Who is next? Where are we headed?

RABBI BOTEACH: This is not a country where, if you want to commit suicide, they allow you to. If someone wants to jump off a bridge, we stop them. Kevorkian, Dr. Kevorkian, is in jail for life because he put to death people who wanted to die. Terri Schiavo is not brain-dead. Terri Schiavo is not on a respirator...

She lives off what you and I live on, Joe, food and water. She just can‘t do it herself. She‘s like an infant. Now, as far as—or someone who is catatonic in an old age home...

...Let's just remember—and, here, Pat Buchanan is absolutely right. Before Hitler came for the Jews and before he came for the gypsies, he went after the mentally infirm. But nobody was outraged when he determined that some lives are not valuable and therefore there was no outrage when he began to apply that same label to other subgroups.

I shudder for my country. I shudder for this country, which is the guarantor of world freedom and democracy, that a helpless woman is being put to death for no other reason than she lacks our I.Q. level.

BUCHANAN: ... Look, the rabbi is exactly right. There was a book written in Germany in 1920 about the right to do away with life unworthy of life. And what happened in the 1930s, they took baby Nauer first, a baby about 8 years old that was retarded, didn‘t have an arm and a leg. They asked Hitler, can we put the boy to death? He talked to his doctor. He said yes.

Out of that came the Aktion 4 program. They put 100,000 to death until a bishop protested. And, Joe, let me tell you. One of the leaders of the Aktion 4 program wound up as the commandant of Treblinka.

...Franz Stangl. Now, this is the road we‘re headed down.

...If this is being done routinely, that people who are brain-damaged, people who are severely retarded, old folks who are senile are being put to death, that is cold-blooded mass murder. And we ought to do something about it in the United States of America, if we‘re still God‘s country.

Emphasis above is mine.

Transcript excerpt from MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" (Monday, 3/21/05)