Thank God for the American Revolution

Two years ago, The United Kingdom held a referendum on whether or not the island nation should remain in the European Union.  Countries with vastly different cultures and languages banded together to form The European Union in the years following World War II, hoping to avoid the development of new nationalist movements on the line of those that caused World War II.  Eventually, many of the countries began abandoning their own forms of currency in favor of a common currency known as the Euro.  The EU allows citizens of one of its countries to move freely between member states.  In the past half a century, the EU has amassed an unfathomable amount of power, as the bureaucrats in its Brussels headquarters seek to take control of every aspect of everyday life in the 28-nation bloc. 

The left, including President Obama, and many on the right, including Prime Minister David Cameron, urged voters to vote to remain in the European Union, along with the Scottish Independence Party.  Strong advocates for voting “leave” included Nigel Farage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, and London Mayor Boris Johnson.   

The referendum, nicknamed “Brexit” by those supporting Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, took place four and a half months before the 2016 Presidential Election.  With 100 percent of precincts reporting, 52 percent of United Kingdom residents voted to leave while 48 percent voted to remain.  Younger voters, London, Northern Ireland, and Scotland furnished most of the “remain” vote while much of the “leave” vote came from “the midlands,” an area of Britain home to many industrial powerhouses that have found themselves abandoned in the post-industrial society created by globalization.   As President Trump would say, many forgotten men and women reside in “the midlands,” the British equivalent of the United States’ “rust belt.”  The map below illustrates the results of “Brexit” by region: 

  

As the June 23 referendum did not turn out the way he would have hoped, Prime Minister Cameron announced his intention to resign.  The Conservative Party rejected “Brexit” enthusiasts such as Farage and Johnson, instead selecting Home Secretary Theresa May, who also opposed “Brexit,” as his replacement. 

Globalists suffered another setback when the United States of America elected Donald Trump as the 45^th President.  President Trump campaigned on “Making America Great Again” by cracking down on illegal immigration, banning migration from terror-prone countries, protecting the Second Amendment, and smashing political correctness.  It looks like voters on both sides of the Atlantic had rejected the cosmopolitan values of multiculturalism, open borders and banning “hate speech” in favor of restoring the traditional western values of free speech and individual liberty. 

For all those who complain, often rightly so, about how the folks in Washington remain tone deaf to the demands of voters following the 2016 Presidential Election, “Brexit” voters have experienced a much greater degree of disappointment. 

Prime Minister May called for a general election in order to build a stronger majority in Parliament heading into the “Brexit” negotiations. The idea blew up in her face, the Conservative Party ended up losing 13 seats.  For the record, Britain has not officially withdrawn from the European Union yet.  The referendum simply triggered Article 50, which requires a two-year negotiation process before a country can actually leave the EU.  Just as the left in the United States has done everything in its power to undermine the Trump Presidency and remove him from office, the left in Britain and in Europe as a whole has tried to nullify the will of United Kingdom voters.  Many have even floated the idea of another EU referendum, which has ultimately gone nowhere.  As of right now, Britain plans to leave the EU on March 29, 2019.         


In recent years, the left in western countries has become openly hostile to Christianity.   Those looking for an example of this need look no further than an article published by Vice in 2015 asking “Was Jesus Gay?” The brilliant, beautiful, and talented Lauren Southern decided to perform a social experiment to see what would happen if a similar statement was made about Allah.  Southern and some of her friends created some fake posters reading “Allah is Gay, Allah is Trans, Allah is Lesbian, Allah is Intersex, Allah is Feminist, Allah is Queer, Allah is all of us.” Posing as social justice warriors, Southern and friends distributed the posters in the English town of Luton, which boasts a Muslim population of 25.6 percent.  Two weeks after conducting her social experiment, Southern attempted to re-enter the United Kingdom at the border in Calais, France only to find herself detained under Schedule 7, which aims to root out terrorists and national security threats. After six hours of questioning, the British gave her a refusal of entry, citing a prior “distribution of racist materials” that represents a “threat to the fundamental interests of society and to the public policy of the United Kingdom.”

A spokesman for Home Secretary Amber Heard justified the ban, saying that her presence in the United Kingdom was not “conducive to the public good.”  Did the geniuses in the United Kingdom forget about the three terror attacks that took place last year?  Wouldn’t the people who took all of those innocent lives pose a “threat to the fundamental interests of society and to the public policy of the United Kingdom?”  But as the religion of Islam becomes more of a potent political force in the United Kingdom, the people in power have wrapped their arms around the religion of “diversity” and “multiculturalism.”  This religion forbids any criticism or politically incorrect statements about Islam, which the left treats as a race rather than a religion.  The UK has also banned Pamela Geller and Michael Savage, both harsh critics of radical Islamic terrorism, from entering their country. 

23-month-old Alfie Evans had spent months at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool suffering from an unknown neurodegenerative disorder. As the cultural elites across the globe obsessed over the birth of Prince William and Dutchess Kate’s third child, the hospital announced its plans to withdraw Evans’s life support against his parents’ wishes.  Italy offered to give Evans treatment and even gave him Italian citizenship.  Pope Francis also offered to intervene.  Liberals who normally support open borders forbade a couple from travelling outside their borders in order to provide their child with life-saving treatment.  Just as the English government has no problem sacrificing innocent lives on the altar of diversity and multiculturalism, they don’t seem to have much of a problem with sacrificing innocent lives in an effort to save the reputation of the National Health Service.  Keep in mind that the base of the Democratic Party wants to bring socialized medicine to the United States. The story of Alfie Evans came to a tragic end over the weekend, when he died just eleven days before his second birthday. 

The case of Alfie Evans bears many striking similarities to the case of Charlie Gard, an 11-month old British boy who suffered from mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome, a rare disorder which meant that his mitochondria did not function properly.  He required the assistance of a ventilator to keep his cells functioning.  The Great Ormond Street Hospital decided that it wanted to withdraw his medical ventilation.   His parents strenuously objected to that decision and appealed to the European Court of Human Rights.   The European Court of Human Rights, which should have an interest in protecting the right to life, refused to hear their appeal.  Charlie’s parents raised approximately $1.8 million to cover a trip to the United States where doctors offered to treat him with an experimental drug.  No nation-state offered more help in the battle to save Charlie Gard’s life than the Vatican.  Pope Francis offered Gard Vatican citizenship, so he could receive treatment at its hospital.

Eventually, the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu Hospital, who also examined Evans, sent a letter to the Great Ormond Street Hospital illustrating the benefits of nucleoside treatments in patients and mice with a condition similar but not identical condition to Charlie’s.  In light of that letter, the Great Ormond Street Hospital applied for a new hearing.  The Courts did not budge. Gard ended up dying just a week before his first birthday.  The phrase “he who does not know history is likely to repeat it” surely applies to the cases of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans.  Does anyone else not see the connection between the left’s demonization of Christianity and their failure to respect the dignity of human life?  

All of these developments in our mother country should give all Americans a newfound appreciation for the actions of the patriots who risked everything during the American Revolution; as they sought to ensure that their descendants would enjoy freedoms that they could have only dreamed of, namely a First Amendment protecting the freedom of speech, which England obviously does not have.  Nearly a quarter millennium after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, many threats to freedom still exist; in the form of radical Islamic terrorists who seek to impose a worldwide caliphate and global bureaucrats who seek to abolish the nation-state in favor of global government, effectively erasing the promise of government by the people for the people as romanticized by President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address.  As President Reagan once said, “If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to.  This is the last stand on earth.”  Should the left ever regain power in America, it will not take long before the troubling developments taking place overseas become commonplace in the land of the free and the home of the brave as Ronald Reagan's worst fears come true.