The Monarchist 1.0
Defending the British Crown Commonwealth and the English-Speaking Peoples
[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Something Denmark in the State of Rotten
Mark Steyn’s hitherto brilliant title, not mine. It refers to the ongoing and widespread national stories here regarding Denmark’s infringement of a piece of sovereign frozen wilderness in the Canadian Arctic known as Hans Island. Denmark is brazenly laying claim to Her Majesty’s Crown Land, and is now stepping up the ante after Canada’s Defence Minister decided to pay it a visit. The intrepid Dane has announced the future sending of a warship.
Enter the neutral multiculturalist with a comment in today’s Toronto Star:
You see, “us versus them” is not good, so the peaceable and the tolerant must capitulate in order to “promote the idea of world community”. The multiculturalist evidently does not believe in nationhood, national pride, patriotism, anything to do with maintaining a nation-state. These are nothing more than barriers to world community and world peace. Nations are a thing of the past. Our borders are open - come hither and take us.
Of all the developed countries in the world, I am convinced that Canada has the weakest national cultural identity. That is because the multicultis run the show here, and have been for the better part of the last 35 years. It is one of the mainstays of Liberal ideology that Pierre Trudeau invented and that the Commonwealth followed, not to mention scores of European countries. The monocultural nations of Europe have since discarded it like the plague; witness the turn around in Holland after the vicious Van Gohg murder, not to mention the Danes. With terrorism now a daily reality, Australia and Britain are now waking up in a hurray too. Only Canada remains. No longer an Allied country. The sick child of the Anglosphere.
Who knows: Perhaps in 200 years we’ll all be enlightened citizens of the world and nation-states will have ceased to become relevant. Given the free flow of trade and increased mobility of people, perhaps it will be that Canada was in the vanguard of something that was historically irrepressible. Whatever. Today the reality is that what’s true for Quebec nationalists is now true for Canada as a whole: “Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays. C'est l'hiver" (My country is not a country. Its winter.) I’m in exile in a frozen land. And Denmark wants a piece of me.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 2:07 a.m. | LINKS |
Mark Steyn’s hitherto brilliant title, not mine. It refers to the ongoing and widespread national stories here regarding Denmark’s infringement of a piece of sovereign frozen wilderness in the Canadian Arctic known as Hans Island. Denmark is brazenly laying claim to Her Majesty’s Crown Land, and is now stepping up the ante after Canada’s Defence Minister decided to pay it a visit. The intrepid Dane has announced the future sending of a warship.
Enter the neutral multiculturalist with a comment in today’s Toronto Star:
If two sensible, properly-dressed-for-winter countries like Canada and Denmark are going to squabble over a rock best suited for a tern colony, there’s probably not much hope for the rest of the world’s hot-blooded nations.
Nationhood may be good for local pride but it doesn’t much promote the idea of world community. Us vs. them is not good, as Londoners, New Yorkers, Egyptians, Baghdadians and other demographics can attest to. Rather than meanly replacing each others’ booze with their own, Canada and Denmark ought to find a way to share the place.
You see, “us versus them” is not good, so the peaceable and the tolerant must capitulate in order to “promote the idea of world community”. The multiculturalist evidently does not believe in nationhood, national pride, patriotism, anything to do with maintaining a nation-state. These are nothing more than barriers to world community and world peace. Nations are a thing of the past. Our borders are open - come hither and take us.
Of all the developed countries in the world, I am convinced that Canada has the weakest national cultural identity. That is because the multicultis run the show here, and have been for the better part of the last 35 years. It is one of the mainstays of Liberal ideology that Pierre Trudeau invented and that the Commonwealth followed, not to mention scores of European countries. The monocultural nations of Europe have since discarded it like the plague; witness the turn around in Holland after the vicious Van Gohg murder, not to mention the Danes. With terrorism now a daily reality, Australia and Britain are now waking up in a hurray too. Only Canada remains. No longer an Allied country. The sick child of the Anglosphere.
Who knows: Perhaps in 200 years we’ll all be enlightened citizens of the world and nation-states will have ceased to become relevant. Given the free flow of trade and increased mobility of people, perhaps it will be that Canada was in the vanguard of something that was historically irrepressible. Whatever. Today the reality is that what’s true for Quebec nationalists is now true for Canada as a whole: “Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays. C'est l'hiver" (My country is not a country. Its winter.) I’m in exile in a frozen land. And Denmark wants a piece of me.
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 2:07 a.m. | LINKS |
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