Posted on 04/29/2018 6:04:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of the smartest things our Founding Fathers did was resist the urge to follow most of human history and rid this country of the concept of nobility. And thank God they did. If they hadn’t, we’d be “subjects,” subservient to the state and a ruling class. The eternal wisdom of the men who created the United States of America was on full display again this week thanks to the different ways two babies are being treated by our old colonizers.
The Royal Family in England welcomed a new baby this week, little Prince Louis Arthur Charles. And good for them, babies are a joy. They can be a handful, but a joy nonetheless. When you have millions of dollars and a staff, the “handful” part is likely much less, but the joy part remains.
Little Louis is being showered with attention, both by his family (and their staff) and the media. Moreover, the world is following the latest news involving the newborn who sits fifth in line for the throne.
Also in England, a 23 month of boy named Alfie Evans was not in line for any throne. He, too, was getting media attention, but not nearly as much as the newly minted Royal. The attention Alfie received was not a celebration of his life, it was waiting for this death.
Alfie was sick; of what remains a mystery, but the cause of his death is clear – his government. The British National Health Service, the socialized system for health care most often held up as the model to which the US should aspire, is a heartless, cold bureaucracy that would rather an infant die than be exposed for the failure it is.
Doctors had no idea why Alfie was sick. They thought they did, so they stopped looking. Further treatment, they said, was pointless as he would not recover. The best option was to remove his ventilator and let him pass.
That end, these experts assured the court, would come quickly without the aid of machines. The court, against the wishes of Alfie’s parents, agreed that letting the baby die was in his best interest. It was do-over of the Charlie Gard tragedy, where another baby boy was deemed no longer worth treating, against the wishes of his parents, and ordered to die rather than allow him to be brought to the United States for possibly life-saving experimental treatment.
At the time I wrote, “Could Charlie’s life have been saved? Unlikely. But thanks to the UK’s National Health Service, we’ll never know. The government machine managed to delay any hope for that beyond the point of no return. Make no mistake about it, although his disease will be Charlie Gard’s cause of death, it will be the system trying to protect itself that ultimately killed him.”
That system was trying to protect itself again in Aflie’s case. But a funny thing happened on the way to this latest UK infanticide – Alfie didn’t die immediately when they disconnected the machines.
After finding unsympathetic ears through the UK court system and international pressure – including a grant of Italian citizenship, medical equipment at the ready for transport to Italy, and a personal appeal from the Pope – all hope seemed lost. The bureaucracy wasn’t interested, not because it doesn’t care (it doesn’t, no bureaucracy cares), but because, just like with Charlie, they couldn’t afford the possibility of Alfie living.
If Alfie were to have lived it would’ve not only expose the “experts” as being wrong, it would caused people to question the wisdom and compassion of a system they’ve been conditioned to believe is the best the world has to offer. It would’ve lead to questions, like why their government was willing to kill this baby rather than let his parents try anything possible to save him.
Then those questions about Alfie might’ve be asked about other people’s loved ones. Expectations could rise, and who knows where that could lead?
But when Alfie didn’t die immediately after the machines were removed, some of those questions started to asked anyway. Still the courts, the government of the UK, would not let Alfie leave the country or the hospital, insisting he must die.
Socialism is predicated on the concept of “equality,” only it’s a perverted version of that word. Socialized medicine does ensure equality – it ensures everyone suffers equally. If Alfie’s parents were allowed to accept the offer of help from the Vatican, UK citizens would wonder why their government wasn’t willing to do provide that level of care not just to Alfie, but to everyone.
The truth is they couldn’t afford to. The National Health Service is nearly broke. Rationing care is their most effective cost control measure. Everyone suffers equally…
Well, not everyone.
If, God forbid, Prince Louis were struck with some awful disease rest assured there is no stone that would remain unturned to save his life. He would be brought to any corner of the globe that offered the last measure of hope to his parents. No court in the UK would dare block them as no bureaucrat would bring the case in the first place.
There are at least two families in the UK who might take issue with doing so, and likely unknown countless others who simply didn’t know to fight.
This tale of two babies is one no one wanted to see play out, yet there it was for the world to see.
Still, Alfie’s parents fought on, with support from millions around the world, they were standing up for this “lost cause,” and lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
Having recently lost my mother, being in the room as her life support was switched off and hearing her take her last breath, I know there was nothing I would not have done, nothing I would not have tried to make that not happen. Even though it was her wish not to be kept alive by machines, it hurts to this day the way it hurt then. I can take comfort in it being in accordance with her wishes and knowing every option was exercised.
It hurts me still to write about it, and I was blessed with several good decades with my mom. I can’t imagine the hell Alfie’s parents have been forced in to by their government over their little boy.
For all the flaws in our health care system, we do not suffer this. Even bankruptcy is a better option than subjugation.
But that subjugation was something that could have made a difference for Alfie. While the Royal Family celebrates their newest member, they remained silent as Alfie was sentenced to die. The Queen could have changed things, she could have intervened. Her official powers may be limited, but her power is not. She chose not to use it, though her subjects attempted to pressure her to. As a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother you’d think she would have.
But she is the Queen, everyone else is her subject.
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the Constitution reads, “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.” With that brilliant stroke, we were freed from having to beg our government, our “betters,” for anything, and the rest of the Constitution freed us to make of our lives whatever we can. Was it really too much to ask of the Royal Family that the same be extended to the parents of a 23-month-old boy simply fighting to live?
The system got its wish. As you can tell by this being written in past tense, Alfie passed away early Saturday morning. May God show his soul the mercy and love the government claimed to have for him, but was uninterested in acting upon. And may everyone else gain the wisdom not to look to government for such things.
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We are anyway. It's just that the nobility class isn't explicit or hereditary.
Is the author is under the delusion that we are not?!
Perhaps it is not a traditional old-world nobility but our leadership is largely hereditary.
The American dynasties dominating the midterm elections .
Perhaps it is human nature to be ruled by hereditary leaders.
The reality is that both of these children -- Gard and Evans -- would have died months earlier were it not for a government-run health care system that covered the cost of their medical care. I'm sure their families were huge advocates for this massive secular bureaucracy when it was paying these medical bills ... right up until the moment the bureaucrats decided to pull the plugs.
I believe both of these cases involved unmarried couples who had effectively been wards of the state for a long time. In at least one of the two cases (Gard), neither parent had been working for months before the child eventually died. This type of situation can only exist in a massive welfare state ... and yet it doesn't get any attention here in conservative circles until the welfare state makes a decision we don't like.
There's a reason why you never see stories like this involving Amish children, right?
I’d like to read his book.
"… this was a predatory state which the Czar and a small group of noblemen and bureaucrats ruled for their own exclusive benefit...The ruling group owned all the wealth, enjoyed all the privileges and monopolized all the political power, and it did not intend to give up any of its prerogatives. It considered the peasants to be little better than animals..."
It’s known who American Royalty is if you’re either in it (Super high up) or so far removed from it that you can actually see it (The super poor).
The padding between it is there to protect the elite from the poor rising up and defeating them physically.
Everyone who crosses the Clintons dies. They die of things like knife wounds to the chest that are called “Suicides”. When OJ Simpson was in the spotlight, he went to trial and we heard the case even though everyone said “He did it”. Regardless of how you feel about the outcome, he did go to Trial.
The Clintons are our Elite Rulers. At least they are in super wealthy New York and throughout the East Coast of the US. They kill people. Lets just get over this right now - the Clintons KILL PEOPLE that they don’t like or those who dare to oppose them. The Clintons are murderers.
For the rest of the people we find the Royalty in the machine. Mark Zuckerburg stole an idea, ran to the government to offer his services and give them a platform to spy on us. In fact, that platform is available to anyone who wishes to pay the ticket price. He uses this platform to both observe us and feed us ideas that are tantamount to mind control. Mark Zuckerburg and his platform control a large part of the US population through manipulation and agit-prop. When he sat in his booster seat with his $5 haircut and chatted it up with the very government who hired him - he mocked us and that very system. This power of his was used by the same people who were “grilling him”. It was a dog and pony show.
Our Government is the worst though. Everything bad in our lives can be traced directly to and never through - the Government. The government asks us to register things. Like our cars. Regis = To the king. When you register something, anything, what you are doing is allowing the regis to take that thing whenever they want it. So you pay for it, but they can take it away at any time.
This is why your car is impounded when you don’t pay the parking meters or carry insurance - a law requiring private citizens to buy a product from a company. When you register your car you give the government the legal authority to take it when they please.
Registration of anything is tyranny.
Our government is the richest, most powerful and dastardly drug dealer the human race has ever seen. Wherever something has an abuse possibility, there is the government to make sure it is in on the action. Tobacco is taxed so much that the US government makes more on it than the manufacturer. Need to get to work to live ? The Government knows you’ll need a car and gas. And if not they’ll hit you with a per-mile-cost of public transportation that is more than owning a car. And if you’re poor, they have special taxes and fees for you including that public transportation and lottery tickets that are designed to make poor people buy them.
The moment you need something, they’ll be there to take your money. The moment a substance is found to generate money, they’ll make someone else produce that substance and they’ll just tax it to make their bears-share of the profit. And if you tangle with any these, as Freddy Grey did, they will use your neighbors and countrymen as their police to come and get you, destroy you (If not physically than in another way) and ruin you. Then instead of getting mad at the government, you (We) get mad at our neighbors and countrymen.
Riot police always stand between protestors and City hall. The mayor’s house is always protected. The businesses and residences are the bottleneck to which riots are driven to lay-out their destruction.
our government is so evil that we can’t even see it. We allow kids like Charlie and Alfie to die everyday. We do it through different methods.. Methods that are so sublime it’s hard to even see them. We see that certain treatments aren’t even allowed. Insurance companies instruct doctors to either not mention these treatments or to flat-out deny their effectiveness. Our doctors are controlled by insurance companies. Treatments that aren’t available to one patient are offered to others (duh) but those that can’t get those treatments are told they can’t get it in ways that make them compliant and pacified.
Listen, there are aspects of our government that are working. We just now got a “functional president” who is actually taking the reins and working for us. It is going to take about 100 years to undo the damage that has been done. After Trump we need another Trump and after that other Trump we need another. And another. And more who will do what the constitution has told them to do and how it has told them to do it.
Without this, the only fix for this will be a complete, total, bloody reset button. And when we get these little wins in government all it’s really doing is pushing off that reset. It’s keeping us in a holding pattern while our fuel runs out.
My powder is still dry, I am still gathering food and supplies. Trump is the greatest president in my lifetime of 40 years and yet even he can’t begin to undo the decades of damage dished out by the CPUSA, the Muslims and the evil, satanist Europeans.
America as a land and people are the only bastion of hope the human race has. The government, however, is just as much of a killer, pimp, pusher, loan shark, mafioso as any.
I spit on my federal government for ruining the best thing we ever had.
Interesting...
I don’t care about the royals...what they did to Alfie Evans was nothing but murder and the Royal family help them killing Alfie, but not speaking out for Alfie.
The royals didn’t do it. The British System did. The Queen is just a figure head, nothing else.
Legalized murder. Goverments have been doing it from antiquity.
Evil is evil: nothing new under the sun.
Well said. I am too jaded to post such at length.
Witness San Jose Convention Center, and how the King’s Cops herded innocent conservatives into potentially lethal jeopardy.
The police are not our friends. I call those who claim tbey are Three-Cees: Cookie-Cutter Conservatives.
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