Santorum has greatly angered the Dutch in a recent statement
about euthanasia. In it he claimed that 10% of deaths in the Netherlands are
caused by euthanasia and of those deaths half of them are not voluntary. He
claims that the elderly do not go to hospital but rather they leave the country
because they are afraid that due to budget purposes the hospital will kill
them. He also claims that elderly Dutch people wear special bracelets saying “do
not euthanise me”. None of the aforementioned
claims have a grain of truth in them, indeed the Netherlands does have
euthanasia but it’s nothing like how Santorum described it.
It has provoked outrage in the Netherlands, an opposition
leader and member of the Dutch Labour Party, Frans Timmermans, has demanded
that the Dutch ambassador to the US weigh in on this and if she won’t do it,
then the foreign minister should step in. It has insulted the Dutch so much
because it has been said by a possible future president and he was not saying
it as a joke or in jest. I agree, Santorum appears to want to anger as many
groups of people as humanly possible, he has angered non-Whites, Liberals, Catholics,
Mormons, gay people, immigrants, the British (over comments made about the NHS)
and now the Dutch. It seems that he will not be happy until he has annoyed
every group of people on the planet. If he becomes president I will be the
first one on the shuttle to the moon. Its worrying that people like him
actually get a platform in politics and that they have wide bases of support. I
don’t understand where he got these lies from, did he make them up? Did someone
give them to him, if so did he never even check if they were real? Apparently
not.
I really hope Obama gets re-elected as the Republicans are
an alternative I would dread to think about.
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