290411 : First Republic

A ROYAL WEDDING EXTRAVAGANZA FINAL EDITION (#6)

These are my last words on the subject. Then I can rest and get some sleep. I hope.

If you'd rather read something intellectual on the subject of the Royal Wedding, Monarchy, and Republicanism, may I point you in the direction of someone I regard as a genius, the very clever and brilliantly passionate and talented word-smith Mr. Simon Indelicate, who uses erudite sentences such as these:

The monarchy is an affront to the dignity of the free citizen. It is an offence to the law-abiding and the tax-paying that the universality which justifies their submission to tax and to law is critically undermined by the most famous of their countrymen.

If you realize that Republicanism (UK, not evil US Republicanism) is for you, then may I suggest you join REPUBLIC or, at the very least, read what they say on their website.

To summarize how I feel:

• I don't believe that there should be a Monarchy.
• I don't respect any unelected person who claims to rule over me, purely by accident of birth and the fallacy of God's Will.
• Mainly because I don't believe in God.
• And because unelected power can only be opposed by revolution.
• And I'm a pacifist.

With regards to this wedding:

• Who gets married on a Friday?
• Because that's just showing off. Why not get hitched on a Saturday?
• Then we wouldn't be forced into marking the big day with a Bank Holiday.
• Forced into a pro-Monarchy position whether we like it or not.
• And where is my invite?
• Oh yeah, I'm not a dictator with an appalling human rights record. I forgot.
• Can you genuinely think of a more effective and salient time to protest the Monarchy?
• Me neither.

With regards to the bride and groom:

• If it's love, then good luck to them. Like all couples marrying for the right reason (love) I sincerely hope that that love stays with them until the end.
• But I don't really care that they are getting married anymore than I care any other people I've never met are getting married.
• And I resent the fact that they will one day claim ownership of the land in which I live.
• Therefore, I ain't getting no bunting out.

I've peppered these articles with music videos. I recall a fantastic song called Man-Made by a band called Credit To The Nation, for which there is no YouTube video, which suggested:

Take a black woman and a black man too / give them to the Royals so they can screw / Black woman with Edward /Black man with Andrew / Then the Windsors would have some colour.../ Edward would be pleased and Andrew would be happy and gay / And they'd set the rules by which they'd played.

Now these would be weddings / sex-tapes I might be interested in seeing.

You may remember me writing "But I wish that they would do the good, honest thing and dissolve the monarchy and fuck off to Las Vegas, and run their pathetic side-show in the new ‘Buck House’ hotel and casino complex" and I stand by that, 100%.

I don't want a violent revolution. I don't want one drop of blood to spill.

But I do want the Monarchy to go away.

I'm wearing my Sex Pistols T-shirt today and going to work. Bank Holiday my arse.

Two videos. 1 obvious. 1 less so.

Repeat after me: No Monarchy.

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Goodnight, and mythical-invisible-white-haired-old-man-in-the-sky bless.

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