Charlie Gard's parents, stonewalled by their government and the Euro-socialist high command for five months, their child effectively kidnapped by the State, have finally been forced to accept that it is now too late to hope that their baby might be saved.  They have therefore withdrawn their application to take him to an American hospital for experimental treatment.  He will soon die. There are numerous important lessons to take from this case and never forget: (1) Socialized health care means state ownership of the individual, pure and simple. (2) Progressive paternalism is opposed on principle to parental authority – i.e., to private families as the indispensable building blocks of civil society. (3) Under socialism, even medicine – the ancient vocation dedicated to preserving and enhancing life at all cost – becomes enmeshed in the progressive death cult, according to which individual lives are mere variables in an abstract calculus based...(Read Full Article)