Step by perilous step do we venture forth on this pathway; like the fool on the hill, blindly do we stumble, do we contemplate the abyss before us.Baron Falconer of Thoroton is an old school chum of the Right Honourable Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. The Dome Secretary at that time and king-pin of spin, so-called real prime minister, was the now Baron Mandelson of Foy.
We here see the jolly pair at the latter's induction into the House of Lords -
Lord Falconer is pictured at left. Whilst serving in the Blair ministry as the Minister of State, Cabinet Office in the Ministry of Truth, which purpose it was to put spin to history and top to spin, the noble Lord was complicit in rewriting the officially sanctioned history of The Dome - Regeneration, The Story of the Dome.
The renegade publishers, Harper-Collins, defied the State edicts and went ahead with publication in any case, no doubt, at the behest of Emmanuel Goldstein!
Lord Falconer of Thoroton now chairs The Commission on Assisted Dying. This is a mutually exclusive, self-appointed, group of peers and academics - exclusive in that anyone who objects to legalising assisted suicide is excluded.
The final report of the so-called independent Commission, chaired by the said former Labour minister Lord Falconer, concluded: “There is a strong case for providing the choice of assisted dying for terminally ill people."
The Commission, which was funded by the right-to-die campaigner Sir Terry Pratchett, called on the Government to let doctors help people die if they have less than 12 months to live.
There is nothing independent about a commission that is dominated by a caucus of opinion that favours an outcome.
There is nothing independent about a commission funded by an interested party; that cannot but be loaded in favour of an outcome.
If the death penalty stands in error to safeguard against the real and present danger of error in committing an innocent to the penalty of the gallows, then a law to permit one human being to take the life of another or be complicit in that act must also stand in error.
Such a law will place vulnerable people in dire peril. The existing law, which is rarely used but bears warning and threat that anyone who helps another person kill themselves can be jailed for up to 14 years, acts as a deterrant and safeguard that will be removed.
There is nothing independent about a commission that is dominated by a caucus of opinion that favours an outcome.
There is nothing independent about a commission funded by an interested party; that cannot but be loaded in favour of an outcome.
If the death penalty stands in error to safeguard against the real and present danger of error in committing an innocent to the penalty of the gallows, then a law to permit one human being to take the life of another or be complicit in that act must also stand in error.
Such a law will place vulnerable people in dire peril. The existing law, which is rarely used but bears warning and threat that anyone who helps another person kill themselves can be jailed for up to 14 years, acts as a deterrant and safeguard that will be removed.
“Put simply, the most effective safeguard against abuse is to leave the law as it is. What Lord Falconer has done is to argue that it is morally acceptable to put many vulnerable people at increased risk so that the aspirations of a small number of individuals, to control the time, place and means of their deaths, might be met. Such a calculus of risk is unnecessary and wholly unacceptable.” (Bishop Newcome)
Peopled and chaired by supporters of the cause, the outcome of the Commission on Assisted Dying was not at all surprising.
The Commission was also funded by Bernard Lewis. Both Lewis and Pratchett are supporters of Dignity in Dying which backs changing the law to make assisted suicide legal.
The Commission was funded to produce precisely those conclusions at which its deliberations ultimately arrived.
The Commission wants the law changed so that if patients have less than a year to live, doctors can prescribe drugs to hasten their end. Well now, that little proviso fits nice and neatly with the hunt for the 1% and the GP death lists...
The noble Lord, no doubt harking back to his days in the Minisry of Truth, is accused of using a little bit of Newspeak to good purpose -
The Commission was also funded by Bernard Lewis. Both Lewis and Pratchett are supporters of Dignity in Dying which backs changing the law to make assisted suicide legal.
The Commission was funded to produce precisely those conclusions at which its deliberations ultimately arrived.
The Commission wants the law changed so that if patients have less than a year to live, doctors can prescribe drugs to hasten their end. Well now, that little proviso fits nice and neatly with the hunt for the 1% and the GP death lists...
The noble Lord, no doubt harking back to his days in the Minisry of Truth, is accused of using a little bit of Newspeak to good purpose -
Based on the conclusions of an informal commission on assisted dying he chaired last year, the Bill would introduce a system whereby doctors can provide terminally ill patients with a fatal dose of drugs.
It is termed “assisted dying” rather than “assisted suicide” as it would be limited to people who are terminally ill with a prognosis of six months or less to live.
But Lord Carlile branded the distinction “nonsense”.
“In law, as in the English language, if you take your own life, whatever your state of health, that is suicide; and a doctor, or anyone else, who supplies you with the means to do so is assisting suicide,” he wrote.
“Sound law-making demands clarity. It cannot be based on euphemisms, verbal evasions or Orwellian spin.”
Helping somebody to commit suicide is a crime, with a possible jail term of 14 years in England and Wales.
Dignity in Dying, a group supporting the Bill, agreed that the proposal would lead to about 1,000 people a year taking their own lives.
But it insisted this was far lower than the number of people who already do so with informal help.
Lord Carlisle of Berriew has previously taken stand against that other Death pathway, the LCP.
This Most Honourable Gentleman now takes stand against this Death Pathway that sneaks in under the radar of common decency that would have warned us of its malodorous intent.
The Telegraph
Baroness Warnock has said that elderly people suffering from dementia are "wasting people's lives" and "wasting the resources of the National Health Service" and should be allowed to die.
These are the words of a well-respected commentator on medical ethics.
Amongst submissions of evidence to the self-appointed Commission is a submission of evidence by...
Baroness Mary Warnock.
The transcript is here.
There will be many like her, waiting in the wings, should such a bill be passed through parliament, ready to interpret and put their own spin and edge on the legislation to accomodate their own agendas.
All Death Pathways, intended or otherwise, are open to abuse. The Death pathway proclaims the right to death above the right to life.
“Put simply, the most effective safeguard against abuse is to leave the law as it is. What Lord Falconer has done is to argue that it is morally acceptable to put many vulnerable people at increased risk so that the aspirations of a small number of individuals, to control the time, place and means of their deaths, might be met. Such a calculus of risk is unnecessary and wholly unacceptable.” (Bishop Newcombe)Wise words.
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