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>From www.morrock.com/homebrew.htm
> American royalty
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> By SAM WAMMACK
> TMNS Correspondent
> July 23, 1999
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> John F. Kennedy, Jr. apparently flew his private plane into the
> ocean last Friday night -- causing an accident which killed him,
> his wife, and his sister-in-law. A fatal accident of any kind is
> always a tragedy, and my sympathy goes out to the families of
> those three young people.
>
> With that said -- where the heck did this idea of "royalty" come
> from? During five days of near-continuous news coverage, JFK Jr.
> has repeatedly been called "America's Crown Prince" on
> television. The government turned out half the Navy, Air Force,
> and Coast Guard to continue this expensive search for days --
> even though it became obvious after the first few hours that
> there could have been no survivors.
>
> Why the special treatment? JFK Jr. was the son of a president,
> but he held no public office and he was a private citizen just
> like you and me. If I sink my bass boat in Tablerock Lake and
> turn up missing -- will there be admirals and generals giving
> press conferences, surveillance planes in the air, and Dan Rather
> waxing poetic on TV for five days? I doubt it.
>
> I think a couple of things are going on. First, the press loves
> the Kennedy family -- they covered for and romanticized JFK
> Senior's administration, they wanted Robert and then Ted in the
> White House, and they were going to run JFK Jr. for president in
> 2008 or so. Now, like Uncle Teddy 30 years ago, JFK Jr. has had
> an accident and screwed up the plan -- and the press is having a
> hissy fit. If this plane crash had "only" killed a Nixon daughter
> or one of Reagan's kids, it wouldn't have gotten much press --
> but the newsies just love those Kennedys.
>
> Second, though, and more seriously, there seems to be a yearning
> to establish an aristocratic and "royal" class of people in this
> country -- and that yearning is being actively fueled by the
> media. The supermarket tabloids reflect a society that idolizes
> entertainers and those who are born into or marry wealth and
> power. We have come to value showmanship and position over
> substance, and we are forgetting that our greatness was achieved
> as a republic. Our heroes used to be Abe Lincoln, Davy Crockett,
> and Babe Ruth -- not Madonna, Elvis, and Princess Diana.
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> The idea of "royalty," a class of people who are our natural
> leaders by virtue of their birth or marriage, is disgusting and
> distinctly un-American. That's exactly what this country is NOT
> about -- and it's the issue for which we fought a long and bloody
> war with Britain to gain our independence.
>
> As another part of this phenomenon, Hillary Clinton seems to feel
> that she should be a U.S. Senator from New York -- not based upon
> any personal achievement, but upon her fame as the wife of the
> President. Amazingly, some of the public and most of the press
> seem to think that's a fine idea. Our thinking as a nation has
> obviously changed about such things. Just imagine what would have
> happened if Mamie Eisenhower or Bess Truman had picked out a
> state in which they had never lived and tried the same thing --
> the press and the voters would have laughed them out of town.
>
> Actually, if having, um, "relations" with Bill Clinton is enough
> to qualify a person for Congress, then there are probably plenty
> of qualified people around to fill all 535 seats. And a mighty
> fine bunch of women they would be, too, from the samples I have
> seen.
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> If anyone doubts what a poor idea "royalty" really is, all you
> have to do is look at the experiences of other countries. In
> Russia and France the "royals" got pretty excessive, but when the
> people of those countries finally grew sick of their aristocracy,
> they got rid of them quickly, permanently, and fatally. In Great
> Britain, they just let 'em linger.
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> So far as I can tell, the modern royal family in Britain serves
> several purposes. They cost British taxpayers a great deal of
> money, they serve as an example of a superbly dysfunctional
> family of English rich folks, and they make Americans happy that
> we kicked George III out of here when we had the chance. I
> suppose that all the royal tradition, pomp, and ceremony also
> serves as a reminder to the Brits of the glory of the Empire. You
> know -- it makes them remember back to the good old days when the
> British Army was out there bravely taking countries away from
> barefoot natives all over the world.
>
> One commentator said that JFK Jr. was "the closest thing America
> had to a prince." I hope so, because Martin Luther King had it
> exactly right -- I would much rather live in a country where all
> people are judged by the "content of their character" and not by
> the economic and social situation of their relatives.
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