Let me see if I have this straight. You crazy Americans have all these pistols, machine guns, rocket launchers, armoured vehicles and stuff hanging around in the back yard ("Put that howitzer DOWN Junior!") and the justification I always hear is that it is to overthrow an overbearing and unfair Government.
Now, I understand that a lot of racists in America seem to think this means they can only shoot Brits, or people who look like Brits, or black people who might have seen pictures of British people once.
But surely the time has come? Otherwise, what is the point of your massive arsenals?
Isn't your Government oppressive and overbearing and unfair enough - didn't Bush cheat the election?
I'm not advocating anyone start a civil war.
I'm saying that the historic moment for justifying everyone being armed has passed. Disarmnament must be the US's top priority in the next ten years. That, and raising wages for ordinary folks. America can be great again. Let her lead from the front for a change.
Fatalistic, mostly. We know that we are a vassal state to the US, and if we refused to extradite people to the US your secret services would just come in and grab them anyway.
I just hope we haven't given your military our nuclear launch codes - although considering they were made in the US, they probably have a US over-ride anyway.
Also, the Labour government (and more importantly, our unelected and unaccountable all powerful civil service) know that the US can wreck our economy any time it chooses, so they tend to go along with whatever hare-brained scheme world bully wants.
Strange chap Churchill. Conservative who came from the Liberal party, took over the reins after the previous Conservative Prime Minister tried to appease Hitler with the full backing of a Conservative media. Great orator.
As you say, the bombs rained down on him, too although his bomb shelter was probably deeper and better protected than most people's.
Compared to...a dyslexic who mis-speaks and has never known active service. Aha! The parallels are obvious! D'oh!
Unhappy with the comment "In Europe the problem of alienation will be compounded: not only is the EU an unpromising space for democratic life anyway, but the citizens of European nations will come to resent decisions that are fateful for them being taken by unelected foreign judges."
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Europe (in case anyone forgot) invented democracy and actually we're pretty keen on it. By many measures, we are more democratic than the US - which only has the 21st freest press by the way - and resentment is a strong word.
Yes, there is currently debate over the new Human Rights legislation written into UK law but this should be seen as a positive move.
The writer has a point that the law in the US seems to have been over-used to secure human rights victories which in other democracies would have been achieved by reforming governments. For a variety of reasons, the left in the US has been ham-strung and it seems that the courts are the last resort for reforming policies.
Personally, I note the fact that every leader with a left-leaning message in the US that I can think of has been shot. JFK, lots of other Kennedys, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and so on. Oh, and the ENTIRE leadership of the Democratic party in Colorado in the 19th Century.
Gun reform? Hell yeah.
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