Comment by pjc50
4 months ago
> American courts probably won't take your infant away from you and force a medical procedure on it like in Kiwistan just because you wanted to use your own blood donors for the operation.
Whenever someone writes "just" in a case like this I can tell there's a complicated, ugly legal case that's being grossly misrepresented, and quite possibly one where no responsible journalist is reporting because of child privacy issues/laws.
The problem with both British and American surveillance state authoritarianism is it's hugely popular with the public when used against the ""wrong"" people. You might have "free speech" (subject to qualifications such as Comstock and their modern day equivalents) but you're much, much less likely to be shot and killed by the police - or a random stranger - in the UK.
> Whenever someone writes "just" in a case like this I can tell there's a complicated, ugly legal case that's being grossly misrepresented, and quite possibly one where no responsible journalist is reporting because of child privacy issues/laws.
No. No. No. It's really not. The parents were fully willing to give the infant surgery. They wanted their own blood donors. You can watch the video of the police taking the baby from the parents. It's horrific. It's authoritarian. There is zero justification at all. You didn't even look it up did you, because if you had bothered, you know what the "controversial" part is. You didn't mention it. I won't mention it here, because it's verboten on HN to criticism certain global events.