Decay and death of a country

You know a country's institutions are at the stage that I'd call "cancer in the fabric of society" when things like this happens and right after they self compliment (the institutions) with this piece of filth:

The senior officer in charge is confident we handled this incident as professionally as possible. In a situation like that you could end up with more deceased bodies than you had in the first place.

But first of all, read about the fact:

In my column today, and in an earlier Corner post, I’ve written about Britain and its health-and-safety regime. Several readers have sent me articles from yesterday’s London newspapers. The story is sad — or possibly outrageous. In the Times, the headline was, “Fire kills child, 3, and parents as police prevent neighbours from trying to rescue them.” >>> read more...

...and now read what Mark Steyn had to comment about it:

Jay, that fire story from Doncaster is almost unbearably sad: The characteristically moronic behavior of the braindead British coppers transformed it from a family tragedy to a national metaphor. >>> read more...

It is in my opinion utterly unbearable. Great Britain is well on the way to its sovietization (see this and this), this story shows, among other things, the arrogant disrespect for the individuality that the nanny-state once again proudly screams out load. If a person wants to risk his/her life to save a kid nobody should be entitled to stop that person. This is indeed the stupidification of the modern Europe! Sad thing is that I just hoped the Great Britain was different, but I'm realizing that it is probably even farther gone into decay.