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Title: Trust me, this is good news [Gross Government Idiocy]
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URL Source: http://www.sovereignman.com/expat/trust-me-this-is-good-news/
Published: Mar 20, 2012
Author: Simon Black
Post Date: 2012-03-20 14:36:15 by Capitalist Eric
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Comments: 8
Here’s the scene. It was an overcast day in southern England last March. That is to say, a normal day in southern England. Attempting to retrieve something that had blown into the water, 41-year old Simon Burgess slipped and fell into a 3 1/2 foot-deep pond. He then suffered a seizure. His body, lying motionless and face down in the water, was spotted at 12:15pm by a witness who immediately called 999 emergency services (like 911). Within five minutes, emergency crews began arriving. Then more. Then more. 36-minutes after the initial phone call, no fewer than 25 emergency workers were at the scene. They brought out a state of the art emergency medical tent, resuscitation equipment, several fire engines, ambulances, and specialty dive gear. For more than thirty minutes, emergency crews set up a complex operations center. Fire fighters positioned their trucks. Police officers cordoned off the area for crowd control. Water Support Unit officers donned protective gear and checked the pond for underwater hazards. Yet with all of this commotion, nobody bothered to fetch Mr. Burgess. For 36-minutes, he floated in the center of the pond, face down, while dozens of first responders scurried about with their ‘make work’ projects. Why? Because they hadn’t been ‘trained and certified’ by their various government agencies to enter water that was more than ankle deep. According to the UK’s Daily Mail, “When a policeman decided to go in anyway, he was ordered not to. A paramedic was also told not to enter the water because he didn’t have the right ‚”protective” clothing and might be in breach of the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992.” And so, the emergency crews stood by waiting until a specialty team arrived, donned protective gear, and waded into the waist-deep water (at maximum depth) to retrieve Mr. Burgess. Needless to say, doctors formally pronounced him dead by the time his body arrived to the hospital, roughly 90-minutes after he fell in the lake. Following public outcry over how Britain’s impotent bureaucracy could manage to cost a man his life, the government held a formal investigation into the matter a few weeks ago. As expected, public service workers and politicians closed ranks, defending their decisions on the ground and claiming that they were only ‘doing their jobs’ and following the rules. It’s certainly not the first time this has happened. Last year, a 14-year old girl in London collapsed while in the middle of a cross-country competition. It took emergency workers 30-minutes to arrive, at which point they refused to carry her body through the muddy park to the ambulance as it was against health and safety regulations. Then there was the case of 44-year old Alison Hume in Scotland; she had fallen into a mine shaft and was trapped there for six hours suffering from hypothermia because emergency service supervisors claimed that using their winch to retrieve her would be a violation of regulations. Or the case of 10-year old Jordon Lyon of northern England, who was drowning in a local pond when two police officers arrived to the scene… and did absolutely nothing because they weren’t properly trained. Apparently you have to be trained by the government in order to jump in the water and save a drowning child. The public outcry in each of these (and similar) incidents more often than not results in a call for more regulation. This is such a typical government reaction– the solution to a problem created by too much regulation is more regulation. It’s the only thing these people know how to do. These examples focus on the United Kingdom… but the issue exists around the world. Common sense and human decency are becoming increasingly sidelined to what the regulation says. Any good people in the rank and file are being crushed by an amoral bureaucracy. In the United States, the government has gone so far as to state that it has no obligation to provide police protection or emergency services; courts have routinely upheld that “a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen…” (Warren v. District of Columbia) It’s all a stark reminder that government is a disease masquerading as its own cure… and that, ultimately, we only have ourselves to rely on. Trust me, this is good news. The sooner people wake up to how horrifically incompetent and amoral their governments are, the better off we’ll all be.
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#1. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
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That is the most concise, accurate, on point description of government that I have ever seen. What a horrifying story. The really horrifying thing about it is this -- how did the human race propagate people without any common sense? The answer: The welfare state protected their parents and grandparents from the law of natural selection. Now we are stuck with them, in positions of absolute authority over us. Horrifying.
Did anyone witness Simon falling into the water? If not, then how is it known that he was attempting to retrieve something? If so, than why didn't the person or persons seeing him fall into the water try and help him? It seems when he was "spotted", he was face down and motionless in the water, how long did the caller think a person could live under those circumstances? Most likely the guy was dead before the call was made.
Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
What is horrifying is that you, like a good little sheep, buy the story as told in this account without question. The fire appliances arrived at 12.20pm and by 12.22pm Watch Manager Tony Nicholls had arrived and talked to members of the public about the situation. The inquest heard that, at first, Mr Nicholls could not see Mr Burgess whose body had floated up to 25 metres away. When he had sighted it, he took the decision, which was agreed by his crew, that Mr Burgess had died. Adhering to force policy not to enter water more than ''half a boot'' deep unless in a life-critical situation, he ordered his crew not to retrieve the body and to wait for the water rescue team, based at Fareham, which arrived at 12.31pm. snip Pathologist Brett Lockyer told the hearing that a person cannot normally survive after being immersed unconscious after between five and seven minutes but added that under certain circumstances, including in icy conditions, this could be between 20 minutes and an hour. Mr Horsley said that he could not be certain that the delay in the recovery of the body had contributed to his death. He said: ''In this case the delay in arrival of the specialist team has not been a significant factor in this tragic death.'' Anyone claiming to be an expert is selling something. I brandish my ignorance like a crucifix at vampires. Aaron Bady
I'd like to know how they knew he had a seizure, since his body was motionless when it was initially spotted, at least according to the article.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
An autopsy would have found that..... before they turned him into Soylent Green :^)
"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."
The Queen is serving them as tea biscuits the next time the Obama family visits. Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
There are way too many stupid people for that to happen, some inhabit this place... 5 bucks says they were all union menbers!!!
"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."
My guess is that the Wookie will never taste the difference!!! LOL.... By the way what do wookies normally eat???
"If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you're not a racist, you'll need to vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot."
It’s all a stark reminder that government is a disease masquerading as its own cure
Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
#2. To: jwpegler (#1)
Attempting to retrieve something that had blown into the water, 41-year old Simon Burgess slipped and fell into a 3 1/2 foot-deep pond. He then suffered a seizure. His body, lying motionless and face down in the water, was spotted at 12:15pm by a witness who immediately called 999 emergency services (like 911).
#3. To: jwpegler (#1)
Horrifying.
#4. To: lucysmom (#2)
Attempting to retrieve something that had blown into the water, 41-year old Simon Burgess slipped and fell into a 3 1/2 foot-deep pond. He then suffered a seizure. His body, lying motionless and face down in the water, was spotted at 12:15pm by a witness who immediately called 999 emergency services (like 911).
#5. To: mininggold (#4)
I'd like to know how they knew he had a seizure, since his body was motionless when it was initially spotted, at least according to the article.
#6. To: CZ82 (#5)
they turned him into Soylent Green
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#7. To: Capitalist Eric (#0)
The sooner people wake up to how horrifically incompetent and amoral their governments are, the better off we’ll all be.
#8. To: hondo68 (#6)
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The Queen is serving them as tea biscuits the next time the Obama family visits.
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