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, December 21, 2005
Monarchist view of a Red Tory
First, I wish to say that I very much enjoy the Monarchist Blogsite. In particular I enjoy the well researched articles that span centuries, even millenia.
However, the very concept of Monarchy implies that the institution is "above politics". While it is useful to understand and study history, it is also vital to apply the lessons of history.
For example, very often people here will talk about the "British" or the "English", or the "United Empire Loyalists", or even "British Subjects". But the whole idea of the Monarchy is far broader than a unifying force in a single ethnic or cultural group.
In your post you asked what was "multi-culturalism". I will answer. In a nutshell, its the gateway to our Monarchy. Its the "admission ticket" to a civilized and peaceful society that is based upon the Rule of Law, guaranteed by the Crown, under God.
Sometimes I have found that people abuse "multiculturalism" as a thinly disguised form of racism. We have, for example, seen the uproar in the Royal Canadian Legion and how some members (which is to say veterans) were being racially abused through phony "house rules" that related to "no turbans". It took nothing less than a personal intervention of Her Majesty in Vancouver, who personally walked over to some of these veterans to formally thank them for their contributions to Canada, and to make a "statement louder than words" to some of the racists in the Canadian Legion for this furour over "turbans".
Her Majesty's action DEMONSTRATED with DEEDS exactly what "multiculturalism" is all about. Its how freedom loving people "join" Canadian Society.
Now my second point relates to Americans. I have always regarded the American Revolutionary War as a great tragedy because of its abrupt and revolutionary break with the flow of history, culture and tradition. No one should ever forget that America was Britain's "first child" and it was poorly treated as a child. Had Britain been more forthcoming to the American Colonies, the tragedy of the American Civil War might have been averted, a tragedy that had to square the circle of the contradictions at the very heart of American Republicanism, a tragedy that persists to this very day in their political life, where the government cannot even deliver the most basic of emergency services to its citizens.
I have one other observation, and that is about Canadian "Conservatives". For the most part, today, they have abandoned the path of traditional and civilized "tories" such as Sir John A. MacDonald, or the silver tongued Sir Edmund Burke. Indeed, they have abandoned even such American Conservatives as Wm. F. Buckley, instead following the siren call of the "neocons", those atheists most recently organized by such fascist intellectuals as Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Hayek and Freedman. Today's "conservatives" led by Mr. Harper are like a team of two horses pulling in opposite directions. In the one direction are the "monetarist" conservatives, folks that are basically atheists who believe that the "value" of things exist separately and apart in the form of "money". Pulling in the other direction, under such leaders as Preston Manning, are the "social conservatives" comprising mostly of "fundamentalist Christians" who rarely study or question their own convictions and beliefs, and who "stand on the Living Word of God", not-with-standing that its an English Language translation of a Latin text, that itself was a translation of an earlier Latin text, that itself came from the first Latin text of the original Scriptures first set down in Business Greek and Aramaic. Within the political establishment of the "conservative" tent, this second group has been fundamentally deceived by the first, by such suspects as "Lord Black" and his charming wife Barbara Amiel. Ever the "monetarist", Lord Black had himself appointed to the "Colonel" of the Governor General's Guard, which is something I to this day, do not completely grasp and understand. Lord Black of course, was a two gun totin, cussin supporter of Emperor George Bush II.
As Canadians, we were fortunate to have Prime Minister Jean Chretien see through the deceptions and deceit from south of the border, something that could not be said for Britons and Aussies, whose Prime Ministers have considerably less experience, and who themselves did not avail themselves fully of Her Majesty's advice and experiences. It would no doubt shock a lot of people on this site to know that Mr. Chretien was a strong supporter of the Monarchy, not unlike John Diefenbaker. As for comments about Mr. Manley, he is no longer in government in any capacity, and so its not proper to attack his party over such a phoney "issue" as Mr. Manley's "position" on the Monarchy in the Canadian Constitution.
COMMENT POSTED BY JOE GREEN
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 12:47 p.m. | LINKS |
First, I wish to say that I very much enjoy the Monarchist Blogsite. In particular I enjoy the well researched articles that span centuries, even millenia.
However, the very concept of Monarchy implies that the institution is "above politics". While it is useful to understand and study history, it is also vital to apply the lessons of history.
For example, very often people here will talk about the "British" or the "English", or the "United Empire Loyalists", or even "British Subjects". But the whole idea of the Monarchy is far broader than a unifying force in a single ethnic or cultural group.
In your post you asked what was "multi-culturalism". I will answer. In a nutshell, its the gateway to our Monarchy. Its the "admission ticket" to a civilized and peaceful society that is based upon the Rule of Law, guaranteed by the Crown, under God.
Sometimes I have found that people abuse "multiculturalism" as a thinly disguised form of racism. We have, for example, seen the uproar in the Royal Canadian Legion and how some members (which is to say veterans) were being racially abused through phony "house rules" that related to "no turbans". It took nothing less than a personal intervention of Her Majesty in Vancouver, who personally walked over to some of these veterans to formally thank them for their contributions to Canada, and to make a "statement louder than words" to some of the racists in the Canadian Legion for this furour over "turbans".
Her Majesty's action DEMONSTRATED with DEEDS exactly what "multiculturalism" is all about. Its how freedom loving people "join" Canadian Society.
Now my second point relates to Americans. I have always regarded the American Revolutionary War as a great tragedy because of its abrupt and revolutionary break with the flow of history, culture and tradition. No one should ever forget that America was Britain's "first child" and it was poorly treated as a child. Had Britain been more forthcoming to the American Colonies, the tragedy of the American Civil War might have been averted, a tragedy that had to square the circle of the contradictions at the very heart of American Republicanism, a tragedy that persists to this very day in their political life, where the government cannot even deliver the most basic of emergency services to its citizens.
I have one other observation, and that is about Canadian "Conservatives". For the most part, today, they have abandoned the path of traditional and civilized "tories" such as Sir John A. MacDonald, or the silver tongued Sir Edmund Burke. Indeed, they have abandoned even such American Conservatives as Wm. F. Buckley, instead following the siren call of the "neocons", those atheists most recently organized by such fascist intellectuals as Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, Hayek and Freedman. Today's "conservatives" led by Mr. Harper are like a team of two horses pulling in opposite directions. In the one direction are the "monetarist" conservatives, folks that are basically atheists who believe that the "value" of things exist separately and apart in the form of "money". Pulling in the other direction, under such leaders as Preston Manning, are the "social conservatives" comprising mostly of "fundamentalist Christians" who rarely study or question their own convictions and beliefs, and who "stand on the Living Word of God", not-with-standing that its an English Language translation of a Latin text, that itself was a translation of an earlier Latin text, that itself came from the first Latin text of the original Scriptures first set down in Business Greek and Aramaic. Within the political establishment of the "conservative" tent, this second group has been fundamentally deceived by the first, by such suspects as "Lord Black" and his charming wife Barbara Amiel. Ever the "monetarist", Lord Black had himself appointed to the "Colonel" of the Governor General's Guard, which is something I to this day, do not completely grasp and understand. Lord Black of course, was a two gun totin, cussin supporter of Emperor George Bush II.
As Canadians, we were fortunate to have Prime Minister Jean Chretien see through the deceptions and deceit from south of the border, something that could not be said for Britons and Aussies, whose Prime Ministers have considerably less experience, and who themselves did not avail themselves fully of Her Majesty's advice and experiences. It would no doubt shock a lot of people on this site to know that Mr. Chretien was a strong supporter of the Monarchy, not unlike John Diefenbaker. As for comments about Mr. Manley, he is no longer in government in any capacity, and so its not proper to attack his party over such a phoney "issue" as Mr. Manley's "position" on the Monarchy in the Canadian Constitution.
COMMENT POSTED BY JOE GREEN
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 12:47 p.m. | LINKS |
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