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In reply to the discussion: We failed her. Big time. Boston Children’s was experimenting on Justina Pelletier, [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Yes, but it's coyly suggested the girl and her family may be faking the harm done. Any claim from the family is met with skepticism and dismissal. All done to protect Authority. All done to spite the anti-government RW (By the way -- some RWers make great statist, corporatist authoritarians. Nothing but good times there, I'm sure.).
Is the Massachusetts Dept of Children and Families screwing-up by the numbers? It must be because they're underfunded -- because of the RWers -- in Massachusetts -- so the Pellitiers are just cranks.
While this breathless, pull-out-all-the-stops defense of the government system is being affected the defenders forgot one crucial part of that system: It is the citizen, not the state, that is afforded every reasonable doubt with the presumption of innocence. What we see here absolutely stands that ideal on its head.