Assisted-suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian is running for a Congressional seat in Michigan, according to reports.

His priority if elected will be fighting for the right to die via the Ninth Amendment.

No surprise there!

Kevorkian says the Ninth Amendment protects rights not explicitly specified elsewhere in the Constitution. The way he sees it, the Ninth protects a person’s choice to die through assisted suicide or to avoid wearing a seat belt.

Kevorkian claims to have helped at least 130 people die from 1990 until 1998.

He was released from state prison last year after serving eight years for helping a 52-year-old man with Lou Gehrig’s disease, die in 1998. He was convicted of second-degree murder the following year.

Kervorkian also said the government is tyrannical, “You’ve been trained to obey it, not fight for it because the tyrant doesn’t like that.”

The old guy better have a lot more fight in him! He's 79 years old and just now getting into politics!

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