Years ago, a friend put me on the Family Research Council email list, so I could keep track of what the enemy is doing.  I like to call 'em the Freaks, Reactionaries and Cretins.

Today, FRC takes on universal health care, as a national security issue, because there are TERRORISTS in the National Health Service!

Take two aspirin and read their latest email:

Is There a Doctor in the Car Bomb?

Terrorism has visited us in so many unexpectedly horrible ways in recent decades that it's hard to imagine it has anything new in its repertoire. Then come the recent attacks in London and Glasgow to dispel that thought. British authorities have now arrested what a reporter has described as a "multinational circle of medical workers," all men, all Muslim, a number of them doctors in Britain's National Health Service. In a column in today's New York Sun, FRC Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment Ken Blackwell writes about a central fact of Britain's health system that foster these terrorists' entree to the country and ability to avoid suspicion. "Foreign doctors," he writes, "are given top priority and almost immediate entrance into Great Britain. In fact," he notes, "they make up nearly 40% of all British doctors." The reason for the extent of this phenomenon is that "the provision of free medical care through a government-based system has created a patient demand that exceeds the health care supply." As the United States is tempted to move toward a system of national health care, the British situation offers another example of the law of unintended consequences. As Ken argues persuasively, America will do better with alternatives that emphasize family ownership, competition among service providers, and conscience protections - with enhanced national security as a by-product.

Their website gives a link to an article in New York Sun; the article is written by Kenneth Blackwell, who went to work for the FRC after losing the Ohio Governor's race in 2006.  Check out this scare tactic:

Canadians face a similar dilemma. In both Canada and Great Britain, the provision of free medical care through a government-based system has created a patient demand that exceeds the health care supply. It is not too much of a stretch to say that this domestic challenge will make countries more vulnerable in a homeland security sense.

There's also an article along the same lines by Daniel Johnson, ominously titled NHS Opened the Door

If you want universal health care, tell 'em you're not buying their crap, and you refuse to let scare tactics keep you from campaigning for taxpayer supported health care in the U.S.

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