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| I am finally scared of a White House administration |
| 2009-08-19 |
| Nat Hentoff, Jewish World Review Nat Hentoff, who describes himself as "a member of the Proud and Ancient Order of Stiff-Necked Jewish Atheists," is a pro-life, left-leaning libertarian and implacable critic of the ACLU who used to write for the Village Voice and now works for the Cato Institute. He is, above all else, an honest man who calls things as he sees them. I was not intimidated during J. Edgar Hoover's FBI hunt for reporters like me who criticized him. I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. But now I am finally scared of a White House administration. President Obama's desired health care reform intends that a federal board (similar to the British model) -- as in the Center for Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation in a current Democratic bill -- decides whether your quality of life, regardless of your political party, merits government-controlled funds to keep you alive. Watch for that life-decider in the final bill. It's already in the stimulus bill signed into law. The members of that ultimate federal board will themselves not have examined or seen the patient in question.... Go read it all. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 Ah, the boy who cried wolf when he saw the sheep dogs now meets a REAL wolf. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2009-08-19 13:35 |
| #2 Verlaine, we heard innumerable times that Bush had "abolished the writ of habeas corpus!" (which always cracked me up because at any given the time federal court system is swamped with habeas petitions from jailhouse laywers.) If that were true, where's the legislation or executive order restoring habeas corpus? Must not be very high on the new administration's agenda. |
| Posted by: Matt 2009-08-19 13:08 |
| #1 I railed against the Bush-Cheney war on the Bill of Rights without blinking. Sorry, Nat, I don't have any interest in hearing your alien-abduction testimonies .... I'm asking, after 7 years of asking, just WTF these people are talking about when they spout crap like this. It's one of the most ridiculous, pervasive, unchallenged false claims of the Bush years - and that's saying something, obviously. Or perhaps I'm just lucky that, almost alone, I have miraculously escaped the evil war on the Bill of Rights. Sheesh. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2009-08-19 12:26 |