This is MURDER, state sanctioned murder. In addition, food and drink, I read, was withheld for 5 days before this child died. This is torture of a helpless and defenseless child. It is characteristic of an uncivil society. These are the “death panels” mentioned by Sarah Palin for which she was severely criticized and mocked by our media. This is “socialized medicine”. Next will come the elderly and infirmed. Do not doubt it.
They've done this to thousands since the 1990's. It's not just Alfie. But God bless Alfie's father and mother forever, because they fought it. They did fight it. And it didn't have to turn out this way. The "health" "care" bureaucrats COULD have just said, "OK, just take your little working-class whelp and go."
But no. Because that wouldn't have made their point: "He belongs to us."
Remember that Orwell based 1984 directly on British bureaucrats, not Nazis or Stalinists.
From LCP Wikipedia article: "LCP was widely abused as a 'tick box exercise', with patients being casually assessed as terminal, heavily sedated, and denied water so the diagnosis became self-fulfilling."
And check this out:
130,000 elderly patients killed...(2012 link) - An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.” Dr. Patrick Pullicino, a consultant neurologist for East Kent Hospitals and Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Kent, claimed that doctors are putting people on the LCP without proper analysis of their condition, citing “pressure on beds and difficulty with nursing confused or difficult-to-manage elderly patients” as factors.According to the Daily Mail, the doctor sounded the alarm that of the approximately half million deaths in Britain each year of elderly people who are in hospital or under NHS care, about 29 percent, or 130,000, are patients who were on the LCP.
The Liverpool Care Pathway, developed by the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Marie Curie hospice in the 1990s, and described by its formulators as a “template” to guide the care of the dying, was approved in 2004 by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the government’s health scrutiny body in charge of rationing health services. The LCP, reportedly adopted nationwide by more than 300 hospitals, 130 hospices and 560 care homes in England, allows for withdrawal of water and nourishment, and “continuous deep sedation” for patients judged to be incurable. Combined with withdrawal of fluids, deep sedation leads quickly to death. Pullicino related the personal experience of removing a man from the LCP who went on to live another 14 months, proving that the claim of the diagnosing doctor that the man had only hours to live was “palpably false..."