Reply #29: Two words: Archduke Ferdinand [View All]

[TahitiNut]

If there were no Archduke Franz Ferdinand, there would have been no Adolph Hitler.

FWIW, George VI was a relative of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The intermarriages in the 'royal' families of Europe and their "Family Feuds" (in which MILLIONS were killed) and their centuries-long unholy codependency with militant (power-obsessed) religionism are part and parcel of the same horrors we see today, including the arbitrary division of the Middle East and the partition of Palestine.

The notion that there's anything whatsoever good about the myth of 'royalty' and the enormous wealth stolen from the labors of 'peasants' is appalling. The acceptance and continued enforcement of any entitlement to inherited wealth that was allegedly the property of the State (l'etat c'est moi?) is a gross injustice. Once upon a time we had the good sense to abolish inherited debt - what my father owed stops with him; I don't inherit his debts. Why then should I inherit his wealth? The same accident of birth that we call a "crack baby" is responsible for Junior and Charles and Akihito. The continuation of this myth is, imho, an abomination of any kind of democratic justice.

To a large degree, we have Disney to thank that this is incomprehensible to the "Some Day My Prince Will Come" children of America.


Like I say, the Bolsheviks had the right idea, imho. :shrug: They got rid of the corrupt fiction of 'royalty' in the only way that's yet been shown to work.

Now the feces-flingers can call me a "pinko" I guess. :puke: