By Matt Agorist
As the tragic story of baby Alfie begins fading from headlines, it is important to point out what allowed this situation to unfold like it did. Guns. Before throwing your arms in the air and screaming out, “how the hell does this child’s death have anything to do with guns?” consider the following truth: The majority of the United Kingdom is unarmed, leaving most guns in the hands of criminals and government.
When only government has guns, they can make decisions—like kidnapping a baby and starving him to death—without fear of recourse from the citizens, or even the family. Officials in the UK sentenced baby Alfie to death this year when they denied his parents the ability to fly to Italy to receive free treatment at no cost the British government.
The decision was entirely arbitrary as it had no bearing on Britain’s healthcare system. They had nothing to lose by allowing the family to fly to Italy and they had everything to gain.
Instead of allowing the family a last stitch effort to save their baby’s life however, the state effectively kidnapped him and had armed police officers standing outside the hospital to make sure he was left there to die. His parents, Kate and Tom, were helpless to resist.
Kidnapping a child and starving him to death is violence. Promising you’ll try to stop it by any means necessary is self-defense. But no single person with a gun could ever prevent the state from carrying out a government-sanctioned death sentence on their child for being sick, right? Wrong. George Pickering Sr., from Houston, Texas proved that this was possible, just three years ago. Pickering’s son, George Jr. was declared “brain dead” in 2015 after suffering a massive stroke.
The decision to end Pickering’s son’s life had been made. However, desperate to keep his son alive, seemingly knowing something that the doctors did not, George Sr. armed himself and intervened.
“I felt hopeless. They were moving too fast. The hospital, the nurses, the doctors,” this dedicated dad told Click 2 Houston at the time. After entering the Tomball Regional Medical Center in Houston, Texas, determined to make sure his son was given more time to recover, a standoff ensued as George Sr. barricaded himself in his son’s room.
George Sr. was willing to risk jail time and even death if it meant getting his son a few more minutes on this earth and a chance to survive.
A SWAT team was kept at bay as an armed George Sr. sat with his son and prayed for a sign of life. George Sr.’s other son was allowed in the room and eventually talked down his father. However, because this father was armed, police were held off long enough for something amazing to happen.
“Towards the end of the standoff, which was about three hours long, he felt his son squeeze his hand,” the family’s lawyer Phoebe Smith said.
“At this time, the SWAT team had already opened the door to the critical care room and he had surrendered to the police, but he surrendered knowing his son had squeezed his hand,” she added.
Had he not been armed, police would’ve removed George Sr. in only a few minutes and he would’ve never felt his son squeeze his hand, and life support would’ve been pulled. To confirm the father’s claims that his son had shown signs of life, the SWAT team even sent in their own doctors.
“The SWAT team had their own doctors and when they entered into the critical care room, they saw that my client’s son was not brain dead because he was making eye contact, was following their commands and they were completely amazed at this,” Smith added.
Had an armed father not decided to take a stand, his son would likely be dead right now.
“The amazing thing was that my client was right and that his son did survive. When you see him now, he is a picture of health. I don’t think he would have survived but for the fact that his father slowed the process down,” Smith said.
“This case has always been about a father protecting his son, when his son couldn’t protect himself,” she said. George Sr. was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, but one was later dismissed and the other lessened to a state jail felony. However, this father of three doesn’t regret any of it—including the jail time he served after. “There was a law broken, but it was broken for all the right reasons. I’m here now because of it,” George Jr. told Fox 6.
“It was love. It was love. It’s the duty of a parent to protect your children and that’s all he did. Everything good that made me a man is because of that man sitting next to me.”
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Simply amazing! The love a parent has for a child. So sad about Alfie but glad another family could stand up to the government and prove them wrong! Thanks for sharing and keep it up!
And the jury should have nullified the case, against the father.
Further, the hospital, wanting to cut up and part out the son, should have been brought up on the stand to tell the truth about their duplicitous nature. Their conflict of interest. Their failure to the Hippocratic oath.
I have learned something important.
"in the UK, you cannot file a claim to the vaccine damage courts until a child is 2 years old." @daniarnold
And babie Alfie had all the symptoms of vaccine damage. The "witness" had to be gotten rid of before it could have gone to court.
one wonders what if anything the father was charged with and whether he was convicted of it, if you can't get away with that shit in Texas it probably won't fly anywhere.
You are speculating.
Everything about someone else's motives is speculation. Even if they tell you their motives.
So, what is your point?
Because he died of a mysterious undefined illness that caused neurological damage, in cases like these all sorts of experts are called in to try and solve them, your allegation would have to mean that every expert in the field is dishonest.
Oh that. Go and read about vaccine damage.
Then read my post on organ donor organs being harvested while alive.
In the video linked, it tells about some of the tests these supposed "experts" used.
This is not speculation. This is me saying, as many other do, that these symptoms are AWFULLY similar to those symptoms. Not very undefined except by those "experts" (who will deny vaccine damage to their dying day.)
There's no way they are going to harvest and use organs of a person with a undefined underlying diagnosis, if the person/people receiving the organs became ill it would open them up for millions in liability.
Most people are aware of the debate on vaccines. Let's just assume (because we are not the experts) they are right and a small segment of the population can become ill versus what?...millions of people dying annually from the diseases that these vaccines eradicated?
Do you know that there are tests that can be done to see whether a child will be susceptible to vaccine damage before they vaccinate? They don't do them because they are "expensive". Do you think we should put a child's life over money?
Bernie Sanders pushes for "socialized medicine" in America. He portrays it as a right of all people. Baby Alfie Evans, a 23-month-old British baby, proves socialized medicine doesn't give control to family, but bureaucrats who could care less about family. I Choose Life!
Yep, the same Bernie Sanders who also pushed for disarming America... How one can claim to be anti-establishment like Bernie and at the same time hate freedom so much, is beyond me - typical political hypocrisy - it's sad so many people fall for it and that he may be running for president again in 2020.
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I remember that movie, it was great.
Actually the story was a little different. But still it was a good movie.
I don't think either is the best pro gun rights argument.
Agreed.
I wonder if that father got the idea from John Q :) Amazing it worked out for the best & no one got hurt! So sad what happened to Alfie though... The UK needs more good outlaws - "When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free."
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every time I read about the little one, my feelings of helplessness increase, the knowledge that we could not do anything to change their luck is painful
So glad the This father took charge and saved his son’s life. The hospital was a little quick to pronounce the young man’s death IMO. No charges should have been filed. Don’t you think calling the swat team in was a bit of an over reaction. Maybe Dad should have been given a little credit. 🐓🐓
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