Things like that have happened in our past and that is why we do worry about it.
Our Constitution is a direct result of the various freedoms the British attempted to remove from us at one time or another.
Yes we have a long memory. I envy you the confidence you have in your leaders. I have none in mine.
And if you happen to find a large amount of 303 British ammo please send it my way LOL
Our Constitution is a direct result of the various freedoms the British attempted to remove from us at one time or another.
Yes, I know - but from our perspective here, Britain learned from that - and for Australians, the Crown has been a primary protector of our liberties against tyrannical governments for over a century and a half. We have had attempts by governments - three major ones in my view - by governments to try and get around our basic rights and constitution - and in each case, the Crown has stepped in to correct what was happening. In the 1850s, in my own state (then a Colony), people stood up for some of the same rights Americans had - no taxation without representation being one of them. In that case, there was a single small battle - the closest thing we've ever had to a civil war here. And at the point the Crown stepped in, and the people got representation - self government by an elected Parliament (the leader of the rebellion was one of the first men elected as eventually wound up at its Speaker for seven years) within a year. It's a very different history and a large part of the difference is because America taught the British government that you couldn't get away with what they tried to do in America. It was a battle they couldn't win.
We benefited from what America did. It changed more than just the US. It changed what being part of the British Empire meant as well - at least for places where most people were white - it took another century for the idea of self rule and rights to permeate into the 'native' colonies.