Austerity, Up Close and Personal, Part 2 “Austeritywitz”: German Elderly Being “Shipped to the East”
An aspect of Germany’s “austerity” diktat that has escaped notice and discussion concerns what Deutschland is doing with its poor, elderly people. Because of the expenses involved in caring for the these “undesirables,” they are being shipped “to the East.” We have seen this from Germany before. The uninitiated might be inclined to dismiss this as being of little significance. After all, they aren’t being killed, as they were under the Third Reich. Not yet, they aren’t. On the other hand, IF they were, who would report it? And with “austerity” the order of the day for the German-dominated EU, what will happen as the “expense” of dealing with the infirm increases?
Is there a Doctor in the Haus? (“Paging Dr. Mengele”)
“Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, known for his work at Auschwitz, found postwar success working for the Paraguayan Army Medical Corps. When the U.S. began experimenting with chemical agents for use in Vietnam, Mengele successfully treated soldiers accidentally sprayed with toxins.
The “Austere” Future: Death instead of Taxes?
Nazi extermination programs derived from mainstream social thinking. Will “austerity” produce same thing?
Fighting for the Wrong Right: Your Right to Die
Health care reform approaching the “Final Solution” to the high cost of health care? In Nazi Germany it meant “Kill ’em, don’t bill ’em.” The same influences inform our social thinking on the issue.
FTR #247 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Growing power, influence and respectability of the Moon organization; euthanasia and the Right-to-Die movement; domestic surveillance.
FTR #220 Miscellaneous Stories and Updates
Use of genetically engineered adenoviruses for “gene therapy” to introduce DNA into cells in order to correct genetic defects.
FTR #141 Interview III with Wesley J. Smith
Oregon’s Proposition 16, the first euthanasia law in the U.S., has proceeded very far down the “slippery slope.”
FTR #140 Update on Health and Scientific Matters
Listen: One segment This program updates a number of stories in the health and science fields. Beginning with discussion of a bill introduced in the California legislature to permit physician assisted suicide, the broadcast presents analysis by author Wesley J. Smith of flaws in reportage about the Oregon euthanasia law (Prop. 16.) The alleged success […]
FTR #124 Interview II with Wesley J. Smith
Princeton bio-ethicist Peter Singer’s views compared to those of social philosophers behind Third Reich’s “T‑4” euthanasia program.
FTR #117 Interview with Wesley J. Smith
Medical ethics in U.S. compared to Nazi Germany, in which the physician’s primary responsibility was seen as to society, rather than to the patient.
Anti-Fascist Archives
Looking Back from 1984 Int’l fascism as reaction to early 20th century socialist movements; U.S. industrial and financial support for Hitler. Read more »- Spitfire List is licensed under Creative Commons.
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