Forbidden Speech

A man in Scotland writes, but has to channel it through an American because he is now forbidden to say it aloud.

Once upon a time, North America was effectively Britain overseas. The colonists were Britons. They had British rights, British liberties, British privileges. Magna Carta. The Bill of Rights 1689. Around seventeen other Constitutional Statutes still technically in force.

Then King George decided Americans had lost their right to keep arms for their own defence, and that taxation without representation was perfectly acceptable. The rest, as they say, is history. The United States of America was born, and its citizens kept all of their old British rights and added God-given ones on top of them....

In 1920, Britain introduced its first serious Firearms Act. Before that, Britain had fewer gun restrictions than Texas.

Understand why it happened. It was not about crime. It was about preserving the Executive from its own people, specifically from any possibility of the kind of popular uprising that had just remade Russia. Protecting the ruling class. Nothing more, nothing less.

The constitutional safeguard of the citizen militia has also effectively been erased. It is almost impossible to find in Britain today.

If you keep reading, you find the criticism against the Administrative State that Weber mentions (see commentary on the sidebar). It overwhelms self-governance and replaces it with raw power.