Editor: The Assisted Dying Bill is a good example of a subject that indeed should be a national discussion within the Mainstream Media (MSM), but instead it has been a ‘One Way Street’ of how its inception is a positive humane qualification for how far society has advanced; great, we can all award ourselves a gold star and take the rest of the day off as a reward.
Sadly, this does not seem to be a two-way discussion with the Mainstream Media (MSM) spouting that there is a high percentage of people who agree with the Bill, I mean, where do they get these figures. Also, who were the members of the public (MOP) who took part in the ‘survey’ and what were their demographics.
Then there are the questions the MOP’s were asked and how were they worded, or should that be ‘loaded,’ so that the answer is a favourable one shaped by a cleverly worded question, who knows.
Look, all I’m saying is that from a survey involving all Red Brick staff employed within the United Kingdom (UK) we couldn’t find one person who took part in the survey.
One thing I want to make clear is that Red Brick is not denying a person their right to die, but we are concerned about whether the ‘Safeguarding Measures’ put in place will ‘measure up,’ so that no one commits suicide out of convenience to their family, the state or other institutions whose responsibility is to look after the individuals concerned.
Red Brick asked our often-guest writer, Political Historian and Student of Humanity, Professor Vic Swaddel, his views on the Assisted Dying bill and here is what he had to say,
“This is big, I mean this is really big and should be debated live on radio, television, social media and in open forums held by the politicians having to answer, ‘feet to the fire’ questions from a concerned public, after all, the politicians are the very people who will eventually vote on the acceptance of this Bill.”
“I doubt whether there will be any open forums for debate, however, if in the highly unlikely event someone did arrange one, then it might go like this.”
“Once upon a time in Dystopiama, there was a group of people who were all For the Assisted Dying Bill walking to a debate, which was being held in an open forum setting and, in this instance, it would be an everyday street the MOP’s would have access to.”
“Approaching the street from the opposite direction were those Against the Bill, a handful of critical thinkers who, either wholly or in part, were ready to present their arguments in opposition to the Assisted Dying Bill. They were well prepared, all ‘tooled up’ like the ‘5 Lamp Boys’ ready for a street rumble, only this time the tools they carried were their opinions and rebuttals.”
“However, just like a question can be loaded, so too can the dice and in this scenario loaded they were, that is, for those Against the Act.”
“Those Against would find their access to the street denied by a carefully and strategically placed object, a one that would have the full backing of the law and a system of government who want this Bill to pass, I am of course referring to a simple yet effective everyday ‘No Entry’ sign.”
“There will be no debate, there never was going to be one, well, not in a public setting for the entire world to watch and listen to, whilst being live streamed by the countless bloggers in attendance, so the law-abiding citizens who believed in the rule of law, were, in the end, thwarted by it.”
“You see, there will be no head-on collision of alternative views and no level playing field for those Against the Bill, no sparring, no weighing in with a few verbal’s or going ‘toe to toe’ to see if one can face the other
down, because those For the Bill operate on a more stealthy level than that and are expert in the ‘bob and weave’ tactics of politics.”
“There you have it in a nutshell, at least in story form and that is what it is, just a story and as stories have a beginning, they also have an end too, therefore….The End; I’m sorry about the ‘happy ever after bit, but it was a story and I just could not think of one, not yet anyway.”
Editor: Thank you to Professor Swaddel for his colourful use of metaphor in order to demonstrate his point.
Digressing slightly, a thought has just occurred to me that, it might be time for the Metropolitan Police to rethink their ‘Kettling Tactics’ whilst policing demonstrations, at least for those groups who are far more compliant than others.
For groups who are more confrontational the Met could deploy signs displaying the types of flags trending now in the MSM, or have the signs painted in fruity colours and under the words ‘No Entry or No Right or Left Turn,’ they include the word ‘Please,’ actually, make that ‘Pretty Please’ and it might just work; like hell it will.
The deployment of ‘stop signs’ or ‘no right or left turns’ might, and I’m saying this with a guarded might, work for certain groups of people
despite them living within what they see as a decaying society, no, make that a decaying world.
I do believe The Assisted Dying Act is a preordained one, a Fait Accompli, which because of its very nature and finality requires open and honest debate, and that is why it was time for Red Brick to enter the arena and discuss the Assisted Dying Bill.
Red Brick stands up for the critical thinkers, the underdogs whose only purpose is to ask questions, including the hypothetical ones, such as the ‘what if’ questions, should the Act in the future take a ‘sinister’ turn, for example, extending the qualifiers for Assisted Dying, examples of which will be included in a future article as part of this series.
Red Brick welcomes the Editor in Chief for the international magazine ‘Christians in Action’ (C.I.A.), Hesta Toples, a publication spreading the Good Word and the teachings of the Bible.
Hesta is a long-time good friend of the Red Brick International News Group. Hesta has published books of her own including:
• The Removal of Religious Studies from Mainstream Education is the Road to Perdition.
• Christians and Muslims and How the State Divides Us.
Her latest book, ‘In the Darkness A Light Still Flickers,’ is an account of how the World has changed during her lifetime. The book has already become an international best seller, and a second edition has already gone to print.
Red Brick is grateful to Hesta for presenting her foreword on the subject of the Assisted Dying Bill. Take it away Hesta.
Hello, I would like to begin by making it clear that Christians in Action bear no resemblance to, or association with the American Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A), an organisation expert in the subversion of political regimes in furtherance of its own interests.
You can bet your bottom dollar that wherever there is political turmoil, global conflict and international wars, somewhere in the shadows will be the CIA’s DNA splashed all over (allegedly). OK, back on message.
Our world is full of enlightened people, experts in the fields of technological innovation and medical science, who have without doubt increased the availability of treatments through medicines and devices available to help reduce and or manage the immense pain and suffering of individuals, all of which costs money.
Maintaining your own physical and mental health is challenging enough, having to deal with the ‘to’s and fro’s’ of day-to-day living, even for those
who manage to keep their head above water, however, what about those who are not managing due to a physical disability and or mental illness, then the necessary help and support should be made freely available to them, right?
Internet Search: Mahatma Gandhi is credited as once having said, “the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
Famous people have made similar quotes based upon how a society ‘should’ be judged etc, including one of the most notable and holiest of figures, St. John Paul, former head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005:
Note how St. John Paul includes ‘the unborn’ in his brief summation, the greatest of God’s creations who are, upon inception….
• Without voice.
• Having little right to life as deemed through the laws created by and acted upon by the state.
• Without representation when, in far too many instances, they are considered an inconvenience and unworthy of life.
It is these and other factors St. John Paul was alluding to.
The immense advances have also come with immense price tags and the immensity does not stop there, because there are the immense waiting lists for people seeking treatment, which will include those people deemed to be most at risk.
Assuming ‘at risk’ means of harm to themselves and or others should, understandably so, elevate them to an emergency treatment status, bunny hopping their way to the front of the treatment queue, leaving the rest having to wait in line for their treatment.
The unfairness of having to wait even longer for treatment should not involve the pointing of fingers, looking to lay blame at someone’s door for matters beyond their control, as if blaming someone will fix the system, which of course it won’t.
The increased demand for treatment is an unintended consequence born out of modern-day living, especially for those of us who have attained the age of fifty plus years.
You see, it is our generation who have been around long enough to draw the comparisons of what life was like for us growing up and entering adulthood, against what the children and young adults have on offer for them today.
When I look at society today and have to bear witness to what it has become, I have an overwhelming urge to turn away, but I cannot, because I want to live and that means seeing the dangers and living with the fear of them, despite the fact that for me the quality of everyday life and its opportunities have greatly diminished.
There are many people whose resilience has all but gone, unable to afford private health care and having to wait their turn for the free treatments provided by the National Health Service, yet they are finding it harder with each passing day to lift themselves out of the mire that is their life as they see it; keep this in mind as you read through this article.
Where does this leave the people who are equally vulnerable, lost in a system due to a misdiagnosis of their condition, because they were not vocal enough, unable to articulate their circumstances and or did not have the right support in their corner for whatever reason.
Also, it could be that they were assessed by someone who was not properly qualified, did not have the required experience or appropriate training; it might even have been all of the above.
Then there is the quality of care available to a person in the area they reside, the ‘luck of the draw’ you might say, or what the MSM often refers to as, the ‘Post Code Lottery.’
Whatever the reasons are, such as fate, budgets, lack of training, government failure, overworked medical staff / employees, far too many ‘souls’ become ‘invisible,’ not because they are invisible to those around them, no, not at all, they have become invisible within an overworked and overstretched system.
All that said, I want to make it clear that nothing in this article is intended to be a criticism of the NHS, far from it, in fact, it is a testament to the NHS system and its people, a service where demand is constantly challenging its ability to supply. Yet despite this, the NHS makes it to its feet every day and forges on regardless, keeping its doors open to the public 24/7.
The last paragraph you can see in the Daily Mail Online article image above, written by Glen Owen and Brendan Carlin and published on the 14th of September 2024, accurately sums up one of my concerns.
It is the vulnerability of these people and others I fear could be the subject of the long-term consequences of the Assisted Dying Bill, although not immediately, because those who do not think the Bill goes far enough are for now at least, keeping their true thoughts and considerations hidden behind their sealed lips.
When the time is ready, the lips of the politicians will slowly begin to unseal, making little noise other than their whispers which will, of course, slink sideways from their mouths and into the MSM, who will in turn drip feed this ‘leak of information’ into the public consciousness, which was of course provided to them by an unnamed ‘government source.’
This way the public will have already accepted, albeit subconsciously, any proposed amendments to the Bill without offering any resistance, ignoring any ambiguities in the wording or language used by the politicians and MSM, which might affect them or their families in the future.
This is just one example where change can be implemented by those who want it bad enough and if you do not believe this, fine, but what do you think the government think tanks full of spurts do. These people are experts in the field of mind games and manipulation, so I doubt whether they are paid by the government to bake cakes.
Make no bones about it, when these people and or their organisations want something, they have six ways until Sunday to get it, smoke and mirrors being one of them and all under the illusion that we live in a democracy (in my humble opinion).
Are you the reader new to all this political skullduggery and are unsure of what to believe, then well done, you are half-way there to being the critical thinker you always wanted to be and hopefully, if not already, you will have at least begun to understand why I fear for our most vulnerable citizens.
If the Assisted Dying Bill is introduced into law without strict controls and oversight, then we might in the not-too-distant future be seeing headlines such as these applying to the United Kingdom and not just to Canada.
Canada has its developmental lineage running parallel to our own and that is what worries me, because if the above has become legally acceptable in Canada, how long will it be before their thinking makes its way across the pond to Blighty.
Note for Normies new to Red Brick: No apologies for making you, the reader, sit up straight, but before you go glassy eyed and switch off, stay with me and allow the next image to work its way into your consciousness.
With the above in mind and NHS treatment lists getting longer and longer and the Private Medical Sector treatments becoming more unaffordable due to ‘supply and demand,’ where will the ‘invisible ones’ have left to turn to?
I believe the Assisted Dying Bill will become an Act and once the cordiality and niceties of such a Bill have been accepted, its progression will take Humanity to new lows hence the obvious question, what do those at the top of the food chain have lined up for us ‘bottom feeders?’
It’s not a case of whether this Bill will be enacted in to UK law, but more a case of when, and if the Assisted Dying Bill is allowed to advance unfettered, then in my opinion, it will only be a matter of time before the UK goes the same way as Canada and if that happens, then the outcome will be, a ‘murderous’ one.
For now, the arguments will be that the Bill is being introduced for ‘The Greater Good’ which, apparently, if we repeatedly shout that phrase loud
and long enough, it will make a believer of us all, well, perhaps not all, because there are many people out there still asking the questions about how far this Act, once introduced, will eventually go.
I believe the Bill will pass into law and….wait, what’s that I hear you ask, ’what about the ‘invisible ones, what will happen to them?’ Well, that’s a good question and well presented, but is the answer not a bit obvious, they will, of course, …. ‘disappear.’
God bless us each and every one, Hesta Toples Editor in Chief for the international magazine ‘Christians in Action.’