Eugenics makes a comeback
Happy Holidays everyone! We have been crushed by our real jobs of late, but have high hopes of resuming frequent commentary on the doings of the world after the new year.
In the meantime - Capt'n Nemo leaves us with some thoughts on a concept that one should not be so quick to dismiss as 'can't happen here', because......oh yes it can.
Read on.......
Eugenics makes a comeback
For those of you that don’t know what eugenics is I will explain in brief: It is the manipulation of social progress to favor the most desirable contributors to society while discarding (eliminating) those that contribute the least to society. This is done so that the resources of a society are not “wasted” on undesirables. Undesirables are anyone that is a “burden” on society and wastes resources.
In America some 60,000 people (free Americans) were “manipulated” by forced sterilization from the late 19th century to nearly the mid 20th century. Backed by laws that were upheld by the United States Supreme Court. This is the darkest chapter in US medical history. Incidentally Nazis during the Nuremberg trials pointed at the USA for the inspiration for forced sterilizations. After WWII eugenics morphed or went into hiding particularly after sterilization programs…or did it?
Medicine in this nation has become increasingly socialized. As a result there is an alarming eugenic trend. Have you ever noticed studies on how much a particular group ailment costs either businesses or all of us in general? I have seen at least two examples of this. One example is how much smokers cost and the other is how much obese people cost. You may think this line of thought is benign but that is what the Germans thought too.
Here is a prime example from our wonderful friends at the University of Berkley I quote from an article dated 1998:
"We can now see the tremendous burden of smoking on society," said Rice. "These are very high costs."
Full text can be found here berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0916/smoking.html
My friends this statement “burden on society” is right out of the eugenic playbook. Similar statements can be found about the obese.
Aside from the ipod tax (really an internet tax…nothing new here) there is a very interesting statement:
“…Among them is an unprecedented 18% “obesity tax” on sugary soft drinks. The tax would cover fruit drinks with less than 70% fruit juice, as well as “-ades, punches and certain fruit nectars.” Diet soft drinks would be exempt.
With one in four New York teenagers considered obese, the “obesity tax” aims to cut consumption of sugary drinks by five percent while raising $404 million in the next fiscal year.”
Full text here: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5361269.ece
The message here is that you people are too fat so we will control your lives after all we know better than you do. Today this is called social engineering a century ago it was called eugenics. What is next cigarette style warning labels from the Surgeon General saying food is bad for you?
You may say wait Captain Nemo these conditions are preventable! This is true but is that reason enough to discard these members of society and use words like “burden”? How long before this universal health care utopia so sought after by socialists in the USA starts to charge (or refuse entry) based on weight or smoking habits (or exposure to smoke)? Why not have every US citizen go through genetic testing and see if there are any predispositions to various diseases then charge appropriately due to the “burden”? Where does this stop? The problem with a universal health care system is that it exacerbates this problem.
The writers of the medical show House got it right when Dr. House says (paraphrasing) “do you know why there are no ribbons for lung cancer?” “Because it was their fault they deserve to die.”
Do you want your children growing up in a cold uncaring eugenically based society where people are not measured for who they are but instead for what burdens they may be (the opposite of Dr. King’s dream)? Then stop voting for the stupid automatons that spew this kind of garbage.
Capt'n Nemo
In the meantime - Capt'n Nemo leaves us with some thoughts on a concept that one should not be so quick to dismiss as 'can't happen here', because......oh yes it can.
Read on.......
Eugenics makes a comeback
For those of you that don’t know what eugenics is I will explain in brief: It is the manipulation of social progress to favor the most desirable contributors to society while discarding (eliminating) those that contribute the least to society. This is done so that the resources of a society are not “wasted” on undesirables. Undesirables are anyone that is a “burden” on society and wastes resources.
In America some 60,000 people (free Americans) were “manipulated” by forced sterilization from the late 19th century to nearly the mid 20th century. Backed by laws that were upheld by the United States Supreme Court. This is the darkest chapter in US medical history. Incidentally Nazis during the Nuremberg trials pointed at the USA for the inspiration for forced sterilizations. After WWII eugenics morphed or went into hiding particularly after sterilization programs…or did it?
Medicine in this nation has become increasingly socialized. As a result there is an alarming eugenic trend. Have you ever noticed studies on how much a particular group ailment costs either businesses or all of us in general? I have seen at least two examples of this. One example is how much smokers cost and the other is how much obese people cost. You may think this line of thought is benign but that is what the Germans thought too.
Here is a prime example from our wonderful friends at the University of Berkley I quote from an article dated 1998:
"We can now see the tremendous burden of smoking on society," said Rice. "These are very high costs."
Full text can be found here berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/0916/smoking.html
My friends this statement “burden on society” is right out of the eugenic playbook. Similar statements can be found about the obese.
Aside from the ipod tax (really an internet tax…nothing new here) there is a very interesting statement:
“…Among them is an unprecedented 18% “obesity tax” on sugary soft drinks. The tax would cover fruit drinks with less than 70% fruit juice, as well as “-ades, punches and certain fruit nectars.” Diet soft drinks would be exempt.
With one in four New York teenagers considered obese, the “obesity tax” aims to cut consumption of sugary drinks by five percent while raising $404 million in the next fiscal year.”
Full text here: www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5361269.ece
The message here is that you people are too fat so we will control your lives after all we know better than you do. Today this is called social engineering a century ago it was called eugenics. What is next cigarette style warning labels from the Surgeon General saying food is bad for you?
You may say wait Captain Nemo these conditions are preventable! This is true but is that reason enough to discard these members of society and use words like “burden”? How long before this universal health care utopia so sought after by socialists in the USA starts to charge (or refuse entry) based on weight or smoking habits (or exposure to smoke)? Why not have every US citizen go through genetic testing and see if there are any predispositions to various diseases then charge appropriately due to the “burden”? Where does this stop? The problem with a universal health care system is that it exacerbates this problem.
The writers of the medical show House got it right when Dr. House says (paraphrasing) “do you know why there are no ribbons for lung cancer?” “Because it was their fault they deserve to die.”
Do you want your children growing up in a cold uncaring eugenically based society where people are not measured for who they are but instead for what burdens they may be (the opposite of Dr. King’s dream)? Then stop voting for the stupid automatons that spew this kind of garbage.
Capt'n Nemo
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