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2008-06-13 International-UN-NGOs

Abolish the monarchy UN report tells Britain

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Posted by tu3031 2008-06-13 14:16|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Heck with gunboat diplomacy. The Queen must be nostalgically recalling the good old days of "butcher and bolt".

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-06-13 14:45|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-13 14:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Now that I think about it, there's no honorable way out of this other than the UK's prompt withdrawal from its seat on the council, and an immediate demand for an apology & restitution by the diplomats responsible for this grave offense.

If this isn't shown to be a *career-ending* act by the responsible parties, than it proves the UK has no balls, and can only expect to dwindle into a sort of toothless national senility.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-06-13 14:50|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-06-13 14:50|| Front Page Top

#3 I vote this for most insane demand of the week.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-13 14:56|| 2008-06-13 14:56|| Front Page Top

#4 The UL Should say "sure, immediately following the coronation of a Persian Queen/Empress and Cuban parliamentary elections and designation of Prime Minister, cabinet ministers and shadow government counterparts. Sure, that's when we'll hold a referenda, then or maybe after the referenda to reinvigorate the Colonial Office and attendant efforts."

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-06-13 14:59|| 2008-06-13 14:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Typo in above - UK, not UL, though the Louisville Cardinals are just as likely to abolish the existing hierarchy.

Posted by Harcourt Jush7795 2008-06-13 15:00|| 2008-06-13 15:00|| Front Page Top

#6 But privately they admitted being astonished.

You're kidding. The UN Human Rights Council issued this fatwa and you even considered it was from some organization that had any, any credibility? No more talk of reform. The only entity that needs to be abolished is the UN and we can seriously start with this infection on real human rights by doing away with the UNHRC once and for all.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-06-13 15:42|| 2008-06-13 15:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Pure hypocrisy, considering that about %50 of the UN Human Rights Council is a monarchy themselves.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-06-13 15:58|| 2008-06-13 15:58|| Front Page Top

#8 But they love Robert Mugabe's tribalism.

Just think of how many condos could be put up where that East River toilet sits. And imagine all the freed parking spaces that hundreds of fewer diplomatic plates would create.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-13 17:44|| 2008-06-13 17:44|| Front Page Top

#9 The Queen should invite the UN Human Rights Council to tea, then behead them.

Posted by ed 2008-06-13 18:03|| 2008-06-13 18:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Pull a Vlad the Impaler on them. Invite their ambassadors to tea, nail their hats/turbans/khafiyyehs to their heads, then send 'em back to whatever hellhole they came from.

Honestly, first the UNHRC tells the UK to eliminate the monarchy. next they'll tell the US to eliminate the electoral college system, and finally they'll tell everyone to eliminate sovereign government entirely so the UN can run things.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-06-13 18:15|| fots.cdgroup.org]">[fots.cdgroup.org] 2008-06-13 18:15|| Front Page Top

#11 "The demand by the council, which includes regimes like Saudi Arabia"

You first.........

Posted by Mullah Richard 2008-06-13 21:21|| 2008-06-13 21:21|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd suggest a nice public thank you for their input:

"When you become a democratically-governed system of representatives, we might listen. Until then, we acknowledge the membership by representatives of thieves, killers, pimps, child-rapers, kleptocrats, Islamolosers, African-tribal-genociders, eaters of opponents, bribers, extortionists, third-world con men, Liberal Arts Majors...."

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-13 22:33|| 2008-06-13 22:33|| Front Page Top

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