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[Lis-LEAF] " You think you're free? You've been

duped " " Dr. Death " DEMANDS DEMOCRACY in AMERICA!

Kevorkian Stuns Students As He Assails A " Renegade, Rogue,

Criminalistic " America

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009748893

Gainesville, FL (AHN) - Dr. Jack Kevorkian surprised a crowd of over

 

5,000 people at the University of Florida (UF) Tuesday night when he

 

unleashed an attack on a " cowardly and deceitful Supreme

Court, "

assailed the " made up mythology of religion, " called American

 

involvement in Iraq a " modified genocide " and declared that

" whites

can't unite " because " they're wimps. "

While students expected the controversial " Dr. Death " to speak

about

euthanasia, Kevorkian only briefly touched on the topics that made him

 

the leading physician- assisted suicide advocate. Instead, Kevorkian

 

explained during his first major speech since being released on parole

 

in June that his new direction in life is to advocate for democracy in

 

America; " as the founders had envisioned it and not as it is

today. "

Kevorkian, 79, spent his time in Gainesville meeting with the UF ACCENT

 

Speakers Bureau and speaking with students at a question-and-answer

session ahead of his sold- out speech at the Stephen C. O'Connell

Center, Tuesday evening. Throughout the day though, Kevorkian's theme

 

remained focused on the often overlooked 9th Amendment and the

" terrible

crisis " that is gripping the nation.

" You think you're free? You've been duped, " Kevorkian told

students.

" You swallowed public propaganda... We have never been a totally

free

country; despite all the propaganda you've heard [and] the brainwashing

 

you've taken. "

" I have no respect for the law; none! Because it's corrupt... the

law is

our enemy, " Kevorkian declared. " No law can create a crime.

Sounds

strange to you? Ask a person what's a crime? they'll go in the

dictionary and open it up, and they'll all say 'it's an illegal act.'

 

Rosa Parks did an illegal act, was that a crime? Neither was mine... law

 

is an enemy to rights " and " disobeying the law is not a crime -

it's

just disobeying the law. "

" It just boggles the mind that we're forced to do things we don't

want

to do because the law will put is in jail... I'm sure a lot of you don't

 

like wearing seatbelts, I'm sure of that. If they're out to protect us

 

then why don't they make mountain climbing against the law... or bungee

 

jumping? "

Kevorkian told the crowd that a person should be able to " carry a

 

kilogram of cocaine in your pocket as long as you don't try to sell it

 

or abuse it in some way; in your home you can smoke anything you want.

 

You can have any rifle you want. You should be able to carry a rifle or

 

an uzi down the street, as long as you don't threaten

anybody. "

Kevorkian praised the founding fathers, including James Madison, who was

 

the chief architect of the 9th Amendment to the constitution while he

 

served in the first session of Congress. " You don't realize the

power

you have in the 9th Amendment... No one can argue with the 9th

Amendment, it's plain language. Only a tyrant says it's not plain...

 

some professors say it's murky. Be honest; tell them 'you're

wrong.' "

The 9th Amendment holds that " The enumeration in the Constitution,

of

certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others

retained by the people. " This, according to Kevorkian, is the

strongest

defense the American people have to protect their natural rights from a

 

corrupt government.

But, " that's the trouble with the tyrant, he owns the legislative

 

branch; owns the laws. Anything he wants he just makes a law, now he's

 

got your control, " Kevorkian said. " The tyrant knows what he's

doing. He

keeps you in the dark. He keeps you dumbed down with silly things to

 

keep your mind off of what's important... The tyrant knows

psychology. "

America is " no different than Nazi Germany; they were aggressive

too,

[but] they were more honest about it. See, unfortunately for the Nazis,

 

there was another power that could counteract them, the United States.

 

Who can counteract us? America is like a bull in a china shop. There is

 

no way to fight them. They can do what they want, lie, cheat and steal -

 

and they do. "

" You think Iraq is a war? It's not a war, it's a modified genocide.

You

could solve the whole problem in the Middle East with one act; withdraw

 

entirely everything from the Middle East... Nobody loves armed

missionaries. Every soldier we have around the world is an armed

missionary. And you praise him? No you don't praise him, damn

him. "

" You have a renegade, rogue, criminalistic country. Why are you

hated in

the rest of the world? Why? Because they know what you are, but you

don't know, because you're living well, " Kevorkian said.

" We're a fascist country you know... I'm not proud to be an

American;

I'm not proud to be a genocidal aggressor. America is wrong, "

Kevorkian

declared. " We are a criminal country... we have a criminal group in

 

Washington, [a] bunch of criminal dictators. "

When you vote for president, " you're only electing an idiot on

puppet

strings, " including the " court-appointed idiot we call

president " now,

he said. Kevorkian added that the 2000 election was a " sham "

and that

" You're going to vote for another corrupt man soon, or a

woman. "

" I have one way to send a message that is nonviolent; everyone

should

refuse to vote - everybody, " Kevorkian told students to a mixed

chorus

of applause and boos.

 

Kevorkian's tirade didn't end at just the White House. " know

that

the 'Supreme Crooks' are liars and that they are negligent in their

duty " to uphold the U.S. constitution, he explained. Kevorkian said

the

Supreme Court is " corrupt right to the core " and added that

" now we're

opening up a 'Spanish inquisition.' "

Later, Kevorkian turned his attention to race and said plainly; " The

whites don't unite. "

" The whites, especially the old ones, they have petrified brains;

their

brainwashing is complete, " Kevorkian explained. " You've got an

Irishman,

a German, a Greek, a Frenchman and they don't unite... they're wimps...

There's no power in the unification of the whites. Who has the power in

this country? Black people. "

" Blacks can unite, " Kevorkian explained. " Because of their

common color "

and " because they know what slavery is... Had they known about the

9th

Amendment, history would have been different... The power of the blacks

will lead you to act on the 9th Amendment. "

The comments brought a mixed reaction from the packed crowd at UF. Some

students laughed at Kevorkian, while others timidly applauded the

offbeat statement.

" Some of his views are a little bit 'out there.' He's extremely

opinionated on some stuff, " UF undergraduate student Brandon Labiner

told AHN in an interview after the speech Tuesday evening. " I really

agreed with the fact that politicians are kinda corrupt nowadays and

that we should really, obviously pull all of the troops out of the

Middle East. "

As for Kevorkian's " really out there topics about how we can all

carry

cocaine and rifles on the street and how black people control the world;

I disagreed on that, " Labiner added.

Aside from what some students called a " rambling tirade on

law, "

Kevorkian did take some time to address the issue that most had come to

hear; physician-assisted suicide. Kevorkian said he disagreed with an

Oregon law that mandated a patient must take the suicidal medicine

himself. Kevorkian has long maintained that suicide must be treated as a

medical procedure, with the direct intervention of a physician, who will

make sure there is an immediate and painless death.

" It's got to be a medical service. That's the only way to control

it...

It must be a medical service, so the obstacle is the [American Medical

Association]. All you have to do is declare it to be a medical service,

legitimately, and they'll take care of all the rest of it, just like

they do with every medical procedure. You can't dictate medical

procedures by law; they change all the time; research

changes. "

" My aim was not to cause death, that's crazy. My aim was to end

suffering. " Kevorkian cited modern examples of physician-assisted

suicides, including the medically-involved deaths of author Mark Twain,

psychologist Sigmund Freud and British King George V.

Yet from there, Kevorkian digressed into an attack on Catholic doctors,

the Hippocratic oath and religion. Kevorkian said that the Hippocratic

oath " wasn't discussed in medical school, and our class never took

the

oath. It isn't a medical oath; you pledge allegiance to all the gods and

goddess, the pagan gods and goddesses of Greeks - what sense is that

today? " He added that the Hippocratic oath was the byproduct of a

" secret, small Pythagorean sect " that was the only group to

oppose the

ancient tradition of a physician helping a terminally ill patient end

his life.

" The only oath we have, the only ethics we have in medicine are

religious ethics " and " religion is nothing more than a made-up

mythology

[and] the basis of religion is fear. "

" A doctor limited by dogma isn't a real physician; he should have

been a

priest, " Kevorkian said. " They think life's sacred... I don't

feel

sacred, frankly. I've got a life and I don't feel sacred. "

After the speech, the reaction from students remained mixed. " I

think

was a bit extreme in equating us to Nazi Germany; that may have been a

bit far, " UF undergraduate student Kristen Perry said. " He's

very

knowledgeable about everything... [but] I certainly wouldn't go as far

as he did. "

" I don't agree with the Iraq war and I haven't ever, but I also

don't

think that it's necessarily a modified genocide, " UF undergraduate

student Katie LeBlanc added.

Overall, students felt Kevorkian should have spent more time talking

about physician- assisted suicide, the issue that brought him to trial

five times in the 1990's and finally led to his conviction in 1999.

" It's good to hear his point of view, " Perry said. " I

don't know if i

would go so far as to say that euthanasia should be legalized, but I

think if it is, he's definitely right about how we should go about doing

it. "

Despite the disappointment, everyone AHN interviewed after the speech

was firm in their belief that bringing Kevorkian to speak at UF was the

right thing to do. Steven Blank, Chairman of the UF ACCENT Speakers

Bureau said the show was a " resounding success. "

" Our job is to bring the kind of prominent and controversial

speakers to

the university that will enlighten, engage and entertain the student

body, " Blank said. " Just a day before he was scheduled to

speak, I

overheard two women talking about Kevorkian as they made photocopies of

their wills at Kinkos - so I know bringing him here was a good idea and

all the feedback we've received after the event just confirms

it. "

" The debate about who has the right to make end-of-life decisions

was

something we needed to bring to this school, and I'm proud Dr. Kevorkian

chose the University of Florida as his first stop in what I'm sure will

be a long and thought-provoking campaign. "

Another issue ahead of the speech was protests. While local activist

groups like the UF on-campus branch of the Pro Life Alliance

organization claimed almost a hundred demonstrators would show up, AHN

found a meager handful of bused-in retirees and high school students on

hand for the event. A graphic banner equating abortion to

physician-assisted suicide was silently put up while bland signs saying

" DEATH isn't welcome here " were handed out to a handful of

demonstrators

who braved 40-degree weather to get their message out.

Bobby Schindler, brother of the late Terri Schiavo, was also scheduled

to make an appearance amid the tight security the university arranged

for the event. However, despite starting a petition to persuade UF to

rescind its offer to Kevorkian and speaking out against the speech to

several pro-life groups, Schindler was an inexplicable no- show on

Tuesday.

Local and university police were on hand, but the protesters gathered

without even a chant and went largely unnoticed by a sold-out crowd that

began lining up hours before the event. In the end, it was Kevorkian's

radical comments on race, religion and the state of the Union that

became the bombshell.