I am saddened to learn of the death of Alfie Evans, whose illness and captivity in the UK drew the prayers and sympathy of millions across the civilized world.
Before the NHS removed Alfie’s life support over his parents’ wishes—and the wishes of other nations, the Pope, and people around the world—his doctors estimated he would survive for three minutes. He lived for five days, despite his doctors’ ardent refusals to provide oxygen, food, or water to him.
Despite underestimating Alfie by more than a factor of a thousand, the NHS saw fit to play God. The NHS refused to permit Italy to treat him at no cost. The NHS refused to release Alfie to die at home. The NHS even expelled the priest ministering to Alfie. The NHS and UK courts refused to release Alfie to the custody of his parents, claiming that it was in Alfie’s best interests to die. Alfie’s tragic situation, reflecting that of Charlie Gard last year, is becoming an all-too predictable consequence of socialized medicine, and the arrogance, imperiousness, and low regard for human life displayed by the bureaucrats who administer it.
My prayers are with the Evans family in this trying time, and all those in the UK who seek a better way of life. Our British cousins deserve better. Alfie deserved better. #AlfieEvans #AlfiesArmy
How sad you feel about a toddler without a functioning brain, yet how sad do you feel about our soldiers coming home with Traumatic Brain Disorders, missing arms or legs, or dead?
You are a US Senator whose job it is to declare war but handed that off to the president. It's time to take responsibility here in our country not criticize decisions made by doctors doing their job in another country. That is, if you truly care about lives.
Socialized medicine did not kill this baby. Alfie had a degenerative neurological condition, from which he would never recover, and was in a coma for a year. A YEAR. The hospital did not just take him off of life support, a court order based on the opinion of an entire medical team of highly qualified professionals did. It would not have mattered what type of healthcare system they used, the court made the final decision.
And don't think your constituents missed the irony in this recent tactic of yours. For you and your ilk, women are incapable of making decisions over their own bodies and you want the government to step in. But when the government steps in to stop the cruel suffering of an infant that will only continue to escalate with no possibility of recovery, suddenly the government is over-reaching.
UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe’s statement regarding an “Alfie’s Law” is getting a lot of publicity at the moment. However the path that he is proposing essentially means that he believes that a child is the property of its parents rather than being an individual with rights which parents have non-negotiable responsibilitie
Why is this distinction important? It is important because if the former were the case, a parent would be free to make whatever decisions they wanted about their children regardless of the potential impact on their wellbeing. So, for example, parents could choose not to send them to school, to abuse them, to send them off down the pits aged 14, marry them off etc. without being challenged.
The law as it stands exists to ensure that children remain safe as enshrined in the UN convention on the rights of the child and U.K. law.
Mr Woolfe has also conflated a lot of other cases from the past where there has been disagreement between parents and doctors, of which he clearly has at best tangential knowledge and certainly very little clinical insight, to try to support his argument by suggesting that clinical staff (and lawyers) are acting as dictatorial tyrants against the common man and primarily pursuing their own interests against those of the parents. What he has ignored is that these decisions are not taken spontaneously or unilaterally but are evidence-based,
He also has ignored the fact that many other opinions have been sought over Alfie and nobody, not even Bambino Gesu hospital, disagrees with the long term outlook being grim with no chance of a cure or improvement in Alfie’s underlying condition.
I have been accused myself of being opportunistic and taking advantage of the situation for my own self-promotion by writing about it. My agenda is simply to try to give some balance and perspective to the debate. This, however, in my opinion is a shameful piece of political opportunism, using the situation to propagate the right-wing libertarian narrative of the establishment versus the people. This has nothing to do with the state wielding its axe at all but everything to do with complex medical ethics, interpretation of the law and the fact that situations such as Alfie’s are clouded in shades of grey that can’t be distilled into simple binary black/white, in/out, yes/no decisions. There is no cover-up, no conspiracy and no other agenda than doing what is best for Alfie.
I have no doubt I will be flamed for expressing this view and be accused of being part of the “cover-up” but this needs to be said.
GIVE US BACK OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND COMPLETELY ELIMINATE EVERY VESTIGE OF OBAMACARE!!
let the government give us more they said .....
Are you kidding me ? You left need to wake up before it is too locate like for this baby. But the. Again you don’t care about this baby because you push so hard to kill all unwanted babies.
This just breaks my heart 😢😢😡😡
#Justice4Alfie
We The People elected the House and Senate to repeal this affront that has denigrated the medical profession, and is causing American Conservatives to question believing any politician. Many of us on Social Security and Medicare feel helpless, frustrated, and betrayed to the point that we cannot afford even minimal healthcare.
What chance do we have to live without the existing climate of fear that now exists?
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Truly, do we not have enough conflict being roused by this cabinet as it is? (Oops...we must have missed an area of unrest and rioting among the little people)...say they.
"First we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia. We will encircle the last bastion of capitalism, the United States of America. We will not need to fight. It will fall as a ripe fruit into our hands."
And, "We must practice coexistence with other nations, until we are strong enough to take over by means of world revolution... We are not pacifists. Conflict is inevitable. Great political questions can be solved only through violence.... It is inconceivable that Communism and capitalism can exist side by side. Inevitably one must perish.''
“The goal of socialism is communism.”
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.” - Adolf Hitler
Destroy the family, you destroy the country.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people
2) Poverty - Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them.
3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government . That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare - Take control of every aspect (food, housing, income) of their lives because that will make them fully dependent on the government.
6) Education - Take control of what people read, listen to and take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the government and schools because the people need to believe in ONLY the government knowing what is best for the people.
8)Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. Eliminate the middle class. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to tax the rich with the support of the poor.
WE ARE THERE!
Why can people not see what's going on in this country? Are people really that blind?
Please copy and paste this. Ty!
Last week, the Bullock Texas State History Museum cancelled a book event three and a half hours before it was supposed to start. Written by journalists Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, the book is titled “Forget the Alamo,” and, according to historian H. W. Brands, who reviewed the book for the Washington Post, it both introduces the story of the Alamo to readers unfamiliar with it and explains how the story has been interpreted since the 1836 battle occurred, using the ways in which British musicians Phil Collins and Ozzy Osbourne interacted with the site as a new lens.
Historians long ago put aside the heroic story of the Alamo, which told of freedom-loving Americans fighting off a Mexican tyrant who was trying to crush a fledgling republic. In the past several decades, so many historians have rewritten this history that Brands notes that the new retelling “sometimes appear[s] to be beating a horse that, if not dead, was put to pasture awhile back.”
Historians have explained how Mexican officials, eager to stabilize their northern borderlands after their own agreements with Apache tribes fell apart, permitted Americans to settle in what is now Texas. Americans moved to the area to grow cotton in the boom years of that era. When Mexico banned slavery in Texas in 1830, Americans rebelled. In October 1835, they joined with Mexican opponents of President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s government and went to war. By December, the Texian Army had pushed Mexican troops out of the Mexican territory of Texas, and the Texians hunkered down in the Alamo Mission near what is now San Antonio. In January, reinforcements,
This history is well established… but Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick—who in March 2020 suggested that elders should be willing to die from Covid-19 in order to get the economy moving again—was one of apparently a number of Republican leaders who demanded that museum officials cancel the event. Governor Greg Abbott, Patrick and other Republican leaders are board members of the State Preservation Board, which oversees the Bullock Museum. “As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it,” Patrick tweeted. “[T]his fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place [at the Bullock Museum].”
As of the end of June, nine states have passed so-called “divisive concepts” laws, and 17 more are considering them. These measures try to control how teachers talk about issues of race, sex, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, saying that such discussions are divisive. Yet, as historians James Grossman and Jeremy Young of the American Historical Association noted yesterday in The Hill, a survey by the American Historical Association and Fairleigh Dickinson University shows that, “regardless of political identity, age, race, gender or education level,” there is broad consensus that these issues provide essential content to understand our history and that they are appropriate for school history classes.
“We should be clear about what’s happening here,” Young and Grossman say. “This is the legislative equivalent of push-polling—cr
They point out that the bills are not coming from people in school districts, but instead follow a template produced by an organization led by Russell Vought, the former director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Trump administration.
Here’s why this rewriting of our history matters.
Historians study how societies change. In order to do that, we examine sources created at the time—newspapers
An inaccurate picture of what creates change means that people cannot make good decisions about the future. They are at the mercy of those who are creating the stories. Knowledge is indeed power.
So the destruction of accurate history is about more than schools. It’s about self-determinat
It’s about the very things that democracy is supposed to stand for.
When I was a child under 9 yoa we would see a multitude of packs of immigrants running 🏃♀️ to the railroad tracks to get on the train 🚊
Others would just run 🏃♀️ as fast as they could to hide by the amigo land mall……
I’m 48 now
Great piece by Scott Walker on the radical Marxist ideology radicals are trying to spread throughout our country through #CriticalRaceTheory.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jul/8/were-only-one-generation-away-from-losing-america/
WASHINGTONTIMES.COM
We’re only one generation away from losing America
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As a Princeton and Harvard alumnus, you also know that true Critical Race Theory is taught in universities, not our local public schools. It's been turned into a handy catch-phrase to scare people, just like "Godless Communists" during the McCarthy era.
Revelation 5:9). We cannot allow our differences to divide us. We are to be a microcosm of the world and the Kingdom of Heaven. No person is more important than another. Every person is owed ultimate dignity and respect.
Hyperbole and name calling don't make you right, they make you a poor choice as a representative for the great state of Texas.
This is why the zombie movies have such an appeal. We’re watching human nature. People can be infected by an “virus” ideology, mob up, and create vast chaos and destruction for a season.
Ultimately truth will win, but this ideology will leave a great deal of carnage in its wake, as it always, always does.
The author, Scott Walker, observes that younger people are not as convinced to state their pride in America after some quick results of a poll are mentioned.
His suggested solution is: "That means we have more work to do with young people."
In other words, he says we should focus on changing the minds of the respondents, instead of focusing on any issues that those respondents are reflecting in their answers.
Scott Walker goes on to write (try to look past the bad grammar): "The first battle is fighting for free speech. In most schools and on my campuses, cancel culture is really as conservative voices are blocked. Liberal bias is not enough. Radicals want total control of the message. Things like critical race theory (or, as I call it, state-sanctione
So . . . Teach about the good and bad . . . As long as the bad does not include CRT or Marxism . . . Because radicals are trying to control the message (doesn't say how) since their bias isn't enough (doesn't say how) and they are blocking conservative voices (doesn't say how) and it's all about cancel culture, (which has a nebulous definition on the best of days). When did the state sanction racism? Is anybody really teaching CRT or the 1619 Project as if those are the only way forward? Objectively, they are both controversial. Are they really teaching students to hate America? Are the students believing that? Are you really concluding that there is brainwashing so effective that it is skewing the results of this poll?
Free speech is the point unless they are speaking freely about things Scott Walker implies are bad.
According to Scott Walker, liberals are the problem, you know . . . Those people comprising more than half of America who are the targets of his blame.
Is this the pride in America he expects young people to latch on to and believe in their hearts?
The young people of every generation bring a fresh vision to the world. I am proud of the progress my generation made as young people fifty years ago, however naive, pushing the older generation into new thoughts with the anti-war movement and sincerity in civil rights matters.
I am more proud of the young people today who understand the concept of racism only because older people describe the racism of the past to them. Then they shake their heads and ask: "Why?"
In free societies, young people are brutally honest, and we old folks should learn from that. Scott Walker wants to work with young people to change their minds about pride in America instead of working on America to make it more worthy of their pride. Instead of branding liberals as problematic, he could be embrace liberals as fellow Americans. The young people would be proud of that. Good advice for you too, Senator Cruz.




















