A few news stories that cast the British government in a bad light:
US shock jock Savage targeted ‘to balance least wanted list’
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has suffered a major setback in her legal battle with American ‘shock jock’ Michael Savage after her officials were accused of banning him from the country on racial grounds.
Emails written by Home Office officials privately acknowledged the ban on Mr Savage would provide ‘balance’ to a list dominated by Muslims – and linked the decision to Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Translation: the British government was afraid of angering radical Islamists. So they knuckled under to radical Islamists. Without the Islamists even firing a shot or saying a word. Which means that the Islamists seem to run the show.
But it gets even better:
Shocking new details of a stealth tax of up to £600 for householders with views of any kind, patios, conservatories and even a nearby bus stop are revealed for the first time today.
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show millions of homes have already been secretly assessed by Labour in preparation for council tax hikes expected to target the middle class after the Election.
Homes have been given ‘value significant codes’ which will make virtually every desirable feature taxable.
Although not every home has been assessed, so far nearly 100,000 householders face being penalised simply for having a scenic view from their windows.
Translation: ho-lee shee-it.
I’ve been asked why I have so many “dumbassery out of Britain” postings on my blog. It’s not because I’m anti-British… it’s because I’m anti-dumbass. And American dumbasses have a tendency to look to European socialism as a way to solve America’s perceived ills. Whenever the British government imposes yet another bit of extreme dumbassery on the British people, I cringe… not for the British people, but because I know that someone in a position of power here in the US will look at that and go, “Hey, that’s a good idea. Let’s do that here, too.”
This last news article provides some damned good examples of why “property taxes” need to be put in the same category as “income taxes…” in other words, thrown out, done away with, made extinct. The moment you give government the power to tax you in perpetuity for owning a plot of land, you have turned from citizens into subjects, from landowners into renters. And government will constantly find new ways to screw you.
While I don’t support violent revolution here in the US… I would be hard pressed to argue against Brits who decided that The Day had come.
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>Which means that the Islamists seem to run the show.
Unfortunately you’re right.
Ever since 7/7, which was our mini 9/11, the Govt has been running scared of these people.
>Whenever the British government imposes yet another bit of extreme dumbassery on the British people, …here in the US will look at that and go, “Hey, that’s a good idea. Let’s do that here, too.”
Well, that’s your punishment for daring to declare independence…
>Labour in preparation for council tax hikes expected to target the middle class after the Election.
won’t happen. Rupert Murdoch wants the Tories in,
so that’s what’ll happen.
“While I don’t support violent revolution here in the US… I would be hard pressed to argue against Brits who decided that The Day had come.”
I sometimes wonder what it would take to get the ball rolling. I would think at some point people are going to say “enough”. If the bullshit keeps up eventually there will be a tipping point and then look out. I’d say “that’s what voting is for” and that’s what I’d hope for, but then you look who’s standing around with their hands out to those all too willing to say they’ll fill it. . . We live in “interesting times” for sure. I wonder what things will be like after three and half more years of Teh 0ne. Hopefully enough of his sychophants will get voted out in ’10 to effectively neuter him but you know how the saying goes “wish in one hand $hit in the other. . .”
“‘While I don’t support violent revolution here in the US… I would be hard pressed to argue against Brits who decided that The Day had come.’
I sometimes wonder what it would take to get the ball rolling. ”
I too have wondered that for a long time. RFID-chipped, mandatory National ID cards? Complete repeal of the Second Amendment? Full-blown censorship? Utter financial crash? Mandatory collection of everybody’s biometric information? All of the above?
More and more people seem to be forgetting that government was created, not to keep people safe, but to keep people free; most people’s inability to make that distinction is having an increasingly negative effect on our country. I think that the principles upon which this country was created are still strong enough that there is a final straw out there for nearly everyone, but I have no idea what that straw might be. I just hope that if a second Revolution ever does take place, that nobody will be dumb enough to do it in the name of “Christian tradition”, “Social Welfare”, or something else equally devastating.
> I sometimes wonder what it would take to get the ball rolling.
Rather a lot. In 1776, you could rile people up to go after the Brits for two reasons (among others, of course):
1) The Brits were clearly “other”
2) What did most people have to lose? A house made of sticks and dirt? Two dollars and change? A broken-down horse? One change of clothes? A life full of ticks and lice and sickness and pain and infections? If they were over 20, they were halfway to death anyway.
Now, most people live lives of indescribable comfort compared to their ancestors of just a century ago, filled with TV and video games and music and whatnot, and can look to living 80 or more years. Just *try* to get peopel to give that up.
Of course, if the government actually took that life of ease away from people, it’d probably be easy to start a revolution.
Additionally, the US government is not seen as The Other as the Brit Parliament/King were. Most people here in Utah would look to Ted Kennedy (D: Atlantis) and see a man who should on no account ever be allowed into the Senate. But the Massholes apparently think he’s just neato. So until things get so bad that Utahns or Montanans or Alaskans see Massholes and Californians in the same way that colonial Americans saw the British, the drive for revolution just ain’t gonna be there.
> More and more people seem to be forgetting that government was created, not to keep people safe, but to keep people free
Errr… actually, only *one* government was so created like that. Just about every other government throughout history was create in order to maintain control and power. *THAT* is the natural order. The US was an experiment in doing it another way.
If there is another Revolution, DO NOT look to it having an outcome like the last one. Instead of a simple, plain Constitution that lays out negative rights, look to somethign more like the EU constitution from a few years back… but even bigger and worse.
“Errr… actually, only *one* government was so created like that. Just about every other government throughout history was create in order to maintain control and power. *THAT* is the natural order. The US was an experiment in doing it another way.”
Yes, but since it was the American government that I was talking about, my premise holds.