The Decline of Freedom in the UK

The UK has experienced its fair share of the political fiasco that the US often faces, the most prominent a decision being Brexit. However, every now and then some issues do come to light that shines attention to how deeply deep state elements have permeated the political space in the UK that have often led to the silencing of dissenters.

The most popular has been an attack on free speech (however stupid they may be) with the constant redefinition of what free speech and hate speech entails. However, the recent actions against parental rights and family freedom shows just how much the government intends to control.

By far the most frighten infringement upon the freedoms of Her Majesty’s subjects is what is being done to babies and their parents in the name of affordable health care.

Most Americans became aware of this horror show last summer through the tragic story of Charlie Gard, a baby with a rare disorder that, admittedly, didn’t have a favorable prognosis. His parents, of course, wanted to exhaust every medical possibility in an effort to save their son.

The British government, its medical personnel, and its courts decided that the parents shouldn’t have that right.

Charlie’s parents raised enough money to cover the cost of transportation to the US to get an experimental treatment for him. The UK hospital where Charlie was being treated intervened, because the law allows it in England, and told the suffering parents “that it was not in the best interest of their patient.” UK courts not only backed them up, but decided when Charlie should be taken off life support.

This nightmare scenario is now being replayed for the parents of a toddler named Alfie Evans. Again, the parents want to take their child out of the UK to receive alternative treatment but have been told by their Soviet-esque High Court that it is not an option. Alfie is now not being fed, and his parents are powerless to stop it.

We may be tempted to dismiss all of the above because it’s happening in the United Kingdom and we have any number of reasons why think we won’t go down that path.

I’m not so sure.

We’re already seeing a full-frontal assault on free speech. The liberal social media mob seeks to silence any voices with which it doesn’t agree, and is usually successful. Progressives continue to get any speech they don’t like legally classified as hate speech.

We've had a takeover push on our healthcare
system and once the government has complete control of the reins of medical care in this country rationing and sickening stories like those of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans will be being told here as well.

I took some excerpts from John O'Sullivans article on the National Review titled "The State Ordered Killing of young Alfie Evans"