On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:30:55 +0000, Mike G wrote:
> "Fred" <Fred@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Mike G wrote:
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>>> "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "OM ****VA!108" <grimus108@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/01/
royalsandthemedia.military1
>>>>>
>>>>> Working out british bastard 1-2-3 anger on the Pasthtun does not
>>>>> make the little **** a hero - it just gives the silly tosser some
>>>>> rather nasty karma to have to deal with in future.
>>>>
>>>> Master James Hewitt may be a bit of a b******d, but there is no need
>>>> for language like that!
>>>
>>> I agree.
>>> And I don't understand why there is so much animosity directed against
>>> him.
>>> He is not responsible for his parentage, any more than he is
>>> responsible for the way he is treated by the media, and for the
>>> decision to bring him home.
>>> IMO he's the victim of his cir***stances. Not the perpetrator. Mike.
>>>
>>>
>> Absolutely. who would choose to be born into that situation? In a
>> goldfish bowl from the word go!
>
> I get the impression that all he wants is a relatively normal life. Not
> that he's ever going to be allowed to, but you can't blame the guy for
> trying. The media will never permit it. They're too interested in
> selling newspapers, and as long as there are people who feel they have a
> need to know what every x y z celebrity is up to at any or all the time,
> they'll continue feeding them with every piece of gossip or tittle
> tattle they can unearth about them. Regardless of the affect it might
> have on the individual concerned.
> Mike.
How true. Monarchy is a nonsense, not least because of the distortion it
imposes upon the royals. But also because, as we see, the fiction that
sustains it ('royal prerogative') enables a government to thumb its nose
at the will of those who elected it, and also enables a public
broadcaster to subsidise commercial media moguls like Murdoch to make
millions by selling pictures of Prince Harry to the rest of us.
Yes, he was damned if he didn't, and now he is damned because he did.
And so are the rest of us. And so the mendacity and lying that got us
into these two squalid wars goes on.
BTW it gets the royals off the hook of the unpleasantness of the Diana
inquest too.
How proud Gordon Brown must be to have acquired the accolade 'Gordon
Brown-nose' for his encomium to Prince Harry.
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