ENGLISH SPEAKING BIPEDS LEND ME YOUR EARS!

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   English speaking bipeds lend me your ears! Mr. Daniel Hannan published an article in the on line version of the Wall Street Journal that profoundly illustrates part of what I have been trying to tell the English speaking bipeds since I started writing. He not only explains why the English speaking societies are unique, but why the common law is unique, how and why it evolved, and some of the dangers English legal concepts and constructs face today. He addresses India, the largest English speaking, common law nation on Earth and suggests that it is time for India to cease leaning away from the English speaking world and assume a central place within it, lending the ancient wisdom of this sole surviving ancient civilization to the "Anglo-sphere". Interestingly, in the end he cites a naval civil relief mission conducted by the elements of the Indian Navy, U.S. Navy, and Australian Navy and notes that these three navies were able to inter-operate at a level that surpassed the practiced and planned level of NATO. While not primarily a maritime orientated article it provides vital background information to subjects that I often write about. As you know from the daily "Station Identification" page I am tireless in advocating a formal, practiced and drilled English speaking Naval Union. Mr. Hannan's Article is not light weight or short. But I Ask you to give it your full attention. You may begin reading below and then you will come to a link to the rest of the article.

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Editor's note: Below is a copy of the daily plea for English Speaking Unity That Namazu makes daily on the station ID. Namazu recognizes that India maintains an arm's distance from the Anglo-Sphere but ceaselessly advocates for the West to respect and invite India, and for India to take a leading role as member of the Anglo-Sphere

OUR BUSINESS DAY STARTS WHENEVER YOU ENTER. WE ALWAYS START OUR BUSINESS DAY THE SAME WAY WITH THE NATIONAL ANTHEM:

                               

                                                        

         Star Spangled Banner                                                                                 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKp29Luryc                                             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuoGOo3Bew                                                                

   OH CANADA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwDvF0NtgdU

                       ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR:                              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8tswkr25A0

                                                                        

                                                                        GOD DEFEND NEW ZEALAND:                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9O2Dm5WV5Uzum       

  The Great Namazu says: English Speaking Bipeds unite! For an English speaking naval union before it is too late!

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The World of English Freedoms

It's no accident that the English-speaking nations are the ones most devoted to law and individual rights, writes Daniel Hannan

Asked, early in his presidency, whether he believed in American exceptionalism, Barack Obama gave a telling reply. "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

The first part of that answer is fascinating (we'll come back to the Greeks in a bit). Most Brits do indeed believe in British exceptionalism. But here's the thing: They define it in almost exactly the same way that Americans do. British exceptionalism, like its American cousin, has traditionally been held to reside in a series of values and institutions: personal liberty, free contract, jury trials, uncensored newspapers, regular elections, habeas corpus, open competition, secure property, religious pluralism.

The conceit of our era is to assume that these ideals are somehow the natural condition of an advanced society—that all nations will get around to them once they become rich enough and educated enough. In fact, these ideals were developed overwhelmingly in the language in which you are reading these words. You don't have to go back very far to find a time when freedom under the law was more or less confined to the Anglosphere: the community of English-speaking democracies.

In August 1941, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met on the deck of HMS Prince of Wales off Newfoundland, no one believed that there was anything inevitable about the triumph of what the Nazis and Communists both called "decadent Anglo-Saxon capitalism." They called it "decadent" for a reason. Across the Eurasian landmass, freedom and democracy had retreated before authoritarianism, then thought to be the coming force. Though a small number of European countries had had their parliamentary systems overthrown by invaders, many more had turned to autocracy on their own, without needing to be occupied: Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain.

Churchill, of all people, knew that the affinity between the United States and the rest of the English-speaking world rested on more than a congruence of parliamentary systems, and he was determined to display that cultural affinity to maximum advantage when he met FDR.

TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE CLICK HERE:  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303289904579195922823363280

                     
Click on aby book cover icon to read more about Mr. Hannan's views on the same subject.