Personally, I've never been a big fan of red heads, either. I mean, do we really need THEM around? And then there's always that pesky liberal minority ... the possibilities are endless, ya?
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
In August, the main Dutch doctors' association KNMG urged the Health Ministry to create an independent board to review euthanasia cases for terminally ill people "with no free will," including children, the severely mentally retarded and people left in an irreversible coma after an accident.
I have read elsewhere, but have no attribution, that the process of selective euthanasia is already advanced in The Netherlands, and (I think) Norway, to include Old Dad and Anyone Else who presents an inconvenience to the living. Come one, come all. Everybody can qualify.
Events and attitudes like these expose the lack of moral stamina in The Netherlands in particular, and confirm the suspicion that the Theo Van Gogh incident will fade into a factual euthanasia of its own.
A remark was made recently on a talk show by an American in Amsterdam that the murder of Van Gogh produced about 10,000 demonstrators, while a government plan to raise the retirement age produced 200,000. I recall that there were also strikes in response to raising the hourly work week to 36 hours in Holland.
Tough talk in The Netherlands will fade when the Dutch Courage runs out, which should take about a month. And then they can contemplace the coming of Sharia Law in about twenty years time. They deserve it.
Posted by: Rhod | Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 08:38 PM