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A short time ago, I mentioned<\/a> George Pitcher’s extraordinarily lame showing on the Today<\/em> programme, when he was invited to talk about assisted suicide.\u00a0 I included a link to his blog – and,\u00a0I admit it, this was partly intended so that he’d get an “incoming link” notification and either make a comment here, or refer to my post there.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, he’s done neither.\u00a0 However, he has excelled himself when it comes to euthanasia paranoia.\u00a0 He posted on the subject on the day of the Radio 4 interview, and you can read the full thing here<\/a>\u00a0if you really want.\u00a0 I’m going to pick on a short extract:<\/p>\n

And another thing: We have a growing elderly population, living longer, and palliative care is very expensive. It couldn’t be that the Government sees the ballooning NHS budget and realises that one way to save a bit would be for our senior citizens to be encouraged to top themselves?<\/p>\n

Nothing would surprise me anymore.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ahhh… wild speculation and scaremongering dressed as argument.\u00a0 Rewarding stuff.<\/p>\n

Of course, I’d like to think that things couldn’t get stupider… but, it seems, they can.\u00a0 One should never under<\/span>overestimate the contributors to Telegraph<\/em> blogs.\u00a0 “BritishPatriot” has to have his poorly-spelled say on the subject:<\/p>\n

In 1970 when Aborion was legalised they said it would only be used in extreme circumstances, we now have abortion clinics, err, sorry pregnancy advice centres in every town where potential mothers are lulled into aborting what they are told are ‘just cells’
\n7.2 Million British Babies later, we face a Demographics Timebomb.
\nNow they want to sterilise our Schoolgirls.
\nThis Euthenasia drive they are trying ti get us to agree to is so they can asset strip the British Elderly then do away with them in their Privatised ‘clinic’
\nThe EU doesn’t want you, they know you will not vote for the EU so they are getting rid of you every way they can.
\nWAKE UP !!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If I don’t contribute to this blog for a while, it’ll be for one of two reasons.\u00a0 Either Gordon Brown and the entire staff of the European Commission\u00a0will personally have come round to my house to euthanise me (coldly ignoring my cries of “No!\u00a0 Really!\u00a0 I’m all in favour of the EU and would sign up to Schengen and the Euro lickety-split!”), or I’ll have bought shares in Bacofoil and have moved to a private island in the Carribean.<\/p>\n

Because there seems to be a growing market in tinfoil hats that needs to be exploited.<\/p>\n

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