30-09-2008, 09:37 PM
Jan, et al,
As I'm certain Jan knows better than I, we can take this back at least as far as Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens, or "Lifting Controls on the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life," a manifesto by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, a practicing lawyer and psychiatrist, respectively, in Germany in 1920.
Read the words again: lebensunwertes Leben -- "life unworthy of life."
Many scholars identify this obscenity as the medico-legal foundation for the Nazis' euthanasia programs.
The number, thought to be conservative, is almost beyond bearing: According to Robert Jay Lifton (as quoted by Jim Marrs) in The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, a total of 410,000 individuals were sterilized by the Germans between 1934 and 1945.
Can we suggest that medical science has kept pace with other scientific disciplines to the extent that the Nazi sterilization efforts are to today's like-minded enterprises what the ME-109 is to the Aurora?
As I'm certain Jan knows better than I, we can take this back at least as far as Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens, or "Lifting Controls on the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life," a manifesto by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, a practicing lawyer and psychiatrist, respectively, in Germany in 1920.
Read the words again: lebensunwertes Leben -- "life unworthy of life."
Many scholars identify this obscenity as the medico-legal foundation for the Nazis' euthanasia programs.
The number, thought to be conservative, is almost beyond bearing: According to Robert Jay Lifton (as quoted by Jim Marrs) in The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, a total of 410,000 individuals were sterilized by the Germans between 1934 and 1945.
Can we suggest that medical science has kept pace with other scientific disciplines to the extent that the Nazi sterilization efforts are to today's like-minded enterprises what the ME-109 is to the Aurora?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene