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Mark Steyn: Thatcher thought Britain was worth fighting for
Orange County Register ^ | April 12, 2013 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/12/2013 1:48:39 PM PDT by neverdem

A few hours after Margaret Thatcher’s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, “THE BITCH IS DEAD.” Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead,” from The Wizard of Oz, was the No. 1 download at Amazon U.K...

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A generation on, the Thatcher era seems more and more like a magnificent but temporary interlude in a great nation’s bizarre, remorseless self-dissolution. She was right and they were wrong, and because of that they will never forgive her...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: margaretthatcher; marksteyn; rememberingthatcher; steyn; thatcher; thatcherobit

1 posted on 04/12/2013 1:48:39 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: JLS

Ping


2 posted on 04/12/2013 1:49:51 PM PDT by neverdem ( Xin loi min oi)
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To: neverdem

BUMP


3 posted on 04/12/2013 1:50:21 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: neverdem

Great article. But you know that.

Thanks for posting it.


4 posted on 04/12/2013 1:59:58 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: neverdem
Mark Stein - as always - right on the money, and brilliantly so.

Margaret Thatcher was a gift to England. The thankless, shiftless, and hopelessly stupid will never fully understand why because the truth, and the specifics are above the capability of their understanding.

We have the same types here in America. They are called Obama Voters.

5 posted on 04/12/2013 2:05:39 PM PDT by Swede Girl
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To: neverdem

Now the Muslims are in charge, coming to America/already here with a president (alleged) who hates the military and America.


6 posted on 04/12/2013 2:19:33 PM PDT by boomop1 (term limits will only save this country.)
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To: neverdem
"Thatcher thought Britain was worth fighting for".

OK, so she was wrong about ONE thing.

/snark

Great Lady.

7 posted on 04/12/2013 2:21:41 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Swede Girl

You want to understand the twisted hatred for Thatcher ?

There really is no understanding other than jumping on board with a sense of popularism that gives you cover.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ

If you watch you will see the hatred in his words and his face.

Just so there is no mistake, this song is all about Margaret Thatcher.


8 posted on 04/12/2013 2:23:44 PM PDT by Zeneta (No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.)
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To: neverdem

Not worth fighting for any more. Guns illegal. Religion of peace raping light-skinned girls. Socialism taken over all aspects of life.


9 posted on 04/12/2013 2:34:32 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: I want the USA back

Some of us beg to differ.


10 posted on 04/12/2013 2:43:49 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas is a state of mind - Steinbeck)
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To: neverdem
"remorseless self-dissolution"

Why do we love to import ideas from Europe?

11 posted on 04/12/2013 2:46:09 PM PDT by uncommonsense (more laws = more government = more coercive power = more crimes of consequence)
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To: neverdem

bfl


12 posted on 04/12/2013 4:16:32 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: neverdem
From the text.

A few hours after Margaret Thatcher's death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London.....

Karl Marx had seen it in London, so had George Orwell. The feral mob; Marx called them the Lumpen Proletariat. How to control them? The modern society controlled by the high mucky mucks in England knows how. Feed them with all the junk food they want. Let them swill beer. Eventually their outrage and realization as to what they are and where they are going to end up, could bode ill for society. Simply create a "hate figure". Channel their violence.

Orwell called it in his book 1984. The hate week allowed the mob to scream hate for a mythical figure- one "Goldstein".

13 posted on 04/12/2013 8:06:58 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping. [The OC Register site seems to be subscription now.]

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping neverdem.


14 posted on 04/13/2013 11:47:32 PM PDT by JLS
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To: neverdem

BTTT


15 posted on 04/16/2013 5:22:42 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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