The power to improve becomes the power to control
28 May 2009
It was suggested to me recently that "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" has become "Abortion, Socialism and Welfare".
Put another way, the power to improve lives has become the power to control lives in Britain.
Thomas Jefferson’s magnificent Declaration of Independence was adopted by what became Congress on 4th July 1776. Amongst a mere 1300 words, Jefferson wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
So what have a succession of catastrophic Labour governments done to Britain over the last 60 years or so, and with the active connivance of the European Union since 1972? They have presumed to know better. They have taken it upon themselves systematically to destroy our freedoms, rights and sovereign independence. They have presumed to put themselves above those who elected them in the first place.
And what now? Apart, that is, from putting an end to institutionalised corruption by those in power. We have to confront a level of public debt which leaves us ultimately facing raging inflation to erode it, a government which conducts business like a banana republic, a discredited Houses of Parliament with little power and no respect from the electors, and a de facto government in Brussels that sees us as an outer region of a United States of Europe and routinely treats the UK with utter contempt.
It is a daunting agenda. But we Brits have overcome worse in the past.
A remark I first made several years ago is even more true than when I first said it:
It is time for the British people to be revolting. To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com
Thursday, 28 May 2009
It is truly grim fact that, whilst Members of Parliament have been filling their back pockets at our expense, they have simultaneously presided over the twisting of that most glorious of ambitions in the American Declaration of Independence into a bizarre parody.
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