When I saw this article about Spanish organ donation I thought that it was a bit odd, coming out of the blue. What event brought that into focus? What’s the news value?
Well, now I think I know. Gordon Brown wants to add organ snatching to his list of accomplishments.
I should say I am not against organ donation, but the State’s active involvement is what makes me queasy, and I am uncomfortable with the Burke and Harean possibilities it conjures.
That’s by the by. What’s wrong is the BBC’s publication of an article, which, en passant, might influence public opinion in favour of Government policy. Don’t tell me they are unaware of the Government’s moves as they portray how “The Spanish organ donor system is a remarkable story of human generosity in the face of grief.”
Not that the Spanish system is an example of what Brown is trying to do here- not so simple. Merely that they have (clearly) a proactive policy and this may be seen as emblematic of what the Govt here would like to do.
Another thing which makes me uncomfortable is that the BBC is clearly carrying water here for Euroland Lisbon agenda types who insist we must all learn best practise social and economic welfare from our Euro neighbours. It is one more example of integrationist journalism.
Update: 15.00 GMT. The Beeb really want this reform badly. See here and here among others. This is quite clearly a coordinated assault on public opinion, which stems from No. 10’s initiative. As Bodo puts it in the comments:
“The Govt and the Beeb have obviously been cooperating for a few days [at least] on what would be in today’s news.”
Managing the news, of course. No room for mention of the Alder Hey scandal, either.
Extra: as Pounce points out in the comments, our children are not to be excused the BBC/Government information drive. Never too young to follow Govt policy y’know.
“a few vociferous people’s misguided and primitive instincts about the sanctity and integrity of corpses.”
No, my mutilated corpse will not be used to fuel multiculturalism. This government has gone to far.
From a book I am writing called: “The True Hitler”
Hitler the modernist: “He shared the common faith in ‘science,’ ‘progress,’ and ‘enlightenment’ (though not, of course, democracy), together with a practical materialism that scorned all theology, metaphysics, and any thought or action concerned with any other world other than “here and now,” priding himself on the fact that he had “the gift of reducing all problems to their simplest foundations.” He had acrude worship of efficiency and utility that freely tolerated “birth control,” laughed at the institution of marriage as a mere legalization of a sexual impulse that shoul be “free,” welcomed sterilization of the “unfit,” despised “unproductive elements” such as monks, saw nothing in the cremation of the dead but a practical question and did not even hesitate to put the ashes, or the skin and fat of the dead to “productive use.” He possessed the quasi-anarchist distrust of sacred and venerable institutions, in particular the Church with its “superstitions” and all its “outmoded” and “recidivist” laws and ceremonies. He abhorred the institution of monarchy; a determining factor in his refusal to crown himself Emperor of Germany. He had a naive trust in the “natural” man,” the “healthy animal” ho scorns the Christian virtues – virginity in particular – that impeded the “natural functioning” of the body. He took a simple minded delight in modern conveniences and machines, and especially the automobile and the sense of speed and “freedom” it affords.
I have breached Godwins law. The interesting question is this, why do we come back to Hitler so much? Because Hitler was the truest representative of the Godless modern age. His behaviours and nervous tics of thought are seen everywhere. Such as in Polly Toynbee.
Can’t wait for that book WoAD.
Dr Mark Porter and Case notes this afternoon (Radio 4) – given over entirely to discussion of transplantation – with much emotive stuff from transplant recipients, input from experts etc. Don’t get me wrong, this was a very good programme but was its appearance so soon after the policy shift a co-incidence? How long does it take to commission, write co ordinate speakers and produce such a programme? I guess weeks rather than days (JR can you confirm?)
Looks to me like strong evidence that the BBC had been told of the policy shift by Pa Broon, giving them time to plan an integrated advertising and propaganda campaign in support of body snatching or as it is (even) more emotively put “modern cannibalism”
The BBC – we want your liver and £11 a month
“A State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands — even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.”
John Stuart Mill.
Liberalism necessarily declines into egalitarianism and subsequently statism.
Liberalism simultaneously relies on civilised ideals it has not created and cannot sustain (for instance, the divinity of Christ); it undermines them by permitting unfettered inquiry. This permissive society breeds the neurotic criminal type who undermines civilisation (such as the artist, the musician, the Marxist, the socialist). Furthermore one cannot oppose him or her on the basis of individual freedom, as they may invoke individual freedom to create, for example, films of graphic torture. Such as a film I recently have seen called “Hostel”.
In the case of Statism, liberalism began declining into statism at the end of the 19th century in response to the dreadful living conditions of the Victorian working class. Liberalism, by promulgating Universal Suffrage digs its own grave by permitting the conditions for parties of the working class formed in response to the said living conditions. For this reason liberalism’s defence is effectively incompetent.
I could go on, but I recommend this book: Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
I also recommend The Republic by Plato. Sadly, J.S. Mill has always been quite unoriginal.
One last loose thought: The creeping authoritarianism of this government has been caused by its desire to normalise all behaviours and desires, for the entirely liberal reason that one must not interfere with the personal sovereignty of, for example, homosexuals. Or religious minorities. Or damage others with your primitive corpse instincts.
Yes but this lot aren’t liberals,they are Stalinists.
Right WoAD, so that’s the enlightenment, toleration and universal suffrage given a good kicking. We might as well go back to the Holy Roman Empire when everything was great. Damn that Newton and his wacky blasphemies.
Cockney,
I realise that was your attempt at humour but for correctness sake Isaac Newton (like many great scientists) was a devout Christian not a wacky blasphemer.
You know, many a true thing is said in jest Cockney. I for one would like to hire servants so I can dedicate all my time to writing my book. But the British workforce today regards domestic work not as incredibly helpful but as degrading.
Also, every movement contrary to the cross always has some kind of enlightenment – a luciferian initiation – at its centre.
On Newton: One of his most intriguing mystical ideas was the alchemical notion of “ether”. Today we have the Hubble Constant which is constantly being changed yet is required to make sense of Einsteins theories.
BJ, I’m aware – that’s the irony.
The abortion-loving Polly Toynbee (quote:’people’s misguided and primitive instincts about the sanctity and integrity of corpses’)is a perfect example of the kind of deaths-head machine-socialist that the BBC loves.
But you knew that already of course.
Straddling the political barbed wire(used to be a fence but tch, you guys!)regarding opt-in i can`t view this as party political.
I for one shall be obtaining an opt-out card asap, squeamish? cowardly? dont think so.There`s no afterlife so my status once my claret gurgles to its sticky halt i could be said to be `permanently absent`and i won`t give monkeys.
My concern is how staggeringly bad at bureaucracy government and its agencies are.
Escaped crims,released crims,
immigrants in?,out?impact?
Is my national insurance number my own or am just part owner?
Who gets my private data when the government has finished losing it?
Hospital bugs? Clean the fucking hospitals!
Leslie Ash has had her pockets stuffed with cash, 5mil apparently for catching MSSA at chelsea and westminster `It’s the highest we have ever paid out.` Steve Walker, NHS Litigation Authority chief executive.
If the health service finds it impossible to control infected hospitals,which according to many experts just need a bloody good clean and someone to enforce hygiene standards, what chance, if any do we stand of getting a fault free donor system?
I might get in touch with William Hill and see if i can`t get better odds than the lottery regarding my waking up in hospital to some quack with a predatory gleam in his eye,a supporting cast of white clad vultures painting targets over my vitals while i say `hello mr spleen` to the wobbly object reposing in a plastic bucket.
I have absolutely no doubt that although Wee Gordie is clattering around westminster like like a man with a bucket stuck on his head in carpark full of rakes `Boy` David Cameron would screwing things up just as royally.
“WoAD (UK):
Also, every movement contrary to the cross always has some kind of enlightenment – a luciferian initiation – at its centre.”
Hmm, I’m intrigued now. Any more bones you’d care to toss me?
WoAD (UK): as they may invoke individual freedom to create, for example, films of graphic torture. Such as a film I recently have seen called “Hostel”.
Breaching that law again – there are definite Holocaust/Nazi symbolisms in that film.
Woad, as an atheist and humanist I take great exception to being associated with Hitler (or even with P. Toynbee). I see no similarity between myself and either of them.
I am not convinced by your description of Hitler. It seems to me that he, and many others in the Nazi hierarchy (although probably not Goebbels – he was much too intelligent), had a near mystical belief in a glorious old Aryan past and in the German nation’s destiny. There was very little of the Utilitarian in that belief.