In the silence

British, Commonwealth and German war graves
St Mary's Churchyard, Great Bircham, Norfolk
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In the silence
British, Commonwealth and German war graves |
A good start. Image: Wikimedia Commons
LIFEBritish gardens, sports cars, celebrations, fashion.
Exciting, profound, joyful, local and global: British writers, artists and musicians
They brought honesty and common sense, fair play and compassion, bravery, daring, and self-discipline, and a passionate love of liberty to a 2000-year-long struggle to achieve freedom.
Brits gave us the modern world. We love it, loathe it, can't live without it.
They were a fellowship of men and women, slave and free who changed the world.
BRITAIN’S CONSTITUTIONAllegedly unwritten, but called "the most stupendous fabric of human invention" in the world, and extremely important to your well-being, no matter where you dwell.FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS Our gratitude to ADAM HILEY of Essex for his contribution to the website. Our happy thanks to BARRY AND VIVIENNE HOOPER of Australia, who purchased a book and made a donation to the website. They wrote, We thank you both for your wonderful website which you share with many.Our warm thanks to STEWLAC for buying copies of the book, making a donation to the website, and sharing our hopes.Thanks to JASON BARNES for contributing to Brits at their Best and buying a copy of the book. Hope he likes it.In appreciation of the file on abolishing slavery, TOBY ROWE has supported Brits at their Best with a contribution.
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The people of Britain and the Anglosphere defied a world of cruelty and superstition to create life-changing gifts. This is your inheritance. Glorious. Hardcover, 140 pages, 125 colour illustrations. Available at PG Wells Bookshop, Winchester, 01962 852 016. The cost is £4.99 (plus £3 shipping) in the UK, $9 (plus $8 shipping) in the USA. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like a copy. The authors — Dr David Abbott and Catherine Glass Abbott — are the publishers of this website. DAVID ABBOTT MD, MRCPI have practiced medicine in England, America and Canada for the last four decades. I believe in the principles of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. I am a father, grandfather, bell ringer, environmental campaigner and marathoner. Brits at their Best produced thousands of indispensable inventions, developed wildly popular sports, designed romantic houses and gardens, created astonishing literary masterpieces, lived with style and humour, tackled dangerous missions with daring and ingenuity, and fought with indomitable courage to establish and protect the free world. We describe their superb achievements and extraordinary lives. CATHERINE (CAT) GLASSI saw tyranny firsthand in Eastern Europe. (My background is English, Irish, and Czech.) I received my degree in Classical Greek from Columbia University, New York, worked in publishing in the United States for twenty years, and helped the homeless for seven years. We write about liberty, reason, imagination, fair play, a generous and forgiving spirit, love of God, the rule of just law, representative government, books, gardens, music, art, sports, inventions. . .the most wonderful things in the world.
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Comments (2)
Watching the many Remembrance Day ceremonies at the 90th year of the peace, secured by those brave men and women who died so that we could retain our freedom from foreign rule, I am deeply saddened, because I think they died in vain.
Instead of being an independent country, free to make it's own decisions, we have been shackled, by unworthy politicians, to a foreign power which soaks up taxpayers money like a sponge, and opened our borders to criminals and murderers, for little or no benefit to Britain after they ignored our laws of protection, which were supposed to stop this happening.
Following that heinous decision we were then sold into slavery to banks and giant corporations, who completed the destruction of this once well ordered nation; as the country's assets, small businesses, fishing, farming etc. were stripped, shut down, or sold to foreign owners.
Our police have been taken off their beats on our streets, chaos ensues due to 'moderniser' policies, and instead of more police we are treated to more and more intrusive surveillance (for which there is a huge greedy money making industry).
Worse still are the arrests of ordinary decent people, who dissented against the effects and imposition of acts of parliament and laws, alien to the well balanced 300 year old British System of law.
Magnified external and Internal threat have been used to justify the removal of our checks and balances, and the increase of unacceptable rules for detention, which fly in the face of civilised law abiding behaviour, and gave birth to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (an enabling act).
Well done to our cowardly politicians of all parties who participated in this crime against the people, for you have facilitated a fascist shift in the way this country is run, and unless the slide into totalitarianism is stopped and reversed, even you will become victims of the monster you are creating, for nearly all of the 10 steps to fascist rule have now been implemented, and nobody will be safe from it.
Ignore Magna Carta, and our Constitutional Laws entrenched in Common Law at your peril.
First it was the racists, then it was the homophobes, then it was the terrorists, then it was the smokers, then it was the obese, and pretty soon it will be everybody else who doesn't tow the line, as the overblown state tries to control absolutely everything.
Who will be next?
Mrs Jane Birkby | November 13, 2008 12:32 PM
Posted on November 13, 2008 12:32
A very moving aricle, heartfelt and true. But we will not give up on the brave souls who fought our battles.
They provided us with a taste of freedom which we will not give up so easily.
I believe they did not die in vain. Without that taste of freedom we would have no knowledge of what to fight for.
God bless them all.
KC | November 13, 2008 03:47 PM
Posted on November 13, 2008 15:47