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21 Mar 2008, 7:44 pm

The founding of the Republic of Ireland is not exactly breaking news, but what can you expect from someone that does not appear to know the US is not part of the Commonwealth? Scotland is in Britain, so it kind of makes sense that, if there is a British government, Scotland would be subject to it (breaking news: the northern bit of Britain is subject to British rule!). Incidentally, the current royals are descended from the Scottish monarchs - a Scottish king inherited the English throne.
Being, on paper, subject to the British crown does not mean the Windsors (or Britain) actually run the place - read up about what the Commonwealth did during the Suez crisis.
snake, by evidence I do not mean rhetoric (people have been going on about new world orders since forever), I mean facts. You may not know the difference, but some of us do. If I gave links to the flat earth society, would that prove the world is flat?


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21 Mar 2008, 7:56 pm

Good heavens. What an amazing mishmash of misreadings, abandoned treaties, superseded historical matters, and outright mindless parroting of conspiracy hogwash!

Particularly interesting was the reference to King John (who was of a cadet branch of the Plantagenets, no relation to the Saxe-Gothburgs- er, I mean Windsors, at all) giving England as a fiefdom to the Pope, but no mention of Henry VIII throwing that out when he founded the Anglican Church.

Incidentally, is there some sort of rule that requires conspiracy nuts to refer to anyone who stays in verifiable reality as "sheeple"?

And how much "free-thinking" does it indicate for every last one of them to use the same term?


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22 Mar 2008, 3:34 pm

I skimmed over bits of it...

The impression I got was that the original post contains a lot of overanalysis of obscure quotes and documents to obtain meaning completely contradictory to their real intention.

Also the bottom line is that the declaration of independence clearly states:

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We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.


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22 Mar 2008, 9:59 pm

Arbie wrote:
To any Britainese who want to see their long lost colony returned I will say only this:
Come and get it.


Dude, that might be scarier if the gun in the picture were actually loaded.

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