REPUBLIC campaign for ELECTED head of StateJun 13th, 2008 - 18:04:29

Britain's history has been one of gradual change from absolute monarch toward a modern democracy. And yet that democracy remains incomplete as we continue to hold on to the last remnants of an outdated system of power and privilege.

During the last century and a half, the world has experienced fundamental changes, both political and social. Britain, too, has changed, with democracy and universal suffrage largely replacing an aristocratic and hereditary system. More recently, some powers have been devolved to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and London. However, despite all these changes our constitution remains a family affair, a system in which the 'crown' is sovereign and the Windsor family reign supreme. As citizens we should be sovereign, not the crown nor parliament. In a democracy we should be choosing our next Head of State, not leaving it to the genetic lottery of the Windsor family.

Britain still retains a political culture centred on 'Her Majesty's Government' - not ours, but hers, a powerful reminder in days gone by of where our place was in the system. The idea of royal 'ownership' continues to pervade this culture and to reinforce the idea that the system is not our own.

Despite the extravagant costs of monarchy, and the increasingly erratic behaviour of the royals, our arguments are concerned with democracy, the principle that this is our country and we should choose our heads of state.

We should have the right to elect and hold to account all who hold public office and such people must remember that they are there to serve us, and not vice versa.

It is time to claim the right to our own country and to choose our Head of State.

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Try this.........Jun 13th, 2008 - 18:10:11

www.monstersandcritics.com/people/royalwatch/news/article_1409447.php/Princ e_Charles_%A3220000_tour

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mikeJun 13th, 2008 - 20:12:14

i want to keep the queen can you imagine what it would be like if we had someone like blair as president, or even mugabe.

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SP4: UN -the Golden Years!Jun 13th, 2008 - 20:30:19

Today, the UN, in what can be called the largest case of inverted priorities in history, focused it's lauded Human Rights council' attention on that festering, cauldron of human abuse

Britain

Apparently, ignoring the usual set of abuses such as slavery, child labor, foirced sexual bondage and servitude (the UN peacekeepers favorite) they ran to that seed of outrage, that undeniable human atrocity:

The Brit Royals!

God, how the daily tabloids make us suffer! Somenone finally went to an international body and begged! I'll bet it was Rupert Murdoch...

Now, let's just stoll over the human rights scorecard worldwide in another document prepared by those darn yanks, who, happily, knew EXACTLY what to do when you dislike a british monarch!:

The US State Departmant's Human Trafficking report.

sexual and forced labor in 170 nations

abuse of men, wmoen and children in factories, brothels and farms

Russia - imports prostitutes and forced laborors from central asia

China - relocation of children to work in electronics factories

- sells N.Korean refugees into brothels and marriages and men into forced labor in logging camps, Karl Marx, where are you?

Brazil - forced child labor

India - forced labor and caste sytem humn abuses, forced marriages.

This does not address all the other assorted slavery, the 45,000 who die per month in the Congo, the mess in Darfur, the brutal regimes of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the endless reports from South America, etc.

Yes, the Un really outdid itself today. God, what a proud moment!

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JockJun 14th, 2008 - 09:42:10

Well? yes Mike who would ever want B-liar or Mug av-evee?

Even worse
Who wants King Charles and 'queen' Camilla????????????????????//

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vn worrs

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Dr.TemplarJun 14th, 2008 - 17:50:01

The world over is blanketed by wars,poverty,famine, human trafficing,nuclear proliferation , floods and earthquakes of near Biblical proportions,epidemics of the most virulent diseases and a littany of other horrors and the U.N. is worried about the Royal Family in one of the world's greatest nations!? Can you say 'SKEWED PRIORITIES?'
How terribly far from the hopeful designs of it founders can an organization get? Time for that worthless ,corrupt,money pit to go the way of the League of Nations and be dissolved!The U.N. has NO VALUE!!!

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Dr. TemplarJun 14th, 2008 - 17:57:42

The world over is blanketed by wars,poverty,famine, human trafficing,nuclear proliferation , floods and earthquakes of near Biblical proportions,epidemics of the most virulent diseases and a littany of other horrors and the U.N. is worried about the Royal Family in one of the world's greatest nations!? Can you say 'SKEWED PRIORITIES?'
How terribly far from the hopeful designs of it founders can an organization get? Time for that worthless ,corrupt,money pit to go the way of the League of Nations and be dissolved!The U.N. has NO VALUE!!!

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