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And just what is an "anti-social behaviour order"??? Or don't I want to know? |
Posted on 05/09/2006 4:59:12 PM PDT by wagglebee
NORFOLK, England, May 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man who sent graphic pictures of mutilated and aborted babies to staff and officials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn was jailed for a month, given a five-year anti-social behaviour order, and threatened with five years incarceration if he disobeys the order. Atkinson was charged with “sending malicious communications” to the hospital.
74-year-old Edward Atkinson told the judge, “Then you may as well lock me up and throw away the key,” reported the Eastern Daily Press. During the hearing, he said, “Since 1968, seven million unborn babies have been brutally and callously murdered with the full connivance of the state.”
The feisty Mr. Atkinson sent the photos and a video of a child being aborted to hospital chief executive Ruth May who described them as “offensive, horrendous and absolutely disgusting.”
Ms. May said she received an envelope of “very upsetting and offensive literature” and became tearful when she told the Press, “It is upsetting for everyone. I believe people who work for the NHS, and particularly at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, are passionate about providing excellent care for their patients.”
Since the court case, Mr. Atkinson has been removed from the hospital’s wait list for an evaluation for hip surgery and has been banned from anything other than life-saving treatment as a punishment for his activism. A hospital spokesman said he had broken its “zero tolerance” policy by ignoring its warnings to stop. Hospital staff said they were upset and “quite disturbed’ by the images.
The hospital said, “We exercised our right to decline treatment for anything other than life-threatening conditions.”
The pro-life advocates at the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform (CCBR) – an organization that pioneered in Canada the public display of graphic images of abortion to make the case for life – were “appalled” at the conviction and the hospital’s denial of care.
“This is one of the most disturbing cases of intolerance for the pro-life perspective I have ever heard,” said CCBR executive director Stephanie Gray. “To disagree with or be horrified by the pro-life perspective is one thing, but to put an elderly man in jail and to deny him health care is outrageous.”
Gray added, “In a society that kills the most weak and vulnerable lf human beings, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.”
Gray said the pictures show the horrors of abortion to a culture that does not want to know. “People hold a double standard about abortion. They’re fine with graphic images of the Ethiopian famine or Abu Ghraib prison, but if it’s closer to home then they respond with hostility.”
James Dowson, the national co-ordinator of the UK Life League, told The Scotsman, “It is ridiculous. I think it is completely unfair. They are refusing to treat him. Would they refuse a murderer or a paedophile? He has paid his taxes, he is entitled to that treatment, who are they to withhold it from him?”
Atkinson, who refused to give the oath at the hearing until a Roman Catholic Bible was obtained, said the purpose of sending the images had been “to educate.”
“I accept that the documentation was highly distressing. It’s horrendous, monstrous and sickening but it represents the truth of what is going on in our world. Everyone in this courtroom knows that abortion is murder and no one has the guts to say it.”
Atkinson was found guilty on three counts of sending malicious communication to the hospital, and jailed for 28 days concurrently on the charges, with an additional 14 days for failing to pay a £650 fine, received for a similar offence in 2002. He was also told £500 would be deducted from his pension to cover court costs.
See Centre for Bioethical Reform website:
http://ccbrinfo.ca/index.html
I agree pictures of abortion are offensive and disgusting, and if the culture of death would stop murdering infants nobody would ever have to see such images again.
Pro-Life Ping.
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And just what is an "anti-social behaviour order"??? Or don't I want to know? |
"sending malicious communications"
Imagine how the aborted babies felt.
It's pretty funny... and sick, how the Hospital found the pictures so disgusting and yet they perform that every day.
Still, the man refused when asked to please stop and continually sent it to individuals. So I don't have much support for him. No one likes being spammed. Still, glad he is Pro-Life. Some hope for Europe.
It's okay to murder the babies, but to show pictures of the butchering offends her? The pictures aren't 'offensive, horrendous and absolutely disgusting' - the barbaric murders of children are! Stop the slaughter and there will be no pictures to show!
Another reminder of why the founders drove the royal English asses into the sea.
So much for the Hippocratic Oath.
Gotta love national healthcare. If the government doesn't like you then you only get life-saving treatment.
Of course, if he shows up in an "end-stage" condition, they'll propbably just pull the plug.
Exactly. What a screwed up legal system. It's OK to murder babies (doctors even get paid to do it), but if you distribute pictures of the atrocity, you are a criminal.
Interesting that he is being denied medical care in Britain, while Brit's are suing the US government for millions for alleged mistreatment of Taliban in Gitmo. He should be incarcerated there -- first class accommodations and medical care.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629376/posts
That is an excellent point and worth repeating.
From now on when terrorists who are not in uniform and therefore not protected by the Geneva Convention are wounded on the battlefield we should just leave them.
Of course, he was only on a wait list. In Britain, that probably means he might never have gotten the evaluation before his natural life expired anyway. Good for him for sticking up for truth.
Denied health care ? Is that how socialized medicine will be used ? To control the masses ?
Yup.
And Ruth if its so damned offensive and disgusting hows come your hospital does it regularly ?
"Some hope for Europe."
no, not really
You're absolutely right. Subversives will be denied all but "necessary" healthcare; however, most of them will be deemed as "terminally" ill (even if they suffer from conditions that such as blocked arteries where routine bypass surgery can add decades to their lives) and they will be involuntarily euthanized.
It's no wonder that people in countries with socialized medicine who have the financial means regularly travel to the US and other countries to be treated privately.
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