Glenn Beck and the threat of eugenics

Above is a clip from Glenn Beck from August 11, 2009. Now, I know a lot of people don't like Beck. However, there are a lot of people that do. I am one of them. I listen to his radio show on occasion, and every once in a while watch clips of his tv show. Some people are put-off by his antics, including his tendency to be a bit emotional, but I do believe that Glenn Beck is genuine. I don't agree with everything he says, just as I do not agree with everything Limbaugh or Olbermann or any other talking head says. But to say that he is always wrong, and to discount everything he says, just because you do not like him is narrow-minded.

Watch the video. He makes a very valid point, and he shows video of Obama talking during the campaign about the people that surround him, the people who shape his views. Glenn goes on to name those people guiding Obama on health care reform, and illustrate their beliefs with actual quotes from these people.

I wanted to see these quotes in context, so I dug them up and posted links to their original sources, where available. They follow.

Ezekiel J. Emanuel: "Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed." Source

"When implemented, the Complete Lives System produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between 15 and 40 get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get the chances that are attenuated." Source (requires registration)

John Holdren, science czar: "The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being." - Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions, by Paul R. Ehrlich (Author)

More from Mr. Holdren can be found at Zombietime, including tidbits such as these:

"Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."
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"The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
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"If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization."