Michael Savage Banned from UK: But Philip Nitschke Allowed In for the Magical Suicide Tour
I don't listen to Michael Savage, but it seems odd to me that a talk radio shock jock would be banned from the UK because of things he has said, but that Philip Nitschke would be allowed in despite what he does--teach people how to commit suicide. From the BBC Story on Savage:
Controversial daily radio talk-show host [Michael Savage]. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence. His views on immigration, Islam, rape and autism have caused great offence in the US.Yet here is what Nitschke has been doing since being allowed in:
Dr Nitschke, who helped four people to die when euthanasia was briefly legalised in Australia, explained the choice people faced: a lingering and possibly painful death in hospital, surrounded by strangers, or a quick, pain-free and peaceful exit at home. [Me: Uttlerly false premise, but what else is new.]He showed a video of Betty, his octogenarian assistant, demonstrating how to commit suicide with a large roasting bag and a can of helium of the kind used to inflate balloons.So, I guess the moral of the story is that in the UK, it is worse to "offend" certain unnamed people than to encourage and teach the elderly, ill, disabled, and despairing how to kill themselves. But such are the weird politically correct times in which we live.
His own preferred method, in keeping with his motto, "I'd rather die like a dog", is nembutal, washed down with a whisky. Nembutal is a barbiturate used by vets to put down animals. It is strictly controlled in Britain but available over the counter in Mexico.
He urged his audience to prepare their own "end of life: strategy before they became too old or sick. Much better to stock up now rather than risk the liberty of a loved one, he suggested...He added: "I cannot condone anything that is illegal but I know hundreds of people who have bought nembutal in Mexico and flown back to this country without any problem" [me: thereby condoning what is illegal].
Hit it Phil!
Roll up, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up AND THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the suicide tour.
The magical suicide tour is waiting to take you away,
Waiting to take you away.
Roll up, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, roll up for the suicide tour.
The magical suicide tour is hoping to take you away.
Hoping to take you away.
Roll up, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up AND THAT'S AN INVITATION, roll up for the suicide tour.
Roll up TO MAKE A RESERVATION, roll up for the suicide tour.
The magical suicide tour is coming to take you away,
Coming to take you away.
The magical suicide tour is dying to take you away,
Dying to take you away, take you away.
Take you today.
Labels: United Kingdom. Political Correctness. Philip Nitschke. Michael Savage.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 2:23 PM
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10 Comments:
I listen to Michael Savage often. I wouldn't term him a "shock jock"; that would be more like Howard Stern. The use of the passive voice often reflects there being nothing of substance behind it -- "considered" by whom? It doesn't say. Nor does he seek to incite violence. What he does is express outrage and go direct to the heart of matters fearlessly. He's also on the same side as SHS on the issues SHS considers of paramount importance. I've never heard him comment on rape, he points out the parallel between the encroachment of Islam on the West now and centuries past, he's against illegal immigration (it's offensive to be against something that's illegal?) and hardly alone in being offended by illegal immigration, and I've never heard him demean the autistic; if I remember right, he may have said something about vaccination and autism (on which side of the issue he stands on that I don't remember) in relation to his own field of expertise (vitamins, herbs, natural healing, the effect of pharmaceuticals on children, etc.) or re immunization. He does often mention that England is no longer itself; perhaps the BBC, which here proves his point, doesn't cotton to that. A friend who is a native Englishwoman (I don't care what they call it now and I don't even want to know; as far as I'm concerned it's England, but if there's been a change of name that in itself is telling) often has emailed me lamenting how far out of control "political correctness" has gotten there. I'm surprised that SHS doesn't listen to Savage; he's worth hearing, on the same team when it comes to life issues, and hardly a "shock jock." For years I saw people wearing "Savage Nation" caps and didn't know to what they referred; then one night in fall-winter 2006-07 I heard the show while changing radio channels, and what he happened to be saying at the time was that he had tried for a whole day to make an honest effort to think like a liberal, and tried, and tried, and had found it impossible, and that it had made his head hurt, because there is no logic to it. His show is worth listening to and his books are worth reading. A lot of legal immigrants love him and his show, by the way. He doesn't play the song "There is no England any more" on his show for no reason, that's for sure.
On a related note, today I spoke with an English person who lives here and whose elderly mother lives in England, and in the course of the conversation mentioned that the way the elderly are treated here by the medical establishment is parlous, etc., and that I understood that there is a similar problem in England. He said yes but not in the same way as here, that there it is not all about money, as it is here. I don't understand what he meant by that. Can anyone cast some light on that?
Because most elderly care in the UK is nonprofit. In the US, its about how much cash you can squeeze out of them before they die.
Heh. I like the song you modified, Wesley, but I this is the one that comes to my mind when reading about the assisted suicide tourism of Europe, and it popped in there again reading about this weirdness with banning a "shock jock" and allowing a murderer in England:
Welcome back my friends
To the show that never ends!
We're so glad you could attend
Come inside! Come inside!
Right before your eyes we pull Laughter from the Skies!
And he laughs until he cries
Then he dies, Then he dies!
Come inside the
Show's about to start
Guaranteed to blow your head apart!
Funny you should mention that song TE. In the first part, all evil is seemingly removed from the world in some form of utopian or perhaps transhuman pursuit of perfection, the only evil left as a carnival show for all to see.
Unfortunately in the last part of the song, the almost perfect humans are wiped out by their own mechanical creation who lets one live, I guess to be a sideshow at the carnival.
"I'M PERFECT! ARE YOU?"
Kind of hits on some issues discussed here, man's quest for his own perfection only leads to his destruction at the hand of his own creation...
Columbian_leaf - with respect, I beg to differ about care for the elderly over here. If it's delivered in the person's own home then yes, the council pays for it through it's social care budget.
However, if the person has to go into a nursing home, regardless of whether it's run privately or by the council, the funds an individual has - including those tied up in their home - are taken into account. There's been a lot in the news recently about people being strongly "persuaded" - effectively coerced - to go into a nursing home, including one case when police came armed with a battering ram (which was not used) and carted a woman to a nursing home who was going through the dementing process, but had been able to stay at home:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/elderhealth/5262744/Care-homes-no-way-to-treat-the-elderly.html
I realise there will increasingly be points here where we need to contribute to care but at once point I used to work in nursing homes: I applaud all efforts to stay at home.
and now the real Beatles perspective on death
Tomorrow Never Knows
Turn off your mind relax and float down-stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying,
Lay down all thought surrender to the void,
It is shining, it is shining.
That you may see the meaning of within,
It is speaking, it is speaking,
That love is all and love is everyone,
It is knowing, it is knowing.
When ignorance and haste may mourn the dead,
It is believing, it is believing,
But listen to the color of your dreams,
It is not living, it is not living.
Or play the game existence to the end.
Of the beginning, of the beginning.
----------
Yer Blues
Yes I'm lonely wanna die
Yes I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh, girl you know the reason why
In the morning wanna die
In the evening wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh, girl you know the reason why
My mother was of the sky
My father was of the earth
But I am of the universe
And you know what it's worth
I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh, girl you know the reason why
The eagle picks my eye
The worm he licks my bone
I feel so suicidal
Just like Dylan's Mr. Jones
Lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh, girl you know the reason why
The black cloud crossed my mind
Blue mist round my soul
Feel so suicidal
Even hate my rock and roll wanna die
Yeah, wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh, girl you know the reason why
Yes, I'm lonely wanna die
Yes, I'm lonely wanna die
If I ain't dead already
Ooh, girl you know the reason why
Yes, I'm lonely wanna die
Pentobarbital ("Nembutal" is a brand name) has other uses besides animal euthanasia, including pre-operative sedation and treatment of seizures in humans. To refer to pentobarbital as if it were used solely as a euthanasia agent is as dishonest as characterizing potassium cyanide solely as a poison --- instead of as a valuable industrial chemical.
If a layman who isn't involved in industry has cyanide in his hands, I'd bet my two back teeth he's using it as a poison.
If pentobarbital is in the hands of someone who's not a vet, a doctor who's performing surgery, or a doctor/patient treating a seizure, I'd bet those same back teeth it's being used in human euthanasia.
TE-right
So what about Michael Savage?
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