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Tom Brown: It's time to genetically modify the royals out of existence
Those MPs who want to dispense with the oath should be encouraged
GREETINGS, fellow forelock-tugging, serf-like 'subjects' of a gracious,
noble, victorious, happy and glorious Sovereign. Prithee, answer this
question: are you happy living in Disneyland instead of a true democracy?
Can we really go on in this modern
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era with a fairytale for a constitution - and a granny Queen or her son, the
Prince of Fogeys, long to reign o'er us?
Anti-monarchists plan a legal challenge to the oath of loyalty which MPs,
judges, people seeking citizenship, peers, archbishops, bishops and police
constables swear to the Queen. The campaign group Republic will seek a
judicial review through a test case if one MP or an official refuses to take
the oath. A couple of dozen MPs from all three main parties have dared to
call for the scrapping of their 500-year-old oath of loyalty to the
so-called 'Ruler' of the United Kingdom, asking instead to swear allegiance
to their constituents and the nation. This dangerously democratic move has
brought the usual creaking knee-jerk response from the mealy-mouthed
monarchists in Parliament who describe it as "constitutional vandalism", a
personal insult to the Queen and an attempt to republicanise our
constitution (which doesn't exist - at least, not on paper).
Now we have His Royal Highness (how high above us vassals? Not very,
methinks) Prince Charles, ranting in that remarkably refined drawl about GM
crops. As the living result of generations of breeding from a carefully
controlled gene pool, he may have first-person experience of genetic
juggling - but why should we pay more attention to Charles than to any other
well-meaning, concerned crank?
His position as Him-in-waiting-for-his-Mum-to-pop-her-court-shoes does not
give him a right to be regarded as a greater authority than any opinionated
know-all commoner you will meet in any pub. In fact, he is treading on
dangerous ground for a would-be King-thingy because he is blundering into
contentious public affairs and calling into question Government policy,
which has approved controlled testing of GM spuds, which are now sprouting
in Yorkshire.
Because he is 'Royalty', the princely pronouncement that GM food would be
"guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster, environmentally, of all time" was
trumpeted across the media. No matter that he did not produce any scientific
evidence and ignored the fact that the subject is complicated by conflicting
research, confused GM with cross-bred crops where there is no biological
manipulation and dismissed Third World countries which have moved from
dependence on food aid to self-sufficiency.
Prince Charlie is himself a walking anachronism, the embodiment of the
quandary of monarchy: whether it has any value or is an outdated and vaguely
ridiculous anomaly.
A combination of breeding and brainwashing appears to have convinced him
that his contribution is important, even necessary, to the nation. He has
said in his future role as King that "the most important thing will be to
have concern for people and give some form of leadership". If the
backward-looking Prince of Wails is a national leader, Britain is in worse
shape than I thought.
Good or bad, we elect our leaders and if they are bad, we kick them out. The
Royal Family do not have a divine right; they 'rule' in a strictly limited
way only because we tolerate them - and because their titles confer on them
a pseudo-celebrity that is handy for tourism and selling tabloid newspapers.
Ceremonial flummery has its uses as historical pageant and a tourist
attraction but we should be careful other nations do not judge us by that,
because the dressing-up too often topples over into unintentional satire.
There is nothing more Ruritanian than the appearance of Charles or Philip
and their male relatives on military-style occasions when they are converted
into field marshal, admiral or air marshal by a quick change of uniforms,
each dripping with gold braid and medals and none of which have been earned.
Nothing is more phoney - with the honourable exception of Prince Harry in
Afghanistan - than the younger royals using the armed services as a
convenient finishing college or time-filler until they graduate to the
onerous duties of cutting ribbons and laying foundation stones. Does anyone
really believe in Prince William as the hero of death- defying drugs busts
in the Caribbean? No wonder they regard service helicopters as handy flying
taxis to get them to society parties.
The parliamentary oath is a dire warning things to come: "I swear by
Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law." It reminds us
that, unless we come to our senses, we will be stuck with the House of
Windsor indefinitely.
No one would dream of asking the present Queen to abdicate, but after her
comes Charles, 60 this year and likely to be drawing his pension before the
throne becomes vacant. What message would it send to an increasingly
competitive, forward-looking world to have him become head of state in that
state? And after him would come the controversially named King William, who
has so far shown no talent for anything except picking good-looking women.
Those MPs who want to dispense with the oath should be encouraged and, while
they are at it, let them look for a new national anthem that is truly
national and dispense with the farce of the Queen's Speech: "My government
will this, that and the other" in words put into her mouth by politicians
and a lot of which one says through gritted teeth. Oh, and a referendum on
whether we need or want class-ridden rule by royal relics.
Slowly and far too timidly, inch by inch, Britain has been edging out of the
17th century and into the 21st, but there are signs that the process of
rocking the royal throne is speeding up. And, if we play our court cards
right, we could be shot of monarchy and all the mumbo-jumbo that goes with
it, sooner rather than later.
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The UK is not a democracy. It is in fact a Monarchy and probably one of the
worst in the world.
The Magna Carta signed by King John in 1215 AD is still valid as recently
confirmed by a UK government department. The Crown employed mob have ignored
this fact for generations. The UK Monarchy and justice do not go together. I
dont think that they ever have done that. After three attempts on my life my
UK Crown employees I can swear to this fact. The theft of my home at 16A The
Lyons, Hetton-le-Hole. Tyne and Wear along with two attempts on my life
carried out by Crown emplyees, Northumbria Police Special Squad (Murder
Squad) continue to be ignored by Prime Minister by default Brown as did his
predecessor war criminal Tony Blair. My letters to Queen Elizabeth on these
matters have been ignored by the Royal employed mob. It is my intention to
seize the property known as Mirehouse near Keswick as part of the damages
caused to me by a former recorders perversion of the course of justice. He
is reputed to be a friend of Queen Elizabeth II. My own home. 16A The Lyons,
Hetton-le-Hole. Tyne and Wear, presently occupied by a criminal who was
previously a Crown employee will also be returned to me in time. This
criminal was assisted in her crimes used against me by the former recorder
who illegally presided in Durham and Newcastle County Court cases DH400950.
DH400898 and NE401650. This recorder carried out acts to pervert the course
of justice in the above cases. I had only just contributed to the House of
Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry into Freemasonry fraud. I
remained in contact with Lord Nolan until his death in February of 2007.
Lord Nolan was given his title by the Patron Head of UK Freemasonry, Queen
Elizabeth II. He was in these circumstances alone never impartial or
independent.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair and present Prime Minister Gordon Brown are
also members of the UK Secret Society of Freemasonry cult. Joining a gang
such as Freemasons can help open doors that have been otherwise locked to
someone. This situation will end sooner than some masons might otherwise
think.
Brown coninues to play the silly sod with me over matters of very serious
crime carried out against me which also concerns the UK general public.
The UK needs an elected Head of State as a matter of priority, not the
Patron of UK Secret Society of Freemasonry Queen Elizabeth II.
Members of Parliament must swear their Oath of Allegiance not to Queen
Elizabeth II, but to the general public of the UK. Secret Societies such as
Freemasonry have no place in the rule of any country such as the UK.
Perhaps one day the UK general public will realise that the Party Political
system is not the way to democracy. Free thinking people might one day
replace Members of Parliament. Only then might we be on our way to becoming
a democracy.
My home at 16A The Lyons, Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear took me several
years of very hard work to rebuild. It will be returned to despite
Northumbria Police Special Squad attempts to murder me in 2003 when they
stole my home.
The UK alleged justice system is awash with corruption. These people wont
right the present situation themselves so it will eventually mean that the
UK general public will have to do it themselves.
Maurice Kellett.
http://www.mason-rule.bizhosting.com
http://www.masonsatwork.50megs.com
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date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:16:58 +0100
author: Maurice Kellett
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