I say again: 'If you are not frightened you ought to be!' (From Croydon Guardian)

I say again: 'If you are not frightened you ought to be!'

3:20pm Saturday 21st June 2008

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The press again reports a story that should make every thinking adult's blood run cold and terrify every single child in the country.

A very young child has an accident in which his head strikes the ground.

The caring parents send for an ambulance.

The crew decide there is no need to take the child to hospital.

Later that night the child’s mother finds the child in bed clearly seriously ill.

Another ambulance is sent for. The child is taken to hospital. The medical staff’s efforts fail to save the child, who dies.

The report which I read said the parents have two other young children.

It did not say what the parents actions were when the child was taken into hospital.

It does not say who cared for the children if both accompanied the, by then, very ill child to hospital.

It does not say if one parent had to stay worrying at home while the other went to the hospital with the child.

It does not say if the other children were further traumatised by being taken into care.

After the young child’s tragic death the sinister servants of our “sick state” then immediately leap into action.

They exhibit a concern that would have been far better exhibited when the ambulance was first sent to see the child that died.

They accuse the parents of murdering their own child. The child’s grieving mother is taken into police custody, unbelievably “in hand-cuffs “.

The mother collapses and has to be taken into hospital, probably the one where her son has so recently died.

The wheels of our “sick state” roll slowly on. Eventually the parents are declared innocent and released from custody.

The Ambulance Authority belatedly announces an investigation.

The Police Force belatedly say the parents were arrested on suspicion of murder but any suspicion against them has been completely lifted.

The damage has been done.

Nothing that our “sick state’ can now do will right the wrong that has been done to this family.

Surely no civilised society should handle incidents such as this so brutally and so insensitively?

Be frightened, It could easily happen to your family!

As Pastor Niemöller might have written:-
When the "sick state" came for my first neighbour
I remained silent;
It was not for me.
When they locked up my second neighbour
I remained silent;
It was not me.
When they came for my third neighbour
I did not speak out;
It was not me.
When they came for the fourth neighbour
I remained silent;
It was not for me.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

The time for all good people to speak out is now, before it is too late.