Little Alfie is now with the angels. We pray for forgiveness for those who refused to let his parents take him to the hospital in Rome for further treatment. We forget that Hitler had his admirers among some of the English upper classes. It seems that a particular attitude still prevails. But it's nothing new. So many stood by while the Irish starved to death, too. From
Life Site:
A leading German pediatrician is saying that the way the UK’s
National Health Service (NHS) is dealing with disabled toddler Alfie
Evans and his parents would never happen in his country given its
history with the Nazi regime. “We have learned in Germany because of our history, that there are
things that you do not do with severely disabled patients,” Professor
Nikolaus Haas, head of the Child Cardiology and Pediatric Intensive
Medicine Unit at Munich University Hospital, told Germany’s Die Welt
newspaper in an April 26 article.
“Our ethical understanding in Germany is different, I mean - thank
God. The [hospital’s] logic that it is better for the child to die than
that someone else looks at it, and even to sue [for that] in court, this
is an unimaginable behavior for me,” he said. Professor Haas may have been referring to the euthanasia program of Nazi-ruled Germany in which, between 1939 and 1945, thousands of children with mental or physical disabilities were exterminated. (Read more.)
Meanwhile, a young working class father makes a heroic stand for his little son, in spite of the mockery of elites. From
Regina:
A
teenager when he learned of his girlfriend's pregnancy, Tom did not
send her to an abortion clinic. Instead, he stood by her, and when their
8 month old Alfie fell ill, he did what every good dad would do — he
stood by his son. Now,
Tom is a working class guy in an England where the ‘Labour' Party once
championed the rights of the working classes. It was Labour, after all,
which brought in the National Health Service in the 1940's as the crown
jewel in their working class victory; after losing their sons to two
pitiless world wars, England's working men and women would have their
government-paid health care. Today,
Tom's baby son has been targeted by a new kind of Labour Party — and
their Conservative counterparts — who want him to sit down and shut up,
and accept the ‘reality' that Alfie has to die in the dubious care of
the NHS their grandfathers fought for.
Tom, Christ-like, has been made a public spectacle. For pleading for basic care for his son, he's
been threatened by lawyers, vilified in the national press, clucked
over by the nation's chattering classes and abandoned by the high
priests.‘Poor Tom‘, the professional chatterers say, and the unspoken is palpable: ‘Just a chav who won't accept his lot in life.‘ For days, they all have been smugly waiting for Alfie to die. Except,
he won't. Against all ‘expert' opinion which stated he wouldn't live
three minutes off the ventilator, Alfie continues to breathe on his
own.
Now,
photos are circulating on social media that reveal the horrendous
hygiene that Alfie has been subjected to in the NHS hospital Alder Hey:
left to lie in his own urine, given moldy tubes to breathe through. Clearly, Tom's pleas have been ignored by hospital staff. So, he filed lawsuits for murder against three Alder Hey doctors. (“This is a desperate man,” is the reaction we get from the court records, clucking over poor, clueless Tom.) Meanwhile, Alfie continues to breathe on his own.
Undaunted,
Tom set off to speak to the Pope — and miracle of miracles, he got
Francis's support. (After the Vatican's notorious silence on Charlie
Gard, this is a wonder in itself.) Italian citizenship for Alfie quickly
followed, with an air ambulance still at the ready to whisk Alfie away. But
within days the Archbishop of Liverpool ran scurrying to the Vatican to
explain why Alfie must die, and why he would not allow any Catholic
priests to minister to the family. (Which, in a stunning display of
craven churchmanship he has quickly denied ever saying, blaming his
auxiliary instead.) Meanwhile, Alfie continues to breathe on his own. (
Read more.)
As for anti-Catholicism, it is still alive and well. From
Church Militant:
The Daily Mirror's Susie Boniface went further, slamming Christians in general — and Catholics in particular — while veering into outright blasphemy. On Wednesday, Boniface lashed out at Alfie's backers, calling
them "bandwagon bandits who have leapt on his tragedy to push religious
fundamentalism down our throats."
Mocking Christ, she wrote that "while many strange powers are
attributed to Jesus and those who have faith in him, no one made a note
of [H]is 'Miracle of the Regrowing Brain.'"
"But hey, the pope wants to help," Boniface continued. "A man who is
the earthly representative of the deity who is theologically responsible
for robbing a tiny baby of all higher cognitive function. Tell me this:
if [serial killer] Fred West's mate offered to babysit, would you say
yes?" The columnist — who describes herself as "often sarcastic,
occasionally right" — went on to imply that Christians should support
destroying human life to save human life, lashing out at them for
"arguing against the sort of embryonic research that may one day cure
babies with the same condition as Alfie."
"If there is any such thing as evil incarnate, it is not inside Alder
Hey," she wrote, instead, "It lies in the narrow minds of ignorant
zealots who want to 'protect' Alfie while doing everything they can to
ensure children like him suffer more."
"If that's what your God wants," Boniface added, "best you keep him to yourself." (Read more.)
From
The American Thinker:
The
British government, eager to prove its merit as a proper socialist
state, has made a cottage industry of delineating the conditions of
collective ownership of the individual in the starkest terms. Last
year, their poster child for the principle of the individual as
dispensable cell of the socialist collective was named Charlie
Gard. This year, he is known as Baby Alfie. In both cases, the parents
are outright denied the freedom to seek further treatment for a child
the State has decided is not worth trying to save. In both
cases, the further treatment in question would not cost the British
government, in the form of the National Health Service, a penny. In
both cases, the Catholic Church has offered to treat the baby in Rome
for free. In both cases, the child's parents – in Alfie's case, Tom
Evans and Kate James – have fought long sickening court battles against
their owners, the British Government, only to be denied every time in
favor of "the best interests of the child," i.e. premature death by
starvation. (Read more.)
Gingrich weighs in:
The secular system has asserted its right to define what lives are
worth living and is determined to prevent its authority from being
questioned. Alfie Evans’ life – like Charlie Gard’s before him – has
been determined to be limited by the standards of the secular state, and
therefore without value. These tragic government-imposed death sentences for
innocent infants should frighten all of us about increasing secularism
in society and the steady shift towards a totalitarian willingness to
control our lives – down to and including ending them – on the
government’s terms. (Read more.)
I am as thrilled by the royal baby as anyone but the way the Left has
turned on a working class baby shows that they really have no use for
the poor except when votes are needed. From
Breitbart:
The three mainstream U.S. television networks have heaped attention
on the new little British prince while silencing the heartbreaking story
of little Alfie Evans who is fighting for his life against attempts by
the British state to euthanize him.
On April 23, the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, gave birth to
her third child with Prince William, an event that electrified American
news channels. The three major networks—ABC, CBS, and NBC—devoted a
combined total of more than 28 minutes to the royal news, while
completely omitting mention of another baby who languished in a UK
hospital after officials removed his life support against his parents’
wishes. (Read more.)
And it keeps getting more horrendous. From
The Federalist:
A British doctor treating Alfie Evans told reporters off the record
his parents won’t be allowed to take their child out of the hospital,
even to die at home, unless there is a “sea change” in their attitude. Alfie’s parents are battling the hospital and the government of the
United Kingdom to continue caring for their little boy, who is suffering
from an undiagnosed condition that British doctors say has rendered him
terminally ill. Although he was taken off life support Monday night,
Alfie has continued to live with the help of an oxygen tank. The courts
have ruled his parents cannot take him out of the country, and have
allowed the hospital to keep Alfie in their “care” by force. (Read more.)
Death. From
Life Site:
Alfie James Evans was a baptized Catholic, like his father. His mother belongs to the Reformed tradition. If a baptized child before the age of reason dies, he goes straight to heaven, according to Catholic teaching. “Baptized
and under ‘the age of reason’, he does not need our prayers,” tweeted
Dr Joseph Shaw, a Catholic ethicist at Oxford University. “His family,
and everyone else involved, do.”
In a statement issued on its website, Alder Hey Children’s
Hospital in Liverpool, England, said: “We wish to express our heartfelt
sympathy and condolences to Alfie’s family at this extremely distressing
time. All of us feel deeply for Alfie, Kate, Tom and his whole family
and our thoughts are with them. This has been a devastating journey for
them and we would ask that their privacy and the privacy of staff at
Alder Hey is respected.” On
Monday, Alfie’s father Thomas Evans posted a video on Facebook saying
that when the hospital staff removed Alfie’s ventilator at 9:17 p.m., he
was able to breathe on his own. The toddler lived for more than four
days without the machine. (Read more.)
Rejoice with the angels, dear little one!
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