The Sad Case of Charlie Gard

From the descendants of the freedom seeking peoples who overthrew a mighty king and gave us the Manga Carta, to that same fearless spawn who escaped a different tyrannical king and settled upon a new continent to subsequently establish a libertine form of government, to those cowardly authoritarian socialists who inhabit the country today, we can only recoil in horror at the dystopian news coming from the once great English courts.

RIP Charlie, a victim of socialism's war on the innocent

I refer, of course, to the infant Charlie Gard, who was born with a rare disease that the state-run medical community decreed to be hopeless, and was allowed to die despite the fact that his parents had fought a five-month legal battle to keep him alive.  In the end, however, the British nationalized health service decided his life couldn’t be prolonged and that his life support should be turned off.

The argument is not whether the American or Italian teams of specialists who volunteered to intercede could have saved him.  Nor is it the cost of any experimental or otherwise unorthodox treatment that may have been considered; the parents had raised over a million pounds themselves absent any state sponsored funding. Nor is the argument that any treatment may or may not have had any effect on his condition at all.  Those are just hypothetical debates that have no resolution. The argument is simply this.  It is up to the parents alone to decide what is the best course of action for their son.  Period.

But the nationalized, socialized death panels made a decision that should have been left to the parents.  The Death Panel had final say over this boy's life.  It's simply a matter of economics, they explained.  He can't be saved, so why spend the money? Chilling.

But death panels are exactly what we have here in the Land of the Free in Kenyan Care, which is a carbon copy of the "health care" system in the UK.  Its architects have admitted so, despite the spin put out by our state run media.  So if you're old, or suffering from a rare and heretofore untreatable malady, be prepared to die if your fate lies with the government's own Death Panels.

So perhaps this case can be viewed as an indication of we Americans can look forward to under this illegal and ill begotten law that the Kenyan forced upon us.  But even so, as heartbreaking as the evidence clearly is, some lawmakers - who are exempt from Kenyan Care, I hasten to add - couldn't find it in American's best interest to repeal that insidious and hateful law.

And in so doing, widen the gap between the governed and those who represent them.