An 11yo bumped his head (Jan 2008, read full story). A dad, trained in combat paramedics, determined his son did not need to go to ER. A neighbor decided otherwise, and called paramedics, who showed up and were miffed when dad wouldn’t let them take the boy (who had no broken bones, no dilated eyes, no confusion) to the hospital. The paramedics then called the police and the the sheriff’s office, and when neither responded, social services, who showed up unannounced and then got a judge to order a dozen SWAT team members to ramrod the boy’s front door open, point a gun in his 20yo sister’s face, throw his parents and other siblings to the ground and handcuff them, before escorting the uninjured boy to the hospital 24 hours after his fall.
Is it any wonder that we need a revolution?
