Rule, Britannia!

But it's also today the 251st birthday of the United States Navy, which raises some questions.

How did a collection of 13 British colonies with no money, no established naval force, and no realistic pros- prospect of defeating the Royal Navy at sea? Remember, the Royal Navy was Rule Britannia, da, da, da, da, da, da.

They'd beaten the French in sev- in 1763.

Uh, that was the comparison.

Very.

It is characterized by roaring crowds, thousands of people waving flags, and the loud, triumphant communal singing of patriotic anthems like Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory.

It is the pinnacle of grand, unifying, joyful noise.

And then the music swells, the crowd cheers, the broadcast ends, and the BBC switches the feed.

He was arguably the first British wrestler to be know- to not just be known as a British wrestler, if that makes sense.

'Cause I thought about this and I'm like, if you think about it as like Finlay came out with like the shillelagh and, and, and stuff like that, and you had the British Bulldog coming out to "Rule Britannia" with the Union Jack trousers and stuff like that.

They were very much...

William Regal as well, like, but he was like the commissioner who drank tea a- and so on and so forth.

Stevenson is much too subtle a writer to pause the narrative and deliver a dry lecture on the ethics of British imperialism, but he also deeply refuses to convert the crews of the Hispaniola into some jingoistic, chest-thumping celebration of British mastery over the globe.

There's no Rule Britannia moment.

None at all.

The harsh reality of the plot is that the physical island thoroughly beats the official well-funded expedition.

With the ring tail set, oh, the bowline was keen.

It was Rule Britannia plowing up the sea.

With a big bow wave, tarara, fody, rody, ride-o-day.

Then up comes the skipper from down below.

To blame the promise as unpatriotic, even if it was given, is to read duties defined at a much later date into the first feudal chaos.

To make such blame positive and personal is like expecting the ancient Britons to sing Rule Britannia.

William further clinched his case by declaring that Harold, the principal Saxon noble and the most probable Saxon claimant, had, while enjoying the Duke's hospitality after a shipwreck, sworn upon sacred relics not to dispute the Duke's claim.

About this episode also we must agree that we do not know, yet we shall be quite out of touch with the time if we say that we do not care.

Awesome.

Hail Britannia, Britannia leads the way.

Way to go, Osiyo.

Scams don't always look like scams anymore.

For more on the release of those suspects and their plans, we go to retired Marine Greg Kelly.

Hail Britannia has become Bail Britannia? You like that? It's crazy.

All right.

A would-be terrorist plot foiled, fortunately.