Friday, July 04, 2025
Happy American Independence Day!
July 4, 1776 is the day Americans said to Britain, "We don't need or want your government. We can be our own authority, and follow fundamental truths and principles, instead of your arbitrary, unprincipled diktats. Now shove off!" Americans then had to kill a bunch of Brits to make it stick.
In that spirit of joyous defiance, and in lieu of our usual essays on the importance of the Declaration of Independence and this holiday, "we" at Unforeseen Contingencies will attempt to violate arbitrary and noxious edicts from European despots. This should not be too difficult; the E.U. and the U.K. have all sorts of stupid rules about what things one must not say, and apparently they think these should apply to the worldwide web globally. So let's see what we can do. Here are some statements we think worth considering that (we hope) violate noxious edicts.
1. The European Union is a dictatorial and illegitimate regime and should be disbanded immediately, taking the Euro with it.
2. The Starmer government in the U.K. is a band of criminals; he and his ministers should be arrested and prosecuted for protecting Muslim rioters and rapists, and for persecuting people who protest transgenderism, abortion, and pretty much anything else that people have been arrested for protesting in the U.K.
3.The World Health Organization is a criminal enterprise. It should be abolished and Director-General Tedros should face a Nuremburg-style tribunal for his role in advancing the Covid lockdowns and related crimes. These are capital offenses and if convicted he should face capital punishment.
I think but am not certain we are breaking European "laws" here, but all we've done is express political opinion (#1) and argue that there have been criminal acts that should be prosecuted (#2 and #3), so just in case, let's continue.
4. Islamism should be illegal. Islamic government and sharia law are tyrannical and incompatible with advanced civilization.
5. It might not be true of all Islam, but current mainstream Sunni and Shia Islam are pernicious, noisome and ridiculous beliefs.
6. Climate change, as promoted by the IPCC, is a hoax.
There's a nice half dozen statements; surely something among them would offend U.K. police and get me a visit, were I to post them in that formerly great land. And I imagine I've advertently violated one E.U. regulation or other. I certainly hope so, and hope someone in the U.K. and E.U. stumble across them today.
The United States of America were founded on the principle "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights," and that governments exist only to protect these. If governments fail in that and become destructive of these rights, then they should be abolished and replaced. This is a fundamental principle, applicable to all times, people, and places, and the American Revolution first instantiated it. Every human being who loves liberty and abhors tyranny should celebrate this 249th anniversary today.
Here is an excellent short piece by the eminent historian Wilfred McClay on the meaning and origins of the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
Update 6 July 2025: Here's another short piece from Lloyd Billingsley on American independence from the U.N. and its ilk. Very good!
