4 July 2006

4 July 2006. Ashamed. With the knowledge that there have been more shameful chapters in this lady’s history than are generally repeated. Still, this experiment outdistances all else. First in personal rights, first in commerce, first in armed forces, first in invention, first in scholarship (with 3 times the Nobel prizes of the nearest runner up and 200 times most comers)…

We’re not yet first in corruption, or torture, or human rights abuse, or theft, or violence, or even murder, or any number of other things even more ignorant nations like England peg us for.

Still, a shameful state in which we find ourselves. A state which would be unrecognizable to the men and women who created it and willed it to us.