As reported by ZeroHedge (the infamous nom de plume, Tyler Durden, fronting for real author Steve Watson), the Dutch activist which tagged the well-known statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in London, has been found “not guilty” by an English jury.
Although the argument made in the activist’s defense was that the spray paint used to vandalize the statue with pro-Palestinian slogans could be removed with water and therefore was not really vandalism, the Crown still reported the cleaning cost more than seven thousand pounds.
Clearly, your average British perpetrator of vandalism – even “short-term” and “easily cleaned” graffiti, could expect to be found guilty and required to pay the costs plus some sort of penalty for defacing a public monument. As some pointed out, they suspect a different verdict may have been made if it had been a statue of Gandhi or Mandela that had been so treated. And as several of us pointed out, the government agency probably was incredibly inefficient and wasteful of its money.
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Mercy, mercy – Canadian-style?
Fox News, CNN, and others have reported about a “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAID) case in Ontario, brought by Brigitte Kranendonk, a young woman who cared for her grandmother Brigitte Stegemann, in a nursing home until Mrs. Stegemann was killed by lethal injection on July 10th, despite previously refusing MAID. And despite Ms. Kranendonk holding her grandmother’s general power of attorney and concurring with her grandmother (“Oma”) refusing the euthanasia.
She repeated stated, “I don’t want the death shot,” and pulled out IVs multiple times fearing that the reason the IV was being installed was to administer the lethal injection. On the day of her death, the attending doctor ordered a nurse to inject Oma, despite not receiving an answer from the 83-year-old when he asked if it was “okay to proceed.” The granddaughter reports (confirmed by others) that English was not Oma’s first language, that she was very hard of hearing, and was in essence railroaded or ignored before being killed.
There is some evidence that the nursing home was complicit, “needing the bed” for a large backlog of patient requests. There are many other questions being asked and (for now) being unanswered or giving answers that show the seriousness of the situation.
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