{"id":631,"date":"2009-01-22T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T18:43:04","slug":"will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the USA have to learn Britain&#8217;s lesson the hard way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom has eroded in Britian, bit by bit, for 20-30 years now.  Britain does not have anything approximating our Constitution&#8230;  essentially the Parliament can make nearly any law it chooses, subject only to whatever the politicians believe will keep them in office.\u00a0 It is a true tyranny of the majority, with little in the way of checks and balances, or constitutionally mandated protections of minority positions. \u00a0 Britain has laws against certain kinds of speech, laws that would never stand under the First Amendment of the USA, it has banned most guns (and had an enormous rise in crime as a result), it has sold out many aspects of its sovereignty to the Europeans, and so on. At the same time, Britian is in real danger of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Londonistan-Melanie-Phillips\/dp\/1594031975\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1232171433&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">losing its very identity as a nation<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a window on how some middle class British are feeling about it now:<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yTq2NEUlhDE\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>The British called &#8211; They want their guns back!<\/p>\n<p>Will we make the same mistakes?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not optimistic, given how the recent election went, with Democrats winning big by promising to do the very things the British now regret, from nationalized health care to gun restrictions masquerading as crime prevention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-631\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-631\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-631\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/22\/will-the-usa-have-to-learn-britains-lesson-the-hard-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom has eroded in Britian, bit by bit, for 20-30 years now. 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