The John-Henry Westen Show - Alfie Evans all over again as UK hospital starves Polish Catholic man

00:00:00.200 A pro-life Catholic man is being intentionally starved and dehydrated to death in a hospital in England,

00:00:07.160 despite the pleading of his mother and siblings, not to mention the intervention of the Polish government and Catholic leaders in England.

00:00:15.260 It's Alfie Evans all over again.

00:00:18.560 We have our reporter with us from the ground in the UK to discuss the latest developments.

00:00:23.280 Meanwhile, LifeSite's main YouTube channel has been suspended and Dr. Simone Gold, one of the frontline doctors who's been leading the opposition to lockdowns and dangerous vaccines from a medical perspective, has been arrested.

00:00:37.940 And finally, the so-called Conservative Party of Canada apparently wants in on the cancel culture. 0.76

00:00:44.680 This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.

00:00:53.280 Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:01:07.900 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:01:12.820 LifeSite News has been banned for two weeks from YouTube on our main channel

00:01:17.140 after the site determined that one of our videos about vaccines violated their community guidelines.

00:01:24.260 It was over my show with Dr. Pamela Acker, a microbiologist and vaccine researcher,

00:01:29.760 discussing the fact that in the development of the fetal cell lines used to develop most vaccines,

00:01:35.740 that aborted babies were used, and in order to use those aborted babies,

00:01:40.900 they had to be still alive during the tissue extraction.

00:01:43.700 There were over 150,000 views on that video before it was removed by YouTube,

00:01:50.380 but you can still catch it on the LifeSite News Rumble channel, which I encourage you to check out.

00:01:58.380 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their first day in office today with a prayer service,

00:02:04.600 a so-called prayer service from the White House.

00:02:06.820 And in fitting fashion, it was an interfaith, intersexed prayer service with plenty of rainbow

00:02:14.580 stoles and flags, and also included a high-ranking Catholic sister.

00:02:20.240 Check this out.

00:02:22.380 Lord, make us instruments of your peace.

00:02:26.480 Where there is hatred, let us sow love.

00:02:29.820 Where there is injury, pardon.

00:02:32.680 Where there is discord, union.

00:02:34.800 Where there is doubt, faith.

00:02:38.260 In the name of Jesus, in el nombre de Jesús.

00:02:42.380 Amen.

00:02:44.620 Give us grace to do your will in all that we undertake.

00:02:49.400 Oh my, maybe I should have done a parental advisory warning before we aired that scary clip. 1.00

00:02:54.620 But the Catholic nun there was none other than Sister Norma Pimentel, the CEO of Catholic Charities,

00:03:03.040 the same organization that LifeSite's been reporting as scandalously promoting contraception, abortion, homosexuality, even Marxism.

00:03:11.580 LifeSite's Raymond Wolfe reports that medical doctor and lawyer Simone Gold, the founder of the advocacy group America's Frontline Doctors,

00:03:22.000 was arrested on Sunday for having entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

00:03:27.540 The Department of Justice says that she was released on conditions and has a virtual hearing scheduled for Thursday.

00:03:34.900 America's Frontline Doctors is a group of medical professionals who work to promote early COVID-19 therapies such as HCQ and ivermectin

00:03:44.020 and to expose the influence of pharmaceutical companies on treatment protocols for the Wuhan virus now called COVID-19.

00:03:52.540 Federal agents arrested Gold in California days after she publicly admitted that she had followed other protesters into the Capitol building two weeks ago.

00:04:03.420 Now, one of the things she said was most interesting, she says, and I quote,

00:04:07.600 I can certainly speak to the place that I was, and it was most emphatically not a riot.

00:04:14.840 Those were comments from Gold to the Washington Post in an interview from January 12th.

00:04:19.540 Moreover, she said, where I was, was incredibly peaceful.

00:04:25.260 She added that the protesters were legally entering the Capitol building, in her mind,

00:04:31.940 and that's because they were all doing so, and some of them being let in by police, as we've seen on numerous videos.

00:04:39.640 Also, LifeSite's Victoria Gizondi reports that the Washington Post columnist Max Boot,

00:04:46.460 quite a fitting name for what he did, he's called on the, in one of his columns for the shutting down of Fox News.

00:04:54.140 And I quote,

00:04:55.280 Just as we do with foreign terrorist groups, he wrote, and continued,

00:05:01.100 So with domestic terrorists, we need to shut down the influencers who radicalize people

00:05:07.260 and set them on the path toward violence and sedition.

00:05:10.800 End quote.

00:05:12.300 LifeSite reporter Patrick Delaney has covered a stir at the distinguished Harvard University,

00:05:17.560 where a petition by some students and grads is being circulated demanding the university

00:05:22.260 actually rescind the degrees of former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany,

00:05:29.780 also U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, and U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw,

00:05:35.080 and several others due to spreading what they call disinformation mistrust

00:05:40.540 and the mistrust they created that caused the insurrection on January 6th.

00:05:48.380 And just to show you how incredibly leftist Canada is,

00:05:53.020 even compared to the United States today,

00:05:55.760 It is the Conservative Party, not the Liberal Party,

00:06:00.100 the Conservative Party of Canada who have booted a pro-life Member of Parliament

00:06:05.360 with the same vapid excuse the Democrats are using to try to have their political opponents silenced.

00:06:13.840 False charges of racism.

00:06:16.200 Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole called on the party to vote out,

00:06:21.340 in secret ballot, mind you, to vote out Derek Sloan, an MP,

00:06:26.760 for what?

00:06:27.480 For, he said, accepting a $131 donation from what he called a well-known white supremacist

00:06:33.580 named Paul Frum, from the Conservative Party.

00:06:36.480 So they're asking for Derek Sloan to be removed for accepting this $131 donation.

00:06:42.960 Now, this is really weird because Frum actually used an alias when he donated,

00:06:48.300 so there's no way that Sloan could have known.

00:06:51.320 But that didn't stop a majority of Aaron O'Toole's so-called Conservative Party

00:06:56.580 from voting to throw Sloan out of the party.

00:06:59.180 And why?

00:07:00.180 Well, because Derek Sloan is one of the most outspoken pro-life and pro-family MPs in the country.

00:07:08.420 Oh, and it should come as no surprise,

00:07:11.900 but our extremist left-wing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated the Conservative leader O'Toole

00:07:18.500 on the move.

00:07:19.920 Now, if that doesn't tell Aaron O'Toole he's in the wrong, nothing will.

00:07:25.220 And finally, let's bring on the LifeSite UK correspondent,

00:07:28.820 who's been covering the tragic case of the pro-life Catholic man

00:07:32.800 who's being intentionally starved and dehydrated to death in a hospital in England,

00:07:38.140 despite the pleading of his mother, siblings, not to mention the intervention of the Polish government

00:07:43.400 and Catholic leaders in England.

00:07:45.800 Dorothy McLean, our reporter from Scotland, who has been covering this case closely.

00:07:50.980 Welcome to the program.

00:07:53.000 Thank you, John Henry.

00:07:55.020 So at the outset of the show, I set this up a little bit,

00:07:57.820 but please give us the details.

00:07:59.020 What is going on in this case of RS?

00:08:01.200 Well, it's a very sad story, but it begins with RS, a Polish Catholic family man,

00:08:08.620 working a night shift in England, who suddenly had a heart attack at home

00:08:14.060 and was taken to hospital.

00:08:17.860 He was in a coma.

00:08:20.340 And sometime in the end of November, the doctors decided that because he was brain disabled,

00:08:25.620 he hadn't gained consciousness, as they understand it.

00:08:31.780 And so it would be better if they went to a court to ask permission for his life support to be removed.

00:08:38.900 And sadly, his wife agreed to this.

00:08:42.280 However, it was that this decision was opposed by RS.

00:08:47.760 We have to call him RS, unfortunately, because there's a court order blocking publication of his name.

00:08:53.480 But RS, his family, his mother, his sisters, his niece, all opposed the removal of his life support treatment

00:09:03.200 because on grounds that he is, in fact, a pro-life church-attending Catholic

00:09:09.960 who is greatly opposed to abortion of any kind or for any reason.

00:09:16.160 He's opposed to euthanasia.

00:09:17.800 And he even voiced his opinions against the Alfie Evans case.

00:09:21.260 And he was upset by the judges that sent little Alfie to his death, basically.

00:09:28.140 That's very interesting that he was opposed to the Alfie Evans case

00:09:31.400 because that's a case where his parents wanted the child alive

00:09:35.200 and they were denying nutrition, hydration.

00:09:37.460 And this is similar in this case because you called it life support.

00:09:40.300 But the life support that's being denied here is nutrition and hydration.

00:09:44.580 The very things that the Catholic Church says are not to be considered extraordinary treatment,

00:09:50.520 which could be denied.

00:09:51.740 They are absolutely ordinary necessities for life, which cannot be denied.

00:09:56.580 So we're talking about nutrition and hydration here.

00:09:59.440 How exactly does that work out there?

00:10:02.060 Absolutely.

00:10:02.660 Well, John Henry, as Cardinal Nichols, England's Cardinal Nichols,

00:10:08.200 has stated through a letter written by two of his bishops to the British government,

00:10:14.300 that is Catholic teaching.

00:10:16.100 And the Catholic Church in England and Wales objects to the fact that hydration and nutrition

00:10:21.840 are called or referred to as medical treatments in the United Kingdom.

00:10:25.560 In countries like Poland, the homeland of RS, nutrition and hydration are considered basic care,

00:10:33.780 not some kind of officious medical treatment,

00:10:37.380 not an extreme measure used to keep a very disabled person alive.

00:10:42.760 However, in Britain, water and nutrition through tubes is considered medical treatment.

00:10:49.200 And therefore, if a doctor feels that it is no longer in the patient's, quote unquote,

00:10:53.840 best interest to have water and nutrition given to him or her, they can be removed.

00:11:01.960 Absolutely.

00:11:02.720 So this is an international incident because what's going on is this is a Polish man 1.00

00:11:07.940 whose government is opposed to this, whose church is opposed to this,

00:11:13.260 because they regard it, and rightfully so, as starving a person to death intentionally.

00:11:18.980 And that's what's going on.

00:11:20.380 So tell us a little bit about the Polish government's intervention into this case.

00:11:26.300 So the reaction in Poland has been one of shock, anger and distress.

00:11:33.200 And I'm great surprised that Britain is doing this.

00:11:38.380 Poles, many Poles think this is an absolute barbaric practice to starve and dehydrate a patient

00:11:44.120 until they are dead, effectively bringing their life to an end, not by their original injuries,

00:11:49.420 but by literally by starving and dehydrating them.

00:11:54.880 So basically, the Polish church, Polish cultural figures, Polish diplomats have all been working,

00:12:05.860 or at least they've been protesting, they've been writing to the British government,

00:12:10.140 the Polish secretary of state, called in the British ambassador for a little conversation

00:12:15.380 that he later described as painful.

00:12:17.080 Well, the most recent suggestion has been that the foreign minister, Poland's foreign minister,

00:12:27.200 has suggested that RS might be given diplomatic status,

00:12:32.320 and being given diplomatic status might somehow be a way out of his predicament.

00:12:36.560 Right. Because, I mean, they're essentially asking for the poor fellow to be brought back to Poland 1.00

00:12:41.720 so he can receive care. But it's incredible to me, as it was with the Alfie Evans case,

00:12:46.700 where he had the ability to go, remember the Italian government was going to fly him to Italy

00:12:50.800 and take care of him there. Here you have Poland ready to work for their own citizen 0.96

00:12:55.380 and bring him back. But the British government is refusing to allow this poor man to be transferred

00:13:02.880 into Polish care. An absolutely unbelievable situation, especially for the fact that there 1.00

00:13:10.000 have been cases where there was brain injured patients in a coma, sometimes in a coma for a couple

00:13:14.680 years, where they came out and lived again. So, lived again in a functional kind of way,

00:13:21.360 out of the hospital type of thing. So, this is really an unbelievable case, and it's increasing,

00:13:28.200 but we've seen it again and again and again from Britain, denying this, even the person to be

00:13:35.920 transferred somewhere else. What do you think is really behind that?

00:13:40.120 Well, one thing that particularly shocks me about this case, John Henry, is that the gentleman has

00:13:45.740 only been in hospital for less than three months. He has not been, so he hasn't been there very long,

00:13:52.200 in terms of somebody who has a disorder of consciousness. So, I'm used to cases in which

00:14:02.100 somebody has been in hospital and people have been praying for the recovery for months, years even.

00:14:08.800 But in this case, we are talking fewer than three months. For some reason, the doctors and the court

00:14:16.920 system seem determined that to die is in this patient's best interest. But the very strange thing there is,

00:14:31.720 one of the reasons they gave for him not being allowed to go to Poland was because he might die in transit.

00:14:37.400 So, that seems kind of contradictory to me, that they want him to die, they want him to die as soon as possible,

00:14:45.020 but they definitely want him to die, not on God's terms, or not even die on his way back to his homeland,

00:14:51.860 but to die in hospital of starvation and dehydration.

00:14:58.900 Simply unbelievable. This case has already gone through three court hearings, and the family that's

00:15:05.380 trying to save him has already put out $70,000. There is a funder campaign going on from a crowdfunding

00:15:12.140 campaign at lifefunder.com. Encourage people to go there. They've already raised, I think it's 14,000

00:15:19.080 pounds of the 70,000 that have already been put out. If you're watching this show and able to support the

00:15:25.920 family in this crisis case, please do so at lifefunder.com. Dorothy, any parting words for us?

00:15:33.060 I would ask everybody to pray very hard for R.S. and for his family, and also for his wife and his

00:15:43.720 children. This is a very sad case that has deepened the fissures between the family members, and

00:15:52.360 they need not just our financial support, but our prayers.

00:15:56.340 Amen. Amen. I want to thank you, Dorothy, for being on the ground there and your ability to

00:16:02.880 cover these very difficult cases, and really, hopefully, bring not only the light of truth

00:16:08.440 on the case, but also the wisdom and understanding that comes from the Church and brings truth to

00:16:14.680 these things. God bless you for that, and thank you for joining us on the show.

00:16:18.780 Thank you, John Henry.

00:16:19.460 Let us indeed pray for this Polish Catholic who is literally being starved to death as 1.00

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The John-Henry Westen Show - January 22, 2021

Alfie Evans all over again as UK hospital starves Polish Catholic man

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