Authored by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man's Pater Tenebrarum),
Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU. But the English, along with the Welsh, voted strongly to break out.
They dodged the searchlights, the hounds, and the barbed wire. Now, they are on the loose… and we and others are planning our escape.
“Frexit!” say the French.
“Nexit!” say the Dutch.
“Ciao!” say the Italians.
Beppe Grillo and Marine Le Pen – arguably, far greater threats to the EU than Boris and Nigel ever were…
“Italy may be next,” says the Financial Times, anticipating a crucial vote coming up in October. And after more than 1,000 years of empire building, even the United Kingdom looks less united.
Scotland is now likely to hold a second referendum on independence from the rest of Britain – which, if successful, would allow it to rejoin the EU.
And Irish republican party Sinn Féin is calling for a vote in Northern Ireland on whether it wants to rejoin the EU by unifying with the Republic of Ireland (which remains in the now 27-country EU bloc).
Here in the U.S., “Texit” – independence for the Lone Star State – has already been proposed. Maryland’s elders have so far held their tongues. (They remember that the last time they spoke in favor of “Maryexit” Lincoln put them in jail.) But other states must be considering their options.
For now, the crowds are still small…
And with the smell of freedom in our nostrils… wafting o’er the great seas… the spirit of liberty is stirring here at the Diary headquarters, too. If we had our druthers, we would exit from almost everything. The U.S. would LEAVE the Mideast, NATO, the UN… and all the “foreign entanglements” General Washington warned us about.
At home, we would exit the War on Poverty and the War on Drugs. Then, Maryland would withdraw gracefully from the United States. And we’re not finished. We don’t share much in common with the people from the West and the North of the state either. So we would encourage Anne Arundel County to break away from the Old Line State and declare its independence.
Finally, our allegiance would be clearer… and dearer. Yes, we would stand and put our hand over our heart, misty eyed, and sing the stirring words of the Anne Arundel County anthem. (“Oh, AA County, you’re not so bad… with crabs and oysters, it’s never sad…”)
Free again, we would solemnly swear our undying loyalty. At least we would swear our loyalty to the part of the county south of the South River. It would be foolish and presumptuous for us to claim allegiance to anything north of the South River or west of the Patuxent. We don’t know them intimately enough to have any genuine affection for them.
Saints preserve us….
But wait. There, standing at the prison gate, a Taser in one hand and a billy club in the other… is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“Stronger together” is her new campaign slogan. “And more easily controlled,” she might add.
Hillary is the candidate of the status quo. She is the ultimate insider, the warden, the Deep State champion whose entire program consists of building out the prison system set up by her husband, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Making a getaway is what Brexit is all about. But the British vote is not the end of the process. It is more likely just the beginning.
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