[Ohioan]

My great hope is that it won't be too long before the citizens of Great Britain will rise up en masse to protest and change these evils that are being inflicted upon them, entirely by the Left I might add. They have been beaten down for far too long and deserve far better than this.

Yes! Actually, under Magna Carta, there should have been a Committee of Barons who called for an uprising to distress and distrain the Government, until it again respected property rights in England, throughout most of the Twentieth Century. Unfortunately, many reprints are of a later version, not the original 1215 text that King John agreed to, but those provisions are in there. England was never supposed to accept an abrogation of private property rights again.

By the way, was Clarke sober when he made this decision? He looks like a fellow who clocks far more pub hours than those in intellectual pursuit.

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[Stoat]

Yes! Actually, under Magna Carta, there should have been a Committee of Barons who called for an uprising to distress and distrain the Government, until it again respected property rights in England, throughout most of the Twentieth Century. Unfortunately, many reprints are of a later version, not the original 1215 text that King John agreed to, but those provisions are in there. England was never supposed to accept an abrogation of private property rights again.

Unfortunately, it appears that the current crop of British lawmakers owe far more allegiance to Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto than the Magna Carta.  The good, law abiding people of Great Britain need our help, but I wish that I knew how to do more rather than to merely offer polite verbal support.

By the way, was Clarke sober when he made this decision? He looks like a fellow who clocks far more pub hours than those in intellectual pursuit.

You are quite likely spot-on, as alcoholism is a popular fetish of many elected officials on both sides of the pond.  His visage, however, suggests a particularly enthusiastic embrace of this activity, as you so perceptively indicate.  His official pronouncements further bolster this theory.

Yes! Actually, under Magna Carta, there should have been a Committee of Barons who called for an uprising to distress and distrain the Government, until it again respected property rights in England, throughout most of the Twentieth Century. Unfortunately, many reprints are of a later version, not the original 1215 text that King John agreed to, but those provisions are in there. England was never supposed to accept an abrogation of private property rights again.

Unfortunately, it appears that the current crop of British lawmakers owe far more allegiance to Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto than the Magna Carta.  The good, law abiding people of Great Britain need our help, but I wish that I knew how to do more rather than to merely offer polite verbal support.

By the way, was Clarke sober when he made this decision? He looks like a fellow who clocks far more pub hours than those in intellectual pursuit.

You are quite likely spot-on, as alcoholism is a popular fetish of many elected officials on both sides of the pond.  His visage, however, suggests a particularly enthusiastic embrace of this activity, as you so perceptively indicate.  His official pronouncements further bolster this theory.