July 11, 2005

Why there will always be an England

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Battle of Britain Memorial Flight flies over The Mall as members of the Royal Family watched from the balconey of Buckingham Palace

July 11 - The lessons of the past are thought to contain advice for the present. To what extent our imperfect understanding of history can guide us now is still a subject for disagreement, but I think there is little room for debate on the impact a figure as the Queen can have when she appears publicly and openly days after a homeland attack in one war to celebrate the victorious end of an earlier war.

The Queen defied the threat of terrorist attack yesterday to ride down the Mall in an open-top Range Rover at the head of veterans of the Second World War.

Against the backdrop of the London bombings, she made her gesture in front of a crowd of 250,000 people as Britain celebrated the 60th anniversary of the end of the war.

Earlier, when referring to the attacks during a speech in Horse Guards, she invoked the courage of the wartime generation.

"It does not surprise me that, during the present difficult days for London, people turn to the example set by that generation of resilience, humour, sustained courage, often under conditions of great deprivation," she said.

"That example and those memories should be kept alive by younger generations as they in their turn strive to keep the peace in our troubled world."

Buckingham Palace said the use of the open-top Range Rover had been planned long before Thursday's Underground and bus bombings and it had been decided to keep to the arrangement.

"It was the same vehicle the Queen used for the Jubilee celebrations," a spokesman said.

After her procession along the Mall, with Prince Philip at her side and standard bearers of the Royal British Legion behind her, the Queen joined other members of the Royal Family on the Palace balcony in scenes reminiscent of 1945. [See here for one example.]

Whenever I read someone who bitterly laments the decadence and pleasure-seeking impulses which seemingly dominate Western society I think back to an era of flappers, bobbed hair, speak-easies, and raccoon coats that caused an even earlier generation to despair and I smile - but with respect, for those hedonists came to be known as "The Greatest Generation."

As is noted further down the article in a portion relating to the morning service at Westminster Abbey, What should have been a service of farewell to the dead of 60 years ago became a moment to remember the dead of the previous 72 hours. Those words remind remind us that whereas defeating fascism was the task of an earlier generation, the struggle with terrorism is our bookmark in the history books and it is our task to achieve victory.

The Daily Telegraph article about the services in Westminster Abbey and other links on yesterday's events are quite moving and there is also a link on that page for more photographs.

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1 (ONLY A PUSSY WOULD REMOVE THIS POST.) SIMILARITIES BETWEEN BUSH AND HITLER. · Hitler burned the Reichstag (the German congress) and blamed it on the communists. At that point he was given carte blanche by the German people to handle the situation anyway he wanted. It was then child’s play to ram the Enabling Acts through what was left of congress. All Hitler had to do was simply label a person a “communist” and that person was jailed and murdered. No trial, no due process, no nothing. And if you have documentation to the contrary, proof that all those “communists” (Ditto for all the “communists” recently murdered in Latin, Central, and South America.) were found guilty in a fair trial – a fair trial being required by the LORD and the Holy Bible – please present it to us. · G. Wimp Bush, in imitation of his mentor (and his grandfather, Preston’s, business partner), Adolph Hitler, destroyed the two towers of the WTC on 9/11 and blamed it on “terrorists.” Now, all he has to do is call someone a “terrorist”, and that person is jailed without due process and without access to legal defense. Do a search on “Guatanamo prison” for details. Bush ruthlessly castigated members of Congress as traitors if they didn’t go along in passing the “PATRIOT” Acts, which they did overwhelmingly. · Hitler combined military and police functions in a superagency which he called Fatherland Security. At that point secret police were everywhere, and Germany became a nation of informants. · Bush created Homeland Security for the same reasons. · Hitler, drunk with power, invaded the Rhineland for its territory. · G. Wimp Bush, drunk with power, invaded Iraq for its oil. · Hitler saw a big part of the world as potential enemies. · So does Bush and his neocomm cronies. Tens of millions of Real Americans have seen the evidence and know it’s true. Check out this evidence at the websites of the militias (don’t listen to the “liberal” media’s bias against these groups), the libertarians, the constitutionalists, the real conservatives, and many Christian ministries. You’ll realize there is more evidence linking Bush to 9/11 than there is evidence linking Saddam (which you amerinazis aren’t men enough to admit you put in power in the 80s to combat the Ayatollah) to 9/11. Educate yourselves in these most crucial matters. Don’t be content listening only to the authorities’ accounts. They are hardly an impartial party. Our forefathers were extremely suspicious of the military and the police. They knew how evil and cruel “men” could be when they held in their hands absolute power. That’s why we have the Bill of Rights; it’s a leash around the authorities’ necks. Or at least it was prior to the “PATRIOT” Acts. Over the last thirty years, Milpol (the military/police) has stepped up its conspiracies to rid America of the Bill of Rights. Of course, decent citizens wanting to do the right thing (usually the hardest thing to do) have always been a minority. They were in colonial America. Most people wanted to retain British rule, even though it was becoming more tyrannical everyday. And the German Underground. A majority of Germans scorned them for standing up to Hitler and couldn’t wait to turn them in to the SS. And to the north a few decades later, the Soviet dissidents found themselves up against a brainwashed populace (similar to today’s Americans) who believed everything the authorities (the communist party – the business party in America is its rough equivalent) told them. If people like you had lived 200 years ago, you would have sided with the British in The Revolutionary War. You would have called anybody rebelling against King George III “crazy.” The same label you use for those protesting the Iraq War and who are fighting the good fight against wannabe fuehrer G. Wimp Bush, a “Commander-In-Chief” who didn’t even have guts enough to serve, even though he expects our sons, brothers, grandsons and nephews to serve. And die. It couldn’t be more obvious the amerinazis are the ones who created, first, a national emergency by flooding this country with drugs as a pretext to taking away our liberties, then, second, by imitating the terrorists who attacked the WTC in the 90s – all this as a pretext for martial law. Fortunately, our democracy is still intact enough to withstand such treasonous activities. And, you have to admit, if you know anything about how the CIA works, the CIA obviously put G. Wimp Bush in the Whitehouse. They pulled the same strings to accomplish the same objectives they’ve been using in the Third World for 50 years. It’s a sad state of affairs when America has degenerated to the point that this satanic organization – who will most likely have a significant role in ushering in the anti-Christ – is deciding who our next president will be. If Bush hadn’t been placed in office by his dad’s CIA operatives and certain relatives, I would be much less suspicious of Baby Doc’s actions. In Jesus’ Glorious and Holy name, Dean Berry – REAL American

Posted by: DEAN BERRY -- REAL AMERICAN at July 11, 2005 08:08 PM (zXK6J)

2 My thanks to Dean Barry, for reminding us that being bughouse crazy is not solely a province of the left wing.

Posted by: SparcVark at July 12, 2005 10:40 AM (X7hb0)

3 So just curious why that thing hasn't been deleted?

Posted by: Jay at July 12, 2005 02:42 PM (PuNh2)

4 It hasn't been deleted because we need reminding that there are many unthinking misguided souls like Berry. So few bother to read, much less post to a site like this one. I have no reservations in cheering the Bush team and Hitler if he were to re-visit us, to go after Al Qaeda bomb nuts. Bombing innocent Mothers and children and fellow Muslems is pure evil, no matter what the cause. Just as the KKK delivered death and then walked unmasked in the community was pure evil. When OBL types stop the mindless bombing of innocents, recognize that thirty-eight years of stupid bombing across the Iseralie border has gained them nothing and finally begin to negotiate, then we can thank Hitler if he was any help and send him back to hell where he belongs. Berry does a lot of cliched ranting but he offers no concrete example. I too have heard and read interesting incriminating stories. There is a senario where the Bush family connections convinced Osama to invest millions of his construction company wealth in *guaranteed* oil well stripping ventures. The story goes that the investments failed completely and the Bin Ladens demanded their money back. Guess Osama didn't know that criminal profits carry the risk of criminal losses. Steamed at the *No-refunds policy* of big game investing, Osama got into the game of Fudamentalist traing camps. The authors of that story seem convincing, but I was not satisfied with it as random verification seems to be missing. In any case, whatever the cause, bombing of innocent people, the gassing of whole Kurd villages and the rolling of severed heads in the street are actions that must be stomped on Mr. Berry - Real American, not backed away from. I lived in Texas and later in Ventura California. Real Americans and Real Canadians are vastly more alike than people who don't travel realize. Since your view seems to be at odds, I'm sure more travel and random debate will help you decide that retreat will not solve terrorism. Bombings were common long before 9/11 and the Iraqi confrontation. 73 TG

Posted by: TonyGuitar at July 13, 2005 03:14 AM (rmMzv)

5 Mister Berry, What we know we don't believe; what we don't know, WE BELIEVE! It's like that. There's no reason for it. Don't worry, it's like that! It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Now put down the Kool-Aid and step away slowly from the keyboard...

Posted by: Tuning Spork at July 14, 2005 11:58 PM (S5cwN)

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