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Britain should get rid of the monarchy, says UN
UK Telegraph ^ | 06/13/2008 | Nick Allen

Posted on 06/13/2008 12:26:51 PM PDT by C19fan

The UN Human Rights Council said the UK must "consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican".

The council has 29 members including Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sri Lanka.

It was the Sri Lankan envoy who raised concerns over the British monarchy.

The resulting report said Britain should have a referendum on the monarchy and the need for a written constitution with a bill of rights.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: absurd; blueturban; conspiracy; constitution; humanrights; jbs; liberty; monarchy; newworldorder; princecharlessucks; republic; republican; royals; sovereignty; uk; un; unitednations
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The UK should tell the UN "Human Rights" council to take a hike. What does the council which includes China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Cuba have any business telling the UK how to organize its government.
1 posted on 06/13/2008 12:26:54 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Please. This shows why UN is worthless.


2 posted on 06/13/2008 12:29:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
"Please. This shows why UN is worthless."

You give them too much credit.

3 posted on 06/13/2008 12:31:19 PM PDT by Hebrewbrother (Dissent - The Highest Form Of Patriotism.....source unknown...BTDMIAS!)
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To: C19fan

WTF? Did the council make the same recommendation for Saudi Arabia?


4 posted on 06/13/2008 12:31:42 PM PDT by heartwood
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To: C19fan

I am loathe to remind the U.N. that the British have the grandaddy of ALL bills of rights - Magna Carta.


5 posted on 06/13/2008 12:31:42 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: C19fan

Things are coming to a head quickly.

I wonder how ugly it will get.


6 posted on 06/13/2008 12:32:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: C19fan

Do they recommend hangings, or firing squad?


7 posted on 06/13/2008 12:32:07 PM PDT by passionfruit (When illegals become legal, even they won't do work American's won't do)
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To: C19fan
We are not ammused...


8 posted on 06/13/2008 12:32:26 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: Hebrewbrother

Really, maybe it’s time for the U.S, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to leave the U.N., kick them out of New York and back to the Hague. We could leave a note:

“You’re on your own.”


9 posted on 06/13/2008 12:33:40 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: C19fan

Are the Muslem folks loyal to the Crown?


10 posted on 06/13/2008 12:33:46 PM PDT by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: C19fan

If you listen carefully, you can hear a chorus of voices shouting, muttering, snarling a right proper: “Oh, f*ck off” from the British side of the pond.


11 posted on 06/13/2008 12:34:44 PM PDT by Fiona MacKnight
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To: MinorityRepublican

Can you even imagine what Iron Maggie Thatcher would have responded had they suggested this during her tenure?


12 posted on 06/13/2008 12:35:04 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: C19fan

World should get rid of the UN says all thinking people.


13 posted on 06/13/2008 12:36:37 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (http://www.iraqvetsforcongress.com ---- Get involved, make a difference.)
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To: Right Cal Gal
I am loathe to remind the U.N. that the British have the grandaddy of ALL bills of rights - Magna Carta.

Never confuse a real right with a UN "right".

Why didn't they say the same thing to a real monarchy like Saudi Arabia instead of a country where the monarchy is little more than a tourist trap?

14 posted on 06/13/2008 12:40:11 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (the Clinton dream of being a two impeachment family goes right down the drain. - Letterman)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Queen Victoria to UN: "WE ARE NOT AMUSED"

15 posted on 06/13/2008 12:40:39 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan; blam; snugs; All

I got question Snugs and Blam do you want get rid of monarchy if so there nothing in UK that tourists would go for


16 posted on 06/13/2008 12:41:49 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: C19fan

Let the British people make their own decisions….The UN is way out of line telling a Sovereign nation what to do .


17 posted on 06/13/2008 12:42:44 PM PDT by Thinkin
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To: heartwood

Saudi Arabia needs to get rid of it’s terrible dictatorship.


18 posted on 06/13/2008 12:43:20 PM PDT by tessalu
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To: Right Cal Gal

The UN has no right to tell any country how it should be governed.
They have a despiciable record in Africa, where the king of the day is whomever....

This country has endured for hundreds of years with their system, and it works.
Maybe that is what is really bothering the UN.

The UN just cannot stand any country that can keep a decent system of government for any long time.
The UN needs to be let drift for itself by the US, Britain, Australia, and other sucessful countries.


19 posted on 06/13/2008 12:43:58 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Right Cal Gal
Can you even imagine what Iron Maggie Thatcher would have responded had they suggested this during her tenure?

Heh! Now that would be a good show.

Seems like the U.N. exists merely to force us all to listen to people who would otherwise be wisely ignored.

You wanna tell Britain what to do? March in, take over, and have at it. Until then, pound sand.
20 posted on 06/13/2008 12:45:34 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: C19fan
Here's an idea....


21 posted on 06/13/2008 12:46:11 PM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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To: C19fan

Nice to see the UN meddling in some other government for a change, instead of ours.


22 posted on 06/13/2008 12:51:05 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: C19fan

“Syrian representatives accused the UK of discriminating against Muslims and Iran complained about the UK’s record on tackling sexual discrimination. “

Wow. Just wow. The sheer magnitude of hypocrisy here is staggering. Seriously, we need to do away with that crap. All it is is a forum for these hypocrites to bash on the western world, and we pay for it. Good lord. What an absolute travesty.


23 posted on 06/13/2008 12:54:54 PM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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To: C19fan

What the heck business is it of theirs? Does the UN Charter no longer recognize the sovereignty of nations?


24 posted on 06/13/2008 12:55:20 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: C19fan

I don’t understand why Britain holds onto the Royal Twits, but the decision to get rid of them is no more my business than the UN’s. I really do wish we’d bolt from the UN and serve them with an eviction notice.


25 posted on 06/13/2008 12:57:53 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: Sans-Culotte

Um word to UN, the Monarchy is kind of a figure head. Why don’t you work on the 54% of your members that are not democracies?


26 posted on 06/13/2008 1:02:32 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Thinkin

Maybe Britain could consider it just as soon as the UN General Secretary stops treating the UN as a monarchy.


27 posted on 06/13/2008 1:02:47 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Sans-Culotte

“I don’t understand why Britain holds onto the Royal Twits”

Funny....for some unknown reason..(pride ? heritage?) the Brits like their Royals... and this is their right, which support.


28 posted on 06/13/2008 1:05:29 PM PDT by Thinkin
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To: C19fan

The UN Human Rights Council is about as useful and relevant as the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Only the intellectually challenged take it seriously. But as the Brits would say “ It’s good for a laugh”


29 posted on 06/13/2008 1:08:32 PM PDT by Timocrat (I Emanate on your Auras and Penumbras Mr Blackmun)
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To: C19fan

SOD OFF, YOU BLOODY WANKERS. Yobs the lot of y’uh.


30 posted on 06/13/2008 1:10:31 PM PDT by muleskinner
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To: C19fan

Perhaps Britain should get rid of the UN.

The Monarchy has proved itself to be more durable, more useful, more mindful of human rights and infinitely more amusing than that crackerbox full of frauds over on Turtle Bay.

Give Turtle Bay back to the turtles!


31 posted on 06/13/2008 1:10:37 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
The Monarchy has proved itself to be more durable, more useful, more mindful of human rights and infinitely more amusing than that crackerbox full of frauds over on Turtle Bay.

Even Geroge III, in the darkest days of the American Revolution, was a vastly more humane and civilized ruler than those UN subhumans are today.

32 posted on 06/13/2008 1:19:43 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: SevenofNine
do you want get rid of monarchy if so there nothing in UK that tourists would go for

There's always the food!
33 posted on 06/13/2008 1:20:10 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: C19fan

This must be Scrappleface.

The U.N. Human Rights Commission is in denial about the abuses of human dignity by dictators around the World, while it recommends getting rid of the British monarchy. Yeah, that’s the ticket. This organization has become a parody of itself.


34 posted on 06/13/2008 1:20:17 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: heartwood

Saudi Arabia has a Bill of Rights? Who knew?
Kalee rolls eyes


35 posted on 06/13/2008 1:24:43 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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To: passionfruit

The Islamic “Republics” recommended stoning by backing up a dump truck full of boulders and then pulling the lever.

Seems like their humane ways of executing adulterers on Friday afternoons after prayer in the mosque doesn’t get much press these days.


36 posted on 06/13/2008 1:26:53 PM PDT by Skenderbej
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To: C19fan
The UN Human Rights Council said the UK must "consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican".

Inarguable proof that the UN should be put down like a terminally ill, mangy old dog. Without the monarchy, England will have almost NOTHING of interest any more.

37 posted on 06/13/2008 1:28:02 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Just say "No" to mug-whores.)
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To: C19fan

um...what form of rule does Saudi Arabia have? A type of monarchy no?


38 posted on 06/13/2008 1:30:34 PM PDT by xp38
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“Britain should get rid of the monarchy, says UN”

This is only the first step. The next one will be to suggest that the UK should accept the UN as its head of government.

After that, it will be demanded that the US Congress be replaced by a UN agency thereby establishing the blessings of internationalism and globalism. All non-Muslim and non-communist nations will comply.

Lights out.


39 posted on 06/13/2008 1:39:41 PM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: C19fan

So some Brits are still pissed we kicked their ass. And some of the snooty eleats indignant we don’t suck up to their Global Warming standards that they don’t even apply. And lately I hear they are not all hepped up on joining the EU and eliminating the pound.

Hey you snooty girly men, see where your arrogance and ignorance is getting you?

Join the rabble, Join us in riding the world of the UN forever.

Hear Me Now, Believe Me Later


40 posted on 06/13/2008 1:41:26 PM PDT by PRO 1 (POX on posters who's political bent causes them to refuse to be confused by the FACTS!!!!!!)
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To: C19fan
So some Brits are still pissed we kicked their ass. And some of the snooty elites indignant we don't suck up to their Global Warming standards that they don't even apply. And lately I hear they are not all hepped up on joining the EU and eliminating the pound.

Hey you snooty girly men, see where your arrogance and ignorance is getting you?

Join the rabble, Join us in riding the world of the UN forever.

Hear Me Now, Believe Me Later

41 posted on 06/13/2008 1:42:24 PM PDT by PRO 1 (POX on posters who's political bent causes them to refuse to be confused by the FACTS!!!!!!)
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To: C19fan

I’d love for The Queen to tell Banky to kiss her royal hiney.

The u.n., when not raping and killing babies, they’re attacking old women.


42 posted on 06/13/2008 1:43:19 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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To: Right Cal Gal
Maggie would probably have rammed the report down their throats before they could get through the first paragraph.
43 posted on 06/13/2008 1:50:42 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: Dr. Sivana
do you want get rid of monarchy if so there nothing in UK that tourists would go for There's always the food!

Not to mention the top-notch dental care.

44 posted on 06/13/2008 1:59:24 PM PDT by dfwgator ( This tag blank until football season.)
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To: C19fan

What we are looking at here are harbingers of things to come. The UN is acting a if were a foregone conclusion that their man in the US, Hussein Obama, were already elected. We’ll see a lot more of UN tyranny with Obama in there, count on it.

It would be nice if this new mayor of London was prime minister. He might go Thatcher one better in telling the UN where to get off.


45 posted on 06/13/2008 2:20:30 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: Right Cal Gal

Boy that would be nice if we can get someone in charge with a big pair. Out of the UN and get the un out of the us.


46 posted on 06/13/2008 2:26:43 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: C19fan
a written constitution, preferably republican

England has the best constitution in the world. Of course it isn't a written constitution. That would bring up questions of language and other matters of endless debate.

47 posted on 06/13/2008 2:31:14 PM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: C19fan
Huh. Last I heard Saudi Arabia is a monarchy. I'm thinking the physician might consider curing himself first.

I honestly thought this was satire. See, once upon a time there was this King named John...and then a few hundred years later there was this other guy named Cromwell...I mean, I'm just suggesting that it's entirely possible that the Brits have already sort of worked this thing out among themselves without (gasp!) the UN's help. It's like the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia saying "Know what, chaps? This place could really be improved if you'd just bring in a little sand..."

48 posted on 06/13/2008 2:36:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SevenofNine
...do you want to get rid of monarchy if so there nothing in UK that tourists would go for.

You don't get out much, do you?

49 posted on 06/13/2008 2:41:20 PM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: dfwgator

That mess up comment that so trueeee LOLOLOL!


50 posted on 06/13/2008 4:11:31 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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