Right wing shill at LA Times writes in praise of MONARCHY

yurbud

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Sat May-21-05 01:14 PM
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Right wing shill at LA Times writes in praise of MONARCHY

For some reason, I find this more pathetic and creepy than threatening.

Most notable is he compares the give and take and debate in a democracy to "goofing around" compared to the stability of an autocrat who serves for life.

If this was their goal, they should have done it sooner after 9/11. No amount of terrorism is going to let them get away with this now; people are getting to tired of fake threats and fear-mongering.

May 20, 2005
Long Live the Queen: She Still Matters
Britain's flexible democracy rests on the throne.

DAVID GELERNTER

EXCERPT:

...This extraordinary flexibility works well because of the queen. She is the ballast that helps keep the ship of state from capsizing no matter how much goofing around takes place on deck. (No need for ballast to be brilliant or exciting.) It's a law of organization that VPs come and go, but the top dog's disappearance makes the organization stagger.

That decapitated feeling is no good for a nation's mood or currency or economy. But with the soothingly familiar queen always on duty, Britons generally feel stable. And the feeling of great stability permits the reality of great flexibility. That is the monarchy's invaluable contribution...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-gelernter20may20,0,7338095.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

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Sat May-21-05 01:27 PM
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1. Well, here would be MY point.

Having a powerless head of state as a symbol of the state that is above politics sure beats investing Bush as the symbol of the state that is above politics. Questioning Bush is treason. Bush making sure that he never has to face a single doubter is the norm. Whereas Blair actually had to face the people in HIS election, because he is only the government, not some mystical embodiment of the Nation as BUsh has become in the Theocratic Republican Dominion.

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yurbud

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Sat May-21-05 04:46 PM
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4. We don't need a real OR symbolic monarch

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Frances

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Sat May-21-05 01:32 PM
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2. Frankly I think that the monarchy in Britain should be abolished

when Elizabeth dies. Let her son and grandsons live in peace and marry and divorce just like ordinary people with no more than ordinary publicity.

The Wall Street Journal posted a similar pro-aristocracy opinion piece back when Bush proposed those huge tax cuts for the rich.

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Sat May-21-05 02:32 PM
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3. I agree, but when your on a sinking ship what else is there to

flap about?

The religious right and a corrupt administration

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