tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post4994112339432340543..comments2023-11-25T01:12:34.326+00:00Comments on Benefit Scrounging Scum: Remembering Our Childhood Questions...BenefitScroungingScumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08939136229593231935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-77544711004858084252011-09-12T08:27:08.749+01:002011-09-12T08:27:08.749+01:00Thank you for the highlighting the similarities wi...Thank you for the highlighting the similarities without descending into hysteria.<br />We risk reducing the full horror of the circumstances of those who died due to the actions of the German government at the time, however we have to aknowledge that the similarities are too strong to ignore.<br />Same crime, different scale, but I think BendyGirl has managed to convey this quite clearly.<br /><br />We need the Lords to stop and recognise that the demonisation of disabled people is a step backwards and also recognition of several other unsavoury periods in history regarding the abuse of sick and disabled people.Hossylassnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34940564.post-90812261913177885982011-09-08T16:12:41.335+01:002011-09-08T16:12:41.335+01:00nor is it in any way appropriate to suggest the ac...<i>nor is it in any way appropriate to suggest the actions of any British politician are similar to those of the Nazis.</i><br /><br />I'm really not sure that is a sustainable position, given the off-the-record briefings given by some Government ministers and special advisers.<br /><br />The Government is deliberately defaming people like myself to make their politically driven benefit cuts more palatable to the public.<br /><br />On a trivial level, I feel an increase in hostility towards me from my already hostile neighbours - because of my disability and my benefit scrounging scum council-house lifestyle.<br /><br />I have been threatened with violence, intimidated and physically assaulted - because the people know that the Police and the Government are at one in viewing me as a parasite and a burden.<br /><br />Also, I am genetically disordered and autistic people like me are scheduled to be eliminated from the gene pool just as soon a Science catches up with the public's desire to be free from the £30 billion a year cost of people with autism.<br /><br />We will join the people with Down's Syndrome in our non-existence.<br /><br />For us, this spices Die Zeitgeist to an unpleasant degree of heat.<br /><br />Nazi newspapers and magazines are available in many German online archives and pay well for the time spent patiently translating a few paragraphs at a time.<br /><br />What is the <b>qualitative</b> difference between<br /><br /><i>Volksgenoße, das ist auch Dein Geld!</i><br /><br />and the recent headlines in the Daily Express and the behaviour of the Government ministers behind them?<br /><br />There is none.<br /><br />Your assertion of 'no equivalence' is <i>realpolitik</i> sitting in the middle of the M1 waiting for the inevitable.Socrateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12525104555859213125noreply@blogger.com