tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post1979265785817226407..comments2023-11-03T07:23:30.909-05:00Comments on The Monarchist 2.0: The Powers of the Crown – Satisfactory?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-1867081356436224192009-01-14T05:36:00.000-05:002009-01-14T05:36:00.000-05:00Most, if not all monarchists are well aware that F...<I>Most, if not all monarchists are well aware that Fascism is a far-right ideology.</I><BR/><BR/>At least "Lord Best" has some references to the common belief of where fascism belongs on the political spectrum, whilst you, sir or madam, just dismiss him without any supporting points.<BR/><BR/>It is true that it is commonly believed that fascism belongs on the far right. This common belief, however, is dubious at best.<BR/><BR/>Amongst those who have made the claim that fascism belongs on the right, we have the great and late Austrian monarchist, polymath, and polyglot Erik Maria Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn.<BR/><BR/>Amongst those who have countered the belief that fascism was a capitalist defense against socialism, we have the late Nobel Memorial Laureate Friedrich August von Hayek.<BR/><BR/>Those who are well schooled in political science would know of the controversies involved, and not simply dismiss a description of fascism as leftism as ignorance.J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-19006551386991798392009-01-13T22:51:00.000-05:002009-01-13T22:51:00.000-05:00To the reader:The poster identified as "Lord Best"...To the reader:<BR/><BR/>The poster identified as "Lord Best" obviously knows very little about political science. Most, if not all monarchists are well aware that Fascism is a far-right ideology. While the governments of a monarch may take various forms, and be on various points of the political spectrum, one of the beautiful features of a monarchy is that the monarch is above such political codswallop.<BR/><BR/>I do rather think that while a monarch's government may fall on any point of the spectrum, it does seem instructive that monarchy works best when it does not stray too far from the centre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-10613341537298539232008-12-20T10:07:00.000-05:002008-12-20T10:07:00.000-05:00Take a bow Mr anonymous baboon, you're a star!Take a bow Mr anonymous baboon, you're a star!Lord Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505734600505832039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-4210223580017952752008-12-20T07:37:00.000-05:002008-12-20T07:37:00.000-05:00I just can't wait to see the next move. This is so...I just can't wait to see the next move. This is so entertaining and amusing. We are amused.J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-67472318486030185482008-12-20T02:13:00.000-05:002008-12-20T02:13:00.000-05:00HA! You do not deviate from the routine much do yo...HA! You do not deviate from the routine much do you? I was waiting for the jab at my masculinity, though I have to admit I expected it to come in your previous post.Lord Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505734600505832039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-90665812842889966272008-12-20T01:38:00.000-05:002008-12-20T01:38:00.000-05:00You must feel like such a big man. Keep prentendi...You must feel like such a big man. Keep prentending your are engaged in some sort of intellectual activity. It's entertaining, just like watching a dog chase it's tail.<BR/><BR/>The only difference is that dogs are usefull creatures. You are just a waste of oxygen and food.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-49359641441553587182008-12-20T00:09:00.000-05:002008-12-20T00:09:00.000-05:00Thank goodness, I was beginning to think you were ...Thank goodness, I was beginning to think you were not going to reply.<BR/>Actually I sold my textbooks so I could buy the next years textbooks, it is the usual practise for those of us with the intellectual capacity to warrant higher education.<BR/>'I don't need to bring up arguments' says it all about you really. You just can not buy this kind of entertainment.<BR/>As an aside, the wikipedia article on fascism is actually very well footnoted and sourced, unlike many of its articles. I would not dream of quoting it in an actual academic discourse, but to some anonymous baboon on the internet it suffices.Lord Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505734600505832039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-6064527388619246842008-12-19T21:49:00.000-05:002008-12-19T21:49:00.000-05:00Lord Best,I don't need to bring up arguments to pr...Lord Best,<BR/><BR/>I don't need to bring up arguments to prove that you're dumb as shit : you do it yourself. Quoting Wikipedia. Nice. How scholarly. <BR/><BR/>You sold your textbooks ? Too many big words for you ? Maybe I can suggest some material that is appropriate to yout IQ. Just try not to colour outside the lines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-59468906859111071712008-12-18T19:07:00.000-05:002008-12-18T19:07:00.000-05:00"Frankly, Lord best, you are even dumber then shit..."Frankly, Lord best, you are even dumber then shit if you really believe that. Basic requirement to post on this blog I guess."<BR/>No facts, no refuations, just "you are dumber than shit". You are priceless Anonymous. Keep it up, I can not wait for your next hilariously bitter and misguided comment. Really, I can not. If I thought for a moment you retained the capacity or the will to learn I would recommend you take some basic courses in early 20th century history to see just what fascism really is, but to be honest it would be a shame to lose such a superb form of entertainment. Unfortunately I sold my textbooks on fascism, but you might want to check out the wikipedia entry, notably this part of the first paragraph:<BR/>"Fascism opposes communism, CONSERVATISM, democracy, individualism, international socialism, liberalism, materialism, pacifism, laissez faire capitalism, and political pluralism." My capitalisation.<BR/><BR/>Keep it up, Anonymous old boy, keep it up.Lord Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505734600505832039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-18281600621061915912008-12-18T13:12:00.000-05:002008-12-18T13:12:00.000-05:00Indeed "Lord Best!"Don't you just love the irony?A...Indeed "Lord Best!"<BR/><BR/>Don't you just love the irony?<BR/><BR/>Along comes someone with a simplistic, dichotomous worldview à la the <I>Animal Farm</I> four feet good, two feet bad philosophy, and those of us who are capable of more than binary thinking are all of a sudden dumb, stupid, and moronic.J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-81397790056656993332008-12-18T12:44:00.000-05:002008-12-18T12:44:00.000-05:00Better do what Anonymous says, lest he staves your...Better do what Anonymous says, lest he staves your skull in with a truncheon. The lout is obviously prone to hate crimes.<BR/><BR/>I'm thinking about banning Anonymous commenters. If we are going to have a Gentlemen's Club, we should at least ban the haters.Beaverbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06957034620891207177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-3375705980845011322008-12-18T10:11:00.000-05:002008-12-18T10:11:00.000-05:00I am reminded of an incident at university. I atte...I am reminded of an incident at university. I attended a student gathering with the title "What we can learn from the Russian Revolution" and asked some pointed question regarding the Cheka organisation and the hundreds of thousands of people executed by it, and the general suffering of the lower classes under the Sovet regime. One of the more devoted attendees yelled out "Someone take down that f*ckers name, he will be one of the first against the wall when the Revolution comes". Nice to see social justice is alive and well.Lord Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505734600505832039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-34003387235646548142008-12-18T10:05:00.000-05:002008-12-18T10:05:00.000-05:00This reminds me of high school, 'idiot baiting' wa...This reminds me of high school, 'idiot baiting' was much in vogue.<BR/>Anonymous posters are the equivalent of the morons who stick their head out of car windows at spead to yell uproariously at passers by. They do it to make themselves feel big and mask their inadequacies, where the intended victim just laughs, or in one memorable case, blows kisses and prompting various homophobic remarks and a small collision with a road sign.<BR/><BR/>It is wonderful how many idiots think fascism is conservative when in fact it is a far left dogma. Nazis were National Socialists for a reason. Fascism says the state (ie government) is the ultimate power, conservatism says that ultimate power rests with an educated populace, regulated by strong institutions.<BR/>Anonymous' silly little rants would almost be at home in some of the early Nazi propaganda pamphlets.Lord Besthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08505734600505832039noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-14274781501650185922008-12-18T08:56:00.000-05:002008-12-18T08:56:00.000-05:00I'll be civil when you'l stop being MORONS.I gues...I'll be civil when you'l stop being MORONS.<BR/><BR/>I guess I should get some coffee, it's going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooong wait.<BR/><BR/>Fuckers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-4709814454998410742008-12-18T05:47:00.000-05:002008-12-18T05:47:00.000-05:00Oh, the editor removed your thoughtful swearing an...Oh, the editor removed your thoughtful swearing and cursing? Poor thing!<BR/><BR/>How cute your thoughtful swearing and cursing is.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps, if you were more civil in your discourse, I would take you more seriously.J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-18070839390267106412008-12-17T10:55:00.000-05:002008-12-17T10:55:00.000-05:00My mother is fine thank you. And you'll be happy t...<I>My mother is fine thank you. And you'll be happy to know that a have a healty relationship with her so I don't have to prop my fragile psyche with some sort of Freudian fetish with a Mother/queen figure like some of the dysfunctionnal weirdos out here.</I><BR/><BR/>We really do appreciate your insightful, deep, and thoughtful analysis!J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-25861491895059644292008-12-17T08:31:00.000-05:002008-12-17T08:31:00.000-05:00I'm sure your mother would be proud of you.My moth...<I>I'm sure your mother would be proud of you.</I><BR/><BR/>My mother is fine thank you. And you'll be happy to know that a have a healty relationship with her so I don't have to prop my fragile psyche with some sort of Freudian fetish with a Mother/queen figure like some of the dysfunctionnal weirdos out here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-56834970464247250752008-12-17T04:14:00.000-05:002008-12-17T04:14:00.000-05:00I guess calling you crypto-fascists does get under...<I>I guess calling you crypto-fascists does get under your skin... Wankers.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm sure your mother would be proud of you.J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-4542209252170895132008-12-16T23:01:00.000-05:002008-12-16T23:01:00.000-05:00I guess calling you crypto-fascists does get under...I guess calling you crypto-fascists does get under your skin... Wankers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-77251231209568398512008-12-16T18:13:00.000-05:002008-12-16T18:13:00.000-05:00Parliament can't do whatever it wants. Or can it? ...Parliament can't do whatever it wants. Or can it? Isn't that what we mean by the "Supremacy of Parliament".<BR/><BR/>Remember, when we talk of Parliament, we are also talking about the Queen-in-Parliament, because everything that Parliament does, it does in the Queen's name. That is why every monarchist should naturally support the "will of Parliament".<BR/><BR/>But, as Mr. Baltzersen's correctly alludes to, our support of Parliament's will should be based on the understanding that:<BR/><BR/>1. Parliament acts as a check on democracy, for only a few Honourable Gentlemen are chosen to act on behalf of the entire populace; and<BR/><BR/>2. The Crown-in-Parliament is not a rubber stamping fixture, but a wholly legitimate constitutional check on the Upper and Lower Houses, particularly under extraordinary circumstances.Bolingbrokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07403736132216152383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-80043179222390271412008-12-16T13:29:00.000-05:002008-12-16T13:29:00.000-05:00Just when I taught this blog couldn't become any d...<I>Just when I taught this blog couldn't become any dumber, J.K. Baltzersen comes along and drags it down to sub-zero IQ territory. Bravo ! Bravo ! I see the royal inbreeding is also starting to affect the fans of "teh royalz".</I><BR/><BR/>Thank you for your intelligent comment!J.K. Baltzersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096616644588479917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-25650364761796607312008-12-16T12:10:00.000-05:002008-12-16T12:10:00.000-05:00Just when I taught this blog couldn't become any d...Just when I taught this blog couldn't become any dumber, J.K. Baltzersen comes along and drags it down to sub-zero IQ territory. Bravo ! Bravo ! I see the royal inbreeding is also starting to affect the fans of "teh royalz".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-59613245780066961642008-12-15T19:02:00.000-05:002008-12-15T19:02:00.000-05:00Ignoring the daft comments, this is an interesting...Ignoring the daft comments, this is an interesting article. <BR/><BR/>"If the Crown is to be a rubber-stamping machine, it would be appropriate to ask what the point of monarchy is."<BR/><BR/>This is a British problem as well as a Canadian one. (Oddly, the Aussies don't seem so squeamish about the GG dismissing governments in the name of the Crown).<BR/><BR/>But is the answer a return to a really executive monarchy, with the monarch's execution or non-execution of legislation prescribed by the Coronation Oath to uphold the Constitution, i.e., a constitutional monarchy?<BR/><BR/>I would like to think so. If done properly, this would not even necessarily involve the Crown in party politics: the refusal of assent would be justified if the monarch could show that, on consideration and in consultation with the Privy Council, this or that piece of legislation contravenes the Constitution. It would, in effect, be automatic, like a round hole rejecting a square peg, and politically neutral.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, I am sorry to say that a reading of history over at least the last 50 years gives some weight to the American rebels' argument that this only works in practice so long as either:<BR/>(a) the legislature voluntarily refrains from giving the executive anything to sign which would be unconstitutional (post-1832);<BR/>(b) the executive actually sends bills back to the legislature with the royal 'sod off' inscribed at the bottom (pre-1763).<BR/><BR/>The Yankees were miffed because they had always assumed that (b) was how the British constitution worked. Go and re-read the Declaration of Independence. About three paragraphs are about self-evident truths and men being born equal and so on. The majority of it is a furious list of Acts of Parliament which the King had signed into law. What made them particularly upset is that they had so long clung onto the belief that it was Parliament that was getting above itself, and that the King's function was eventually to protect them from unconstitutional legislative abuse when its true nature became obvious...and then he didn't.<BR/><BR/>In Britain, conservative monarchists are rapidly approaching that point. Most recently, we have had the blithe signing into law of the outrageous Lisbon Treaty (EU Constitution), by which incidentally HM the Q becomes a 'Citizen of the European Union' and is thereby in breach of the Bill of Rights' provision against giving foreign governments power over British citizens. We have had the royal assent to every infringement of our civil liberties: the CCTV, the ID cards, the suspension of Habeas Corpus and heaven knows what else.<BR/><BR/>As monarchists, then, we have to admit that we must go back to either (a) or (b), or as J K Baltzersen says, it really will be appropriate to ask what the point of monarchy is...<BR/><BR/>CatoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-31214689174580169512008-12-15T09:54:00.000-05:002008-12-15T09:54:00.000-05:00Amen! Verily and forthwith ...Amen! Verily and forthwith ...Aeneas the Youngerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18235737108817968315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3390382704873671828.post-81015681290477336572008-12-15T07:27:00.000-05:002008-12-15T07:27:00.000-05:00Well Sir Walter, there you are. Apparently if you...Well Sir Walter, there you are. Apparently if you dare to use phrases and words that have become uncommon in 2008 you do not have a diverse vocabulary and appreciation for the English language, but rather you are pompous! What utter drivel!<BR/><BR/>As for the article, I agree wholeheartedly. Mr Baltzersen's use of Luxembourg as an example was quite apt. Monarchies are only tolerated in Western states if they do and say nothing. God forbid one should dare to question the will of a majority of elected politicians, as Grand Duke Henri has learned to his cost.Tim Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08981522043111124728noreply@blogger.com