Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The Federalist: Dutch Doctor Exonerated After Euthanizing An Unwilling Patient

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Dutch Doctor Exonerated After Euthanizing An Unwilling Patient
By Georgi Boorman. June 23, 2020

The Dutch doctor who euthanized a 74-year old dementia patient against her will and was exonerated of all charges gave a televised interview recently, in which she defended her actions as “for the best.”

The 2016 incident caused an uproar, in no small part because the doctor began the euthanization process by secretly drugging her patient’s coffee. The horror didn’t end there. When the patient woke up and resisted the lethal injection, now-retired geriatric specialist Marinou Arends asked a relative to hold her down so she could administer the fatal dose.

The patient had two previous directives stating she wanted to be euthanized “when the time was ripe,” but had explicitly declined to be euthanized three times leading up to her death. To Arends, however, ending the patient’s suffering was more important than doing what the patient said she wanted.
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The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on this case that patients with advanced dementia, who are legally incompetent, can be euthanized according to advanced directives. Whether this cautions people against giving advanced consent ahead of dementia, knowing they are the mercy of their physician, remains to be seen.

But if being unhappy is “unbearable suffering,” then the expectation for people who’ve written advance directives, particularly the elderly and sick, is clear: Smile and don’t complain, or risk lethal injection.

In other words, if you make it in any way legal for the medical system to kill you or "pull the plug", then doctors can literally get away with murder. After all, once she's dead, nobody can know what was the actual desire of an old woman with dementia, so the doctors can make up whatever they want and the courts will uphold it.

Yes, I know this is in Denmark, but can anyone seriously believe that the same sitation couldn't possibly happen anywhere else, including the United States? I know I wouldn't trust a US court (including the Supreme Court) to uphold my right to life if doing so should be politically incorrect.

Monday, June 22, 2020

The Federalist: Shootings, Violence Jump In Cities Where Mayors Have Restrained Police

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Shootings, Violence Jump In Cities Where Mayors Have Restrained Police
June 21, 2020 By Jordan Davidson

Activist campaigns against police to have accelerated in the wake of a violent altercation between police and George Floyd that prefaced his death. In response, mayors of several cities have reduced police presence. This has led in several cases to dramatic increases in violent crime.

Does this come as a surprise to anybody?

Friday, June 19, 2020

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Townhall: Fauci Admits Why Americans Were Initially Misled About Wearing Masks

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Fauci Admits Why Americans Were Initially Misled About Wearing Masks
Leah Barkoukis. Posted: Jun 17, 2020 8:40 AM

At the start of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., federal officials told the public they did not need to wear face masks. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said they only made people feel better but were pretty much pointless.
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As time went on, the tone changed, and Americans were encouraged to wear face masks, with many places requiring them.

Now Fauci has admitted that the reason Americans were initially discouraged from using them is because there was a shortage, as Adams acknowledged in the second part of his February tweet.

In other words, the US government deliberately lied to the people.

How many other things have they lied about? And, knowing this, how can we trust anything they say?

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Naked Security: eBay staff charged with cyberstalking, sending fetal pig and spiders

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eBay staff charged with cyberstalking, sending fetal pig and spiders
By Lisa Vaas.

This is a Halloween mask depicting the face of a bloody pig:

It’s not pretty, but at least it doesn’t scurry. You can’t say the same for the other packages sent in a cyberstalking campaign allegedly orchestrated by eBay management and targeted at a Natick, Massachusetts couple who run an online e-commerce newsletter that’s sometimes critical of eBay.

According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), the mask was one of multiple threatening packages sent by the e-behemoth’s (now former) employees as part of a cyberstalking campaign to bully the couple into closing down their newsletter, the name of which was redacted in court documents. Other packages included a preserved fetal pig, live spiders, fly larvae, a funeral wreath, a book on surviving the loss of a spouse, a box of live cockroaches, and a copy of the porn magazine Hustler: Barely Legal that was addressed to the Natick couple but sent to their neighbors’ homes.

On Monday, the office of Massachusetts US Attorney Andrew Lelling announced that six former eBay employees have been charged with “aggressive” cyberstalking of the couple, including some of them coming up with an excuse to fly in to Boston in order to rent a van and drive out to Natick to conduct covert surveillance.

I have never liked eBay corporation very much, but this is a new low even for them.

What's next? Maybe they'll decide to start SWATting people critical of their business practices?

How is any of this different from the acts of hardened criminals? Are they running a legitimate business or are they petty thugs with million-dollar paychecks? I hope lots of people do lots of jail time for this.

Monday, June 15, 2020

Jerusalem Post: Cabinet OKs next step towards ‘Trump Heights’ town

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Cabinet OKs next step towards ‘Trump Heights’ town
By LAHAV HARKOV, JUNE 15, 2020

The cabinet voted in favor of the initial budget for establishing a new town in the Golan Heights named for US President Donald Trump on Sunday, which is his 74th birthday.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted the steps towards establishing “Trump Heights” at the start of the meeting, noting that the current US administration recognized Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

I think this is a textbook definition of poking your finger in the eye of liberals worldwide. They hate Israel, hate Jews and hate Trump. So they're going to really lose their collective minds over this.

Way to go, Netanyahu!