“Honor The Vision Of Your Founders”
August 8th, 2009
Thursday, Michael Warren from NRO reported that message of Daniel Hannan from he spoke at the Heritage Foundation.
Friday, Iain Murray linked to a blog post of Hannan’s:
Their country was founded on a series of premises: that concentrated power corrupts; that jurisdiction should be dispersed; that decision-makers should be accountable; that taxes should not be raised save by elected representatives, nor laws passed without popular consent…
Warren also wrote regarding Hannan’s speech:
Despite the many challenges facing conservatives in the West, he remains optimistic. “What’s done can be undone,” Hannan said, though he warned that the process would be painful and difficult. Hannan noted that public opinion in many European countries is opposed to the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. “The mass of sensible people is the greatest ally to conservatives,” he said.
And that mass of sensible people, Victor Davis Hanson writes, has Prairie-Fire Anger.
There is a cascading anger at a new sort of left-wing elitism and hypocrisy as well, one that feeds the rhetoric of class warfare. The rules of the game simply do not apply to this bunch of wannabe Platonic Guardians….
…One of the worst flaws of this species of utopian technocrat is the notion that he wishes to curtail in others the very things he wishes to enjoy without constraint himself.
Thus we sense that a Geithner does not wish to pay the taxes he hikes on others. A Holder wants to destroy through subpoena and litigation the Bush lawyers, but pleaded once for mercy for his own shenanigans involving the crooked Clinton pardons. And Obama lectures about the inequality of wealth and the burdens of racism while his wife’s salary climbed as his political influence grew. Meanwhile his own rarified tastes translated into a shady transaction with Tony Rezco to help to score a stately home and expansive yard—while attending a Trinity Church that radiated racial venom from a charlatan preacher who ended up in a mansion on a golf course.
Hanson concludes that even he:
…underestimated the righteous anger of those who are daily deprecated by a utopian class—one that has neither the ability nor the fortitude to achieve what it now wishes to undo in others.
From the Heritage Foundation:
In the Green Room: MEP Daniel Hannan
Putting the Government in Charge: Why America Should Avoid Europe’s Mistakes
If you don’t remember who Daniel Hannan is, watch this.
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H/T: NRO’s The Corner, Daniel Hannan’s Telegraph blog, Heritage Foundation, Pajamas Media
(Incidentally, I agree with the comments regarding John Adams. He’s the man!).
Crossposted in a modified format to Be John Galt.
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People in this country are fed up in a way I haven’t seen since the Viet Nam protests in the late sixties and early seventies.
Not surprisingly, it is the same generation of people doing the protesting now as then, only a bit older and mostly have come to their senses.
The only violence has been practiced by the union and ACORN thugs brought in by the proponents of health care “reform”.
I hope the people prevail, but with dictators like Pelosi, Reid and Obama it’s hard to predict.