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Author Lee Siegel Hits "Obama's Euthanasia Mistake"

August 12, 2009 (LPAC)—Author and critic Lee Siegel, celebrated as an eloquent liberal, wrote a powerful attack on the Obama health-care plan's murderous intent which is "helping to kill the plan." The article, "Obama's Euthanasia Mistake," appears in the blog, "The Daily Beast".

"Make no mistake about it," Siegel writes. "Determining which treatments are cost effective at the end of a person's life and which are not is one of Obama's priorities. It's one of the principal ways he counts on saving money and making universal health care affordable."

He quotes Obama fudging and evading an answer to an interviewer's direct question on whether a government board would enforce life-or-death decisions about "end-of-life care."

Siegel shows that it is precisely the poor and vulnerable — the very people supposed to be served by the Obama "reform" — who would be the mortal victims of withdrawal of care. They "would be the only people forbidden access to expensive life-extending technology. The rich will always be able to afford it.... Such technology is a drain on the system? Then save money elsewhere."

For the origin of Obama's "pragmatism" that leads into support for euthanasia, Siegel points to essentially fascist teachers Richard Posner and Cass Sunstein at the University of Chicago Law School who defined Obama's orbit as a teacher there

Siegel warns that though right-wing attacks on the "living will" section of the plan are inaccurate, they are "uncomfortably close" to the truth.

He writes, "The shading in of human particulars is what makes this so unsettling. A doctor guided by a panel of experts who have decided that some treatments are futile will, in subtle ways, advance that point of view. Cass Sunstein calls this 'nudging,' ... using various types of reinforcement techniques to 'nudge' people's behavior.... An elderly or sick person would be especially vulnerable to the sophisticated nudging of an authority figure like a doctor.

"Bad enough for such people who are lucky enough to be supported by family and friends. But what about the dying person who is all alone in the world and who has only the consultant to turn to and rely on? The heartlessness of such a scene is chilling."

Siegel ends with a warning that the President must come clean with the people:

"Let him ... leave the sterile precincts of utilitarian social and legal theory behind. He should immediately and publicly declare his commitment to not placing economic hurdles in the way of people who want to prolong their life, or the life of their loved ones. In that way, .... he would calm the fears of people who, far from being right-wing fanatics, are in clear-eyed possession of perhaps the only universal truth there is. No one wants to die."

Siegel Identifies Chicago Nazis Posner and Sunstein as Obama's Mentors

August 12, 2009 (LPAC)—In his attack on the President's euthanasia, Lee Siegel asks, "Where is Obama coming from? Why is such an apparently humane man considering embracing a utilitarian initiative straight out of Victorian England?"

In answer he adverts to Obama's career as a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, then and after associated with that University's Nazi-like power elite:

"A good part of the explanation has to do with the University of Chicago Law School milieu that Obama comes out of. By far, the most influential figure in that world is [Federal] Judge Richard Posner, who teaches law at Chicago and publishes streams of pompous, robotically written books that are much

"Judge Posner is both an enthusiastic advocate of euthanasia and an energetic eugenicist. He once wrote of Oliver Wendell Holmes' ideas about eugenics — Holmes believed that a just society 'prevents continuance of the unfit' — that 'we may yet find [Holmes'] enthusiasms prescient rather than depraved.'

"Cass Sunstein, who is Obama's nominee for regulatory czar, is a disciple of Posner and believes in what Time magazine describes as 'the statistical practice of taking into account years of life expectancy when evaluating a regulation.' In other words, Sunstein believes that the lives of younger people have a greater value than those of the elderly. This, obviously, would have a radical bearing on end-of-life considerations."

Richard Posner is an apostle of Friedrich Nietzsche, and biographer of the eugenics fanatic Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, whom Posner has lauded as "the American Nietzsche." A seminal figure in the recent decades' distortion of law to fit imperial finance, Mont Pelerin Society member Posner notoriously recommended the free-market sale of babies to replace traditional adoption procedures, drug legalization, and the complete abandonment of what he condemns as "moral philosophy" in using law to enforce the power of the rulers of society.

"Behavioralist" Cass Sunstein is one of Posner's adoring circle of euthanasia advocates at the University. Obama's nomination of Sunstein as U.S. regulatory czar will be pushed onto the Senate floor for confirmation when Congress comes back from recess September 8th. If confirmed, Sunstein would be positioned to help enforce the euthanasia he promotes.


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