Some Doubt if Any King Is Still Fit for Sweden

The New York Times ^ | 24-Sierpień-2010 | John Tagliabue

[Cronos]

Two dozen members of an association to abolish the monarchy were settled around a table in a spacious apartment in the north end of the capital when someone in the back of the room muttered, “Two hundred years since the French Revolution, and still we have a king.”

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Indeed, so fast has membership in the Swedish Republican Association grown in recent months, rising to more than 7,300 from 2,500 one year ago, ....

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“Support for monarchy is falling across Europe,” said Mona Abou-Jeib Broshammar, the association’s secretary general.

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Born in Lebanon to a Syrian father and Swedish mother, Ms. Broshammar, 32, is emblematic of the changes overtaking Sweden. She moved to Sweden when her family fled Lebanon because of war there. “I have seen how a country can fall apart for lack of democracy and human rights,” she said, adding that she has received hateful messages about her heritage — her father is Muslim and her mother Christian

[Cronos]

Yeah, right -- 7500 people and this makes news in the Noo Jork Times.... And the ring-leader is a Muslim...

[Cronos]

ping

[Oratam]

Whenever the French Revolution is offered as a model, I am opposed to whatever is being suggested.

[samtheman]

Royal families throughout Europe are pretty much irrelevant. They are merely paid professional celebs without any talent.

They could change that, though. They could stand up for Tradition (with a capital ‘T’) and against Islam and Sharia.

That would give them instant relevance. But it’s not going to happen, of course. The royal families of Europe suffered from a lack of clotting enzyme at the turn of the last century... they suffer from a lack of spine today.

[silverleaf]

Who wouldn’t want a (recovered?) anorexic and her fitness instructor spouse as their queen and prince?

europeans are so picky when it comes to royalty -unlike Americans!

[drbuzzard]

Yeah, she doesn’t want a king. She wants a Caliph.

[captain_dave]

“Whenever the French Revolution is offered as a model, I am opposed to whatever is being suggested.”

I agree 100 per cent. The French Revolution was the beginning of the modern era of socialist death and destruction.

[paulycy]

europeans are so picky when it comes to royalty -unlike Americans!

Yeah. We'll elect the first islamo-marxist of color that comes along.

[FrdmLvr]

Oh yeah, and the Middle East is just replete with “democracy and human rights”. Go back to your father’s home country if you don’t like it in your mother’s.

[Rummyfan]

“I have seen how a country can fall apart for lack of democracy and human rights,” she said, adding that she has received hateful messages about her heritage — her father is Muslim and her mother Christian

She's witnessed it in Lebanon and now she will try to replicate it in Sweden. Last year when the Israelis came to Malmo - or Goteburg - to play the Swedes in Davis Cup matches, the muzzies in Sweden made such a fuss the matches were closed to the public. But miss mohammed, she's been persecuted.

[Rummyfan]

Whenever the French Revolution is offered as a model, I am opposed to whatever is being suggested.

Per Margaret Thatcher, what were the end results of the French Revolution? A pile of headless corpses and a tyrant!

[Rummyfan]

They could stand up for Tradition (with a capital ‘T’) and against Islam and Sharia. That would give them instant relevance. But it’s not going to happen, of course.

Look at that nutjob Charles - he's practically leading a charge into dhimmitude.

[SMARTY]

Interesting. Because IF the current Swedish Royals ARE descended from Marshal Bernadotte (French ARCH Republican) it is a real twist of fate.

Marshal Bernadotte remained rabidly Republican and anti-Bonaparte, even after the rest of France 'moved on' to Empire. He was offered and accepted the throne of Sweden when his sympathy for the enemies of France was making him most inconvenient to the Emperor.

Napoleon I hoped for the best, but was in the end betrayed by the Swedish ‘sovereign’

I think current royals descend from Bernadotte.

[silverleaf]

I’d like to see a debate between Ms Moslem-victim and Brigitte Gabriel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fa9yKQeTY

[Kartographer]

“Two hundred years since the French Revolution, and still we have a king.”

It's been over 234 years since the American Revolution and we now have a king.

[Oratam]

"The members discussed a name change for the Republican Association, so as not to be confused with the party of John McCain and Sarah Palin . . . ."

The NYT is an f'ing joke . . . but we already knew that. I read the article through and I'm convinced this is part of Project Dhimmitude.

[This I Wonder32460]

1,378 years and still the world is battling the delusions of a mad man.

[Fiji Hill]

She had a dream about the King of Sweden.
He gave her things that she was needin’.
Gave her a home built of gold and steel,
A diamond car with big platinum wheels...

He gave her a townhouse and his racing horses.
Each meal she ate was a dozen courses.
She had a million dollars worth of nickels and dimes,
And she sat around and counted them all a million times.

—from “Minnie the Moocher” by Cab Calloway, 1931

[BenKenobi]

Spot on.

[Eurotwit]

Danish Queen Says Islam Poses Global Threat

http://www.subzeroblue.com/archives/2005/04/danish_queen_says_is.html

[Eurotwit]

Sorry, that was a bad link. This one is better:

Anti-dhimmitude from the Queen of Denmark: “We have simply left it flapping around for far too long”

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/04/anti-dhimmitude-from-the-queen-of-denmark-we-have-simply-left-it-flapping-around-for-far-too-long.html

There should be a few threads about her speech from that time here on freerepublic too.

Cheers.

[samtheman]

Wow. She’s quite a queen!

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

They say that modern political philosophy is descended from one of two possible roots: The philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and that of John Locke. Rousseau believed in the power of the state should be sovereign, and that this sovereignty should be used to mold society to fit an ideal, and from this came the abominations of the French Revolution, Nazism and Communism.
Locke on the other hand, propagated the idea of individual and property rights, and that the government should take a 'hands off' approach to rule and let people govern themselves for as much as was reasonably practicable. His theories gave birth to both the English and American Revolutions, and their ideals of true liberty and individual sovereignty against the powers of an inherently corrupt state. Unfortunately, in global terms, Rousseau has been the more influential philosopher and increasingly so as the years go by....