Is Eugenics Reemerging? If So, What Would Happen to Children With Special Needs?
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Nazi Eugenics poster weighing the burden of the mentally impaired
Glenn Beck dedicated this past week to saluting “heroes” who have faced great odds and defied those who have sought to silence them — from Ted Nugent, to former NSA whistle-blowers, to the beleaguered Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Beck ended his week-long tribute with a profound program featuring children living, and more pointedly, thriving with disabilities.
The special was meant to underscore the devastating effects of Eugenics and the fact that these viable human beings would not have been given the opportunity to even come into existence at all if selective sterilization, abortion and euthanasia-driven policies were allowed re-entry into the American landscape. The fear is not so far-fetched either, given the nation’s troubling history with the controversial practice.
While Beck has been a steadfast opponent of the progressive policy, consistently arguing that the threat of its reemergence is growing under left-wing lawmakers, this particular segment was spurred by a recent appearance on the Dr. Phil program of a woman seeking permission to end her two disabled children’s (now adults) lives — both of whom are lingering in a vegetative state. The mother argued that medicinal euthanasia, like the kind once administered by the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is more humane than the alternative, which is to disconnect her children’s feeding tubes. Of course it is a heartrending situation for any parent to find themselves in, and one that could be exploited by leftists to support their view that the state should have control over who lives and who never gets to come into existence at all.
Below are three clips from Friday evening’s Glenn Beck Program that provide important context for the chilling content that follows.
Weeding out "undesirable" children
Eugenics
Eugenics is both a social movement and the scientific application of genetic manipulation to systematically expunge the human race of its “undesirables.” Its origins are ultimately rooted in classical theories of genetic inheritance such as those explored by scientist Gregor Johann Mendel and evolutionary biologist August Weismann, but solidified in the modern vernacular by German professor Eugen Fischer. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries some anthropologists, biologists and geneticists saw Eugenics as a controversial if not a fascinating science.
In practice, the Eugenicists’ first order of business was to identify the “degenerates” of society. Those deemed undesirable ranged from the mentally ill, handicapped, and the physically disabled (this included the blind and deaf), to the poor and uneducated, promiscuous women, homosexuals and certain racial groups — particularly Jews and blacks.
Once the unfit groups were sufficiently identified, institutionalization and euthanasia were two approaches employed to dislodge them from society. Advocates of Eugenics saw these measures only a means to remedy a problem that had already presented itself. Yet what they truly sought was to prevent the “problem” from ever occurring in the first place. Thus, forced sterilization and abortion became the cornerstone of Eugenics. By eliminating the possibility for society’s “damaged” to reproduce, the human race could be genetically cleansed, leaving only the “fittest” alive.
Nazi Eugenics poster: Living with the costs of hereditary disease
The Nazis and “life unworthy of life”
While even Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin (Charles Darwin’s son) sat on the earliest International Congress of Eugenics in 1912, it was Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich’s adoption of the practice that permanently inscribed it in the pages of history. Although always considered controversial, Hitler’s embrace of Eugenics as a means of facilitating the creation of his Aryan race, exposed in chilling detail how the science could be used for unspeakable ill.
Hitlers’ was the most “successful” Eugenics campaign to date, purging the world of those who were
Nazi administers the "caliper" test. Broad-nose equates to ethnic "inferiority"
designated with the title of “life unworthy of life.” That sum comprised 6 million Jews, nearly 3 million Poles, an estimated 1 million Romany-gypsies, 15,000 homosexuals, at least 300,000 institutionalized disabled men, women and children and 400,000 more who were spared only to be forcibly sterilized. Others expunged from existence were Africans who had been brought to Germany by the French during the Allied occupation in World War I — many of whom married German women and produced what Hitler called the “Rhineland Bastards.” Hitler laid out his plan in Mein Kampf, stating he would eliminate these “insults” on the German nation.
“The mulatto children came about through rape or the white mother was a whore,” Hitler wrote. “In both cases, there is not the slightest moral duty regarding these offspring of a foreign race.”
Under the stewardship of Dr. Eugen Fischer, a group called “Commission Number 3” was created to organize the forced sterilization of the Rhineland Bastards through Germany’s Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.
Throughout their crusade, the Nazis showed neither remorse nor mercy, and always presented their ethnic cleansing as a means for good. By ridding Germans of the societal, financial and, ultimately, genetic burden of the “undesirable,“ and by ridding the undesirables of their ”miserable” existence the Germans maintained that theirs was an act of virtue, rather than barbarism.
Eugenics in America
Woodrow Wilson
Far from the shores of the Rhineland and some would assume the embrace of Eugenics in Europe, sat the late 19th and first seven decades of the 20th century in America, where Progressive Era policies favored the science of genetic manipulation to ensure the continuity of a superior race. In fact, Eugenics was implemented in the United States first, long before it took root in Nazi Germany and is even said to have inspired Hitler.
In the same year that Alexander Graham Bell sat on the International Congress, Eugenics advocate Woodrow Wilson signed into law a sterilization act, and the following year Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the need to improve “racial qualities.” Calvin Coolidge, along with author Arthur Calhoun, also acknowledged the role Eugenic-driven procreation would play “in the new social order.”
In “The Dark Roots of Eugenics,” Dr. Dennis L. Cuddy wrote that philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefeller family all financially buoyed the movement, and in the early 20th century John D. Rockefeller himself introduced Margaret Sanger – the founder of Planned Parenthood — to the rainmakers who would bankroll her Birth Control League.
In November 1921 Sanger’s Birth Control Review bore the title, “Birth Control: To Create A Race of
Margaret Sanger, Eugenics advocate and founder of Planned Parenthood
Thoroughbreds.” She would go on to urge that “dysgenic stocks,” including blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Native Americans and Catholics be bred out of society using Eugenics.
As the years progressed 38 state legislatures enacted sterilization laws aimed at the “feeble-minded,” and Christopher Thorne’s 1978 book, “Allies of a Kind,” reveals insight into then-President Franklin Roosevelt’s views on Eugenics.
“Subjects to do with breeding and race seem, indeed, to have held a certain fascination for the president…. Roosevelt felt it in order to talk, jokingly, of dealing with Puerto Rico’s excessive birth rate by employing, in his own words, ‘the methods which Hitler used effectively’ [to make them] sterile.”
Even more disturbing, the same year FDR took office, Sanger’s April edition of the Birth Control Review featured an article by none other than a member of the the Third Reich, Dr. Ernst Rudin, titled, “Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need.”
The Blaze unearthed the entire collection of Sanger’s Birth Control Reviews spanning 23 years. While there are too many to include at once, below is the complete issue from April, 1933, comprising articles on Eugenics-driven sterilization — particularly the one penned by Dr. Ernst Rudin. The content is disturbing throughout the entire newsletter, but I urge you to at least briefly review each page. What is perhaps most profound is that these were not only the sentiments of Sanger, but of those in the mainstream medical community and even presidential “heroes” like FDR. Rudin’s article appears on page 104.
For further reference, consider the following interview with Sanger conducted by Mike Wallace.
In the U.S. from the early days of the 20th century until as late as the 1970s, those targeted for sterilization were predominately the mentally ill, or “feeble minded,“ African Americans and ”promiscuous” women. Many who were in fact not even mentally impaired but rather misdiagnosed were relegated to mental institutions where they were subjected to arcane treatments including lobotomies. Many died as a result. Those who were not sterilized or institutionalized were barred from marrying outright. Ultimately, those who made the decision on the fate of someone’s life were government bureaucrats.
Speaking for the “never-born,” Edwin Black, author of the book, “The War Against the Weak,” posits that the sole purpose for the creation of the intelligence quotient, otherwise known as the IQ test, was to “justify incarceration of a group labeled ‘feebleminded.’”
The goal, according to Black, was to “immediately sterilize fourteen million people in the United States and millions more worldwide—the ‘lower tenth’—and then continuously eradicate the remaining lowest tenth until only a pure Nordic super race remained.”
Ultimately, some 60,000 Americans from disadvantaged groups were sterilized across the United States.
Thomas C. Leonard in a paper for Princeton University writes that American Progressive Era eugenics “was predicated upon human hierarchy, and the Progressive Era reformers drawn to eugenics believed that some human groups were inferior to others, and that evolutionary science explained and justified their theories of human hierarchy.”
A short memory, or plain indifference?
Now ponder this: Do you recall when the Obama administration included the Complete Lives System as part of Obamacare? Important decisions relating to what insurance plans will cover, how much autonomy doctors will have, and what seniors receive under Medicare were all guided by the president’s then-health adviser, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel (former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s brother). The Wall Street Journal profiled Emanuel in 2009, writing:
As a bioethicist, he has written extensively about who should get medical care, who should decide, and whose life is worth saving. Dr. Emanuel is part of a school of thought that redefines a physician’s duty, insisting that it includes working for the greater good of society instead of focusing only on a patient’s needs.
Do Americans truly want physicians who will disregard the Hippocratic Oath and instead base the healthcare they administer on what is good for the collective, rather than the imminent need of the patient? On such a trajectory, American Eugenics is but one breath away from resurrection.
It’s also worth noting that as the science of genetic engineering improves in the years ahead, citizens of technologically advanced nations will be faced with an ever-growing array of difficult ethical choices. Most parents’ primary concern is over the health and well-being of their children. So on the one hand, it seems a miracle to be able to eliminate, through genetic manipulation, hereditary diseases from ever occurring in child. On the other hand, such technology would also allow a less scrupulous contingent the ability to “breed out” more than just illness and “breed in” more than just natural traits.
What is perhaps most disturbing, is that the evidence is there in black and white for all to see — the damage, the carnage, the lives extinguished. Yet those on the far-left still somehow paint themselves as the champions of the disenfranchised, the saviors of minorities and, indeed, the greatest humanitarians the world has ever known. History doesn’t quite fit the narrative. And proponents of genetic manipulation and selective healthcare continue to laud their heroes: Wilson, both Roosevelts, Sanger and her Planned Parenthood, and now President Obama and his health care plan. Are they doing so simply because they are uninformed, or because they believe, like others did before them, that it is virtue, not barbarism, that their pursuits are for the “greater good?”
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Dano.50
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:32amSeveral years ago I read an article about kids growing up with a handicapped sybling and on average the kids were much further ahead in social and intellectual development simply because they had learned to put someone else’s needs ahead of their own.
Surprisingly such kids were even better in atheletics because of seeing someone constantly struggle to achieve what most of us take for granted.
People who think there’s nothing wrong with eugenics should maybe consider that something as simple as a fall could send them right to the front of their little line.
Report Post »TangoMike79
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:48amOne of the greatest memories I have to this day is going into my mother’s workplace and interacting with her clients. She was the head nurse at a facility in Illinois called ARC… It was a place for the mentally handicapped and I first visited when I was 16…
I could not believe that some of the clients’ family had not visited them for weeks or months on end… The clients enthusiasm, excitement, and love for meeting a stranger I have not experienced since… I’m still humbled to this day when I recall those visits and it puts my entire life in perspective…
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:07pmThere are many hospitals and nursing homes that that women’s two children can be placed in that will pull the plug. In Clearwater, Florida there is a very nice nursing home where Terry Schivo was taken that will gladly pull the plug. Remember what Democrats said about Terry Schivo, “death by starvation and thirst is a very human and euphoric way to die.”
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:15pmIn Nazi Germany (America) orphanages had crematoriums. The German Government told Germans with retarded children to place them in government centers and the taxpayer would pay for their care. Parents did this and months later would receive letters stating that their child had died from some childhood decease and had been cremated for health purposes. Just like Germany, America will be transformed in to a horrible monster the world will be forced to defend itself against.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:19pmObamacare will be upheld. It is too Evil to be struck down. If Roe vs Wade was constitutional then so is Obamacare. The Democrat-Commies knew what they were doing.
Obamacare is Eugenicscare. After the law is passed they you will find out what is in it.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 7:18amit is amazing that people are unable to see abortion as part of the eugenics plan. the so clled slippery slope gets steeper everyday and if obama care is allowed to remain, then all seniors who get sick better have family who will look after them because the government health care system will not. evil knows nor respects any boundaries.
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:29amA very informational essay that includes Rhodes (as in Rhodes Scholar), Calvin Coolidge, Henry Kissenger, Watson (of Watson & Crick, who discovered the the DNA spiral?) who worked on the Genome Project, along with the usual suspects. Very chilling: http://kjos1.securesites.net/Quotes/globalism/cuddy-eugenics.htm
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:51amVery interesting essay on eugenics/Why Politicized Science is Dangerous by the late, great, Micheal Crichton – it even mentions that one of the arguments that eugenicists used was that “if Jesus were alive, he’d approve.” Also might note that Winston Churchill supported eugenics: http://www.michaelcrichton.net/essay-stateoffear-whypoliticizedscienceisdangerous.html
These types of things and his book State of Fear always make me wonder about his death…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:28amI have been a fan of Micheal Crichton since I read Eaters Of The Dead many, many years ago. Have since read practically every book he wrote.
Report Post »Oddly enough I just a bit of a chuckle. Since there has been so much mention of Hitler here this morning. Back in the summer of ‘93 I got the chance to visit Berchtesgaden and sat out on that stone veranda where Hitler did his little dance. I was having a cold bier while I read Jurrasic Park.
elisha
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:54pmJesus is alive and does not approve.every life that comes in to this world is very important to him.these people will be judged, hopefully, before they wipe out many lives.God help Us.
Report Post »JohnLarson
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:07amThis paranoia is hilarious. Better get down to your bunkers now, and buy Glenn Beck‘s survival seeds before it’s too late.
For the past 3 years, Nazi fascism has been around the corner… it will always be just around the corner for as long as you paranoids keep buying whatever products Beck hawks.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:40amyes because abortion is a laughing matter right? killing the elderly and the disabled too? you are an absolute idiot obviously incapable of a functioning thought process or even the slightest bit of humanity. all of the murdered jews were funny right hitler too maybe all the discarded children of raped african american slaves who were forced to have back woods abortions or having their babies taken from them. we should just make this about your liberal rabid hatred of glenn beck who is doing something by bringing history back for all to see. what the hell is wrong with you.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:46amEugenics started in the US in the 30′s… and the Nazis picked it up from… the Progressives, who are still in power, in both Political Parties… and who also promote Abortion… as means to Race Purification disguised as Population Control & the Disease of Pregnancy! So, it will not go away… until the Socialist Agenda changes!
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:40amWell, it took from the 1880′s (when eugenics was first introduced) to the 1930‘s for it to reach it’s zenith with hitler. In the interim, sanger and the progressives were trying to kill off everybody they deemed inferior, and succeeded in many cases.
And if ONE woman thinks it’s OK to proclaim that her disabled children would choose suicide, and 90% of the audience is behind her, then this issue is not “just around the corner.” It’s on our doorstep.
Report Post »jeffile
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 11:53amI have to agree with you that fascism is right around the corner. All one has to do is look at the fascist policies adopted by the Obama administration.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:52pmJohnLarson: Yep. It’s always so quaint when people can use facts in their argument… ’cause then ‘enlightened’ folks like you are left with only the tiresome ad hominem attack. In no way do you respond to any element of the article. You just start calling people names. That type of behavior is what ended any illusion I held that progressives/leftists have any intention of entertaining debate or that people with differing views should be allowed to speak. Throwing out the ol’ Nazi tag… yep, that’s original. Never had that done to me when I was attempting to engage a leftist in civil discourse.
Report Post »As enlightened as progressives assert they are, that lot sure can be a childish and opportunistic bunch. The last paragraph sums up the shameless cognitive disonance I see all too often. I work in a field thick (sick?) with leftists and progressives. Leftists like to play at making a better world and eugenics is a prime example of their intolerance. Throw in abortion as a sacred rite. And yet these are the same people who are drawn to agencies that “help” the developmentally disabled and the mentally ill. You’ll never see a bureaucrat fight harder than for money and control over a govt. subsidized program. Oddly enough, whether or not the population you’re allegedly serving is actually being helped is secondary concern. It’s the same thing you see with you unions… screw the industry… pay me money.
Leftists… never failing to disappoint.
jzs
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:24pm“In practice, the Eugenicists’ first order of business was to identify the “degenerates” of society. Those deemed undesirable ranged from the mentally ill, handicapped, and the physically disabled (this included the blind and deaf), to the poor and uneducated, promiscuous women, homosexuals and certain racial groups — particularly Jews and blacks.” Quoted from above.
Actually if you keep up with the news, the liberals are the ones actually trying to help those people, and the right who would pull funding from those programs. Take Allen West for example, who mocks the idea of providing access to handicapped people to public places, you know, places their taxes pay for.
Report Post »http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/28/1078557/-Allen-West-Screw-the-handicapped
The Gooch
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:17pmjzs,
Report Post »Fighting for FUNDING and CONTROL (i.e., more gub’ment) does not equate to fighing for people. I’ve worked in the social services and mental health field long enough to assert one does not equate to the other. Honestly, the only real motivator for making people in gub’ment do anything meaningful for the truly disabled is shame and threat. In my area, the worst offenders for access issues have been either gub’ment constructs (a local post office and local library) or quasi-social service entities (e.g., the YMCA).
majasdad
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:21pm@JEFFILE
What policies are you talking about? And how are they fascist?
From an enquiring mind that wants to know.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:28pmJZS, LOL. Those REQUIRED lifts are a joke. Just caught an article on them in particular earlier today. Some of the hotels that had them installed much earlier have said that theirs have never been used, nor had anybody requested the need. They are $30 -50,000 apiece installed and the electrical power required to operate them scare the hell out of a lot of people just having it that near….guess what(?)….splashable water! The systems are a waste with only a few exceptions. I’ll take you a step further. The ADA or Americans with Disabilities Act has done more to keep the disabled from being hired and mostly been a pocket stuffer act for ambulance chasing lawyers. Some of these lawyers hire a person in a wheel chair and get them to enter a wheel around certain buisnesses. They even hit places that meet the actual ADA requirements and sue them anyway. Most of these businesses usually settle just to get rid of them. As for employment, the ADA has given teeth to more unscrupulous lawyers to hunt for businesses that have hired the handicapped and convince them to sue for any of a variety of reasons. Has caused employers to hire fewer disabled to avoid the liability. One of the other ways good old Al Gore screwed us again.
Report Post »As for the eugenics issue, where were you when only a few short weeks ago groups on the left have begun discussing the post birth abortions of a child up to the age of 2. Other of these groups have discussed putting down children with other disabilities.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:35pmcontinued:
Report Post »Just type eugenics or return to eugenics into you search engine and see how many sites come up. Bubba, this ain’t coming from the right, it’s coming from the left….again.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:41pmJZS, Oh yeah, how many times now has Hillary Clinton said that Margaret Sanger is one of her heroes?
Report Post »http://www.speroforum.com/a/18623/Hillary-Clinton-to-accept-Margaret-Sanger-award
http://www.infowars.com/hillary-clinton-compares-margaret-sanger-to-thomas-jefferson/
http://deathby1000papercuts.com/2009/04/hillary-clintons-bizarre-margaret-sangers-work-is-not-done/
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=32917
http://vitalsignsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-admire-margaret-sanger-enormously.html
http://floppingaces.net/2009/04/28/hillary-clinton-and-her-progressive-racist-hero/
There is more, all you have to do is look.
majasdad
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 4:58pm@JOHNLARSSON
Well, as I live and breathe, a voice of reason!!
I owe you a sincere debt of gratitude John Larson, I was so fatigued by this regurgitating of an issue.
2-3 years ago Glenn did basically the same program with the same fakey tears on the Fox News Channel. It made me ill then, it makes me ill now, and to top it all off, a string of comments by a bunch of ignorant, numbskull Beck fans.
At first I felt I simply had to comment, but was so drained of energy, and then I saw that you had written all that was needed to be said.
Good on ya.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 5:47pmRJJinGadsden, says, “[the ADA is] One of the other ways good old Al Gore screwed us again.”
Uh, RJ, you need to check your facts. The ADA was signed into law in 1990 by George H. W. Bush. You may remember he was a Reblican, although by today’s standards a member of the Communist Party.
When he signed the bill into law he said, “I know there may have been concerns that the ADA may be too vague or too costly, or may lead endlessly to litigation. But I want to reassure you right now that my administration and the United States Congress have carefully crafted this Act. We’ve all been determined to ensure that it gives flexibility, particularly in terms of the timetable of implementation; and we’ve been committed to containing the costs that may be incurred…. Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down.”
It saddens me to see the right embrace the exclusion of the handicapped from public places. They pay taxes too friend. They have a right to access public places just like you do. You are correct in your realization that you have to sue to have your rights enforced, same as with other civil law. Not sure where you got the idea that handicapped people have no rights, and your claim that the ADA actually makes things worse for the handicapped is really out there.
But I see your provided a link to Alex Jones, which explains a lot. I suppose the ADA is part of the Bilderburg plot to overthrow the world?
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:10pmThe best example of how any ‘victim’ class is used to manipulate legislation, funding & emotions is not the developmentally disabled or the mentally ill. It’s the great American junky.
Report Post »In my opinion, a sane people would recognize that some people, thru their own choices, are going to choose to check out of polite society. Fine. If you want to destroy yourself with drugs (including alcohol), I say go for it. My tolerance ends when you make your choices & personal problems threaten, rob, damage or kill another human being. That doesn’t mean you throw people to the wolves. You provide education & supports for those who WANT to change their lives. You don’t build entire industries & govt. agencies around junkies while criminalizing escapism for those who don’t put others in danger or need to be housed, fed & generally taken care of by their brother.
The left (& right) doesn’t champion so the junky can be saved or “cured.” In fact, anyone who asserts the junky can be cured has revealed he or she cannot be trusted. The left (& others) champion for funding, not the junky; he or she is the means to an end… sweet gub’ment money. This is why the DEA sells fear; this is why the private prison industry has a powerful lobby that pushes for harsher laws; this is why states want more money throw at substance abusers. You can’t “cure” these idiots… but you sure can make a good livin‘ off of ’em. If you’re in the business of serving junkies, business is a boo
The Gooch
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 6:30pmSo what does the junky rant have to do with anything? Well, isn’t this argument really about who is more deserving of attention, care… money? Why stop at junkies? Fatties also make a cognizant choice to put more of a burden on society thru costs to accommodate them and address their health concerns. So let’s lay this out: Per some who might take a baby step towards entertaining eugenics, it appears you have a “right” to be a junky or fatty… but not to be mentally ill or developmentally disabled.
Report Post »In the competition of who rates services, junkies and fatties outnumber those who are disabled thru no fault of their own by a great deal. Junkies and fatties also arguably cost a helluva lot more to care for (when taking the criminal justice system into account).
This is a game played out thru history: Junkies and fatties vote. The mentally ill and developmentally disabled will get their share… as long as people aren’t being told their share is pulling everyone else down.
To assert the gub’ment is some altruistic concern not taking cost-benefit matters into whom to throw money at is naive. I’ve found the ADA to be a scattershot agency that can dance around concerns as it sees fit. I attempted to use the ADA when of my clients was unable to use a pool at a local YMCA. The silence was deafening. Well, problem solved w/more recent legisltation, but the ADA should’ve been there for my client a year ago.
Funny how we tolerate fatties and junkies more….
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 3:15amJZS, The ADA was written by Al Gore and I have to admit that he did an excellent job selling it to the Congress and to Bush. Yeah, you’re right about my feelings toward Bush 41. Didn’t care for him at all. The ADA has been another good intentioned meddling that has gone wrong.
Report Post »JZS, the right does not want to exclude the handicapped from anything, but there has to be a better way that the ADA. I’ve suffered a number of injuries during my service and am now 50% disabled myself. Serious back injury, surgery on both feet, one knee, damaged both elbows, shoulders, both hands broken and one wrist. I have to occasionally use a cane and have the knowledge that I may very well be in a wheel chair in the future. I do not want to exclude anybody from any sort of public access. I am merely pointing out that the ADA has done more damage than good primarily because of the unnecessary litigation that unethical lawyers have brought on. Some cases are actually necessary, but most are to enrich the lawyers. I agree with some of construction requirements such as 42″ wide doors, no round door knobs, wheelchair accessible ramps with half mark landing pads, and I could go on. But these are things that could have been inserted into building codes. Maybe you should read at least some of the ADA and while your are out and about in the city take a look around. Oh, btw the ADA is being used by some to try to require open land and forests be made handicapped accessible.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 3:34amAs you were quoting Bush 41, the act is vague and there are those who will take advantage of it.
Report Post »As for the employment of the disabled, prior to the act there were roughly 33 – 40% employment. Yeah, p i s s poor as far as I am concerned too. After the act was passed that dropped to 18% in a very short time and is still shrinking even more today.
Hehehe, yeah I used to hate Alex Jones, and am still wary of some of his writings and speeches. But, I do take a look occasionally and I think that I can figure out what is BS and what actually makes some sense. He does only on occasion make sense to me. As far as the links that I have posted I recently posted one to the Daily Cos. I usually find them despicable, but some of there articles make sense too. No, the ADA is not a plot by the Bilderbergers, but it is over bearing in many ways and increases costs exponentially. Like I said, read it or parts of it sometime instead of throwing that right hand rapidly up at a 45 degree angle and shouting ” Jawohl mein führer!”
jzs
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 5:03amRJJinGadsden, I’m sorry for you medical problems. I’m not sure what “service” led to your injuries, but I take it wasn’t military service. Service to whom? Did you receive those injuries because you weren’t properly protected under OSHA regulations? Who is to blame for those injuries? Are you to blame, or is your employer to blame?
RJ, I‘m sorry your situation isn’t better. But it seems to me that you are getting, probably, support from both the Federal Government, like SS, from the State, and from your previous employer for unemployment. Tell me if I’m wrong on any point. And you may someday, you say, be glad that public places are wheelchair accessible.
I understand that you are against unethical lawyers making money with frivolous lawsuits, but that’s the case with every law in the books.
So, given my assumption (which you can tell me is wrong) the government is helping you, maybe quite a bit, what is it that you’d change? Can you be specific?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:22amJZS, We’ve discussed my military service before. I am retired from the Army. There is no reason for you to be sorry and if I had it to do all over again, I would still do the same thing. For the most part I am fine, but now only occasionally suffer certain pains and have to use a cane. I am anything but an invalid, but I do understand that as I get older things can and probably will get worse.
Report Post »The only thing the government does for me is pay my retirement and makes almost 50% of my retirement non-taxable. The remainder of my income is taxed normally though. Don’t go thinking that I have free medical care, because I don’t. Access to the VA has been near impossible since these 2 wars started, and even far worse since 0bama assumed office.
That is another thing, should you desire a single payer health system. The government controlled by either party has never been able to run a successful VA health system. Maybe some few locations, but certainly never nation wide. Should the government take control of this nation’s health care, be afraid, very, very afraid.
Look about you now and tell me what you see that is not wheel chair accessible. More than likely only many parts of the natural terrain.
Oh yeah, OSHA is pretty much a joke too. It is set up to be self sustaining and to stay operable they have to levy fines to stay in business. Another well intentioned agency that has grown to parasitical status. Yes, there needs to be a watchdog for safety.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on May 6, 2012 at 10:32amOSHA has become much like the EPA and both levy huge fines for next to nothing or for just the sake of levying those fines. Both threaten companies and individuals with continuing fines, and tell them that they have no redress. If a business does complain or attempt a redress they simply focus a magnifying glass on themselves and attract more and more future visits. Again, I am sure that you and I will have to agree that we disagree. I personally do not need nor want the government to be my boss. If you want that, fine. I was taught from my earliest days in school that the government worked for us not the other way around.
Report Post »sikofit
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:57pmObama’s panels have not gone anywhere. I have a friend who is a nurse. He works with a neurologist quite often. He told me that all the neurologists in our area had to have a meeting with a HHS representative a couple of months ago because beside oncology the are the greatest cost to the health care system. The HHS representative told the neurologists that under new guidelines any HEALTH CARE UNIT, no person, UNIT, over the age of 70 would recieve only PALATATIVE care for any brain injury. No major surgery would be done for any brain trauma on anyone over 70 no matter what the possible outcome. Doesn’t that make you feel wonderful.
I also have a son who has limb girdle muscular dystrophy. It has been a struggle over the years to pay for his diagnosis, therapy, and other medical needs. Thank God for MDA and Childrens Hospital. He will never be a sports star but he can do Calculus and Chemistry in his head. He has only missed one question on every major state education test. He is on his school’s robotics team and wants to go to Georgia Tech and major in bioengineering. We will probably all be using some of his inventions in the next 15 years. We went to Social Security one time to see if we could get a little money to help pay for his therapy, the lady there told us that because he was not a behavioural problem and he got good grades in school he was not disabled enough to recieve any benefits. Gotta love it.
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:44amthe information you posted is very informative and very scary. How this can happen to our country to our parents to our children….pray for our country. I will pray for your child.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 8:46pmInteresting… in the past year, WV created a “just us” club for psychologists that will rule over who is and isn’t eligible for an expanded Medicaid service known as Title 19 I/DD Waiver. This program serves the developmentally disabled population in WV. There is more and more administration and review added in order to “save money”… or to make sure the “right” people get their cut first. The entity that has contracted with the state has a profit motive to see that fewer people are found eligible. Who says trickle down economics doesn’t work?
Report Post »I don’t see how many of these state programs serving the disabled will be able to continue if and when the health care law goes into effect in 2014. Then again, I still believe 2+2=4, not 5. It will be interesting times….
Donna
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:11pmI watched GBTV today and was horrified by the Dr. Phil audience. I have a 33 yr old daughter with cerebral palsy who is the light of my family and friend’s life. She has taught us all, even my young grandchildren how to be strong and much better individuals. We have learned so many life lessons from her. We celebrate her abilities and so enjoy her company. I certainly hope that audience isn’t an indication of the direction our population is headed or we are in trouble.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:34pmand above all else there are people in this adminastration that adhere to this …………..and the people that keep putting them in office would be amoung the first to go……………
Report Post »Nanner-SW
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 11:34amPeople with this mindset scares me. To many people life is spontaneous and at its core pointless. Christians believe all life is purposeful and has meaning. If a child is born physically weak, maybe God designed for them to become mentally and spiritually strong. A community gets a dose of humility by interacting with a man with an intellect disability who visits the local cafe. If I grow old and develope Dem/Alz, I hope that I am a means of making my family stronger. People with the previous mindset can not understand this. They see such individuals as burdens of a community rather than its strength and that makes me sad.
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:12pmAn authoritarian state – a state where government is “god” – looks at the citizenry, not as people, but property: serfs. They are mouths to feed; they are maintained according to their utility to the state. A screwdriver breaks, it’s thrown away; a sheet of metal is mis-stamped, it is scrapped or recycled; a person is injured or “defective,” it’s put down – put out of it’s (our) misery. Any who oppose the state are dealt with brutally as examples – “enemies” of the state not to be tolerated or followed..
This is a “religion of death” as much as the tenets of Islam are. This country was built on the foundation of INDIVIDUAL rights and achievement; these pervert those to SOCIETY’S COLLECTIVE (GOVERNMENT’S) rights and achievements on the backs of the individual citizen. We are at a terrifying crossroad; which path will this nation travel? Will we continue to blaze the trail of individual freedom or will we turn left and follow the tail traveled before us by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and so many others, leaving as trail markers 100M corpses? God help us, for as WE go, so does the world.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:08pmSanger & those of her ilk had (have) a god complex. Oh…. the satanic work that they have done & continue to do. I had no idea, till I read this article, that Eugenics started in our Country first. Did I read that right? How long have American citizens been in such a stupefied trance as to accept this? Look at the number of lives that have been utterly destroyed because of Eugenics & those who espouse the lies.
Report Post »Donna
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:00pmI watched the GBTV segment today and am horrified by the Dr. Phil audience. I have a 33 year old cerebral palsied daughter who doesn‘t speak who is the light of my family’s and friend’s life. How selfish to not find the possibility in a handicapped child’s life. Everyone, even my 7, 8 and 10 year old grandchildren appreciate the amazing lessons this person has taught us all and what better persons we are thanks to her. Shame on America if this is how the majority of the population feels, or rather does not feel……..robots!!!!
Report Post »HorseCrazy
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 12:47amDonna when I saw that segment with that women wanting her kids to be put down I cried. It quite litteraly broke my heart. Those children of hers deserve so much love, I feel so awful for them, if she says things like that publicly imagine what she says in private or in the company of her children. God bless your family
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:50pm…
Margaret Sanger was obviously a psycho and a hater, who took after her Atheist Father.
She really seemed to have deep rooted hate for Catholics (her Mother), because they don’t believe in birth control.
Look at the way she fidgeted and picked at herself during the interview.
She made no sense during the interview. Clearly, not a stable minded woman.
Poor little Margaret. She didn’t get enough attention from Mommy, because she had to share Mommy’s affection with ten other siblings and an Atheist Father.
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 1:32amIt’s because she was a tweaker…she did drugs.
Report Post »EndTheFedNOW
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:47pmI am a idiot republican who loves war and licking boots. People who believe in modern day eugenics thru stealth by: GMO’s Vaccines, BPA, Floruide.ARE CRAZY. Sit down and shut up. Thats what it means to be a good amerikan. Alex Jones IS CRAZY.
No
You were wrong, we were right.
I beg you to research this. Things are getting bad. US Army Civilian inmate labor camps are being set up. We are being softkilled thru vaccines and gmo’s and flrouide. Glenn Beck said he would drink gallons of floruide. LOL What a DOPE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFn5Clpqzhs
http://www.infowars.com/elite-eugenicists-call-for-mass-depopulation-drastic-reduction-in-energy-consumption/
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:36pmThe “Act”
President Obama’s March 16, 2012 Executive Order permits control of all aspects of American-life.
Obama’s “Affordable Health Care Act” determines who lives –and how.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:24pmObamacare will contain this and many other evils..remember vote yes now and find out what is in it later….every politician who voted yes to obamacare should be subjected to its policies..
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 2:27pmThe New World Order Elites, the UN, the British Monarchy along with Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Opra, The Rockerfellers, Obama care, want a world population decline from 6 billion down to 1 billion.
Obama is insane and needs to be removed from office right now, or else this is going to become a really nasty situation for all human beings on earth.
I noticed on his new campaign ad they stated they liberated Libya, lol, what a joke, Libya has become a slaughter house & thats what obama & Hillary want. He wants that type chaos here in America. He is an evil dictator wannabe & is banking on a WWIII to cleanse the population. Not if we get him first, try him and lock him away in prison for the remainder of his life along with the rest of the elitist eugenisist murdering thugs.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:16pmThis insanity of eugenics and controlled genocide is about to happen again unless we open the eyes of the nation to the madness and stop it once and for all; we stand on the edge of the slope and are crossing over; once past the mark nothing will stop it short of a complete purge of the system.
Report Post »Dr Vel
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:42pmAgain is the wrong word unless you mean getting worse by adding disabled young and older people to the unborn hit list. I remember reading 50 million babies have already been murdered in the US alone, as much death as all who died in WWII. Every day the number climbs. Hannity tried to tell people before the 08 election on His radio show stories about Obama, showing the man was already the most pro abortion politician in history.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:13pmRe elect Obama so he can kill millions of people and take his place in history..If you won’t learn from history you are doomed to repeat it….Obama is obvious..he is using the same routine Hitler did..
Report Post »Caniac Steve
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:35pmthe next tme you go to a mall and you see some child/or adult in a wheel chair see how far people walk around so they don’t get too close and act like they might catch somethng body language and looks. How sad that is..
Report Post »TRUTHSENSE
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 10:15pmThe problem is that most of what history is taught now has been altered. There are few young people that know enough history to learn from it. I saw the suffering under communism and the long bread lines because the government tried to run the farms and it was a disaster. The socialist have run public education for more than a generation now and look at the results. Occupy Wall Street wanting a communist government.
Report Post »BO_Bill
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:08pmThe primary difference between Nazi eugenics and the progressive movement is that the Nazis targeted the undesirables out of a desire for societal harmony, efficiency, and well-being, while the progressive movement targets the desirables out of envy.
The progressive movement cannot be seen in 1920s eugenics, it is however viewable in the modern condition of Zimbabwe and Cuba.
If blacks were smarter, they would seek to minimize their numbers as to maximize their personal benefit from living in the presence of whites. This is not the case as blacks instinctively are driven by Tribalism, instead of Logic.
A short film on Liberia.
Eugenics through sterilization, in the real world, is Morality.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:44pmEverything boils down to two only things now:
money
and
money
>November 2012 cannot come soon enough.
Report Post »Belwraith
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:56pmWow…almost seems like we haven’t progressed much when you watch the Margaret Sanger videos…LoL at those Paul Mall advertisements
Report Post »sb36695
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:48pmWhy do you think Obama keeps pushing the “collective”? Hilter would be proud.
Report Post »Individualism
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:23pmGerman History repeating itself in America, but one difference we got guns to defend ourselves with from the the thugs who will do the killing.
Report Post »sb36695
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:51pmWe also have history. Unfortunately, some people seem to not learn from it.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:22pmWe may have guns but watch as they cut off the ammo that is needed for those guns. They may never be able to take the guns from the American people, however, they will do all they can to stop the ammunition needed for the guns.
Report Post »TwilightWarrior
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:16pmI have had that fear now for awhile now, the thought that I, or my future children, could be “put out of our misery.” I was born with schizo-affective disorder, and it can be dibilitating, I can lose myself in hallucinations, or my mood can become out of control. Next year I’m goin to a career school to become a nurse… The thought of eugenics is always a fear as of late though now. It’s absolutely terrifying to know that someday i could be “put out of my misery”, be forced to have an abortion or sterilized.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:12pmCass Sunstein……..Regularory Czar
John Holdren……….Science Czar
Ezekiel Emanuel who helped write Obamacare. All of these men embrace eugenics and I am sure others in this administration do as well.
When Sarah Palin said there will be death panels she was correct. When people say that people over a certain age will be considered units instead of people in Obamacare they are correct. When people are worried that millions of people must die to reduce the world population thay are correct to be worried.
Report Post »I have noticed that among the baby communists the phrase “they are old and irrelevant” is more and more being uttered. I am right to be worried.
amtsoundsmith
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:05pmWow, Wallace sure enjoyed pimping those cigs…
Report Post »robert_lindsay
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:56pmEugenics and Racism are based on junk science. There is an article in Scientific American which I believe helps explain why eugenics is bad science here is a link to the article and my comments on the article. >> SA article on Biodiversity my comments >> scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id…
Report Post »ProgressiveDeist267
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:55pmI dislike people who use science to control how people evolve to adapt to the world.
Report Post »ProgressiveDeist267
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:11pmIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Report Post »Charles Darwin
lukerw
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:53pmFreedom is about Choices & FreeWill: I am not my brother’s keeper; but, I AM NOT MY BROTHER’S KILLER, either!
Report Post »Baerlin
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 8:26pmThat’s where your wrong. We are and should be our brothers keeper. Otherwise we are no better than the murderers the left paints us to be. We have to be and remain the moral conscience of this nation.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 9:50pm@BAERLIN
Report Post »There seems to be something about “Freedom” that you fail to comprehend!
angelcat
Posted on May 4, 2012 at 7:50pmThe “undesireables” would be whoever doesn’t agree with the powers in charge at that time or who belongs to a group that is not deemed acceptable.
Report Post »Bullwinkle
Posted on May 5, 2012 at 3:17pmExactly right. It starts out with a broad sweeping argument for “humanitarian” treatment of those who would be better off dead. It inevitably ends up with those who disagree with the powers that be. After all they must be mentally defective or they wouldn’t disagree.
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