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Doctor Death to run for U.S. Congress
29.03.2008 14:18 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Infamous euthanasia activist Dr.
Jack Kevorkian has announced that he plans to run for
U.S. Congress as an independent in Michigan’s 9th
congressional district.
"We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt
government in Washington," Kevorkian told the Oakland
Press, his local Michigan newspaper.
In order to be placed on the ballot, Kevorkian will
need to obtain 3,000 signatures.
Nicknamed Doctor Death for his boast of helping at
least 130 people – many of whom had no diagnosed
physical illness, – to kill themselves, Kevorkian was
released from jail last year after serving eight years
of his 10-25 year sentence for the murder of
52-year-old Thomas Youk.
Kevorkian is on record as being totally unrepentant
for assisting in the deaths of so many sick and
disabled persons. In an interview from his prison cell
in 2005 he said that although he would not commit
euthanasia again, he would continue his campaign to
legalize doctor assisted suicide.
"But as far as the activity goes, I have said publicly
and officially that I will not perform that act again
when I get out. What I’ll do is what I should have
done earlier, is pursue this from a legal standpoint
by campaigning to get the laws changed."
When asked in the same interview about his views on
the death of Terri Schiavo by starvation and
dehydration, he responded by saying that he would have
killed Terri had his husband asked him earlier. "After
all that long period of time in a coma, I think she
would qualify."
In a 2006 article in the Daily Standard newspaper,
attorney and bioethics critic Wesley J. Smith pointed
out that Kevorkian exhibited an avid interest in death
and dying and had long pursued the goal of performing
experiments on living people he was euthanizing.
"Toward this end, he had spent years attempting to
convince condemned prisoners and the authorities to
permit him to cut open those being executed," Smith
wrote. "Only after that effort failed did he turn his
focus to the sick, disabled, and depressed, in the
hope that through assisting their deaths he would
eventually be permitted to conduct this macabre and
useless research."
Smith also mentions an earlier article in the Journal
of Forensic Psychiatry, where Kevorkian proposed
establishing a series of euthanasia clinics, which he
called "obitoria." These clinics were to be staffed by
physician-killers who would be legally permitted to
terminate people who requested death. Kevorkian
foresaw that the first "patients" would be the
terminally and chronically ill. However, he looked
forward in the article to the clinics eventually being
of service to the existentially anguished, people he
labeled "patients tortured by other than organic
diseases."
During an interview Kevorkian invoked the
Constitution’s ninth amendment as justifying his
actions, and denounced an unnamed tyrannical `they,’
apparently identified with "the tyrant". "My anger is
aimed at my rights being blocked!" said Kevorkian.
As for Kevorkian’s run for Congress, Oakland County
prosecutor Dave Gorcyca, whose office prosecuted
Kevorkian, had this to say: "It’s probably more of a
publicity stunt," Gorcyca told the Press. "To call
attention to himself is standard protocol for Jack
when he doesn’t have the limelight focused on him," he
said, LifeSiteNews.com reports.