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2018-04-28 Britain

The Alfie Evans story - Is Great Britain Still a Free Country?

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-28 02:25|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Alfie has died, once again proving how gloriously the NHS in England can kill small children. Since he was able to breathe without machines, they used the tried and true liverpool pathway and denied food and water.

I guess it's too much to hope for that the judges involved get hacked to death by jihadi's for denying the parents the ability to seek alternative care.

I have a kid and these things hit pretty hard. Plus, being descended from Appalachian mountain folk tends to make me...well, few people hold a grudge the way we do.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-04-28 03:55|| 2018-04-28 03:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Even their food has improved.

Because that's the yardstick to measure how awesome a country is.

Posted by Raj 2018-04-28 07:00|| 2018-04-28 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 They are 'subjects'. Americans are citizens. There's a reason some gentlemen, who just a short time before were British subjects, wrote something referred to as the Bill of Rights.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-28 08:02|| 2018-04-28 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Take a global look around. Nothing more 'Deep State' than a monarchy.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-28 08:06|| 2018-04-28 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 We have our own. They also wear robes.
Rantburg rimshot of the day award winner.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-28 08:29|| 2018-04-28 08:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Death penalty only for embarrassing the state and it's apparatchiks.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-04-28 13:00|| 2018-04-28 13:00|| Front Page Top

#7 Just a terrible decision for humanity but logical for socialism.

Years ago a friend had a son with a life ending heart defect. They were giving the option of letting their son die with no intervention or try and get a few weeks of life. They knew their son would die but by intervening maybe the next kid would get 3 months. Let the parents decide.

Posted by Airandee 2018-04-28 13:20|| 2018-04-28 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 I would say this was one of Sarah Palin's death panels at work, but it's really more like a firing squad. And hat's off to the head of the Church of England, you chickenshit heathen.

Posted by Matt 2018-04-28 13:42|| 2018-04-28 13:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Scumbag move by a third world shithole. Ironic that we saved them from the Nazis only to have them become Nazis.

Posted by Regular joe 2018-04-28 15:28|| 2018-04-28 15:28|| Front Page Top

#10 No, they are not a free country. Haven't been in decades now. The UK has pretty much always been a police state, abet a polite and often ironic one. They are not, and have never been, a political model that should be emulated. (Note: I too am an Anglophile. Anglican educated, and member of the Anglican Communion. Love the people and their culture, despise their government.)

Posted by Secret Master 2018-04-28 15:50|| 2018-04-28 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 They knew their son would die but by intervening maybe the next kid would get 3 months.

It depends on whether one’s goal is to advance scientific knowledge in order to more effectively treat patients in the future, or to reduce the already overwhelming burden on the entirety of the medical health care system.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-04-28 16:07|| 2018-04-28 16:07|| Front Page Top

#12 1) their food was fine. To the extent they imported exotic flavors, they didn't need to import exotic populations and exotic diseases, too.

2) Of course they're not free. They can't get medical care without their masters' approval, they're not permitted to defend themselves, and they're not allowed to speak a single negative word about Islam.

3) They could be free again. Even with the monarchy -- there was a time when Britons were EXPECTED to be able to defend themselves, could get any medical care they could find, and could even criticize other religions. They just have to throw out the government that puts pedophiles in charge of watching over the well-being of abused children...

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-04-28 18:29|| 2018-04-28 18:29|| Front Page Top

#13 We rely on UK media for real news. The only good thing about an otherwise socialist, soon to be sharia island, to offset a socialist US media of a soon to be a socialist plantation nation.

Posted by Omeger Gray6606 2018-04-28 18:50|| 2018-04-28 18:50|| Front Page Top

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