Hannan's great speech directed to Prime Minister Gordon Brown which caught world wide attention on the internet in March of 2009 is here:
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Posted on 08/07/2009 5:18:40 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
American idealism is infectious. I’m as cynical about my own country’s political system as the next world-weary Brit. But, whenever I go to Washington, I give in to that guileless enthusiasm which foreigners so often dismiss as naïveté. Like the James Stewart character in Mr Smith goes to Washington, I goggle reverently at the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials, the Battle Hymn of the Republic swelling in my mind. As regular readers will know, Thomas Jefferson is one of my heroes: he kept alive in North America a strain of British liberty that has all but perished from the mother country. So, at any rate, I have always believed...
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Hannan's great speech directed to Prime Minister Gordon Brown which caught world wide attention on the internet in March of 2009 is here:
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“Americans should cleave to their Jeffersonian heritage. Their country was founded on a series of premises: that concentrated power corrupts; that jurisdiction should be dispersed; that decision-makers should be accountable; that taxes should not be raised save by elected representatives, nor laws passed without popular consent; that the executive should be answerable to the legislature.”
It needs to be repeated.
Better that Washington got the orderly and peaceful transition of power right and slavery partly wrong ( of course he manumitted) than visa versa.
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“I gave the same message everywhere. Americans should cleave to their Jeffersonian heritage. Their country was founded on a series of premises: that concentrated power corrupts; that jurisdiction should be dispersed; that decision-makers should be accountable; that taxes should not be raised save by elected representatives, nor laws passed without popular consent; that the executive should be answerable to the legislature.”
Jefferson has been replaced by Marx.
As regular readers will know, Thomas Jefferson is one of my heroes: he kept alive in North America a strain of British liberty that has all but perished from the mother country.Sure, but they've got a great dental plan.
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