[Guelph4ever]

"Hey Felipe...welcome to America, where we don't kowtow to fancy-pants hereditary monarchs! We affirm the equal dignity of every person here, regardless of pedigree"

Actually, the only people in the world who still kowtow to monarchs are the Thai on a very few solemn occasions. I can also assure you that when the American colonial revolutionary government sent envoys to the Kingdom of Spain during the War for Independence they followed royal protocol to the letter. Perhaps you agree with the Spanish leftists that the monarchy should be abolished?

I am also surprised to see a conservative assert that everyone is treated the same in the United States, does this mean you favor legalization of gay marriage? Should a 20-yr old Muslim from Yemen be subject to the same scrutiny as the Prince of the Asturias?

However, the attitudes expressed by many on this board, and I don't want to pick on anyone in particular, display a big reason why the U.S. is so unpopular with much of the rest of the world. How many have posted messages to the effect of "the Hell with them, stay at home" or generally given the impression that we are superior to the traditional ways of European monarchies?

The British *are* still our allies, fighting alongside us in Iraq, so would it not bother anyone if Queen Elizabeth II was searched in the same way? It would me...