I can understand that American conservatives and libertarians are upset atMr. Obama’s reelection.
It means another four years of government by someone whowants to make their country into a Third World dump.
But my view as an Englishlibertarian and conservative is that he is very good news for England.
First, he openly hates England. This reputedly has somethingto do with an ancestor in Kenya who may have been roughly treated when he tookup arms against the Queen.
W
hatever the case, it is a welcome change fromtraditional American Anglophobes such as Franklin Roosevelt and George W.Bush.
The idea of a special relationship between Britain and America is a delusionconfined to the British ruling class.
The true relationship is one based onlongstanding American hatred of England. This hatred showed itself prior to 1914as resentment of British global hegemony.
Since then, it has shown itselfincreasingly as patronizing contempt.
While Britain remained an independentpower, it was American policy to destroy our naval power—the Washington NavalTreaty of 1922, for instance.
Otherwise, it was to undermine our position in theworld—for instance, the stab in the back at Suez. Once we had been broken toAmerican control, the policy shifted to one of using our home territory as anunsinkable aircraft carrier against the Soviet Union and the use of our armedforces as sepoys in American-led wars.
“Take away America, and the New World Order becomes afading ghost.”
The American self-image is largely defined by Anglophobia. Americans may fearor feel guilty about the descendants of their black slaves.
They have periodicepisodes of paranoia about the Yellow Peril. But their real hatred is forEngland. There can be only one successor state to the British Empire as itexisted in 1763. There is no room in the American mind for a continuation of thehistoric England as an independent and powerful entity.
Every Fourth of July brings a fresh crop of hot air about “British tyranny” that the American film industry reinforces. English actors are mainly employedto play villains or buffoons.
When not shown as individual psychopathickillers—Alan Rickman, Charles Dance, et al—we are shown as oppressorsof the Irish or the Scotch or the American colonial rebels. (See films such as Michael Collins, Braveheart, or The Patriot.)Otherwise, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Alan Napier were allowed to make careers asplumy-voiced eunuchs.
The James Bond films are tolerated so long as he and hisemployers are shown as junior partners in whatever crusade is uppermost in theAmerican mind.
Actual American policy toward England has been ruthless. Enoch Powell alwayssaid that the Americans murdered Airey Neave in 1979 when it looked as if thenext Conservative Government would take effective action against the Ulster’sCatholic rebels.
I believe the Americans bribed or blackmailed the Conservativesto lose the 2001 and 2005 general elections because Tony Blair was seen as morereliably pro-American.
It was nothing to them that Tony Blair was the mostmalevolent and destructive prime minister in British history. American regardfor our ancient constitution was shown when they procured the 2003 extraditiontreaty that allowed British citizens to be shipped off for trial in Americawithout any of the traditional safeguards.
It is also shown by current Americanpressure on the British government to hold certain trials in secret.
This campaign of hatred has so far proceeded under a mask of cloying regardfor a “common Anglo-Saxon heritage.” Mr. Obama has ripped that mask aside. It ismuch easier to deal with open hatred. It disabuses everyone of the notion thatthere is any bond of affection between our countries. It encourages thereassertion of our national independence.
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