administration of morphine and midazolam (a sleeping medication), “It is after they die that you see them relaxed for the first time.”

Still, according to the director of Holland’s Lindeboom Institute for the study of medical ethics, Henk Jochemsen, the country needs to bring great gravitas to its reflections on the issue. “Applying euthanasia to children is another step down the slope in this debate,” Jochemsen said. “Not everybody agrees, obviously, but when we broaden the application from those who actively and repeatedly seek to end their lives to those for whom someone else determines death is a better option, we are treading in dangerous territory.”

Geniuses. ‘Dangerous territory”? What a bunch of self-important arrogant narcissists. And here is how the close their little story about this big intellectual drama:

The U.S. has characteristically lagged behind more progressive Europe. If a report from top-rated cable network, Fox News, is any indication, moves toward legalizing euthanasia of any kind will not be forthcoming at the national level any time soon…

Talk about a Death Cult. Well, folks, if we work hard enough we can continue to ‘lag behind’ all those Euro progressives who work furiously trying to figure out how to kill people. We, in the meantime, will continue to work furiously saving the world from Islamists who also love death. We’ve got our work cut out for us, but, if anyone can withstand this insanity and defeat it, it’s us backward, simpleton cousins from across the pond.

UPDATE 2:

This incredibly moving and revealing post has just been made in Comments by HShort. I want to make sure you all see it. And thank you H, for sharing your story, and shining more light on this unacceptable and inhumane depravity.

I was running a refugee health care project years ago, and by chance helped a Medicine Sans Frontiers French physician with a late night premature delivery. Turned out to be twins, the second of which was dead, which explained the premature labor. Not only did the physician, who had been the woman’s attending for months, express surprise and agitation over the fact there were twins, but he also made the comment that since the surviving baby was premature it would be very difficult for the mother to care for it in the conditions found in the refugee camp and that it would be better if it died.

I just thought he was venting and after helping setup the ‘incubator’, I left the doctor and nurse and went to bed, that was about two am. Around six am or so I got up and walking through the hospital found the incubator stuck off in a unused corner, the baby was in it. When I asked some of the para-medical staff why the baby was there and not with its mother, they shrugged and said the doctor had told them to put it there. Come to find out the baby had never been given to its mother, it had never been fed, it had been put in the corner to die. This was the cold season and when I took the baby out it was cold and not very responsive. I got the nurse to care for it and when the day shift arrived I got another doctor to attend, but it died shortly thereafter.

Although this baby was premature and small, at its birth it was robust and healthy. Whether or not it could have survived the rigors of the refugee camp, only God knows; however, we were there to provide health care services not to sentence people, especially helpless babies, to death. It is exactly in these cases of greatest need that the greatest efforts must be taken to ensure that whatever chance exists is provided. I’ve worked in battlefield and triage situations and I understand that there are cases and situations that exist where hard decisions need to be made; but you do not ensure death by denying what is in your ability to provide, just because it is too much bother. You do not kill innocents just because you can.