Prince William’s decision to wear the uniform of the Irish Guards when he married in Westminster Abbey today was welcomed as a tribute to soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.
The red tunic also added an elegant dash to a stunning, harmonious and happy occasion, watched by an estimated one million people in London and by many more on TV and the internet around the world.
Much has been made of the wedding costs to a cash-strapped UK. But I am sure the money will be recouped many times over in terms of tourism revenue alone.
Unpopular as the war in Afghanistan rightly is with the British, the people can distinguish between the soldiers who demonstrate bravery and discipline in a war zone and the often criminal governments which engineer those wars for the profit of corporations, and it will certainly have given a big boost to soldiers and their families to see that William has not forgotten them on his wedding day.
The Chilcot inquiry and other investigations have shown the extent to which the then Prime Minister Tony Blair deceived the public and parliament on the grounds for the need to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq.
I, for one, thought it was a good thing that this war criminal was not invited to the royal wedding. Blair was snubbed along with his partner in crime, Gordon Brown, who helped engineer the collapse of the financial system for the profit of the banks. Unfortunately, the current Prime Minister David Cameron, who is continuing with their policies, attended the royal wedding but his exclusion would have been unrealistic by any measure.
William’s decision to wear the uniform of the Irish Guards may “also reflect the Royal family’s wish to demonstrate the strengthening of ties between London and Dublin ahead of the Queen’s historic state visit to Ireland next month;” according to The Telegraph.
Certainly, the visit by the Queen is taking place at a very difficult time in Ireland’s history when it has just lost its sovereignty yet again – and this time to the EU, IMF and a banking cartel imposing a crushing and penal forced loan.
However, it is very clear to the people of Ireland that the culprits who must bear the ultimate responsibility for this disaster are Irish as anyone can see who reads the Irish media. It is the outrageous personal corruption and cynicism of 100 or so leading figures in Irish banks, government, media and regulators which have played the biggest role in the impoverishment and subjugation of Ireland.
The Irish must surely press for a proper inquiry into the bank scandal as Joan Burton proposes.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0426/1224295456276.html
Finance Minister Brian Lenihan and his crony in the Irish Times Dan O’Brien have recently tried to pin the sole blame on the ECB for forcing the penal loan on Ireland.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0423/breaking5.html
But as Fionnan Sheahan points out in the Irish Independent, Lenihan was responsible for many of the decisions that led to the disastrous EU and IMF intervention, and he has also consistently misled the public. Cowan, Lenihan, Noonan, Kenny – these are the names that are already written down the book of history for their incredible act of treachery, and it is high time for a proper investigation.
The current banking crisis in Ireland underlines the fact that just because someone is Irish does not make them automatically a saint or even a patriot. Likewise, just become someone is a member of the British royal family, it does not make them automatically a villain.
The Queen’s father George VI did not have to go to war against Nazi Germany, for example. His older brother would have been quite happy to have made a pact with Adolf Hitler, it appears. It was George VI’s character that determined his decision to fight for the cause of freedom, and it would be unfair to refuse someone the respect that they deserve because of their own actions just because of their ancestors or their relatives.
Anyone, surely, with any sense of fair play must also recognise that William is a man of great strength of character with a good heart and good mind. In this day and age, when the world is suffering from such a dearth of leaders of integrity and intelligence, William stands out. He may not have political power but as a future king he does have great symbolic power. The proper function of a leader is to inspire people. This is what William does.
Prince Philip made a cynical remark that it was naive of Plato not to realise that the “elite”, the philosopher kings, the “processed paragons” as he called them, would not take advantage of their power, thereby showing the world that he has never read The Republic or understood a word of it.
If he had really read The Republic, he would know the entire book is, in fact, about this very problem. Half the book is about how to produce and create incorruptible characters and the other half about the devastation that leaders with corrupted characters wreck on their states.
Philip has failed to grasp the distinction between a character that has not been corrupted simply because it has not had any opportunities to indulge itself and an incorruptible character that is so strong and so unwavering in its commitment to a higher purpose that it will never succumb to corruption under any circumstances. This distinction is what Plato’s book is all about.
The closest we can see to such an inspiring figure in a prominent leadership position today, in the UK at any rate, is William, and it would be very unfair to refuse to acknowledge his merits simply because he is a member of the British monarchy.
The Brits are rightly proud that they have produced such a great potential leader because it is not self evident. Just look at the equivalent in Germany, Karl-Thedor zu Guttenberg, currently facing a criminal probe because he cynically plagiarised his doctoral thesis.
And the Irish can take a pride, too, in William choosing to wear the uniform of the Irish Guards together with the country’s symbols of a shamrock and harp.
William serves in the RAF as a search and rescue pilot, but he is also an honorary colonel in the Irish Guards just as the Queen is.
For the Irish right now, there is no more urgent task than holding those leaders in the government, banking and regulators responsible for the current financial disaster to account - and as soon as possible.
Let’s hope Irish nationalists do not divert attention from this gigantic financial crime by huffing and puffing about the Queen’s historic visit next month, the first by a British monarch since the Irish Republic was founded.
I am sure the Irish are much too fair minded not to show the Queen the courtesy and respect she deserves on the basis of her own actions and service during her visit to the country next month.
If there is one strength of the Irish, then it is surely that they recognise that whether a person of integrity is a char woman or a Queen, they deserve respect in equal measure .
Theey KISSED! TWICE !!
Dear Jane,
What a nice article. I wanted to share some thoughts on William and his bride. A friend of mine has a friend who has actually served with William. He said that he is a very likeable down-to-earth guy and a good soldier. He liked him very much.
Even though they have stated that they don’t like war, both William and Harry have actually served which is more than can be said of the offspring of the American Congress/Presidents lately. Making the children of politicians serve alongside the children of other socio-economic classes does a great deal to stop the sort of pernicious elitism we are currently experiencing.
I thought that the young couple looked really sweet and were a great and welcome departure from the stuffiness of the past. Their little convertible was a great touch!
MK
Are you all trying to fool yourselfs? Have you been swept off of your feet by this great honey crap circus? Yea, I remember how William “served”, how he felt it to be “charming” to mingle with the common Britain friendly afghani folks, who help the Brits to kill their brothers, and I remember how he liked to “Drink beer with the Commoners, whaving military government watchers all around him, on the earth and in the sky, so the “brave soldier” never got into harms way, the precious soul. What are you suddenly winching about? With Dumbo out of the way one way or the other, William is going to be the creep who will lead us into the so strongly wished for eugenic age. Oh, “William different”, is he? Stop fooling yourselfs. He is going to follow the royal families policy, no matter how nice he apears to fools. Hitler was quite charming, you should have met him, a original chum he was, and so was Stalin if you knew him. Get your heads on straight. We are talking about the most barbaric and murderous family clan of our time, hidden away behind sweet heart touching crap and you and JANE fall for it, YOU EAT IT UP?? “Oh William is so nice, and his bride is so charming, and they are both so different, and have you seen how they kissed, TWICE?” Get a grip on yourselfs!
irishholocaust.org
@@@@Yes dee,@@@@
I hear you!
I have read it. The British simply robbed the Irish on gunpoint off all their food supply, claiming some British ownership, and starved millions of Irish to death. And its all covered up with the great lie of a potato famine. Look at it, the British Monarchy, look at them and see them for what they are: Genocists, unspeakable mass murderers. Look at them for what they are, behind their crowns, their glitter and their showmenship!
You are so on the button.Carlitos I concur with your outrage. It is exactly the soppy ,sentamental Bull shit theatre that makes Goyim out of the gentiles. I am also dumbstruck by the week kneed response from those who should know better. They seem to have no idea what war is like and who funds both side of the equation. I went through the war as a child nothing much worked and you could n’t trust anyone.When the allies arrived we were all taken in, not realising that the German public and we were all hoodwinked into thinking we’d been fighting for freedom ,King and country. It’s all a load of crap. The ZIONISt International Banksters and the Royals know it. They like all the Illuminati Elite are Global genocidal murderers.Do you realise that the German Elite before the war killed about half a million of their own people who got in their way. That the holocaust against the Jews was supported and even funded by the ZIONIST Banksters, and the Royals and Nobility are through and through Fascist and NAZI and in total collusion with the monsters who use the masses as cannon fodder. William like all their kind, nice on the outside ,is a trained killer. While before the altar expounds Christian virtue but no where do they themselves adhere to the commandment thou shallt not kill. and what’s more they expect other to do it for them while they laze in luxury of the taxes they extract from their dippy mesmerised compliant folks.
Talking about the Irish. Does the writer not realise that the Irish referred to with the Royals is Northern Ireland, with a very nasty History behind it because of the Royals dating back to Dutch William of Orange. That the ireland that is in economic strife is Southern Ireland and that it is the same ZIONIST Bankster Elite and the City of London Corporation controlled by the Royals that have caused the planned default the Irish are now victims of. Please wake up to the real world, not some fairy story to keep us dreaming in the dark.
Queen Victoria,s economist Nassau Senior during the Irish Famine 1840,s :
“” but this way only one million will die…that will scarcely be enough to do much good “”
irishholocaust.org (page 5)
Queen,s Historic Visit To Ireland this May:
Hidden Agenda ??
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055282301
Here is a foto of the royal couple: http://www.carlitos-amsel-vom-holunderstrauch.net/links/index.html
Blow it up and concentrate on their mouths. If my children would pull mouths like that, I’d roll them in crushed garlic and rinse ‘em with holy water!
@Emanuel van den Bemd
I very much agree with you – my own comments are banned
What do you mean, “banned”? Who bannes here what?
@Carlitos Amsel vom Holunderstrauch
Jane does.
I just asked Jane about it. She says, your claim is ridiculous.
HRH Prince of Wales’ Introduction to his Rainforests Project (June 2008) (I skipped the direct link – Jane seems not to like links & subsequently bans my comment)
….the colour has changed to green – the deception is the same.
Now it comes along as ecofascism… environmental issues as the mighty driving force of the movement… it’s always about the exploitation of idealism – and there has always been a true cause. The rain forests need to be protected. That’s for sure.
But… As for ‘climate change’ – there are much bigger and REAL threats to humanity than that. First of all there is NO global warming caused by CO2 . That’s a BIG LIE & FRAUD. – Geoengineering, Chemtrails and HAARP means tampering with climate and weather conditions. These ‘experiments’ are endangering the very survival of humanity !!! That’s where the REAL dangers are.
Certainly HRH is informed about that. Isn’t overpopulation another of his deep concerns…He is such a caring and noble character, isn’t he ? And William & Harry are following in his footsteps. How else could it be ?
Are you sure, Jane removes things from this Blog? I doubt it very much, because as far as I know her, she hardly ever looks at the comments.No no, I dont think, Jane “banned” anything.
@Carlitos
Can you read 13 or only 11 comments ?
Well, in case it is not known, I am blind and so I do have trouble reading…
Although the costs of wedding is so great, I’m sure it could be recouped by the money earned from tourism.
Yea. Lets make some money with that thing….!
@Carlitos
You wouldn’t be cynical about being blind, would you ?
As to some of my former comments awaiting moderation and then vanished – I don’t know.
I omit links now, seems to be better.Never mind, Jane.
I just wanted to forward some serious information.
No I would’nt be cynical. I talked to Jane about banned Links. She says, she has’nt banned any Links. She has’nt banned anything.
Irish Police Stations: from Oct 2003 phone numbers of all Garda Stations : 666
phone number of then Irish Minister of Defence : 666
Dee is sounding the alarm all over the place: “Irish holocaust” “666″ !! Right on Dee !!
Lets forget this jewish holocaust, which we are not alowed to ever remember and remember others
“”"Anyone, surely, with any sense of fair play must also recognise that William is a man of great strength of character with a good heart and good mind”"”
Jane, have you ever met the guy, had a beer with him or so? How, “with any sense of fair play”, do we know that. None of us knows William. All we know about him, we got from the media his clan controls. In truth, all we have to go on is his family backgroung, and that, maybe with exemption of his mother, is not all that precious, is it?