Oh FOX News, you silly fundamentalists, what will you think of next?
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:46 am
This just in! In an act of unparalleled fairness and balance™ FOX News declare the Netherlands as the home of the new holocaust.
Does History Repeat Itself?
Monday, December 06, 2004
By Cal Thomas
Something terrible is happening in the land of wooden shoes, windmills, Rembrandt (search) and wonderful breakfasts.
A Dutch hospital is euthanizing — killing — newborn babies who don't measure up to an arbitrary standard set by the hospital. The hospital at first requested guidelines for so-called "mercy killings" of newborns. It then revealed it has been engaging in the practice without any guidelines at all. Three years after the Dutch parliament passed a law allowing doctors to actively kill patients they deemed terminally ill, in great pain and with no prospects for recovery, it has come to this. At least with the elderly sick, they had to be consulted about their wishes. Newborns receive no such privilege.
I'm not surprised.
Once a single category of life is declassified as having no intrinsic value and a right to life, it is a very short step to declassify other categories when they are considered inconvenient, or burdensome.
Holland is a perfect example of what happens when there is no governing moral standard. The Dutch have decriminalized most drugs and people smoke dope openly in venues set aside for the practice. Prostitutes display their wares like mannequins in department store windows. And now we have at least one hospital murdering already born babies because someone has decreed them unworthy of life.
If ever there was a slippery slope to be studied, this is it.
The Dutch are now grappling with their open border policy. They have admitted thousands of radical Islamists who have not assimilated and are threatening the stability of the nation. A Dutch filmmaker (search) was murdered last month by a radical who didn't like a film he made criticizing Islam's treatment of women.
And now we have the killing of newborns. All of this in a country where the Nazis murdered Ann Frank just because she was Jewish and therefore less than human.
Does history repeat? In Holland, apparently it does.
summary: "The dutch have no morals, and should be thoroughly judged. Also, smoking weed leads to the killing of babies leads to a new holocaust. Additionally, Anne Frank was terminally ill (perhaps because being Jewish is a terminall illness) and thus her murder is comparable to euthanasia."
I don't mean to press the kick the USA button, but this is a ridiculous excuse for 'news'.
edit: I was about to post this in the euthanasia thread, but was afraid it would derail it.
second edit: Kick the USA button. Because I'm proud of that gif.
Does History Repeat Itself?
Monday, December 06, 2004
By Cal Thomas
Something terrible is happening in the land of wooden shoes, windmills, Rembrandt (search) and wonderful breakfasts.
A Dutch hospital is euthanizing — killing — newborn babies who don't measure up to an arbitrary standard set by the hospital. The hospital at first requested guidelines for so-called "mercy killings" of newborns. It then revealed it has been engaging in the practice without any guidelines at all. Three years after the Dutch parliament passed a law allowing doctors to actively kill patients they deemed terminally ill, in great pain and with no prospects for recovery, it has come to this. At least with the elderly sick, they had to be consulted about their wishes. Newborns receive no such privilege.
I'm not surprised.
Once a single category of life is declassified as having no intrinsic value and a right to life, it is a very short step to declassify other categories when they are considered inconvenient, or burdensome.
Holland is a perfect example of what happens when there is no governing moral standard. The Dutch have decriminalized most drugs and people smoke dope openly in venues set aside for the practice. Prostitutes display their wares like mannequins in department store windows. And now we have at least one hospital murdering already born babies because someone has decreed them unworthy of life.
If ever there was a slippery slope to be studied, this is it.
The Dutch are now grappling with their open border policy. They have admitted thousands of radical Islamists who have not assimilated and are threatening the stability of the nation. A Dutch filmmaker (search) was murdered last month by a radical who didn't like a film he made criticizing Islam's treatment of women.
And now we have the killing of newborns. All of this in a country where the Nazis murdered Ann Frank just because she was Jewish and therefore less than human.
Does history repeat? In Holland, apparently it does.
summary: "The dutch have no morals, and should be thoroughly judged. Also, smoking weed leads to the killing of babies leads to a new holocaust. Additionally, Anne Frank was terminally ill (perhaps because being Jewish is a terminall illness) and thus her murder is comparable to euthanasia."
I don't mean to press the kick the USA button, but this is a ridiculous excuse for 'news'.
edit: I was about to post this in the euthanasia thread, but was afraid it would derail it.
second edit: Kick the USA button. Because I'm proud of that gif.
