Posted on 06/22/2011 1:30:33 AM PDT by iowamark
As a member of European Parliament, Daniel Hannan has seen our future, and it isnt pretty.
The fiery British politician (and YouTube sensation) was at The Heritage Foundation last week to discuss his new book, The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America and to sound the alarm to Americans of the creeping European-style socialism that is gaining ground among our government.
Before his lecture, he sat down with us to discuss his warning to America and made clear that the core principles undergirding Western democracies are under siege:
You dont have to look to far to see how those ideals are lost. In Britain because of the European Union and the rise of the bureaucracy at home we are losing those fundamental principles we fought our civil war for. Taxes are being levied without popular consent, directives are being passed without Parliamentary control, and a similar thing is happening here. Youre behind us on this road, fortunately from your point of view, but government by decree, trampling on states rights, appointment of federal czars, shift in power from elected representatives to the unelected functionaries, youre doing the same thing. And were losing something very precious which, once gone, we will miss.
But while Hannans warning was dire, it was not without some optimism. The policies being pursued by this Administration all trend in that directionEuropean healthcare, European social security, European defense, European green taxes but these things are reversible.
And from what I can tell looking at this country, you are doing something about it.
37 minute speech: The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America
Amazon: Daniel Hannan: The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America (hardcover)
Right. And about the ‘Malvinas’???
OK, How’s this? Give the Falklands back to Argentiana and then give Argentina back to Spain... OK???!!!!
“O” is a punk
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