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)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Our new G-G is no Liberal
I’m embarrassed by my earlier criticisms of our new Governor-General, but in my defense, I didn’t know who she was, what she believed in, how she felt about the country and its history – and I certainly didn’t know she could come across so convincingly and so effortlessly as a compelling monarchist. Yesterday, Liberalism temporarily died in this country under her vice-regalness and the pageantry of our British past.
I now admit the Liberals made a stellar choice. I had no idea they were going to pick a conservative as the Queen’s representative. But apparently neither did they, for they could not have been too amused by the message of her gracefully delivered investiture speech. I only got around to reading it this morning, but that speech put them all to shame.
She talked about freedom, “how precious that freedom is”, her “lesson in learning to be free”, that “freedom has marked our history and our territory, it has marked our summer breezes and our howling winds, that every “Canadian woman, every Canadian man prizes that freedom and would defy anyone who tried to take it away – of that I have no doubt.”
She talked about adventure, how freedom “helped create the spirit of adventure that I love above all in this country”, how “that spirit of adventure drove women and men to cross the ocean and discover a new world elsewhere”; “today, we are the sum of those adventures.”
Freedom and adventure? You mean not tolerance and diversity? You mean not public healthcare? You mean not modernism, which to every Liberal means a little bit of colour here, a little bit of orientation there, as Mark Steyn recently quipped. No politician ever talked about freedom and adventure in this manner, at least not since the Fathers of Confederation did back in the 19th century. Christ Jesus, it sounded almost American. It was probably only a speech an immigrant could make, so comfortable and granted we who were born here take our privileged lives. But not her, she actually believes it. She actually means what she says. She remembers what it was like living under the tyranny of a ruthless dictatorship.
I also just learnt that she is on the public record of being against multiculturalism, how it lends to the ghettoization of society. Her speech was about “looking beyond our differences”, about eliminating “the spectre of all the solitudes” and promoting “solidarity among all the citizens”…what? I say what? Is she not reading the script? Didn’t the Liberals vet her speech? I thought we were a mosaic of peoples, not a melting pot. Whatever the hell is she talking about?
I could go on and on. She talked about duty. Duty? What’s that? She talked about her respect for Her Majesty. She talked about the sacrifice of our veterans. She talked about the opening of markets. She talked about the sense of honour and trust in the self-reliant West, about how she admires that it’s still possible to conclude a business contract in those parts with little more than a handshake…
I don’t want to exaggerate here. Madam Jean may not be a conservative. But a God damn Liberal she is not. No Liberal that I know ever spoke the words that she did yesterday. In one speech, she cut through so much B.S., I can’t believe my ears. Or my eyes. Did you see her outfit during last night’s evening gala. She looked like a Roman chariot godess. My my, who is this lady? What has she done?
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 2:20 p.m. | LINKS |
I’m embarrassed by my earlier criticisms of our new Governor-General, but in my defense, I didn’t know who she was, what she believed in, how she felt about the country and its history – and I certainly didn’t know she could come across so convincingly and so effortlessly as a compelling monarchist. Yesterday, Liberalism temporarily died in this country under her vice-regalness and the pageantry of our British past.I now admit the Liberals made a stellar choice. I had no idea they were going to pick a conservative as the Queen’s representative. But apparently neither did they, for they could not have been too amused by the message of her gracefully delivered investiture speech. I only got around to reading it this morning, but that speech put them all to shame.
She talked about freedom, “how precious that freedom is”, her “lesson in learning to be free”, that “freedom has marked our history and our territory, it has marked our summer breezes and our howling winds, that every “Canadian woman, every Canadian man prizes that freedom and would defy anyone who tried to take it away – of that I have no doubt.”
She talked about adventure, how freedom “helped create the spirit of adventure that I love above all in this country”, how “that spirit of adventure drove women and men to cross the ocean and discover a new world elsewhere”; “today, we are the sum of those adventures.”
Freedom and adventure? You mean not tolerance and diversity? You mean not public healthcare? You mean not modernism, which to every Liberal means a little bit of colour here, a little bit of orientation there, as Mark Steyn recently quipped. No politician ever talked about freedom and adventure in this manner, at least not since the Fathers of Confederation did back in the 19th century. Christ Jesus, it sounded almost American. It was probably only a speech an immigrant could make, so comfortable and granted we who were born here take our privileged lives. But not her, she actually believes it. She actually means what she says. She remembers what it was like living under the tyranny of a ruthless dictatorship.
I also just learnt that she is on the public record of being against multiculturalism, how it lends to the ghettoization of society. Her speech was about “looking beyond our differences”, about eliminating “the spectre of all the solitudes” and promoting “solidarity among all the citizens”…what? I say what? Is she not reading the script? Didn’t the Liberals vet her speech? I thought we were a mosaic of peoples, not a melting pot. Whatever the hell is she talking about?
I could go on and on. She talked about duty. Duty? What’s that? She talked about her respect for Her Majesty. She talked about the sacrifice of our veterans. She talked about the opening of markets. She talked about the sense of honour and trust in the self-reliant West, about how she admires that it’s still possible to conclude a business contract in those parts with little more than a handshake…
I don’t want to exaggerate here. Madam Jean may not be a conservative. But a God damn Liberal she is not. No Liberal that I know ever spoke the words that she did yesterday. In one speech, she cut through so much B.S., I can’t believe my ears. Or my eyes. Did you see her outfit during last night’s evening gala. She looked like a Roman chariot godess. My my, who is this lady? What has she done?
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 2:20 p.m. | LINKS |
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