A Message From One of Our British Cousins - "Queen and Country, God and Guns"

[prambo]

Queen and Country, God and Guns

 

[togmaster]

The only way to guarantee your own safety is to do it yourself.

 

[tirwin1]

It's a testament to how far that country has fallen that the govt would actually publish that sign telling people to run, hide and tell. The spirit of the generation that resisted Hitler is gone for good. A damn shame.

 

[Jmac00]

My American friends, you are surely aware that you don’t have to own a gun to fight like hell to retain your right to bear arms, as well as the freedom to play anything you damn well please on your karaoke machines. Preserve those rights, defend them, they are more precious than you know. Never sell them. Never soften.

a sage message if ever there was one.

 

[Phauxtoe]

yea!
We have that "Sage Message" sent from the Founding Fathers, its called the Second Amendment!

 

[Phazer]

Queen and Country, God and Guns

For politicians, though, hope springs eternal; just fire the old PR firm and hire a new one. Hence, the RUN•HIDE•TELL campaign is off to a rocketing start. Of course, scruffy young tearaways were quick to deface the posters by substituting the last word to read RUN•HIDE•SUBMIT but the kings of PR, the Americans, have gone us one better with DRAW•AIM•SHOOT as the only viable response. We respect this, of course, because we love your guns.​

 

[ProgSpear]

An absolutely critical takeaway quote:

"Governments which no longer guarantee the security of their citizens are worthless, and those that disallow the right to defend oneself are worse than negligent, they are clearly dangerous to support in any way."

 

[@thewheels]

An absolutely critical takeaway quote:

"Governments which no longer guarantee the security of their citizens are worthless, and those that disallow the right to defend oneself are worse than negligent, they are clearly dangerous to support in any way."

^^^Well said.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people is dangerously close to perishing from the earth.

 

[meketrefe]

Queen and Country, God and Guns

hi,
link doesn't work for me.

 

[@thewheels]

hi,
link doesn't work for me.

NM...

 

[ProgSpear]

Yup - linky no longer worky. Go directly to The Burning Platform
It's currently the second article.

or this re-link:
Queen and Country, God and Guns

 

[Blimey]

The author has a higher view of the average brit than I do. He seems to believe they will stand up and demand more rights. On the contrary I think they will kowtow themselves to death. You can see it even tonight, as the conservative party has lost seats. Is Corbin going to be tough on jihadists? Nope.

England is lost. I feel great sympathy for people who know better and have to jointly suffer the weakness of their compatriots like the article's author. But I think if he is waiting for some renaissance of arms in england he will be waiting a long time.

 

[prambo]

Yup - linky no longer worky. Go directly to The Burning Platform
It's currently the second article.

or this re-link:
Queen and Country, God and Guns

Thanks!!

Fixed link in OP.

 

[Blimey]

So, it turns out now the votes are in that the conservatives have indeed lost a lot of seats and lost the majority. I am not familiar with UK politics all that much, but they are a country still going left. Also, look at the heading of this article:
UK's May will not resign after losing majority, will seek permission from Queen to form government

UK's May will not resign after losing majority, will seek permission from Queen to form government

I know it may be a bit of a formality, but how the F in the year 2017 do people who fancy themselves as free and self-directed still defer to a monarchy for anything? I find the concept really abhorrent. This queen has power granted through nothing whatsoever except her bloodline, and they still grant power to the throne as if it's the middle ages. Even Canada still yields in some capacities to the throne of England if you can believe it (it's true and insane).

 

[spat]

So, it turns out now the votes are in that the conservatives have indeed lost a lot of seats and lost the majority. I am not familiar with UK politics all that much, but they are a country still going left. Also, look at the heading of this article:
UK's May will not resign after losing majority, will seek permission from Queen to form government



I know it may be a bit of a formality, but how the F in the year 2017 do people who fancy themselves as free and self-directed still defer to a monarchy for anything? I find the concept really abhorrent. This queen has power granted through nothing whatsoever except her bloodline, and they still grant power to the throne as if it's the middle ages. Even Canada still yields in some capacities to the throne of England if you can believe it (it's true and insane).

A good benevolent monarch beats a raging left wing democracy any time, and twice on election day.

Freedom is about what rights are respected, not how the government is constituted. While it's true that an absolute monarchy is very fragile and can easily slip into despotism, not all monarchies are absolute. Most now are constitutional monarchies where the power of the monarch is constrained in the same way the power of the mob is (theoretically) under our democracy.

It's about the limits on government power, not how the government employees are chosen.

 

[masterswimmer]

Great blog......

Best line:

"During World War II you were overpaid, oversexed and over here, breaker of hearts and hymens."

 

[masterswimmer]

I know it may be a bit of a formality, but how the F in the year 2017 do people who fancy themselves as free and self-directed still defer to a monarchy for anything? I find the concept really abhorrent. This queen has power granted through nothing whatsoever except her bloodline, and they still grant power to the throne as if it's the middle ages. Even Canada still yields in some capacities to the throne of England if you can believe it (it's true and insane).

100% agree!
WTF are these Brits nuts? The queens bloodline raped, pillaged, killed, slaughtered, and persecuted their way into power. And yet the commoner exalts their reverence? No wonder they surrendered their guns.

 

[Blimey]

A good benevolent monarch beats a raging left wing democracy any time, and twice on election day.

Freedom is about what rights are respected, not how the government is constituted. While it's true that an absolute monarchy is very fragile and can easily slip into despotism, not all monarchies are absolute. Most now are constitutional monarchies where the power of the monarch is constrained in the same way the power of the mob is (theoretically) under our democracy.

It's about the limits on government power, not how the government employees are chosen.

I disagree because a monarchy grants power to people who have not earned it. It is at its very essence stealing power of the people for self-governance. Of course, sometimes people vote themselves dumb leaders and sometimes kings are great, but as a general rule I would prefer to see applied worldwide, nobody should be given power due to their birth and legally formalized as such.

It bothers me that grown adults who should know better still fawn and gush over their royalty, rather like a gaggle of 15 year old girls over a boy band.

 

[Mk44]

Many Americans have warned England/ Europe about opening their doors to the refugees. But we were looked upon as selfish idiotic racist because we refused to welcome them. I heard a news report say the streets of England is FLOODED with refugees & the homeless. In the afternoon you'll find more Islamic people walking about than Brits.
I guess they finally see the BIG picture.
We told you so.... (Learn the hard way!!)

the writer states... "Governments which no longer guarantee the security of their citizens are worthless, and those that disallow the right to defend oneself are worse than negligent, they are clearly dangerous to support in any way." Which is exactly why I did not vote for Hillary.

 

[Different Drummer]

Great blog......

Best line:

"During World War II you were overpaid, oversexed and over here, breaker of hearts and hymens."

The guy on the left was one of those over there. Conversations about his experiences were very sparse. I do remember him telling me that the English people thought that all American servicemen were Alcoholics, had lots of money and were over sexed. They lived for the day ( or the evening as it may be ).

 

[Mr. terzmo]

The only way to guarantee your own safety is to do it yourself.

I've been preaching this for years as Police are mostly paper pushers after the fact. NOT saying "most" aren't great dedicated people but just look at response time(and that's not the patrolmens fault). They get there mostly after the fact. I want an immediate response...and look around, that immediate response must be me or myself or loved one will be deposited in a body bag.

 

[spat]

The guy on the left was one of those over there. Conversations about his experiences were very sparse. I do remember him telling me that the English people thought that all American servicemen were Alcoholics, had lots of money and were over sexed. They lived for the day ( or the evening as it may be ).

When you stand a good chance of dying tomorrow, who wouldn't live for the day ?

Guys fighting WWII were in a situation none of us can truly understand. Even people with modern combat experience weren't in a war where you go on a mission and assume that if you make it back you will drink to the buddies that you know you are about to lose.