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And You Wonder Why We Are Nervous?

by Blake on Aug 12, 2009 at 09:03 Political

The Resident keeps on mocking his detractors regarding the Healthcare bill, saying that they are resorting to “scare” tactics to try and kill this obamanation of a bill, but in reality, all one has to do is look at the architects of this bill- who had input in the formation of the terms by which these “people” ( and I say that provisionally) wish to dictate our lives. 

Take Professor Peter Singer- a man who believes that a baby is not human until it can have actual thoughts, and recognize that there is a tomorrow. That alone is scary stuff, but there’s more-

Singer states that arguments for or against abortion should be based on utilitarian calculation which weighs the preferences of a mother against the preferences of the fetus. A preference is anything sought to be obtained or avoided; all forms of benefit or harm caused to a being correspond directly with the satisfaction or frustration of one or more of its preferences. Since a capacity to experience suffering or satisfaction is a prerequisite to having any preferences at all, and a fetus, at least up to around eighteen weeks, says Singer, has no capacity to suffer or feel satisfaction, it is not possible for such a fetus to hold any preferences at all. In a utilitarian calculation, there is nothing to weigh against a mother’s preferences to have an abortion, therefore abortion is morally permissible.

Similar to his argument for abortion, Singer argues that newborns similarly lack the essential characteristics of personhood — “rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness”^[28] — and therefore “killing a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living.”^[29]

en.wikipedia.org

Kind of Nazi- like, isn’t it? But then he gets really bizarro- Don’t believe me? Okay, here we go-

In a 2001 review of Midas Dekker’s Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, Singer argues that sexual activities between humans and animals that result in harm to the animal should remain illegal, but that “sex with animals does not always involve cruelty” and that “mutually satisfying activities” of a sexual nature may sometimes occur between humans and animals, and that writer Otto Soyka would condone such activities.

en.wikipedia.org

Gee, now there’s somebody you don’t want working at the SPCA, much less having input in the most intrusive and expensive Healthcare bill ever to be debated.

Now we come to John Holdren, who, believe it or not, is the Resident’s Science Czar- Really? Allow me-

Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A “Planetary Regime” with the power of life and death over American citizens. 

The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both? 

These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — informally known as the United States’ Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that: 

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not; 
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food; 
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise; 
• People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized. 
• A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force. 

zombietime.com

This, unfortunately, is just the beginning of the wrong- headed thinking that pervades the White House, and after becoming just a little acquainted with these two  sc**bags, you really feel like washing your eyes out. These are people we want to have power in deciding our fate? Is their “input” really something that  is positive? Or is it as repugnant to you as it is to me?

I know that after doing the researchI have done, I no longer feel that Sarah Palin’s “Death Panel ” comment is that far out of line- indeed, sorry to say, she might be right on in her assessment, because these are not the only two that (A)- have had input on this bill, and (B)- are “Czars” in this administration.

The Resident once said that if we want to know how he is going to make his decisions, to just look at the people he surrounds himself with. Well- we are looking, but the glimpse is certainly not reassuring us about the state of our Healthcare.

Tomorrow, I will introduce you to Ezekiel Emmanuel, the brother of the Resident’s Chief of Staff, and Van Jones, the Resident’s “Green Jobs Czar”. They also hold views that are puzzling, considering the Healthcare Debate.

In the meantime, study these people- the more you know, the more horrified you will be.

And if I was the Resident, I wouldn’t leave Peter Singer and Bo, the Resident’s dog, in the same room.

It’s just not safe.

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Tags: eugenics, morality, rationing, Sterilization