>Personally, I think their time has come to quit altogether. There will > always be an oppressive class sytem in Britain while the royals still exist
Who says you need to have a monarch at the head to have an oppressive class system??? The French pride themselves on their republicanism, and yet there are more magazines in France devoted to the comings and goings and doings of the "noble" class that there are in England!!! And look at the US people who are always falling over themselves and pay mega-dollars to be part of the entourage of any royal from any other country who happens to visit the US? I think hereditary "nobility" will draw other people for a very long time to come, because it fulfills a deep need in every man (and woman too, I guess, but maybe less) which has been around since prehistoric times: the need for things to "belong", and the need for "order" to exist (prefereably with oneself at the top!) . Of course, the ones we call "nobles" are just the ones who were better able than others to bash up everybody else, and to keep them "bashed", but if you destroy one class of "nobility", as they did during the French Revolution, you just get another one raising its head (the Napoleonic nobility, and if you get rid of your King or Emperor, you just get another kind of "nobility" again, like in the States. Why do you think people call themselves John Smith I and John Smith II, and John Smith Junior...if not to give the illusion of hereditary class! No, don't believe it. If you get rid of the Royal family in Britain, you'll just have someone else take over, and it will be oppression by money rather than oppression (are the British really oppressed compared to other nations? I'm not sure!) by old "rights". And I am ready to bet a lot of money that if there was the slightest chance that an American president could make himself into a king, he would do so at once! So would any French president!! Yours, cynical as always, Helene, the froggy from Melbourne, who moved to Australia so she could have a lifelong head of goverment who can partly support herself, instead of a series of cretins who cost the country heaps of money every time they're elected!! Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
