Posted on 04/30/2018 8:57:00 PM PDT by TBP
Together with the death of Charlie Gard last year, whom British authorities would not allow to be taken to the United States for an experimental treatment, Evans’ death seems to confirm British policy in such matters: children belong to the state, and when the state decides that they should die, they will die.
Extraordinary international efforts were undertaken to save the boy’s life. Italy, which granted Evans citizenship, kept a specially equipped plane from the Italian defense ministry on standby to transport the boy to a Vatican hospital in case the U.K. courts ordered his release. Pope Francis issued a personal appeal to British authorities and met with the parents. None of it made any difference in the end.
Given the facts of the case, it is hard to see what purpose was served by Evans’ death other than to demonstrate, before a gaping world, the unquestioned power of the United Kingdom over its subjects.
In that way, the boy’s death illustrates, in horrifying detail, the cold logic of the mature welfare state. The purpose of the welfare state is to exercise power over its subjects—and make no mistake, they are subjects, not citizens—and that’s it. Nothing more and nothing less.
That power is not exercised for anyone’s good, or for the good of the people at large, or even for some collective goal. It is exercised for its own sake. “Power is not a means; it is an end,” says O’Brien, the party official in George Orwell’s “1984,” as he tortures Winston. “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
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Sarah Palin was right of course.
Of course. That’s why they had to call it a lie.
The welfare state is Satan.
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Every one of those Brits protesting outside the hospital is a huge fan of the NHS when it works in their favor. Even if you had cases like the Alfie Evans situation occurring with boring regularity, you'd hardly hear anyone in Britain calling for the NHS to be dismantled.
Looks to me that the last “decent Brits” were the one’s who migrated to what is now the United States, and told the King to shove it! Canada is still a country full of “Crown Butt Kissers” and a few noisy French expats. And don’t get me started on the “Royal Family,” a bunch of inbred losers whose eyes are so close together that they can see through a keyhole with both of them at the same time!
A few do.
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