Tea Party turns nasty: ‘It’s our country – let’s take it back’

London Times ^ | 02/06/2010 | Tim Reid

[j.argese]

My comment wasn't a "Straw Man", it was improperly phrased. I should have asked to name a single DEMOCRACY founded on a Roman Catholic foundation.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty ... that's not me, that's Thomas Jefferson.

[DrDavid]

The paper is called The Times, it was the first. This a Murdock paper and is right of center. The Telegraph is further to the right.

Although much of the media coverage of the United States in Europe is filtered through the US press.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I saw her on TV today. She sounded compentent and confident.

[chickadee]

Thanks, this is a very interesting insight. The religions of our Founding Fathers were of the hard scrabble, “the Lord helps those who help themselves” Protestant types.

[spodefly]

If you aren’t neutered by political correctness, think open borders are a GREAT idea, and pray every day for gay married couple in the military adopting illegal aliens using food stamps to buy Cadillacs with free health care, then you are nasty.

[j.argese]

It was also very accommodating to reason and enlightenment. Compare the expansion in political thought in Britain after the Reformation and prior to the American Revolution to the Papal oppression which kept Italy divided into city states until 1849 or thereabouts.
Not to mention Baron de Montesquieu, a man who’s ideas were embraced by a significant number of Founding Fathers but were banned by the Church of Rome.
I am reminded of a line from Elizabeth: The Golden Age, to paraphrase:
“The Inquisition lies in the belly of that ship.”
It is remarkable how a single glance can open one’s eyes!

[ync1994]

Regarding the English Defence League picture you posted. I have continued talking to my FB British friends and they never stop talking about the muslim takeover. They are truly upset and I don’t know how to help them or their country. There was just an article in the London Daily Mail.online which told of a muslim bus driver who stopped the bus in the middle of a route; pulled over; took out his prayer rug and began to pray! It’s nuts over there right now. Where did all these muslims come from anyway? Pakistan?