Devin Norris  

SOURCE/CREDITS: Letter as written by: Vincent F. Shapanus

August 10, 2009

Re: Are You The Pot Calling The Kettle Black?

Dear Senator Reid, Congresswoman Pelosi and Senator Boxer:

I suggest you retract your comments about characterizing concerned citizens as “Un-American”, “Astro-turf”, an “Angry Mob” or as Nazi’s. You may not get reelected. Your popularity with liberal and conservative Americans has hit an all time low. Americans are fed up with and have lost patient with the Members of Congress regardless of party affiliation. No one in the House or Senate can count on their past record or past popularity in the up coming elections in 2010.

Do you not have anything to say about the Whitehouse’s actions of directing the AFL-CIO and SEIU to send union members to town hall meetings and tea party’s to intimidate and attack constituents who show up to voice their concerns. I attended several town hall meetings and the constituents that showed up were liberals and conservatives concerned about the same issues regarding the President’s Health Care Reform. Americans who are uninsured need jobs first and health care second. The issue began with health care as the need to provide health care to the uninsured. Now the Democratic Administration has used this agenda to push for health care reform which will ultimately end up in a single payer system, eliminating private health insurance, and destroying the world’s greatest system of health care.. Add this to the equation. The National debt has increased 400% since President Obama took office six months ago. Fifteen million Americans are out of work. The unemployment rate is at 10.7 % and the home foreclosure rate is at 3.7% The President has decided to continue the fight in Afghanistan. The President of the Council on Foreign Relations has stated that War in Afghanistan could go on for another 10 to 20 years. How are we going to sustain financial requirements to fund this war which could continue for 10 to 20 years? Before you accuse anyone of being a Nazi you should consider the individuals in the administration like John Holdren and Ezekiel Emmanuel. John Holdren is a confirmed Eugenicist who believes in forced abortions and sterilization. Forced abortions and Sterilizations where part of Hitler’s Rassenhygiene-race hygiene-program carried out during the 1930’s.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has stated “Health care services should not be guaranteed for individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens.” and “An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.” This statement is a clear indication that he supports the Fascist Ideology of allocating medical resources to the healthy as opposed to the sickly, and a government that promotes the euthanasia of the elderly, disabled, or terminally ill. Americans are concerned about specific provisions of H.R. 3200 America’s Affordable Health Choices Act , Sec. 123, Pg. 29, lines 11-18 which states:

“SEC. 123. HEALTH BENEFITS ADVISORY COMMITTEE
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established a private-public advisory committee which shall be a panel of medical and other experts to be known as the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential, enhanced, and premium plans.”

The power delegated to the Health Benefits Advisory Committee to recommend covered benefits and essential enhanced, and premium plans ultimately allows them to determine weather or not an individual receives health care benefits for treatment of any condition. This authority ultimately allows them to decide who health care is allocated to and who will not receive health care benefits which would result in denial of treatment for any reason. The authority in this section can be so expansive that this committee ultimately will decide who lives and dies. It could also be the grounds for Government Committees to develop a program similar to Hitler’s Aktion T-4 program, which authorized specific doctors and officials to carry out mercy deaths-euthanasia-of those the state deemed unworthy of life. This is where the concept of the “Death Panel” comes from.

You say nothing about the intimidation and violence of Union members who emulate the behavior of the Brown Shirts of the Nazi party. I suggest you think about this seriously before you classify anyone as an “Angry Mob” or as a “Nazi”. You’re President and Political Party condones violence and intimidation just like the National Socialist Party of Adolph Hilter. If you do decide to get it right about identifying “Nazis” you should strongly consider including people like John Holdren, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel on your list.

I would appreciate a response. Thank you.

Respectfully Submitted,

Vincent F. Shapanus