California and the Euthanization of Citizenship

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Posted on October 16, 2015 by The Political Hat

Citizenship is more than what country is listed on one’s passport. It indicates inclusion to the body politic and carries certain privileges and responsibilities. Sadly, this has been whittles down in many cases to, de jure, voting, serving on juries, and running for office.

 

California recently dodged a scheme by the California Grand Soviet Legislature to allow non-citizens to serve on juries and sit in judgment on American citizens when Gov. “Moonbeam” vetoed legislation to that effect. The “right” to serve in a court of law, however, has already been granted to illegal aliens. Now, California is poised to enable illegal aliens to not only register to vote, but for the modicum of effort previously needed to do so to be taken up by Leviathan itself:

 

“A bill signed Saturday by California Gov. Jerry Brown aimed at improving voter turnout has critics predicting that it will ramp up voter fraud by making it easier for noncitizens to cast ballots.

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Welcome to Jerry Brown's Dystopia
Russell Shaw
Oct. 17 2015

As Robert Hugh Benson's apocalyptic novel Lord of the World moves toward its shocking conclusion, a naïve young woman who has placed simple-minded faith in the utter goodness of the Antichrist figure at the center of the story awakens to the fact that her hero has artfully constructed a regime of violence, oppression, and thought control.

 

Profoundly disillusioned, she turns to one of the new state-run euthanasia "homes" for help in ending her life. As she ponders what has happened and what lies ahead, she thinks of the humanist belief system that has brought here: "There seemed no way out of it. The Humanity-Religion was the only one. Man was God, or at least His highest manifestation; and He was a God with which she did not wish to have anything more to do." It's easy to see why Benson's century-old tale is one of Pope Francis's favorite books. Driven by a compelling narrative, the story depicts the frightening reality of a dystopian society without religion that in many respects resembles Western secular society now.

 

I thought of Lord of the World while absorbing the news from California that Gov. Jerry Brown -- who the media obsessively kept reminding us is a "lifelong Catholic" -- had signed into law a bill making his state the fifth in the U.S. where assisted suicide is legal. The others are Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Montana. Proponents of assisted suicide were quoted as saying they would turn next to New Jersey and Massachusetts.

 

Curiously enough, though, around the same time California was joining the ranks of states where doctors can help their patients do away with themselves without falling afoul of the law, Britain's House of Commons was overwhelmingly rejecting an assisted suicide bill. The vote against was 330 to 118.

 

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