Tuesday, March 22, 2005

YEAH, YEAH, YEAH -- YOU HAVE A NUMBER TATTOOED ON YOUR WRIST. WE DON'T CARE. WE'RE REPUBLICANS. WE'RE MORALLY INFALLIBLE.

OLYMPIA - A Holocaust survivor who endured Nazi medical experiments is demanding an apology from state lawmakers who compared embryonic stem cell research to Nazi atrocities.

"I was just very much hurt," Fred Taucher, 72, said Tuesday. "You don't know how it hit me. It's beyond my comprehension. Usually I do not get this emotional." ...

Taucher was captured by Nazis when he was 12.... in front of the Capitol on Tuesday, he told how Nazi scientists plunged him into baths of ice water and then baths of boiling water, burning his skin....

[Rep. Joyce] McDonald [R-Puyallup] said she believes embryonic stem cell research kills human lives, and she will not apologize for her comments.

In her floor speech, McDonald referred to "experiments that were done by the Third Reich" as a warning about embryonic stem cell research.

"I think they're making more of it than they need to," she said about the complaints raised Tuesday....

Rep. Glenn Anderson, R-Fall City, said in his floor speech that Nazi Germany's policy was "in order to perfect humanity it was necessary to selectively destroy humanity. And the medical experiments at Auschwitz were carried out for that explicit purpose."

Anderson did not return calls seeking comment on Tuesday, but last Friday he told reporters he saw no reason to apologize....


--KOMO TV, Seattle

Unbelievable.

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