“It’s easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used,” he added. “But when you’re in the foxhole, it’s a very different deal.”

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY 2004

Link.

The EU energy minister and Mike Ledeen made various appearances together all acorss that time span for right wing think tanks.

Alas, Simone!

LPACTV: Repeal the HMO System NOW!

May 14, 2009 (LPAC)—What would you think about a scholarly article entitled: “What Are the Potential Cost Savings from Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide?” If you knew no more than the title, you might wonder if it was written by the grandaddy of British utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham; or perhaps by LSD-pervert Aldous Huxley; or by Nazi doctor Karl Brandt.

Good guesses… but wrong.

This is the title of a 1998 paper co-authored by Ezekiel Emanuel, a leading adviser to Budget Director Peter Orszag and a member of President Obama’s elite 15-person Federal Coordinating Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research. The Council is charged by the Obama administration with preparing the list of which medical procedures will henceforth be permitted, and which not, with an eye to cutting $2 trillion from health care payments—to be handed over to the bankrupt hedge funds and banks which run the HMOs.

Brandt, Goerring, and Hitler himself have nothing on these modern Nazis. Ezekiel Emanuel’s co-author of the mentioned paper, Margaret Battin—like Emanuel, a bio-ethicist—has written other papers with sick titles like “The Least Worst Death: Selective Refusal of Treatment”; “Terminal Sedation: Pulling the Sheet Over Our Eyes”; and “Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn From Germany?” Is this any different than Hitler’s doctor Karl Brandt’s defense of euthanasia at Nuremberg: “Death can mean deliverance. Death is life—just as much as birth. It was never meant to be murder.”

And don’t forget that, among the means identified at Nuremberg as causing the “murder and ill-treatment of Civilian Populations” was the “inadequate provision of surgical and medical services” — exactly the policies being imposed on the U.S. today by Summers, Geithner, Orszag, and their British masters.

As Lyndon LaRouche stated unequivocally yesterday: “The Hitler program has been revived by the Obama administration.”

“This is straight Nazi stuff,” LaRouche elaborated. “It’s not a quibble; it’s not an interpretation. This is a direct copy of the philosophy of the Nazis. You cannot duck that issue. This is Nazi stuff. And it’s explicit. We know all this stuff from Hermann Goering and so forth in the 1920s, and after that with their international connections, like certain Wall Street firms. We have been warned, and we act accordingly. People who condone this are criminals, because they either knew, or should have known, what they are doing. They either knew, or should have known.”

LaRouche continued: “Please be careful: don’t accept an invitation to sleep at the White House! It might be a longer sleep than you expected…. Every time the question comes up, we should say: ‘This is the tradition of the Fuehrer’s program being maintained. You should be grateful to your insightful President, who has helped to bring this forward. And he’s going to relieve some of the strains of the world by eliminating excess population.’ We keep wondering where we heard that before!”

LaRouche emphasized that the entire HMO system has to be immediately eliminated. “Repeal the HMO’s, period. Because only if you repeal it, do you open the gates for the easy route to the necessary reforms. After you get the HMO’s repealed, after that, then you go with the other programs for rebuilding health care in the U.S., but not before.”

“Don’t accept any discussion or dialogue on Social Security and such issues,” LaRouche advised. “First we have to reduce the costly mismanagement of health care by these insurance companies, by eliminating the HMOs. This will eliminate the biggest factor of waste in the health care system.

“The HMOs just took over and replaced Hill-Burton. There’s no way of compromising on that; you have to be absolutely ruthless. The HMO is a parasite; there’s no question about it. This is all criminal, and we have to deal with it as a crime.

“The point is people get hesitant, and they say: ‘In the meantime, what are we going to do?’ In the meantime? There is no meantime! Either we get these guys out now, or there’s no chance: mass death occurs. That’s what happened with Hitler. There were Jewish communities that also said: ‘Look, don’t fight it, it will go away.’ It’s the same thing today.”

As for the Nazi behavioral economists, LaRouche said, “these guys have to go. Because either these guys are going to go, or the President is going to go. And the President has to think through that choice. Because the American people are not going to put up with this crap. And these guys are going to find that the American people are going to say to the President: ‘You get rid of those guys, or we get rid of you.’ “

The problem is that between 2003-2008 there was such hysterical antagonism to Bush that the combatants never worried about the often vicious means they used to achieve their supposedly lofty ends, and so now, finding themselves in a position of responsibility, are infuriated that anyone, well, would even conceive of playing hardball as they once did.

The striking thing about the sudden wounded-fawn Democratic syndrome is that Cheney is far milder than Gore was, that the CIA is not the firebrand Pelosi has been, and Bush has been silent about Obama in a way that even Clinton was not about Bush. If this softball stuff excites such outrage, what will happen if politics really get rough, say, as it was around 2007?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judges%27_Trial

This is getting interesting, add Zelikow to the mix, there is a lot of partisan daring going on, everyone saying release the documents…

I wonder if Cheney will ever travel abroad, say to Spain…