Dakota Beacon

Years ago I observed that one of the logical extensions of allowing abortion is that those who are at the other end of the spectrum - the elderly - would be threatened with euthanasia.  Let’s face it - if a life which has not even had a chance to blossom in childhood is not considered worth saving, why would a life much of which has already been spent - earning a living, raising a family, and now not “productive” enough, be considered worth maintaining?  

We had ample hints of this, a forecast, if you will, with Ezekiel Emmanuel’s reference to “useless eaters” - those who are not producing but consume resources.  We have seen a kind of discarding of human beings when we put them in nursing homes.  For some assisted living is needed when physical abilities wane or when one’s family cannot take responsibility for providing help.  Sometimes retirement savings or pensions are not enough either, and the poor and elderly are doubly disadvantaged.  

Our society is speeding closer to barbarism every day.  Where once the elders of a community were looked up to and their knowledge of life and experience valued, as we have separated from them physically, through leaving them in institutionalized living quarters or their precursors, “retirement communities” rather than keeping a family together generationally, we now allow someone like Emmanuel to refer to them as “useless eaters”.  The so-called covid pandemic hastened this movement.  Governor Andrew Cuomo callously used nursing homes as depositories for those sick with the virus at a time when it was still in its most virile form, killing tens of thousands of elderly people.  The older people who have gone to emergency rooms have been fast-tracked onto ventilators, which are considered to have an 80% kill rate in the general population.  Throughout all of this physical torture, our institutions have been allowed to amp up the mental and emotional torture, separating loved ones from their parents and grandparents.  Then we encouraged them to get “vaccinations” and indeed, forced these on some of them.  The result was a disaster, of course.  

Those of us who opposed Obamacare warned that there would be no way to sustain such a program.  It was freezing out health insurance companies, it was destroying jobs because employers could not afford it.  It was encouraging capricious and unnecessary use of medical services rather than promoting wellness.  We knew that it was a doomed program economically.  But we were all told - in an attempt to shame us - that countries like Canada and some of the European nations were doing just fine!  Great medical care at zero cost, we were told.  Why can’t America do as well as they? Those of us who kept on thinking despite this campaign however tried to point to the poor quality of this care - long waits for very serious health care.  It was all working so well on paper because when someone developed a serious and costly medical problem the wait often meant that it was moot - the person declined and died before the care was available or before they were eligible to receive it.    I recall meeting a middle-aged, youngish-middle-aged, a real estate agent who was showing us a house in Winnipeg.  She apologized for not going upstairs with us.  “I have a heart condition,” she explained.  “I need heart surgery but I won’t be eligible for it for another 11 years.”  It would be free, of course.  If she lived another 11 years with a faulty heart, or at least lived it halfway, avoiding stairs and not exerting herself too much, or suffering any intervening illness which might cause the damage to accelerate.  That was Canadian health care.  It was a war of attrition.  The government health care system was rigged to fail before it had to outspend its resources.  See how simple that works out?  Brilliant.

This is what Obamacare skeptics pointed out, in vain.  Well now that Trudeau has a few years of unvarnished tyranny under his belt, with a side of suppression of dissent applied with horses’ hooves and nightsticks and tear gas, we have a new program unveiled:  Euthanasia will be provided FREE OF CHARGE to those who are “too poor to live with dignity”.  So you don’t have to pay anyone to kill you.  Funny.  I thought sleeping pills and alcohol were available without government permission.  Maybe not in Canada.  But they’ll make it up to you - they will not only permit you to commit suicide and help you along with it, they will do it for FREE!  Dr. Kavorkian must be spinning in his grave over this.  Think of the loss of income.  

So our elderly (or perhaps anyone, by extension) who are “too poor to live with dignity” will be afforded the absolute indignity of government-funded murder.  Well, it used to be that Canada lagged behind the US in some social and economic aspects, but they have surged ahead here and the US government will surely consider this a challenge.  

We have all been wondering why they have let Biden out of the basement and off his leash so much of late.  He has been abusing his audiences with rude and Tourette’s-like outbursts, ignoring reasonable questions from the press and shuffling off, shaking hands with thin air, losing his way off stage and making the most incomprehensible mumbling comments, contradicting himself and looking like Central Casting’s perfect candidate for the senile old guy that gets lost wandering down the hall.  Perhaps there is method in their madness.  Perhaps by showcasing the most undignified and embarrassing outlier they could find - Joe Biden - they believed they could gin up support for euthanizing the elderly in America as well.  

If we have any morals left, or any remaining reason to call ourselves a decent country (based on our founding, not what we see today, of course) we will recognize the fatal mistake of allowing our medical professions or our government to knowingly kill our own people.  We will stop allowing the murder of the unborn or the infants (in so-called “late-term” or “post-natal” abortions) and we will say absolutely NO to the euthanizing of people, whether based on age, on infirmity or on poverty.  When you get serious about this, you will realize that young people or middle-aged people or just “mature” people might find it impossible to live with “dignity” because they are poor.  The logic here would be that if a 20-something is finding it impossible to pursue his dream at that point and finds that some entry-level shelf-stocking job is not “dignified” or isn’t producing enough income to provide a nice apartment with all the stuff his friends are enjoying maybe he should be euthanized.  Maybe just having an illness such as rheumatoid arthritis should qualify one for euthanasia, or being wheel-chair bound perhaps or maybe blind or deaf.  Or maybe just someone that costs money to support.

This would be the dream of Adolf Hitler.  Supposedly he was so terrible that we are insulting even the worst criminals if we compare them to him.  It’s not okay to refer to a vicious and bloodthirsty dictator to Hitler.  And yet here we are, in 2022, reading about Canada, once thought of as a highly civilized nation - almost comically so - setting up programs to euthanize those “too poor to live with dignity”.  This and what will surely follow it would be the stuff of Hitler’s dreams.  Those lacking “dignity” are those who would even propose such a “final solution”.

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