Re: The Double Murder of Rachel Corrie

On Monday 7 April 2003 5:33 am, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Sunday April 6 2003 9:44 pm, Daniel Cassidy wrote:
> > well, you live in a comparitively sensible country
>
> Maybe, but we still pay tons of taxes to maintain a royal family with birth
> rights. Our King waived almost all of his power in 1848 in fear of all the
> revolutions that had been happening in Europe.. pretty smart move. , it
> fooled my fellow cheeseheads into believing our royal family is harmless
> because they have little political power.
>
> Never mind that Maxima Zorreguieta (the wife of our crown prince) was able
> to skip most of the immigration procedures while that's a painful process
> for many others.. Never mind that when you point out an inequity like that
> people will bitch at you and defend the royal family.. "a royal family like
> ours is so unique, it's our history!"..
>
> While we actually had a republic system which caused Benjamin Franklin to
> say "In love of liberty and in the defense of it, Holland has been our
> example". But then Napoleon goes rampant in Europe and for some reason
> after his defeat we settle for a King instead of the republic we really
> were.
>
> I don't call that sensible.. ;-)

You can rephrase almost all of that very slightly in order to describe the UK, 
so I maintain that Holland is comparitively sensible.

-- 
dan

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