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Saturday, February 8. 2020

To honor the UK's recovered freedom

The USA is an exceptional country because of its freedoms and its constitution which protects them.  However, Britain is our mother. Britain's exceptionalism, in its rebellions against state and government power, and its honoring of freedom was the inspiration to take the idea of individual freedom further.




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Unfortunately, nowadays the UK is a police state. A couple of months ago, London police arrested a black minister for reading from the King James Bible on a street corner.
#1 ROBERT SYKES (Link) on 2020-02-09 07:56 (Reply)
Both countries suffer from overweening bureaucrats determined to stop challenges to their authority.
The fad for being offended started in the US.
Perceptions of freedom- in UK eyes it is ludicrous that you need a license from the state to cut hair or paint someones house or sell lemonade in the street. In USian eyes it is entirely normal that you seek permission from the state before undertaking these activities.
#2 Nessimmersion on 2020-02-09 10:43 (Reply)
"UK eyes it is ludicrous that you need a license from the state to cut hair or paint someones house or sell lemonade in the street. "

On the other hand in the UK it is illegal to repair the electrical wiring in your own house/
#3 jay on 2020-02-09 12:38 (Reply)
Sorry, that one is a myth. You can do your own electrical work as long as it is to code. Certain work i.e. bathroom ekectrics is notifiable and should be passed by building control.
Not that I agree but there is an argument that if you screw up some ones hair or the emulsion in their hallway thats one thing but screwing up the electrics is on a different level.
#3.1 Nessimmersion on 2020-02-09 17:05 (Reply)
OK. I was told that by a Brit. But it was second hand info.
#3.1.1 jay on 2020-02-09 20:48 (Reply)
The Anglosphere is simply different in general. That is a greater difference than how different Australia might be from Canada, or the US from the UK. Only the Dutch and maybe the Danes are all that similar.

Brexit is going to make that clearer again. Not only will Britain be closer to the US, its already close ties to the Commonwealth will strengthen.
#4 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-02-09 14:27 (Reply)

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