The Disturbing Case Of Ashya King
By TLB Contributor: Anna Rodgers
For the past week the media has been blasting out stories about Cancer patient Ashya King who was taken by the parents from the Southampton Hospital last Thursday. Their crime? This was done without the ‘Doctors permission’. The hospital immediately contacted the police and a EU wide hunt for the family began after they went into hiding. The hospital was reporting that 5 year old Ashya, (who has a Meduloblastoma tumour – although this was ‘successfully’ recently operated on) that his life was ‘immediately’ in danger, that the battery operated feeding machine would ‘soon run out’ and that his life would be cut short if he did not return to hospital:
As seen online at BBC News
”According to Ian Pople, a consultant neurosurgeon, the battery in the feeding machine used by Ashya can’t be changed easily.
It is integrated within the machine, much like an iPhone, and it means the machine has to be taken apart to replace the battery.
It’s also not designed to be run on batteries for a long period and is usually plugged into the mains.
In other words, it’s only battery-reliant for short periods, such as going to the toilet, or moving between wards.”
Reading these reports in the papers would make almost any reader think that they needed to bring him back immediately but many people knew there was more to this story that we weren’t being told. Pictures of the parents were quickly appearing on all TV news stations and in the papers which were edited to look like what I think is to appear like ‘mug shots’ to have the public already think these parents are criminals and being irresponsible and therefore to please help in the manhunt to find them.
The family were rumored to have escaped to France and the search was ramped up into an EU wide alert. 1 day ago, the father, Brett, posted a youtube video describing why they left the hospital and how Ashya’s health currently was. He also showed that the feeding machine was still connected to Ashya and working well. The boy certainly looked better in this video than photos have shown of him when he was in hospital. So it seems as if the Doctors wanted the public to think that these parents were going to harm Ashya’s life.
After watching this video for a few short minutes, its clear to see this father is no fool, nor is he an irresponsible parent. In fact, he has only been concerned about the Southampton Hospitals treatment for their son, and that is, him and his wife, were concerned with the sort of radiotherapy that would be used on Ashya. They were concerned it wasn’t the best type of treatment for his particular cancer.
Brett, is very right to be concerned that the standard UK radiation therapy may do more harm than good to Ashya. Instead of targeting the actual tumour (or where it was in the brain before surgery) the radiation these oncologists want to use, would blast his entire head, essentially destroying healthy brain tissue and cells – which can often lead to permanent disability such as deafness & lack of cognitive skills – if the boy even survived the entire treatment.
In a case that echoes Sally Roberts regarding her son Neon, who also went into hiding, the police found and removed her son – against the mothers wishes. In Neon’s case, he only had one parent concerned about the standard cancer treatment, Sally, as Neon’s father Ben was on the doctors side and helped police intervene and find where Sally was hiding. She too had her face (and Neons) blasted all over the papers and Sally was branded by many as an ‘selfish irresponsible parent’. I ended up getting in touch with Sally myself and I can tell you right now, she is FAR from a selfish irresponsible parent, in fact, I haven’t really met anyone more devoted to the health of their child than Sally had for Neon. Sally wanted her ex husband Ben to make sure Neon ate really good healthy organic food, drank green juices, and took many proven natural remedies to help boost Neons immune system cope with the assault from the toxic chemo and radiation, yet she was painted out to be a ‘health nut’ which is very typical of the medical system. They don’t want people thinking that food cures illness.
Sally was a target for abuse because she was going against the system – questioning the safety and efficiency of standardised cancer care, and this meant that she was threatening the entire cancer industry which is worth 500 billion in the USA alone. Sally sadly lost her case in court, and was immediately issued a court order to not have care of Neon. This meant that he would be forced to go through his medical treatment and was not allowed to stay with his mother. As any parent knows, when your child is hurting you need to be with them and THEY want to be with you. To have removed Sally from his care, is criminal. What will this alone do to Neon emotionally when he is older, will the internal scars from not being with his mother cause him untold harm too?
Neon and Sally in the middle of his treatment
I ended up meeting Neon when he was in the middle of his treatment and I will tell you this – I will NEVER EVER forget seeing what he looked like. I was speechless. This poor child resembled a ghost, so pale and thin, and bent over from the damaging effects of the treatment. I also wont ever forget the haunted look I saw in his eyes – an innocent soul being destroyed by this treatment where he would often beg his mum ‘to please stop this mummy’
As read in NZ New Idea Sally explained:
As Neon dealt with debilitating side effects such as nausea and exhaustion, Sally tried to explain to him what was happening. ‘How strange for a child to have to understand that when you go in for treatment you feel all right, and then every time afterwards you get really ill. Every time we had to go to the hospital he would be in tears.’
Kids are very intuitive, and Neon knew that this treatment wasn’t good. Sally too, wanted whats best for her son, and that was another type of treatment which is exactly what the King family want for Ashya.
Brett wants Ashya to have the Proton Beam therapy treatment (that can cost between US 100,000 – 200,000 ) which is statistically proven to be FAR safer and much more effective than the regular radiation treatment. Brett brought this up with Ashya’s Doctors that they wanted to try this therapy and he was immediately shot down and threatened with ‘if you keep questioning us we will take your son away from your care’ . Now as a parent myself who only wants the best for my child, if I were faced with this situation, and was told that I couldn’t have the better therapy (even if I was prepared to get the funds together myself like Brett was trying to do) I would leave and escape with my child too. Cancer is a serious disease and its also a serious business. There is much at stake and the most important thing for the cancer industry is for people to never question what they are doing. In the 1920’s there was a new act put into law and that is the ‘Cancer Act of 1939′ which inhibits anyone from saying that there are other cures for cancer other than radiation, chemotherapy and surgery. Isn’t that a strange act to put into place. Surely there are other cures for cancer? Hell yes there are – but our medical system don’t want you to know about them and its been this way since the early 1920’s. If are you curious, have a read about the Top 7 Cancer treatments that have been buried by the Governments
Ashya has now been found, and in the care of a hospital somewhere in Europe, the parents have been arrested although no one knows what for although some reports are saying ‘child neglect and endagnerment.
Who knows what will now happen but I am thinking it will be more likely this: The parents will go to court with a legal battle ensuing. They will probably lose (as is always the case as far as I am aware) and Ashya will be forced to have this bog standard unsafe and ineffective treatment with the parents being removed from his care. This is what the Doctors want and when Doctors want something to be enforced – and they can do it. They are a law of their own. This sort of stuff’s been happening for years, Doctors can ‘section’ people if they want to for mental health reasons and put people in mental hospitals which can often be a lot like jail. You can’t get in if you aren’t allowed and you certainly can’t get out unless you are allowed.
A shocking case of what can happen to a family when the Doctors don’t want to listen to the parents wishes is of Justina Pelletier, a girl that was removed from her parents care for an entire YEAR. Justina’s parents had a previous diagnosis from other Doctors which they believed, but the Boston children’s hospital thought she had something very different and forced her to take medication that seemed to be really harming her (which you can see in her after photos)
Justina’s case is clearly barbaric and the parents were even threatened when they mentioned going to the press. They still went ahead in any case (thank goodness) but it was a very long fight to get Justina back into their care. I believe it only came about BECAUSE they went to the press. Parents have to fight, to spread awareness about what is going on. Most parents want whats best for their children, and in the days where we have so much information at our fingertips through the internet, this is wonderful for us parents but the medical community do not like it one bit. They warn people off of ‘google medicine’ yet most medical journals are now entirely online, for all to see. Parents are having access to scientific studies about new treatments that are far more effective. Bravo to the King family for not taking ‘Doctor’s orders’ without looking into other methods of treatments. This family deserves our support, you have to ask yourself, what if it were my child? What if I knew that the treatment they wanted to give my child was NOT the best and there were other proven treatments that were far safer and would mean my child had a far greater chance of survival.
Our world is fast turning into a police state and we must not let this happen. Once we give up our freedom, we have nothing left and before we know it, we will be forced to do everything the establishment says.
Update:
Just released at 10pm (UK) Sunday 2013 Ashyas brother films youtube video with evidence which may be used for them in court. The government/medical system have arrested his parents on ‘child cruelty’ this video going online before the trial proves that the family were very prepared in looking after him they had the same food and battery pack for Ashya’s feeding system. Naveed, Ashyas older brother also describes the father staying up late constantly researching on what was the best treatment for their son and mentions a brand new wheelchair the best on the market for Ashya
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A Diagnosis of Israel’s Psychology & Unconditional Support
By: TLB Staff
Published August 31, 2014, in COMMENTARY, MILITARY, WORLD
By TLB Contributor: Rabah JL
How?
In face of rabid Israeli support for the indiscriminate slaughter of thousands within a mere few weeks, the first question to cross any rational-thinking mind is “How?”.
How is it that a people who were persecuted in Europe for centuries are now inflicting the same measure of horror upon others?
How do you effectively brainwash so many human beings to become incapable of guilt nor humanity?
How is it possible to breed unthinking, uncritical, and unquestioning people whom seek to justify every single act their government pursues?
Worse yet, how do you enslave an entire population into regurgitating completely illogical and constantly conflicting “explanations”?
Israelis have seen the senseless massacre of 2,100 entrapped human beings during the past month (including 89 families completely wiped out), the abduction of more than 18,000 Palestinian children since 2008, and quite literally witness demolition of Arab homes across the West Bank and East Jerusalem on a daily basis. Yet “Operation Protective Edge” remains under popular support by the Israeli public. How?
As a humanitarian first and foremost, I believe in the inherent qualities we all possess as human beings: compassion, kindness, and empathy. Therefore, I can only see Israel’s public reaction (exceptions do of course exist) as a deeply festered psychological disease which either limits or isolates these qualities.
Taking into consideration the outrage which followed the recent death of a four year old Israeli child (caused by a car explosion after Hamas mortar fire), there is evidence of the aforementioned qualities. Thousands of Israelis showered their condolences and presented their grief.
While interviewing these same commentators of grief, I questioned their feelings for the 500+ children killed in Gaza, including a 6 month old baby boy and more than 2,000 wounded. I also asked their opinions on more than 270,000 children in Gaza currently suffering from all sorts of diseases of the body and mind including malnutrition, amputation, and trauma. Their immediate reaction was “Hamas did this”.
I narrowed my question down to the children which were deliberately shot with sniper rifles of IDF soldiers, tank fire at a ten meter range, starvation due to the Israeli blockade, Kenan and Saji El Hallaq (3 and 5 year old brothers), and the four young boys killed by an airstrike on the beach a month ago. The reaction was again “Hamas…”.
I urged these Israelis to at least sympathize with the children’s deaths and stop deflecting in favor of other connotations. The idea was that they could simply wish these children would rest in peace; any innocent dead child, Arab or Israeli, deserves the condolences and well wishes of the entire planet. The response, again, was “Hamas…”.
It seems that the value of life between an Arab child and an Israeli child is so far apart in these peoples’ minds that there is no reconciliation possible. By now I realized that that they were so desensitized towards the killing of Arabs that they would ignore a brutal murder by trying to find an excuse instead to somehow justify Israel’s involvement in it.
Two explanations come to mind.
1) Israel enforces conscription. This makes military service compulsory for all, with the exception of some minority groups. Hence, almost anyone over the age of 18 must spend two years (women) or three years (men) in the IDF. As of the year 2000, more than 3 million women and men are listed as active for military service.
This means that if you are over 21 and could serve, you either have or are imprisoned for refusing to. Considering the average age in Israel is 30, nearly every single person in Israel has been part of the IDF.
Given the barrage of military operations against Palestinians over the past 66 years, nearly every single person in Israel has also had some sort of military role during one or more operations. Thus, logic would suggest that every single person in Israel is somehow connected to the IDF- through family, friend, or neighbor.
Being a former, an active, or related to a member of such a large and overwhelming organization which practically covers the entire population would realize a stark separation of values to a person’s daily life.
A psychological condition by the name of dis-inhibition comes into effect.
Dis-inhibition releases normal behavioral restraints such as self-monitoring, self-awareness, and other long-term norms as well as qualities. Ignoring such norms allows human beings to act on their immediately relevant emotions (be it patriotism, hatred, malice, or revenge) and motivations (territory, security, or vindication) regardless of considerations such as humanity, empathy, or compassion- considerations that usually result as a form of self-awareness.
This condition occurs mainly due to the consistent subconscious reassurance and confidence that you are acting in a group of collectively shared emotions and motivations, therefore there is no risk of reprisal. Self-monitoring becomes unnecessary.
Dis-inhibition on such a large scale makes it easier for the Israeli public to justify the crimes of Israel as there is a constant feeling of support and loyalty accompanied when such vindication is assumed. The necessity to justify every action the IDF commit is simple mob mentality, where actions higher up the hierarchy easily influence those lower down.
Effectively, when such a control mechanism has been intact for more than sixty years, across three or four generations, every single person in Israel is somehow part of the IDF. Dis-inhibition becomes a national phenomenon, and self-awareness becomes subsidiary. The population is no longer monitoring their own actions, so it is impossible for them to monitor their government’s. Combine this with relentless propaganda, and you have a population being told how to think, and how to act.
2) Cognitive dissonance. By pure definition, this psychological condition relates to the reluctance in accepting new information when it contradicts information one presumes they already know.
Most of Israel’s public are completely unaware of their ancestry which escaped European persecution to live in peace with Arabs pre-1917, nor are they aware of the existence of Palestine under international law.
There are many instances of uncontroversial fact which is either consciously or imminently neglected by these people. However, when evidence of such fact is communicated to them, it is simply rejected.
No logical reason is given for this rejection, nor does it seem that one is perceptibly necessary from their vantage point. Fact becomes as relevant as fiction to those suffering cognitive dissonance if it does not fit the narrative they have already been ingrained with.
This works particularly well when “fear” is the “information”. Instilling the belief that every Arab (Hamas have been used as a scapegoat in this case) is out to kill Israelis, destroy their families, and wipe out their homeland for example.
Every supporter of Zionism holds this brainwashed notion as a firm belief and any evidence to the contrary is deflected without thought. This subconscious and undercurrent fear becomes relative to every action committed in their daily life.
Arabs become the epitome of evil, even though no aggression whatsoever need be personally experienced by the person holding this irrational “fear”; as a result, preemptive (verbal or physical) attacks are believed necessary under the pretext of security.
Extreme conditions of cognitive dissonance ultimately lead to distress due to the constant inconsistencies bred. This results in depression, other trauma, and could explain why an IDF soldier is five times more likely to die from suicide than on the battlefield.
In all honesty, I cannot help but feel sympathy for such people whom live day in and day out under the delusion of collective values, manipulated ignorance combined with an unwillingness to learn, and a deep bitterness birthing from baseless fears. There is nothing more to do than inform them of their conditions and hope for a swift recovery.