Comments on: The Heck With The Queen Of England http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: xenos http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-27058 xenos Mon, 07 May 2007 14:44:14 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-27058 Neville: in a story for the New York times, it was written that Laura Bush and other women present at the dinner have the option of curtseying, but it’s not required. It is not “the last thing” the Queen would expect. It’s in the State Department’s “etiquette notebook”.

Doug: I’m with you. This entire visit makes me sick to my stomach. So-called royalty is evil.

]]> By: Neville Taylor http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26807 Neville Taylor Fri, 04 May 2007 09:41:20 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26807 A curtsey or a bow would be the last thing the Queen would expect from Americans. She is not an absolute medieval monarch, she’s a modern constitutional monarch. She’s not that keen on such formality with her own people. Please get your heads out of the past. She didn’t ask for this job, and she does it with dignity. Please, at least give her respect for that. This is not the 1700′s.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26689 Doug Mataconis Thu, 03 May 2007 19:44:00 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26689 As to fawning over the Queen, it’s perfectly natural to be excited to meet her. I don’t see the harm at all.

As long as we all agree that that’s exactly what it is —- fawning over someone who is famous for being famous.

Personally, though, I despise the idea of American citizens eagerly standing in line to curtsey to a monarch. If you want to meet the Queen of England, then go ahead and do it. But shake her hand, don’t treat her like a god.

]]> By: Dana http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26661 Dana Thu, 03 May 2007 14:42:59 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26661 There’s one story about Old King George I like. Benjamin West was an American Patriot and close friend of the King. Supposedly, in one meeting several English people present chided him for being American and a Patriot. King George came to his defend basically saying that anyone who wasn’t a patriot couldn’t be trusted.

Then he went mad and the relationship changed, but that is another story.

]]> By: Wild Pegasus http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26656 Wild Pegasus Thu, 03 May 2007 13:05:14 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26656 Tyranny of George III? LOL, he was half-senile. The Declaration of Independence had great things to say about political philosophy, but its recounting of the current situation was propoganda. That was all Parliament.

As to fawning over the Queen, it’s perfectly natural to be excited to meet her. I don’t see the harm at all.

- Josh

]]> By: Kevin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26640 Kevin Thu, 03 May 2007 05:57:27 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26640

Are you sure ?

If I’m not mistaken, weren’t loyalist raiders active in rural Virginia during the Southern campaign in the late 1770s-early 1780s before Yorktown? Perhaps I’m lumping Virginia in with the fighting in rural North Carolina and South Carolina (two Loyalist hotbeds that only began to align with the Americans when the British offered slaves freedom if they fought with the British).

If any colony was a loyalist hotbed, I’d put Massachusetts or New York in that category.

I’ll grant New York. Burgoyne was aided by New York loyalists when he marched to his defeat in Saratoga. However, Massachusetts, the home of the Revolution was anything but a loyalist stronghold. Boston perhaps until the British evacuated in late 1775, but Massachusetts was definitely pro-Patriot.

Now if the Revolution was fought today on the other hand…..

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26636 Doug Mataconis Thu, 03 May 2007 05:12:31 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26636 Virginia.

The home of Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Mason.

A Loyalist hotbed ???

Are you sure ?

If any colony was a loyalist hotbed, I’d put Massachusetts or New York in that category.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26635 Kevin Thu, 03 May 2007 05:09:11 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/05/02/the-heck-with-the-queen-of-england/#comment-26635 Hmmm…Virginia was a loyalist hotbed in the Revolutionary War.

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