Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
So, you find it reasonable and justified that government prevented others form travel outside the UK and see nothing arbitrary in that decision?

Is it typical that you submit your holiday plans to a government body before travel?

It is despotic to dictate to others what they may or maynot do. Why should NHS care once they have made their pronouncement. It was cruel to deny sustenance to the child in order to assure his death. This is merely another example of “child rights” being used to control people. It is arbitrary to even think that such a decision is what is best for the child.

What you cite is governments justification in its arbitrary decision. It was only one governmental body upholding the wishes of another governmental body against the wishes of the parents.

Explain how liberty was upheld. Explain how this is not degrading treatment. Explain how there was fair trial of the facts, because it was only government judges upholding the wishes of NHS, in the absence of a jury only government adjudicates the facts.

The intervention by the NHS and the court served no one in the end. No one was going to be harmed by the child leaving the country. It turned into nothing more than government imposing its will on grieving and desperate parents and it does not present the nation in a good light.
Why did they wait 18 months before going? Why did Italy await an equally long time? You honestly think that transporting them by ambulance to a plane, then airlifting them to another country would at that point be helpful? Right at the start that would be OK, but by the end? This was nothing but a PR game.

As has been mentioned, the only "liberty" that they would have got in the USA is the "right" to die from lack of money.

The UK continues to have the freedom to pack one's bags and leave to wherever else in the world one wishes to live. They could have done this at the start and can do it now. They will not be missed.