Posted on 06/30/2016 11:37:15 AM PDT by massmike
If America was born in Philadelphia in 1776, the labor pains began in Concord, Massachusetts, not far from where I live, on April 19, 1775. Last week, the British people fired their own historic salvo, by declaring their independence from an increasingly despotic European Union.
Our British cousins had it somewhat easier than we did 240 years ago. All they had to do was get to a polling place and cast their ballots. The Colonial militiamen who fired the opening volley in our War for Independence faced the 18th century's sole super power.
The battles of Lexington and Concord were followed by 8 years of bloody war. Britain's separation from the EU will take several months of what promises to be – at worst – acrimonious negotiations.
The British media (leaning even further left than our own) claim the nation is now entering turbulent, uncharted waters. Our future is in jeopardy. However will we survive, they moan?
Britain has been a nation for a millennium. The European Union has existed for 23 years. It's the EU whose survival is in doubt – with growing skepticism in France, the Netherlands and elsewhere. The anti-EU Front National will probably win the French parliamentary elections next year.
Special interests opposed both revolutions. The City of London, with its new Muslim mayor and the highest immigrant population in the country, voted 75% to 25% to remain on the S.S. Brussels as it steams toward its rendezvous with oblivion. The bankers, international financiers and power brokers claimed that for the nation with the world's fifth largest economy, prosperity flowed from the EU – including the opportunity to trade with Croatia tariff-free.
During the American Revolution, the commercial centers of New York and Philadelphia were loyalist bastions. Wealthy merchants couldn't understand why we'd want to give up the economic advantages of being part of an empire whose ships visited every port, even if it did exploit us from time to time.
Today, Britain is the rube at the county fair run by a bunch of Continental sharpies. Last year, it contributed 13 billion pounds toward the EU budget. Brussels sent back 4.5 billion pounds, along with increasingly absurd regulations. Apparently, nothing is too insignificant to escape its passion for control. There are reports that the European super-state plans to ban the best-selling toasters and tea kettles in Britain for failing to meet eco-standards.
Obama, who thinks the world is blessed with his advice on any subject, has been delivering his sanctimonious pronouncements to the American people for 7 ½ years, telling us bitter-clingers that opposition to internationalism is a mark of ignorance and backwardness.
In April, he lectured the British people on the referendum: "And in today's world, even as we all cherish our sovereignty, the nations who wield their influence most effectively are the nations that do it through the collective action that today's challenges demand." Obama cherishes American sovereignty the way he cherished the lives of the four Americans who died in Benghazi. If we'd waited for collective action, World War II would have ended in the triumph of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan.
In a statement to the British Observer, HRH's (Her Royal Hillary's) senior policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, said: "Hillary Clinton believes that transatlantic cooperation is essential, and that cooperation is strongest when Europe is united. She has always valued a strong United Kingdom in a strong EU."
As much as it's ever been, Europe was united under Napoleon and Hitler. On both occasions, it was Britain that heroically defied a united Europe.
Has forcing the United Kingdom to take the type of immigrants who've brought jihad to its shores, and guidance by politicians like Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, made Britain stronger? Has tying its future to European states with massive debts and bloated public workforces, which refuse to economize, made Britain stronger?
On this side of the Atlantic, it's not enough for the left to concentrate power in Washington. Increasingly, it wants to make power even further removed from the people, in whose name it claims to govern, by transferring it to international bodies like the United Nations – our European Union.
The American Revolution wasn't about the colonists' refusal to pay a tax of pennies a pound on tea. It was over the refusal of a people who had developed their own identity to be ruled by a monarch and his ministers across the sea. It was about Americans being tried in English courts and taxed by a parliament in which they had no voice.
After the referendum, Johnson declared that once Britain is out of the EU, it will be able to "pass our own laws, set our taxes, entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy…We can control our own borders, in a way that is not discriminatory but fair."
Following the Brexit vote, three million sore losers have signed an online petition demanding another referendum on EU membership. How like the left: We'll keep voting until we get what we want. Then we'll stop.
After the American Revolution, as many as 50,000 Tories moved to Canada and other parts of the British Empire. Let Brits who crave continued EU rule move to Belgium where they can remain in their comfy Euro-cage.
....Guess which European Union regulations are real???
Banana’s should not be too bendy.
Popular British snack “Bombay Mix” had to change its name to “Mumbai Mix”.
Prunes are not laxatives.
Turnips cannot be labeled “swedes”, except in one place.
Diabetics are banned from driving.
Eggs cannot be sold by the dozen.
All are actual EU regulations except diabetics being forbidden to drive is not currently enforced.
Regulation is the life blood of liberalism. Even stupid ones.
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It should be noted that the reason the Red Coats were marching on Lexington that day was to enforce gun control.
That’s right, the Red Coats were after muskets and powder and the brave colonials sent them packing.
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Recessional of the Sons of the American Revolution:
“Until we meet again, let us remember our obligations to our
forefathers who gave us our Constitution, the Bill of Rights,
an independent Supreme Court and a nation of free men.”
the Brits paid the EU £13 billion and got back only £4.5 billion. Now he’s complaining
Has he no compassion for the starving greeks?
Then he whines about loyalist deserting to Canada. He apparently overlooked the fact the many returned and now totally occupy Massachusetts and some of the other northern states on neoEngland
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