Alfie Evans all over again as UK hospital starves Polish Catholic man
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A pro-life man is being intentionally starved and dehydrated to death in a hospital in England, despite the pleas of his mother and siblings, not to mention the intervention of the Polish government and Catholic leaders in England. We have our reporter with us from the ground in the UK to discuss the latest developments. Meanwhile, Life Site 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, has been arrested. And finally, the so-called Conservative Party of Canada apparently wants in on the cancel culture.
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A pro-life Catholic man is being intentionally starved and dehydrated to death in a hospital in England,
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despite the pleading of his mother and siblings, not to mention the intervention of the Polish government and Catholic leaders in England.
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We have our reporter with us from the ground in the UK to discuss the latest developments.
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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.
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And finally, the so-called Conservative Party of Canada apparently wants in on the cancel culture.
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This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.
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Let's begin, as we always do, with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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LifeSite News has been banned for two weeks from YouTube on our main channel
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after the site determined that one of our videos about vaccines violated their community guidelines.
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It was over my show with Dr. Pamela Acker, a microbiologist and vaccine researcher,
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discussing the fact that in the development of the fetal cell lines used to develop most vaccines,
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that aborted babies were used, and in order to use those aborted babies,
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they had to be still alive during the tissue extraction.
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There were over 150,000 views on that video before it was removed by YouTube,
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but you can still catch it on the LifeSite News Rumble channel, which I encourage you to check out.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris began their first day in office today with a prayer service,
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a so-called prayer service from the White House.
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And in fitting fashion, it was an interfaith, intersexed prayer service with plenty of rainbow
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stoles and flags, and also included a high-ranking Catholic sister.
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Give us grace to do your will in all that we undertake.
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Oh my, maybe I should have done a parental advisory warning before we aired that scary clip.
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But the Catholic nun there was none other than Sister Norma Pimentel, the CEO of Catholic Charities,
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the same organization that LifeSite's been reporting as scandalously promoting contraception, abortion, homosexuality, even Marxism.
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LifeSite's Raymond Wolfe reports that medical doctor and lawyer Simone Gold, the founder of the advocacy group America's Frontline Doctors,
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was arrested on Sunday for having entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
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The Department of Justice says that she was released on conditions and has a virtual hearing scheduled for Thursday.
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America's Frontline Doctors is a group of medical professionals who work to promote early COVID-19 therapies such as HCQ and ivermectin
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and to expose the influence of pharmaceutical companies on treatment protocols for the Wuhan virus now called COVID-19.
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Federal agents arrested Gold in California days after she publicly admitted that she had followed other protesters into the Capitol building two weeks ago.
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Now, one of the things she said was most interesting, she says, and I quote,
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I can certainly speak to the place that I was, and it was most emphatically not a riot.
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Those were comments from Gold to the Washington Post in an interview from January 12th.
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Moreover, she said, where I was, was incredibly peaceful.
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She added that the protesters were legally entering the Capitol building, in her mind,
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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.
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Also, LifeSite's Victoria Gizondi reports that the Washington Post columnist Max Boot,
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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.
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Just as we do with foreign terrorist groups, he wrote, and continued,
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So with domestic terrorists, we need to shut down the influencers who radicalize people
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and set them on the path toward violence and sedition.
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LifeSite reporter Patrick Delaney has covered a stir at the distinguished Harvard University,
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where a petition by some students and grads is being circulated demanding the university
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actually rescind the degrees of former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany,
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also U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, and U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw,
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and several others due to spreading what they call disinformation mistrust
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and the mistrust they created that caused the insurrection on January 6th.
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And just to show you how incredibly leftist Canada is,
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It is the Conservative Party, not the Liberal Party,
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the Conservative Party of Canada who have booted a pro-life Member of Parliament
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with the same vapid excuse the Democrats are using to try to have their political opponents silenced.
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Conservative leader Aaron O'Toole called on the party to vote out,
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in secret ballot, mind you, to vote out Derek Sloan, an MP,
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For, he said, accepting a $131 donation from what he called a well-known white supremacist
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So they're asking for Derek Sloan to be removed for accepting this $131 donation.
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Now, this is really weird because Frum actually used an alias when he donated,
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But that didn't stop a majority of Aaron O'Toole's so-called Conservative Party
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Well, because Derek Sloan is one of the most outspoken pro-life and pro-family MPs in the country.
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but our extremist left-wing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau congratulated the Conservative leader O'Toole
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Now, if that doesn't tell Aaron O'Toole he's in the wrong, nothing will.
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And finally, let's bring on the LifeSite UK correspondent,
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who's been covering the tragic case of the pro-life Catholic man
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who's being intentionally starved and dehydrated to death in a hospital in England,
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despite the pleading of his mother, siblings, not to mention the intervention of the Polish government
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Dorothy McLean, our reporter from Scotland, who has been covering this case closely.
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So at the outset of the show, I set this up a little bit,
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Well, it's a very sad story, but it begins with RS, a Polish Catholic family man,
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working a night shift in England, who suddenly had a heart attack at home
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And sometime in the end of November, the doctors decided that because he was brain disabled,
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he hadn't gained consciousness, as they understand it.
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And so it would be better if they went to a court to ask permission for his life support to be removed.
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However, it was that this decision was opposed by RS.
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We have to call him RS, unfortunately, because there's a court order blocking publication of his name.
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But RS, his family, his mother, his sisters, his niece, all opposed the removal of his life support treatment
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because on grounds that he is, in fact, a pro-life church-attending Catholic
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who is greatly opposed to abortion of any kind or for any reason.
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And he even voiced his opinions against the Alfie Evans case.
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And he was upset by the judges that sent little Alfie to his death, basically.
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That's very interesting that he was opposed to the Alfie Evans case
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because that's a case where his parents wanted the child alive
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And this is similar in this case because you called it life support.
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But the life support that's being denied here is nutrition and hydration.
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The very things that the Catholic Church says are not to be considered extraordinary treatment,
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They are absolutely ordinary necessities for life, which cannot be denied.
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So we're talking about nutrition and hydration here.
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Well, John Henry, as Cardinal Nichols, England's Cardinal Nichols,
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has stated through a letter written by two of his bishops to the British government,
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And the Catholic Church in England and Wales objects to the fact that hydration and nutrition
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are called or referred to as medical treatments in the United Kingdom.
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In countries like Poland, the homeland of RS, nutrition and hydration are considered basic care,
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not an extreme measure used to keep a very disabled person alive.
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However, in Britain, water and nutrition through tubes is considered medical treatment.
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And therefore, if a doctor feels that it is no longer in the patient's, quote unquote,
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best interest to have water and nutrition given to him or her, they can be removed.
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So this is an international incident because what's going on is this is a Polish man
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whose government is opposed to this, whose church is opposed to this,
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because they regard it, and rightfully so, as starving a person to death intentionally.
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So tell us a little bit about the Polish government's intervention into this case.
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So the reaction in Poland has been one of shock, anger and distress.
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And I'm great surprised that Britain is doing this.
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Poles, many Poles think this is an absolute barbaric practice to starve and dehydrate a patient
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until they are dead, effectively bringing their life to an end, not by their original injuries,
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but by literally by starving and dehydrating them.
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So basically, the Polish church, Polish cultural figures, Polish diplomats have all been working,
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or at least they've been protesting, they've been writing to the British government,
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the Polish secretary of state, called in the British ambassador for a little conversation
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Well, the most recent suggestion has been that the foreign minister, Poland's foreign minister,
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has suggested that RS might be given diplomatic status,
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and being given diplomatic status might somehow be a way out of his predicament.
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Right. Because, I mean, they're essentially asking for the poor fellow to be brought back to Poland
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so he can receive care. But it's incredible to me, as it was with the Alfie Evans case,
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where he had the ability to go, remember the Italian government was going to fly him to Italy
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and take care of him there. Here you have Poland ready to work for their own citizen
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and bring him back. But the British government is refusing to allow this poor man to be transferred
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into Polish care. An absolutely unbelievable situation, especially for the fact that there
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have been cases where there was brain injured patients in a coma, sometimes in a coma for a couple
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years, where they came out and lived again. So, lived again in a functional kind of way,
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out of the hospital type of thing. So, this is really an unbelievable case, and it's increasing,
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but we've seen it again and again and again from Britain, denying this, even the person to be
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transferred somewhere else. What do you think is really behind that?
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Well, one thing that particularly shocks me about this case, John Henry, is that the gentleman has
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only been in hospital for less than three months. He has not been, so he hasn't been there very long,
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in terms of somebody who has a disorder of consciousness. So, I'm used to cases in which
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somebody has been in hospital and people have been praying for the recovery for months, years even.
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But in this case, we are talking fewer than three months. For some reason, the doctors and the court
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system seem determined that to die is in this patient's best interest. But the very strange thing there is,
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one of the reasons they gave for him not being allowed to go to Poland was because he might die in transit.
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So, that seems kind of contradictory to me, that they want him to die, they want him to die as soon as possible,
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but they definitely want him to die, not on God's terms, or not even die on his way back to his homeland,
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but to die in hospital of starvation and dehydration.
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Simply unbelievable. This case has already gone through three court hearings, and the family that's
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trying to save him has already put out $70,000. There is a funder campaign going on from a crowdfunding
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campaign at lifefunder.com. Encourage people to go there. They've already raised, I think it's 14,000
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pounds of the 70,000 that have already been put out. If you're watching this show and able to support the
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family in this crisis case, please do so at lifefunder.com. Dorothy, any parting words for us?
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I would ask everybody to pray very hard for R.S. and for his family, and also for his wife and his
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children. This is a very sad case that has deepened the fissures between the family members, and
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they need not just our financial support, but our prayers.
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Amen. Amen. I want to thank you, Dorothy, for being on the ground there and your ability to
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cover these very difficult cases, and really, hopefully, bring not only the light of truth
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on the case, but also the wisdom and understanding that comes from the Church and brings truth to
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these things. God bless you for that, and thank you for joining us on the show.
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Let us indeed pray for this Polish Catholic who is literally being starved to death as
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we speak. Let's pray for the conversion of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and let's pray for the
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