Dec 102010
 

During the health care debate a Republican meme spread from Fox and other disreputable sources, through the main stream media, all the way to the floor of the US House and Senate.  Obamacare, they said, would employ death panels.  Few if any realized at that point that this was the common Republican tactic of accusing Democrats of what they themselves were doing or planning to do.  Republicans are now sponsoring death panels, both at home and abroad.

On the home front we have Arizona’s Republican Death Panel.

10death1…Gov. Jan Brewer and the Republican-controlled legislature say that it’s all about the huge budget deficits facing the state, $825 million this year and $1.4 billion next.

The governor says that she won’t consider restoring transplant services to the seriously ill patients previously covered under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System until the black hole in the budget is plugged.

That’s not an answer, it’s a ploy. It’s a political chess move with dying people as pawns.

The governor’s death panel will save roughly $1.4 million this year by cutting transplant services. That’s $1.4 million in an overall budget of roughly $9 BILLION.

To suggest that we need to kill people because we can’t find $1.4 million to cut from a $9 billion budget is not only cruel, it’s insulting.

But then, this is not a new game.

Some members of the legislature have been trying to eliminate aspects of the AHCCCS transplant coverage for years… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Arizona Central>

I can’t imagine many things more horrific than to be about to receive a life-saving operation only to be condemned to death without cause.

Keith Olbermann Interviewed David Hernandez, one of the people Arizona Republicans have condemned to death.

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If that is not a death panel, what is?  But this does not even hold a candle to the scope of the death panel Republicans are sponsoring abroad, in Uganda.

David Bahati, a Ugandan pawn of the famiily, the pseudo-Christian Republican Theocon organization that owns C-Street, infamous for helping Republicans caught in sex scandals, introduced Uganda’s kill the gays bill.

10death2David Bahati, the Ugandan parliamentarian who introduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill–legislation that proposes the death penalty for certain cases of “aggravated homosexuality,” is in the United States this week for meetings. Paul LeGendre, Human Rights First’s Fighting Discrimination program director,  debated Bahati on Voice of America yesterday…

…LeGendre stressed:

The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people are fundamental human rights. And this bill in a fundamental way violates those rights by discriminating against people based on sexual orientation and gender identity through imprisonment and execution.

In response to Bahati’s claim that the bill defends families, LeGendre protested and said that the bill “breaks up families and society through bigotry and discrimination.”… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Hunan Rights First>

Rachel Maddow interviewed this miscreant.  Here is today’s segment of that interview.

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If the appropriate penalty for sexual sin is death, as he claims, way aren’t Republicans calling for the death of John Ensign or Diaper Dave Vitter?  Only for gays?  How about Larry Craig?  Fortunately, the State Department kicked him out of the country.

10death3Bye- Bye Bahati.  Sources have informed LGR that David Bahati ,who was taped for yesterday and today’s Rachel Maddow Show, was told to get out of the USA by authorities Thursday.

Bahati had planned on staying in the USA; he could leave over the weekend, but he was asked to leave right away by Department of State  officials.  He had been banned and refused entry to the conference which was the  basis for his  his single event VISA to enter the USA.  When he showed up for the Conference he was asked by Organizers to leave and refused entry, despite the fact that other MP’s from Uganda had been allowed to participate.

The organizers cited the fact that they would not associate themselves with the Author of what became known as the Kill Gays Bill, officially The Anti-Homosexual Bill; which Bahati hopes will pass in Uganda in the Spring.

Authorities informed Bahati that he was no longer welcome and nor was he legally entitled to remain in the USA.  He was put on a plane for Paris and is probably in the sky as we speak… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Lez Get Real>

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

To further expose the links between this bill and Republican operatives, Rachel interviewed expert on the family,  Jeff Sharlet.

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Do there we have it.  Republicans are using Uganda as a test case for social engineering.  This is not the first time.  An earlier example of social engineering in a foreign country by Republicans is Chile’s government under Agosto Pinochet.

In Uganda Bahati told Sharlet that in a perfect world, the law would kill all gays.  That’s a perfect world, enforced through a death panel, as sponsored by Republicans.

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  10 Responses to “Republican Death Panels at Home and Abroad”

  1. Brewer’s willful and depraved indifference to human life is … actually the exact criteria necessary to be charged with second-degree murder.

    And when it comes to the bat-shit crazy Bahati, let us not forget inaugural invocation-giver Pastor Rick Warren who refused to condemn the Ugandan bill: “However, it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations. As a pastor, my job is to encourage, to support. I never take sides.”

    Right, Pastor Rick … except when it comes to your hate-mongering on homophobic issues – and then you supplied your support to passage of Prop 8.

  2. “For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is life eternal”

    Very interesting quote from the text he used, leaving off the second half. The implication is that one has to work (wages) to die but God has gifted humanity with eternal life.

    Seems to me that there are a lot of people out there working hard to die, Bhati, Brewer, Palin , as SINAN above said Rick Warren. No one seems to be able to define sin. They shout and scream about what they think is a sin but they haven’t a clue what is sin. And are there degrees of sin. Has brewer for example ever told a lie? Then what difference is it between that lie and the “sin” of homosexuality? so she deserves life no parole for her “sins” same as a Ugandan gay deserves life in prison for theirs.

    Maybe they should read and TRY to understand this from Isaiah 55 which in its entirety is germane to their views which are formed by men not by any God.

    For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

    9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

    10For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

    11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

    12For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

    13Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

    Sin is sin is is sin there are no degrees of it.

  3. Well, if they used Argentina as a social engineering project, they really fucked that one up with Pinochet.

    And that ugly bitch Brewer killing people by taking them off transplants; these people have no souls. 😡

  4. Tom, the assholes who voted for the GOP should certainly get what they deserve for doing so. And interesting that all of those who jump up and down, quoting the Bible to condemn homosexuality are strangely silent on the passage in Leviticus that says adulterers should be stoned to death.

  5. I live in AZ and Brewer needs a heart! Of course, she will go to the front of the line, free-o’-charge courtesy of the gov’t of the State of AZ health insurance! No worries for Jan! :mrgreen:

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