To make up somehow for the scant reflection so far in this thread of the Alfie Evans story, here is Marco Tosatti's impassioned post reacting to the UK Supreme Court's unconscionable decision on the two-year-old's fate:
Alfie must die, the UK Supreme Court says,
but not to worry, 'it's in his best interests'
Translated from
April 20, 2018
Dear friends of Stilum Curiae, today is one of great dejection for me. I grew up, like many in my generation, and helped in this by other members of my family, inn the idea that Great Britain was a lighthouse of civilization, freedom and courage against totalitarian powers.
I remember the emotion with which I listened to the speeches of Churchill when England and her empire were alone at the beginning to fight Nazism; the emotion of England’s solitary battle against a Napoleon who seemed to be the invincible master of Europe; the beautiful English saying that in his home, a man is like a king in his castle; and the numerous examples of freedom and individual achievements that flourished in that nation.
But the decision of the British Supreme Court to deny a hearing to the parents of Alfie Evans on their side of the case, and to confirm what was substantially a condemnation to death of their two-year-old son, shattered my last illusions of considering Great Britain – and the Anglo-Saxon world, in a wider sense – as a reference point for those who love freedom and the rights of the individual as against those of the state.
What I had always thought of Great Britain has disappeared in the face of the death sentence for Alfie expressed first by the hospital where he is [literally] confined, and then by various levels of a state organization which would kill a boy supposedly ‘in his best interests”. And in doing this, not only are they trampling on the principle of a citizen’s right to free choice, but it abrogates, like a true totalitarian Moloch, the very possibility of the boy’s parents to continue fighting to keep him alive.
A form of persuasive, hypocritical and poisonous totalitarianism has taken the place of a civilization based on the rights of the individual. A terrible macabre face hides behind the ingratiating mask of defending ‘rights’ [Whose ‘rights’, in this case? In which the State appears to have all the ‘rights’, and the individual facing the almighty state has none?] A state that not only denies Alfie’s parents the right to seek a cure elsewhere, but also expropriates, as only totalitarian regimes are capable of doing, the parents’ rights over their own children. This is what Great Britain has become.
All this, aid the total silence – almost, anyway – of the information media that serve the regime’s political culture. But not just in Britain¬ also here, in Italy. Do not worry – it will happen here soon, it’s only a question of time, because we Italians have always been a bit slow to catch up!
Just observe the silence that the Italian media has had in reporting on Alfie’s case, the lack of interest by the paladins of human rights - who in this case, appear to be for the right to death rather than the right to life – who have all chosen to look the other way while a state system decides to kill a boy.
We have a society in putrefaction. It is simply amazing how very few so far seem to smell the stench!
I would ask you to go the site of
La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana for the latest development on little Alfie’s fight to be allowed to live, of which I shall publish an excerpt):
The Supreme Court today rejected any recourse to prevent the Alder Hey Hospital from stopping the transport of Alfie Evans to another hospital.
The Supreme Court denied the possibility of a hearing on the case after the London Court of Appeals once more rejected the new arguments from the Evans family lawyers who questioned what amounts to the boy’s state of detention imposed by the hospital, which has refused to allow him to be taken to the Bambin Gesu hospital in Rome.
“Having considered the written positions of the opposing sides on paper,” a spokesman for the Supreme Court said, “the Supreme Court of the United Kingdoms has denied the parents the right to an appeal”. He added that the hospital should “feel free to do what has already been determined to be in the best interest of Alfie”. The Supreme Court therefore approved the plan to suspend further treatment of Alfie and terminate his life.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 21/04/2018 21:08]