From the what did you expect file, RE: Ted Kennedy's knighthood

All I will say it Ted is much more civil than I. Don't think it will ever happen but if I were offered such, I'd tell the Queen and the UK government exactly where they could shove that sword they knight people with.


ANDREW ROBERTS: The obscenity of giving Ted Kennedy a knighthood
By Andrew Roberts
Last updated at 12:19 PM on 05th March 2009

The decision to award an honorary knighthood to Senator Edward Kennedy shows Britain at its most masochistic, New Labour at its most cynical and - if he accepts it - Kennedy at his most hypocritical.

To bestow such a distinction on a man who has spent almost all his adult life profoundly opposed to the United Kingdom's best interests also makes a mockery of the honours system.

Ever since Patrick Kennedy (Ted's Irish great-grandfather) set foot on Noddle Island, Boston, on April 21, 1849, the family has nursed a deep resentment against the country that they blame for forcing them out of County Wexford during the Great Potato Famine.

Over all matters concerning Ireland, the Kennedys have taken a pro-Nationalist line that has been deeply antagonistic to the Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is why it is absurd for Gordon Brown to make this award, in the words of its official citation, 'for services to U.S.-UK relations and to Northern Ireland'.

For it is no exaggeration to say that Ted Kennedy did his damnedest to poison U.S.-UK relations over Ulster during the long decades in which he has castigated successive British governments. Rather than expressing any genuine commitment to peace in Northern Ireland, he would always play exclusively to his own Catholic-Irish voters in Massachusetts, whom he has represented in the Senate for more than 46 years.

Although he was always careful to use weasel words to condemn violence on both sides, it was always for Britain and the Ulster Protestants that he reserved his most withering rebukes. For the Queen to be obliged to honour this man is nothing less than an obscenity.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1159475/ANDREW-ROBERTS-The-obscenity-giving-Ted-Kennedy-knighthood.html

Edited to add: Now, there's a couple guys I'd like to have a beer with.

oh, and vile.

Let it go, man, let it go. Bet you're still pissed about the revolutionary war, aren't you.

Last I checked it was actually financially draning. That was a few years ago granted.

He would have lost my respect if he had not. If any British imperial apologist thinks its a bad thing; then hard luck.lol
the rights of oppressed minorities around the world should be supported.

congratulations Mr. Kennedy for staying true to your convictions.:toast:

It's an honor to the Brit monarchy, not the other way around. I don't know why he lets himself be used. The old colonial powers are still acting behind the scenes, causing great evil (see France in Haiti). The Brits also ruined FDR's intended worldwide legacy of the Four Freedoms.

would be knighted, or even accept the honor. But, I guess it is a huge honor and you don't want to turn it down. It just proves that people can move on after the Troubles, I suppose.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/4241865/History-will-show-that-George-W-Bush-was-right.html

He's a right wing historian, who longs for the days of the British Empire. His opinion isn't worth shit, on any subject. What can you expect from George Bush's Favorite Historian?



The Daily Mail is right wing dogshit, too. Please ignore it.