Britain Steps Toward Public Avowal of Euthanasia Already Practiced on a Mass Scale

September 24, 2009, 2009 (LPAC)—The United Kingdom today officially announced it would not enforce laws against "assisted suicide" except in certain limited cases. The Crown Prosecution Service published an interim policy on when it would refrain from prosecutions, such as if the killing is "motivated by compassion," and if the victim is an adult.

Driven by the frantic cost-cutting imperative of City of London financiers, and a profound cultural commitment to a New Dark Age, the National Health Service has killed uncounted tens of thousands of frail elderly and other patients through the Liverpool Care Pathway protocol promoted by Prince Charles.

Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer issued the interim guidelines and called for public participation in a 12-week consultation over the assisted suicide policy. It is not intended that the government's involuntary euthanasia would be part of this public review.

London newspapers are already yammering that the guidelines are too restrictive.

Particularly galling is the provision that there might be a prosecution if "the suspect was motivated by the prospect that they or a person closely connected to them stood to gain in some way from the death of the victim" — certainly Orwellian doublespeak, since the mass hospital murders are motivated by precisely the financiers' grasp for money.

The Guardian ran an angry commentary ("Foggy Guidelines Won't Help the Dying," by Yvonne Roberts) complaining that a person still might be prosecuted for killing a relative with Alzheimers who would not otherwise have died for as long time.

Then there is the problem that people want to kill their parents to get their property, and, is that so bad?

As the Guardian commentator explains, "the 'who benefits?' clause could criminalise a swath of people (including me) who might want to support a parent who expresses the wish to opt out, but who still has a little left to live. Relatives who wish to help a parent to die may weep tears of blood but that still won't erase the money in the bank from the sale of a father or mother's hard-earned semi. For the first time, those who do not belong to the middle or upper classes are enjoying their hitherto exclusive perk: a parent leaving behind a property, however modest." Their inheritance is being frittered away by live parents, with their "apparent intention to spend, spend, spend their way to their final resting place, leaving nothing for the children."

The interim guidelines are not just for those who assist victims outside of the country, such as the Dignitas death house in Switzerland, but for any action inside England and Wales. This amounts to an invitation for such a death house to be set up in Great Britain in order to test the new guidelines and build up pressure for a change in the law.

Asked if these new guidelines would lead to an increase in people committing assisted suicide, Starmer confided: "Only time will tell. It may do, it may not do.... Each case must be considered on its own facts and its own merits."