Posted on 04/25/2018 2:56:36 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Judge in Alfie Evans Case: Quit Telling Me He’s a Human Being, “There’s Virtually Nothing of His Brain Left”
The Alfie Evans case is the latest in a long line of cases where courts and doctors have determined that patients are supposedly too far gone and supposedly don’t have the quality of life to justify even basic nutrition or care and treatment — let alone experimental treatment to try to treat their conditions or diseases.
Nowhere was this more on display than in Judge Hayden’s courtroom yesterday where the British judge had no interest in attorneys for Alfie’s family reminding him that Alfie is a human being worth legal protection.
Witness the exchange below between Justice Hayden and Paul Diamond, the attorney for Alfie’s family, who desperately attempted to remind the judge that Alfie as a little boy and a human being who deserves better from the British courts and medical system. But the judge wanted no part of that reminder — and actually used it to admonish Diamond to encourage him to quit saying Alfie is a human being.
The unbelievable exchange appears below:
But Mr Justice Hayden cut down Paul Diamond, representing the parents, as he began the family’s appeal hearing.
Mr Diamond said: “This really is an appeal, in our submission for common humanity and common sense…”
The judge interjected: “I don’t think it’s helpful to use emotive terms. As a barrister confine yourself to the law.”
Mr Diamond gave a witness statement from Mr Evans, taken on Tuesday, to the court suggesting his son’s condition is “significantly better” than had been previously believed.
Mr Diamond said the child had been breathing unaided for 19 hours.
He continued: “We do have a human being…”
Again the judge cut across him: “I don’t need to be reminded we have a human being. You do not have the moral high ground in this court. It is treacherous terrain.”
As if that wasn’t enough, Justice Hayden used yesterday’s court hearing to explain his bizarre quality-of-life rationale for limiting Alfie’s parents in their attempt to provide medical care and treatment for their son. Hayden almost seemed to delight in telling everyone in his court room that some doctors essentially think Alfie has no brain left.
From the report:
During another three-hour hearing on Tuesday at the Family Division of the High Court sitting in Manchester, Paul Diamond, from the Christian Legal Centre representing the parents, suggested the alleged change in the position meant the court should reconsider its decision on allowing Alfie to travel abroad.
He handed the court a witness statement from Mr Evans in which he suggested his son’s health was “significantly better” than first thought since life support was withdrawn at 9.17pm last night, as he was continuing to live and breathe.
But Mr Justice Hayden said in his ruling: “The sad truth is that it is not. With little, indeed no hesitation, I reject that.
“The brain cannot regenerate itself and there is virtually nothing of his brain left.
“There is, in truth, with great respect to the efforts of Mr Diamond, no substance to this application, which represents, at least within the court process, the final chapter in the case of this extraordinary little boy.”
For those wondering how a judge could prevent Alfie’s parents from taking him home or letting them take Alfie to Italy for treatment, there’s your answer. Alfie is supposedly too far gone to be afford even basic medical care and apparently courts and hospitals are best to determine that instead of a patient’s family.
Not an attempt in any way to defend this judge -- could it be that he knows his words and actions define him as you describe, but that he is far too timid and much too aware of his lack of ability and knowledge to craft a humane decision that is consistent with the law?
Having willingly taken on his position of power and authority over his fellow citizens, then being unwilling to act in a humane -- not compassionate, but humane way while sitting in judgment of their pleas ... I hope he suffers greatly from the horror he has brought upon the parents of this child.
My three thoughts are:
1. Uber liberal UK ended the death penalty for murderers in 1964 and restored it for babies in 2018.
2. National Health Service aka “Government” should be permanently banned from ANY role in Health Care.......worldwide.
3. Not letting the parents have their baby to take to Italy is an atrocity by government akin to the Nazi’s “government” banging babies heads into telephone poles in WWII.
Same corrupt court system keeping Julian Assange imprisoned in that embassy.
The UK has devolved into a sh!thole.
May God damn this “judge”.
OMG! Judge Ghoul. What a sick human being this “judge” is.
I’m heartbroken
This same judge is the kind of creature who would let a muslim terrorist off because of “cultural differences”. “We” just don’t understand their “culture”.
That is just the point I was wanting to make. The doctors involved are making self serving decisions. No one knows what this child would be capable of. People have led fully functioning lives with only a small % of brain matter remaining.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors/
Gee isn’t there a toddler born with very little brain, who is amazing his doctors with all he can do and say?
What an inhuman thing to say!
This ‘judge’ will be sent to Hell by final decree issued by the Supreme Court of Heaven without further appeal.
“Lebensunwertes Leben”, or “Life Unworthy of Life”, was a Nazi designation for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime of the time, had no right to live.
“Those individuals were targeted to be euthanized by the state, usually through the compulsion or deception of their caretakers. The term included people with serious medical problems and those considered grossly inferior according to the racial policy of Nazi Germany.
“This concept formed an important component of the ideology of Nazism and eventually helped lead to the Holocaust.”
“Aktion T4 was a postwar name for mass murder through involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in the spring of 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, which recruited and paid personnel associated with T4.
“Certain German physicians were authorized to select patients and then administer to them a “mercy death” (Gnadentod). In October 1939 Adolf Hitler signed a “euthanasia note” backdated to 1 September 1939, that authorized his physician Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler to implement the program.
“The killings took place from September 1939 until the end of the war in 1945, during which 275,000 to 300,000 people were killed at various extermination centers, often hospitals and psychiatric hospitals.”
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