John Amery Quotes
That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization.
Amery, John. Radio Broadcast. Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 20 Nov. 1942.
In some nations like Holland medically assisted suicide us not only legal but is considered a moral course of action. In other nations it is illegal, but most individual physicians will assist a dying patient in terrible pain by increasing the dosage of pain killers which relives pain but also speeds death. In the US the individual states have different laws and rules. What can be a humanitarian action in one state, can be a felony in another. That is what happened to Kervorkian who served a long prison sentence for doing what the family and deceased begged him to do and would be legal and moral in another state.
In 1910 a consortium of American and European banks was formed to loan the Chinese government money for development. A preliminary agreement was made, but the Chinese backed away, responding to the growing domestic unrest at foreigners controlling too much of China's economy. The consortium appealed to the Western governments' foreign offices to pressure the Chinese; the American ambassador was instructed to demand that the Chinese conclude the loan negotiation. He described what he was instructed to do as:. The loan was concluded and led to protests and violence in China.
John Amery was a pro-Nazi British fascist. In 1942, while in Germany during the Second World War, he proposed the formation of a British volunteer force made up from former prisoners of war as part of the German military. The idea became the British Free Corps, a small unit of the Waffen-SS.
