September "The Brits Are At It AGAIN!"

In 1729, Dr. Jonathan Swift wrote a short essay titled "A Modest Proposal", which offered a solution to the proliferation of Irish children which their parents could neither support nor succor.

In short, he proposed that Irish Children being born to indigent parents should be nursed by their mothers for one year, paying particular attention to feeding them generously during the final month (to 'fatten them up'), and then sold to the butcher.

In short, the solution to the Irish population explosion was for the British to eat their (the Irish) babies.

Moving forward in time to September of 2007, the British Government has embraced the concept but with a modern twist: because the market for adoption of Caucasian children is so active, Tony Blair offered financial incentives for social workers to increase the number of British babies available for adoption.


As a small ... even insignificant ... consequence, the children of British mothers may arbitrarily be taken by the State for adoption.

The process includes a 'secret' court hearing (which may occur during the pregnancy) to establish the need to rip the children away from their natural parent(s) at birth. Following that hearing, if the mother discloses that the State assumption of Parental Authority is the result of the hearing, the parent is subject to a legal ruling of Contempt of Court.

That ought to shut the whiners up!

In the specific case (August 28, 2007), 5-month pregnant Fran Lyon has been deemed likely to indulge in the rare psychological condition of Manchausen's Syndrome by proxy, by a pediatrician whom she has never met.

She has no recourse to this ruling, even though no evidence of this Syndrome has been established (she has no older children, let alone children who have been adversely affected by her supposed affliction), and if she resists the will of The State she is subject, as mentioned before, to legal reprisal. Arbitrary, true; but still well within the bounds of reasonable jurisprudence as defined by ... The State.


The Telegraph (a dubious reference if ever there was one) describes the circumstances which established the drive to provide more adoptable babies. Thank you, Tony Blair.

In case you think I am alone in questioning the right of The State to take children from their natural mothers, I draw your attention to the estimable commentary presented here by the blogger known as "Small Dead Animals" (a useful coincidence, I think).

I encourage you to go to the original article and read the comments. You may discover that I am not the only reader who considers this a Draconian solution to an undefined problem.

(H/T: "The Castle of ARGGHHHH!")