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To: royalcello
but yes, my sympathies would be with the loyalists.

Then those "true conservatives" were true to tyranny, I'd rather be a patriotic conservative, then be thought a traitor to the country for the love of the crown.

Conservatives should never support crowns, the founding fathers were the founders of the right wing of this country today, and for that I'm greatfull.

Its a shame this country has not done enough to get rid of monarchies the world over, the founding fathers would no doubt be displeased.

149 posted on 04/19/2005 2:36:47 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: Sonny M
From the loyalists' point of view, their sovereign was King George III, their country was Great Britain, and the revolutionaries were the traitors.

Its a shame this country has not done enough to get rid of monarchies the world over, the founding fathers would no doubt be displeased.

What an idiotic statement. The more conservative founders, such as Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, had no problem with the idea of monarchy; they just didn't like the one they were dealing with. None of them would have supported a Jacobin crusade to rid the world of monarchies; George Washington, who wisely warned against foreign entanglements, would have been horrified at the idea.

A quick glance at world history proves that abolishing monarchies has been uniformly disastrous, generally leading to tyrannies far more horrific than the worst kings. The French Revolution culminated in the Reign of Terror. The fall of the German and Austro-Hungarian monarchies paved the way for Hitler. The monarchies of China, Russia, Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Cambodia were replaced by brutal Communist dictatorships. Need I go on?

Your program is nothing less than a recipe for endless war, totalitarianism, and mass murder.

196 posted on 04/19/2005 7:42:52 PM PDT by royalcello
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