
In Stalin’s Russia, and for long after that murderous man’s death, the ‘mantra’ was simple. The State has nourished you; fed you and helped raise you; therefore your loyalty was to the State. If the State wanted steelworkers, you became a steelworker. If the State wanted an assassin, your reply was simple: ‘Who is my target, by when do you wish his death?’ The State reasoned that your body was theirs, to do with as they determined! There were no alternatives, the KGB saw to that. The Soviet State ruled by fear, and the fear was compounded by the knowledge of the Gulags, where ‘enemies of the State’ were sent to their deaths. The pinpricks offered by the ‘Samizdat’ were brushed aside as annoyances: the Soviet Empire lasted until it was torn asunder by the machinations of one man: President Ronald Reagan, the ‘man who won the war.”
So what, the reader might ask, has the might and deadly practices of the former Soviet Empire have to do with a car crash in Wales. Tim Grace, of Treboeth, Swansea, hit speeds of 130mph in a borrowed BMW X5. He, along with his passenger, drove recklessly after he consumed at least two bottles of wine, along with several cocktails. He passed another vehicle ‘as though the other car was parked’. The BMW swerved off the motorway at a speed estimated to be 95 m.p.h., and hit a tree. The woman died at the scene from massive spinal injuries: Mr. Grace lasted until the next day, when the machinery which was keeping his body alive was switched off. But the sentence, in that news report which betrays all that has been organised, in terms of State interference in our everyday lives was the almost unnoticed one, which said:-
The inquest, in Pontypridd, heard his heart, liver and both kidneys were used in transplant operations.
The Law in Wales was altered to allow the State, in the event of catastrophic injury to a Welsh person, to remove his or her organs without further reference to family, or personal wishes to the contrary, and to allocate them as the vultures of the Transplant authority see fit. This is because of the law alteration which ‘presumes consent’ for a dead person’s organs to be removed. I would place good cash upon the scalpels being selected and sharpened as the news came in of the crash, and presumably of the delight of the so-called ‘Harvest Teams’ as they heard that the young man had survived the crash, but had severe brain injuries. The death of the young woman passenger at the scene was probably considered unfortunate, as her organs would have not been of any use, as they would have commenced deterioration as her body still lay in the crumpled wreck of that borrowed BMW, driven by her companion who had neither a licence, nor insurance, but who was so welcomed at the hospital because his body was still functioning: brain dead but still of use, because his bodily organs could be ‘used to save and help others’!
Pc Carlo Vaquerizo said no other vehicle was involved when the dark grey BMW left the road in excess of 95mph. Ms Thomas, of Penlan, Swansea, died of multiple injuries at the scene from ‘particularly devastating’ spinal injuries – Mr Grace died of a traumatic brain injury in hospital the next day.
Ms Thomas had sons Harley, nine, and Jason, six. She was described by heartbroken friends as an ‘amazing girl’ and ‘fantastic mother’.
The inquest, in Pontypridd, heard his heart, liver and both kidneys were used in transplant operations.
Post mortem tests showed Mr Grace, of Treboeth, Swansea, was almost twice the drink drive limit at the time of the crash.
He had also taken prescription diazepam for depression. Mr Grace died of a traumatic brain injury in hospital the next day. Ms Thomas had sons Harley, nine, and Jason, six. She was described by heartbroken friends as an ‘amazing girl’ and ‘fantastic mother’.
The English NHS Organ Donor Registration scheme, along with the much-vaunted “Donor Cards’, seems to this observer at least: to be in need of two things.
Firstly, a change in the very ethos of this once great and altruistic endeavour, because this Government is ‘consulting’ upon the implementation of changes similar to the one in Wales to the Organ harvesting system, and Secondly: a total name change. A ‘Donor’ means just that, a person who has chosen, freely, to donate his or her organs, totally altruistically, in the service of others. My choice of name for the new Service?