"The party is over. Everybody out of the pool - at least for the moment." Britain, by only a very small margin, elected to leave the European Union. This, most probably the Brit's last stand for independence, is an object lesson that absolutely should not go unheeded by the United States that is aspiring, tooth and nail, to be the next Finland.
It was Finland's former prime minister, Alexander Stubb, who last night tweeted that Great Britain's leaving the European Union was the beginning of a 'bad nightmare'. The Finns have to think like Finnish people because they are nothing like a world power, but one of many little nations who have chosen to lean on the might and subsidy of a union with other nations (that have similarly caved) in order to feel strong. What every member of the EU knows but does not easily admit, is that the cost of that union will eventuate in the relinquishment of the freedoms and individuality of each of its parts. The United Kingdom is gasping its last breath trying not to be absorbed into that totally compromised obscurity.
As America was pursuing her manifest destiny, the sun never set on the British Empire. It was very much the British influence that began a movement on this continent that had originally produced Americans who refused to behave as one of a crowd. And yesterday's referendum in the UK showed that there is still just barely enough of that spirit alive to resist the illusion of security offered by a 'union' destined to be reined in and controlled by leadership careless of Britain's best interests. In short, a little over half of the thirty-plus million British voters expressed they'd had enough of the yoke they had naïvely taken on over forty years ago.
Right after the end of World War II Winston Churchill was promoting the idea of sort of a 'United States of Europe' in order to somehow prevent Europe from again battling with itself. Although at the time even Churchill didn't want Britain involved with that. In its conception the idea was not to homogenize Europe but rather to form an organization similar to the United States (whose individual states retain certain rights). Today the 'One World' movement is fully afoot - and the European Union is already in place as the ideal, slippery slope to bring that about globally. Plutocrats everywhere are drooling to finally containerize and control those who Aaron Copland so reverently referred to as the 'Common Man'.
In 1985 the European Union engineered the Schengen Agreement which initiated the fall of the borders in Europe. That folly wasn't as a result of a deficit of wisdom and foresight on the part of its authors. It has abundantly proved to be a diabolical methodology allowing an uncontrollable infestation of foreign terrorists, and given an evolving world government the unchecked authority to profile and gather information about anyone it pleases. And it's all done under the pretense of maintaining the Intel necessary for 'freedom of movement'. Thanks to a borderless Europe, the invading political bludgeon of Islam can ravage Scandinavia, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, etc. etc. - and the EU can easily document and punish any who might try to resist that.
Angela Merkel, Germany's Obama
Angela Merkel, Germany's Obama, has effectively mobilized an Islamic invasion force into all of Europe. And that mob will serve as a catalyst for implementing martial law when their local police can no longer keep a lid on Islamists' Neanderthal behavior. Angela's brave new, open Germany now serves as microcosmic control example for kindred, larger efforts like Obama's ramming his own Trojan Horse down the throats of a lethargic and unsuspecting America. And, just as they have throughout a borderless European Union, so Islamic immigrants and innumerable 'undocumented' trespassers from who knows where will soon make their presence and demands known to a politically correct and spineless USA.
Finland's former prime minister, Alexander Stubb, was educated here in the United States on a golf scholarship! He found many of the tools he needed in achieving his dreams here in the America he didn't help to build. And the 'bad nightmare' he's talking about happening as a result of Brexit's success is the loss of the nearly £200,000,000 weekly that helped to feed the monster that his little Finland is absorbed in and depends upon. Sanity has been restored. Suddenly Great Brittain can stop the hemorrhaging silly subsidies and shut the gate on the river of intruders that want to supplant Parliament with sharia. Small wonder that countries like Finland don't appreciate that Britain has no taste for the illusion of strength found in the anonymity of the mob. Just like most of America used to be, the UK wants to walk its own path, make and spend its own money and abide by its own rules. We used to be known for just that.
Right now we have the opportunity to maybe take back the America our small minded leader has very obviously tried to ruin. America, unlike a tiny Finland or an overpowered Germany, isn't ready to attach herself to a sinking ship. Sadly, and because of the compromises we have allowed to date, the EU may look to us to pick up the slack of Britain's absence. I say: 'man the barricades!' About two hundred forty years ago at the North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts the shot heard 'round the world was fired beginning the battles of Lexington and Concord which culminated in the American Revolution. Now another shot heard 'round the world has been fired, this time by the British. Hopefully, America and others will get wise and follow her lead.
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"The party is over. Everybody out of the pool - at least for the moment." Britain, by only a very small margin, elected to leave the European Union. This, most probably the Brit's last stand for independence, is an object lesson that absolutely should not go unheeded by the United States that is aspiring, tooth and nail, to be the next Finland.
It was Finland's former prime minister, Alexander Stubb, who last night tweeted that Great Britain's leaving the European Union was the beginning of a 'bad nightmare'. The Finns have to think like Finnish people because they are nothing like a world power, but one of many little nations who have chosen to lean on the might and subsidy of a union with other nations (that have similarly caved) in order to feel strong. What every member of the EU knows but does not easily admit, is that the cost of that union will eventuate in the relinquishment of the freedoms and individuality of each of its parts. The United Kingdom is gasping its last breath trying not to be absorbed into that totally compromised obscurity.
