Reply To: Is Great Britain F#cked?

[Joshua Caywood (Instructor)]

While the discussion should have ended 241 years ago, it didn’t. Which is why we then had the War of 1812 aka “second revolutionary war”, because the British were “conscripting” (kidnapping) our merchant sailors to fight in their conflict against Napoleon. The ending of the American Revolution and the subsequent War of 1812 were only roughly 7 generations ago. The British also currently have 56 Commonwealth Countries (which are technically “independent nations” that “pay tribute” to the crown, including Canada and Australia). I bring that up because one could argue conspiratorially that around the turn of the 1800-1900 century we sold ourselves back to the British through connected financial institutions and overly generous treaties and policies in their favor, thus making us secretly a commonwealth nation. They are used to still having ample control over former nations that are now pseudo-independent, just look at the political fiascos that have recently occurred in Australia and Canada as perfect examples. When all that is factored in it is not surprising in the least there are British government officials that would think they could do something like extradite Americans for exercising free speech.

Only time will tell how our government might respond. I hope I know how the American people would respond to something like that.