It Happened to England, We Must Stop It Here

The following is a forum post from an a Brit who is a Ron Paul supporter. With her permission, I am reposting it here. Listen up America, before it's too late.

This is Breaking My Heart
by Julia

Anyone round here ever seen something horrible happen and then a few years later see it happening all over again?

That's where I am living just now.

In my lifetime I watched England turn from a great nation to a cowed city state of the European empire. We have no control of our borders, no control of our taxes; no control of our foreign policy - heck, we can't even buy a pound of bananas in our supermarkets any more because Europe says we have to have everything in Kilos.

I have to abide by European employment legislation in my business, I am not allowed to work more than 50 hours a week and I MUST have 4 weeks paid vacation - even though I already have 15 weeks compulsory vacation as an education worker.

I pay 35% of anything I make to the government - then another 8% on top of that - then my company pays another 12.8% on top of that for the joy of employing me - then I pay $2000 a MONTH in local government tax on a very small house - and 17.5% tax on everything I buy - except fuel where I pay almost $12 a gallon of which over 80% is tax.

The government or the police watch everything I do via CCTV, my financial records are centralized and getting access to the info they hold on me costs me $20 and months of letters and calls to find out - if it ever arrives.

That's my nightmare and you don't have to care about it. But people, if you don't get your fingers out of your ears, eyes, mouths and any other orifice you might have them stuck in it will only take you 5 or 10 years to end up in the same pile of manure I'm sitting in right now.

I love America - always have - but y'all are not making yourselves real popular around the world right now. And the ONLY candidate in this election who could do a single thing to get you out of it is Ron Paul.

I know what he has said about priorities; I know what the media has done to you; I know people are throwing in the towel on you and things are not looking their best.

But the stakes are too high to give up without one hell of a fight. It's time to get a long line of people to hold up the flag and keep it flying. Go back and listen to the story of the Star Spangled Banner again and start piling up the bodies if you have to (figuratively speaking!) But you have to fight now to save your nation.

You let it go now and it will be gone forever.

Come on, America. Save yourselves - and save me from watching another once great, brave nation go down the pan.

I don't have many answers for you. I'm not a politician. Just think of me as a cheerleader from England who loves what you've got and can't stand the pain of watching it be stolen from you by a small group of lousy politicians and bankers who want to rule the world.

Comments

[sabrina]

That was beautiful. How empowering. It looks like the face of Ron Paul's followers is taking shape. There is discussion about a March in Washington. That's really what it takes. The media are trying to ignore him. I suppose that even at the debates; when he gets a chance to speak the Journalists are giving him questions which they expect could make him look like the wrong candidate in the viewers eyes. I'm proud of Ron Paul and I support him. I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I moved to Germany not too long ago. I voted Absentee for Ron Paul in the two delegate sections. Of course he is the only answer for our country. I love England equally as well. Irland, Scottland and Wales too! It's really my heritage. We've gone different ways in history. That part is true enough. However, my heart holds a special place for a Great Britain, kingdom. Life without a King or Queen in England would seem unthinkable. But, it is what has been happening since the Magna Carta Treaty. Germany has it bad too. Though, you wouldn't hear many complain about it. Very few fight. I wonder why that is? Is it that they fear struggling? I love you England.

[tom]

I've been mourning the death of freedom and liberty since the LBJ era, I don't see anything changing because the education establishment has a vested interest in seeing that nothing changes.