A story that turned my stomach

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What does this story have in common with the fact that the same country routinely murders the old and the sick and has recently approved the murder of disabled children?
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/946
Obviously, that human beings are being treated not as an end, but as cogs in the wheel of whatever it is that their rulers want (which the creature in question defines with admirable clarity: "capital"). Bear in mind that the creature's party not only did not even try to stifle her outrageous suggestion, but actually lined up behind her. Is Holland even worth spitting on if it was on fire?

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[lyssiae.livejournal.com]

Despite all this (and yes, I am biased, even though you'd have to fight VERY hard to get me to admit that I'm sick enough to go to a hospital here), the Dutch are human beings too (even though the vox populi denies this, ha ha), they are in need of salvation, prayers, conversion and communion. I can't give up on praying for this country of baby-killer-sympathisers; I can't leave them to their own devices and risk them all being lost - what if it's my task to show God to some of them? What would happen to those some if I gave up? Surely in some way I would be asked to reckon for the souls who had looked to me and found nothing.

Fluffy religious meanderings aside...it's sickening.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

You are quite right, of course. But the cold and brutal statements coming both from that person - who does not have enough life experience outside party politics to tie her own shoelaces - and from her party, made me sick. Not even the Communists of old ever stated so clearly that the individual is nothing and the collective - even "the capital" - everything. And this from a supposed "Labour" party.

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

When I was in the UK on my trip the other week, I read an editorial in one of the newspapers in the hotel lobby. In it the writer noted what he called (something like) "dangerous hardline Marxism" (or somesuch) that he believes has taken root in a few European countries. One of the dangers he cited were specifically what the article you linked to in your post. I can't recall everything else, only bits and pieces, but I could see what he was going on about. He was supposed to have been someone in the British Labour Party, and he said he was worried because Labour seemed particularly open to some aspects of that which he was scared.

[bufo-viridis.livejournal.com]

the writer noted what he called (something like) "dangerous hardline Marxism" (or somesuch) that he believes has taken root in a few European countries.

Not surprising. They are the spiritual (maybe no only spiritual :)) descendants of various hardcore trotskites, so adamant in their "proper understanding" that they were completely ineffective because of intense factionalism (thanks God for small mercies). Anyway they survived in the west, in the east they were properly disposed of ;)
And they still spread their gospel...

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

Yep. We have them here, too.