[ZULU]

Its THAT time of year again.

Maybe we can go BACK to the FUTURE here.

[ClearCase_guy]

“Rise And Rise Again Until Lambs Become Lions”

[Gaffer]

We will not defeat King Obama on a field of battle and compel him to sign anything, let alone a piece of paper guaranteeing rights of any nature.

This isn’t to say we won’t defeat him, or his ilk. It will/may be, however, under condition of total capitulation and surrender - no conciliations needed.

[Oberon]

Henry? What Henry? THAT’s not the Magna Carta!

[Oratam]

How long until someone posts, “That’s Magna Carta. A relative of mine signed that.”?

[AZLiberty]

In a sane America, the Magna Carta, our Founding Documents, and the Constitution -- and their associated history -- would be studied and understood by every American before they left high school.

There are still a few schools based on Great Books learning. A major charter school network in Arizona, Great Hearts, has begun to expand nationwide, based on this approach. Although they were rejected by Nashville for failure to kowtow to the affirmative action establishment, they will be opening a year from now in San Antonio.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

This day—the day that the rule of law became greater than the Divine Rights of Kings, should be celebrated throughout the Anglosphere! Let this day be one of bonefires and fireworks—without the Great Charter—there would be no USA! No rights of an Englishman, much of the Freedom of the people’s of the Earth come from that charter King John was forced to set his seal upon!

[katana]

It is worth noting that King John (with the full support of the Pope) once he was safely away from Runnymede disavowed the Magna Carta. And many, perhaps most, of his successors ignored or tried to ignore the rules and liberties it bestows. It took quite a lot of bloodshed over centuries to maintain them and in the Britain of today the spirit of it is maybe under worse attack than ever.

We are now in a place in our own history where the "government", men and women who are sworn by oath (King John took many an oath too) to defend and obey our own Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, are ignoring and violating it on a daily basis. Englishmen had to put their lives on the line to protect their liberties from monarchs who found the Magna Carta inconveniently restrictive. We are going to find out very soon whether Americans are made of the same stern stuff.