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To: Sonny M
From the loyalists' point of view, their sovereign was King George III, their country was Great Britain, and the revolutionaries were the traitors.

Its a shame this country has not done enough to get rid of monarchies the world over, the founding fathers would no doubt be displeased.

What an idiotic statement. The more conservative founders, such as Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, had no problem with the idea of monarchy; they just didn't like the one they were dealing with. None of them would have supported a Jacobin crusade to rid the world of monarchies; George Washington, who wisely warned against foreign entanglements, would have been horrified at the idea.

A quick glance at world history proves that abolishing monarchies has been uniformly disastrous, generally leading to tyrannies far more horrific than the worst kings. The French Revolution culminated in the Reign of Terror. The fall of the German and Austro-Hungarian monarchies paved the way for Hitler. The monarchies of China, Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Cambodia were replaced by brutal Communist dictatorships. Need I go on?

Your program is nothing less than a recipe for endless war, totalitarianism, and mass murder.

196 posted on 04/19/2005 7:42:52 PM PDT by royalcello
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To: royalcello
A quick glance at world history proves that abolishing monarchies has been uniformly disastrous, generally leading to tyrannies far more horrific than the worst kings. The French Revolution culminated in the Reign of Terror. The fall of the German and Austro-Hungarian monarchies paved the way for Hitler. The monarchies of China, Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Cambodia were replaced by brutal Communist dictatorships. Need I go on?

Monarchies are for the fools and the sheep to worship. While many have fallen and been replaced by brutal governments, many of those brutal governments were replaced by far better ones, superior to "government by birthright" monarchies and the immediate successor governments.

Tis a fool who would choose to follow a king simply for them being born, true men, always prefer choice, cowards and scoundrals run from it towards servatitude to crowns.

To spread true liberty and give man a choice in his own destinity, crowns should be abolished.

The crown is the enemy of liberty. Look at the monarchies of the middle east, they to shall fall one day, and when democracy spreads through that region, they, along with the civilized world, will wonder why such a primitive system of government lasted this long into modern day civilization.

212 posted on 04/19/2005 8:47:14 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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