Remember the Dutch MP who was thought to be too 'politically sensitive' to be allowed entry into the UK, because he expressed views which were 'islamphobic' and could incite religious hatred? Well, Dr Philip Nitschke, who sells suicide kits to the vulnerable for £35 has been allowed in...Go figure! Isn't that inciting, aiding and abetting suicide? A criminal offence? On his arrival to give his talk in Brighton, I have a cunning plan, and yes, it does involve guitars.
So 'doctor', you found it distressing you were interviewed by Customs on arrival in the UK? Just wait until you get to Brighton...
Courtesy of The Telegraph
An Australian doctor, Dr Philip Nitschke, has been granted access to Britain to hold workshops on euthanasia after initially being detained at Heathrow Airport.
Dr Nitschke was held under the Immigration and Asylum act after arriving from Australia on Saturday morning. He founded Exit International, a voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide organisation, plans to hold a workshop in Bournemouth, Dorset, on Tuesday, where he would talk about his DIY suicide kit.
Dr Nitschke is also expected to hold a series of events in Brighton, Stroud, Glos and Glasgow. He said that he had previously been allowed into the UK to hold lectures and described his detainment as "troubling". He claimed he had been told his workshops could be in breach of British law.
"This is a very fundamental question of free speech – people want to know about this," he said. "We've had ourselves searched and fingerprinted and now we have been told we will be formally interviewed, whether or not what the idea of what I propose would be in breach of British law."
Dr Nitschke, from Darwin (Isn't that the name of the guy who came up with 'Survival of the Fittest'...How very apt!), administered lethal injections to end four patients's lives after voluntary euthanasia was made legal in Australia's Northern Territory in 1996. The Australian federal government overturned the law nine months later.
Mark Stephens, Dr Nitschke's lawyer, said misinformation had been spread about the medic's visit to Britain. He said he was due to give pro-euthanasia talks to groups of supporters of his organisation, and although he had invented a computer which would allow terminally ill people to take their own life, he does not have such a machine with him. He added: "We've had a film of someone going to Switzerland and dying, which is a stage further down the road than Dr Nitschke who is just giving talks."
His attempt to visit the UK comes two months after Peter and Penelope Duff died in an assissted sucide at the controversial Dignitas clinic in Zurich.
Alex Russell, the vicar of Pennington and chaplain of the Oak Haven Hospice in Lymington, Hants, said: "I'm not happy about the views that he expresses or these so-called suicide workshops. The difficulty may be if people who are psychologically unable to think as clearly as they might, or people who are still quite young and forming their opinions, might be influenced by him inappropriately. Clearly, if he is contravening a law then he has to be stopped. As a hospice chaplain I have had contact with several patients who because of long-term chronic conditions have attempted to take their own lives. In every case they have said afterwards that they are glad to be alive and they're glad it didn't work."
A spokesman for the Home Office confirmed that Dr Nitschke had been detained at Heathrow but declined to comment further.
He was told his workshops 'could be' in breach of British law. 'Could be?!' 'Could be?' His workshops are in breach of British law. He intends to sell suicide kits just 5 yards from the Brighton YMCA, home to some of the most depressed and vulnerable individuals in Brighton!
Apparently, he found it 'distressing' being interviewed by British Police on his arrival in the UK. When he comes to Brighton, I, and all the men and women I can gather are going to make his 'suicide workshop' as uncomfortable an occasion for him, as we humanly can, without breaking the law. Myself and some friends will be making our presence felt outside the Brighthelm Centre when Dr Death arrives. You are welcome to join us.
It might be worth bombarding St Joseph Benedict Labre with prayers requesting intercession, patron of the homeless, and St Christina the Astonishing, patroness of those with mental illness.
Evil triumphs when good men do nothing!
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