Porn The Vote

You have made some compelling points in responding to my original blog.  I recently read an article about Oregon’s Assisted Suicide Law.  Apparently, Barbara Wagner, an Oregon Grandmother, had her doctor’s prescription for a chemotherapy treatment turned down by her state medicaid provider, Oregon Health Plan, who instead, offered her the choice of assisted suicide!

Ms. Wagner’s response was, “I told them, I said, who do you think you are?  You know, to say that you’ll pay for my dying, but you won’t pay to possibly help me live longer?”  She recounted this in an interview with Portland television station KATU T.V. in July of 2008.  Wagner died later that fall.

If this is any indication, euthanasia and the right to die in an aging Baby Boomer population is not 25 years distant, but exists in the here and now.  If Ms. Wagner’s situation is an indicator, and I firmly believe it is, assisted suicide will become a eugenics method to reduce costs of end of life treatments for the elderly.  Death is cheaper than life.

Interestingly, since assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon, the states Medicaid health plan has reduced the number of treatments it it will cover, from 745 treatments in 1997, when assisted suicide became legal, to 503 treatments in January of 2008.  A dose of death seems to be the solution increasingly preffered in Oregon.

The increased use of eugenics will occur parallel to assisted suicide and euthanasia.  The elderly, the infirm, the mentally ill and undesireables will be targeted.  Currently we see increases of sex and race selective abortions.  Didn’t we condemn Margaret Sanger and the Nazi’s for these very same ideologies and practices?  The past it present, and the future is now.

What is life?  Visualize Rodin’s The Thinker.  Rene’ Descartes famously stated, “Cogito ergo sum.”  I think therefore I am.  The implication is that existence and self awareness are predicated on the ability to think, reason and to be self aware of ones own existence.  Should Artificial Intelligence ever be created that evolves to self awareness, and I believe it will, then what?  These moral and ethical questions posed are stupefying in their depth and complexity.

Humans define ourselves as possessions of souls.  What if a machine became fused with a soul?  Someday soon man will be required to answer these questions.  How will we respond?  Will our ethical IQ be able to match the challenge, or will we continue to act as petulant, spoiled children convinced we are gods?

Michael Wachter

mwachter2002@gmail.com

During the Saddleback Forum, while campaigning for the Presidency, in response to the query, “At what point does a baby get human rights?”, Barack Obama responded, “Answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”

If I were confronted with a delicate question that I felt I were unable to answer because it exceeded my competence, I would remain neutral in regard to that question and not attempt to tinker with it, or the machinery surrounding it.  Not so Barack Obama.

From my perspective, President Obama’s response to the question was disingenuous and deceptive.  Had Obama answered the question truthfully, it seems to me that his response would have been, “I don’t care.”  Obama’s record in the senate votes show him favoring abortion 100%.

What I find truly astonishing about President Obama’s election, is the fact that approximately 98% of black voters voted for him.  In spite of the fact that his support of abortion supports a practice that disproportionately affects Blacks.  Over 1,200 Black abortions occur daily in the United States.

More to the point, black women constitute approximately 13 percent of the female population, ages 15 to 44 in the United States.  This group undergoes approximately 36 percent of all abortions performed in the U.S. each year.    * (statistics referred to available at the www.blackgenocide.org website)

Abortion has killed far more Blacks than the Ku Klux Klan ever lynched.  And this is a practice that President Obama supports absolutely!  While Obama evaded responding to the question of when a baby gains human rights, he had no problem at all promising his unwavering support for Planned Parenthood, giving them his promise to keep abortion legal and to sign the Freedom of Choice Act.  Should this act become law, it would remove existing restrictions on abortion (e.g. on partial birth abortions).  It would also seriously compromise and/or remove conscience clause provisions protecting medical personnel from participating in practices they find morally or ethically objectionable, and, in effect, impose upon every American Citizen President Obama’s opinion that abortion is a fundamental right that women are entitled to.

President Obama would do this, despite the findings of a recent poll conducted by Harris Interactive, and sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which found the following results to reflect the opinions of the citizens he represents:

• That 72% of those surveyed strongly support/somewhat support that abortion providers inform women of potential risks to their health posed by abortion, and about alternatives to abortion.
• That 59% of those surveyed support laws requiring giving parents the chance to be involved in their minor daughters decision to seek an abortion.
• That 58% of those surveyed support laws that protect doctors and nurses from being forced to perform, or refer patients for, abortions against their will.
• That 53% of those surveyed were against partial birth abortion.
• That 47% of those surveyed were in favor of laws that prevent the use of tax payer funds for paying for abortions.

While Mark Twain once defined the three greatest lies as being the lie, the damn lie, and the statistics, there remains value nonetheless, in surveys as a barometer for measuring public opinion.  Where abortion is concerned, a majority of the public clearly does not support unrestricted access to abortion, which will be the result of the Freedom of Choice Act.

U.S.A Today on Thursday, January 22, 2009 printed a letter from Debbie Adkins of Roanoke Virginia, in which Ms. Adkins wrote, “I did not vote for a black President.  I voted for the man who I am sure can get us back to where we as Americans belong.”  While Ms. Adkins claims she did not vote for a black President, it is very obvious that 98% of black voters did.

In his inaugural speech, President Obama said that people will “Judge on what you can build, not what you can destroy.”  In the context of his speech, this observation was reference to terrorists, and terrorism.  However, I would assert it applies equally to President Obama’s position on abortion, which does not reflect the feelings of the majority of Americans he now represents, nor does it amount to a victory for the Blacks who voted for a black President, who, by his own actions, is a greater threat to his own people than White’s ever were, or ever will be.

Michael Anthony Wachter

mwachter452002@gmail.com

Why does everything have to come down to Democrat and Republican…why the bipartisan bullshit! The party line is in the way of the solution.  Why do we have just two dominant parties? Where are the real people? The true statesmen? What happened to those “dollar a year man”?  (The guys that had money like Teddy Roosevelt that worked for a dollar year, for public service, for the good of the country & people.They all talk the talk, but nobody does anything about it. They all want to stick to the PARTY LINES, whether it is good or bad, it doesn’t matter.  It is time we had a third or fourth party or abolish this entire system. 

Sometimes a little dictatorship is a good thing….like Joseph Stalin had the purges…he shot everybody! So if we shot all of the congressman and senators that screwed everything up for the past 2 decades, the people who would be elected to replace them would not think twice before they made such bumbling errors and careless mistakes with the American people. 

Guido Ignatius Apicella

If the general public knew what a billion and trillion dollars really was I doubt that they would still be wondering who they should vote for. A billion dollars is 1000 millions a trillion is 1000 billions. Since Alfred E Newman and Darth Vader have been in control they have managed to take our national debt from 3 trillion to over 10 trillion. We were running surpluses and had paid down the debt from 5 to3 trillion when Clinton left. Meanwhile The head of the Bush Crime Family Poppie has amassed 14 billion in profits for his Carlye Group, a corporation he and all the old spooks from watergate and iran contra run.They make their profits trading in gas oil and coal. Also they own the largest amount of foreclouser properties under different subsidiary corporations. Do you think the housing collapse was planned? Try reading and doing some research instead of watching the corporate owned boob tube.     By: D. McGuckian

The War On Terror

     The war on terror is an abject failure.  In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the theory was that the U.S. would take war to Al-Qaeda and/or any other terrorist organization presenting a threat to America or American interests.  Surgical attacks to eliminate terrorists cells wherever they were identified.  This was and still remains a sound operational theory.  Consequently, America has wound up pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan without any solid accomplishments to show for it.  Iraq in particular has become a reprise of Vietnam.  Iraq is a war without end if it continues on its present course.

     The current Presidential administration claims to want to bring democracy to Iraq, however, the reality is that Iraq does not wish to become a democracy. Iraq is a theocracy, in fact, it is a society dominated by Islamo-fascism.  Attempting to impose democracy in this country appears to be an exercise in futility.  As long as Iraq is controlled by Islamic law, no amount of military might will change the country into a peaceful, democratic society.  This is a war without end!  It is a war that America lost before a single shot was fired.

     A practical solution might be to address Muslim violence. Violence is a part of the culture and is an Arab problem. Don’t we want to keep the violence in the Middle East? Why not extract American troops and allow Iraq to devolve into whatever Theocratic permutation it will adopt?  We cannot stop these maniacs from killing themselves; so let them slaughter one another and keep them contained while they do so.

     America can enforce strict border control and isolate fundamentalist Islam  from the civilized world.  Let the Arab nations do as they wish inside of their borders. We cannot control them, so we should cease trying to do so and utilize our military to enforce containment.  The supply of oil fuels this war (no pun intended). Let us redirect our funds to strengthen our borders and seek alternative fuel sources.  Finding viable fuel sources is a vastly, more obtainable goal than coercing Muslim extremists to adopt democratic principles and begin to play nicely.  Use American troops inside of our country to secure our nation against terrorist attacks.

     Although it would be prudent in the extreme to electively and preemptively-now-strike and remove any and all known terrorists; utilize the original theory and make several examples of them so that the consequences of terrorist acts will be known. The use of shock and awe seems most practical and decisive.

     What is indisputable and painfully self-evident is the fact that Iraq is a losing-lost battle. The war in Iraq has cost 1 billion dollars per week for four long years. Imagine what our country could have done with that money to develop alternative fuel sources!  We cannot continue this war. One way for America and Europe to control the Middle east would be for both entities to develop independence from their oil.  America must bring our troops home and secure our national integrity and our soil.     

Michael Anthony Wachter

mwachter452002@gmail.com

Response:

            The war on terror is not an “abject” failure. Hundreds of terrorists training camps have been destroyed and thousands of terrorists have been either killed or captured.  The war continues and experts agree it will take perhaps fifty years to reduce the threat to an acceptable level.  There has not been a successful terrorist attack in the US since 9/11.

            Afghanistan, prior to American involvement, was the capital of terrorist training centers.  The Taliban ruled a country of over twenty-five million people denying virtually all rights to women including education and health care.  Prior to American involvement all things western were banned including basic principles such as; free speech, freedom of religion and any form of citizen involvement in their government.  Today, virtually all the training camps have been destroyed and while the Taliban continues to exist, its influence has been reduced by an estimated 85% to 90%. 

            Iraq is not a theocracy or dominated by “Islam-fascism”.  Iraq has a democratically elected government.  The nation is dominated by three major religious factions; the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunnis.  These factions have been and are involved in a deadly struggle to control the government. The Kurds with their own geographical area are at relative peace.  The Sunnis who were dominant under the regime of Sadam Hussein are in the minority.  The Shiites are the largest of the three competing groups.  As Shiites and Sunnis fight for control, Al Qaeda forces supplied and financed by Iran fuel the fire.  The overwhelming majority of Iraqis want what all people want, to live in peace and prosperity with a hope for the future.  If this goal can be achieved it will change the Middle East and the world in an unprecedented, positive way.

            Americans particularly young Americans expect immediate results and gratification-and that is the world we live in.  History, however teaches us that dramatic changes for the better or worse takes a very long time, costs many lives and much treasure.  Our own history reminds us that from July 4, 1776 it took twenty- three years before we had a Constitution and became the United States of America.

            Iraq is a huge nation strategically placed in the Middle East and home to over 25 million people with huge oil resources.  If Iraq were to fall today to total chaos and an all-out rebellion the effects of Middle East and the world would be catastrophic.

            Islamic fundamentalist cannot be contained, as there are hundreds of thousands of Islamic fundamentalists living in France, England and in fact, throughout Europe, Asia indeed the Untied States (recall the recent attempted attacks).  Even if the entire terrorist lived in one area, they could not possibly be contained, consider the relationship between Russia and China and their trade relationship and support for Syria, Iran and other rogue nations.  Our “ally”, the Saudis, produce thousands of terrorists (including Osama Bin Laden).  How are we to isolate a third of the world?  As an aside, it is estimated that by the year 2050, the dominant religion of France will be Islam.

            Americans and many of their politicians talk of alternative energy as if this would change our oil dependence overnight.  This sounds great and many people pay lip service to this lofty goal in spite of the stark reality.  We refuse to build nuclear power plants; we talk about ethanol when it takes an acre of land to produce 50 barrels of oil at an energy cost of over 40 barrels.  Hydrogen scientists tell us it is at least 50 years away from being even possible viable.  Wind and solar power couldn’t produce more than 2% of our growing energy needs under the most optimistic forecasts.  Instead of sitting around waiting for the magic energy fairy to wave her magic wand, how about taking immediate action on things that do work?  Nuclear power works. France uses it to supply over 20% of its’ electricity.  The Chinese are planning and building an estimated 17 nuclear power plants right now, as is India.  America is awash in oil from Anwar, Alaska to the huge reser5ve fields in the gulf.  Clean burning new coal fired plants have terrific potential.  America has an estimated 500 plus years of coal reserves.  If we used our current reserves properly, we could wean ourselves away from Arab oil much quicker while we continue to work on alternative fuels that show potential.

            Maybe the world would be a better place if we didn’t have to fight wars, if all countries could live in peace, and kindness and compassion governed nations and all their people.

            Well, sorry, this isn’t a damn Beatles song!  There are hundreds of thousands of terrorists with very sophisticated weapons and schemes intent on nothing less than killing every one of us.

            There are no easy answers, no simplistic solutions to the world’s problems.  One last thought…the only thing that is “indisputable and painfully self evident” is that in world politics, war and peace, life and death, NOTHING is “indisputable and painfully self evident”.

By: L.D.