On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:54:01AM -0600, Dan Minette wrote: > > From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:29:05PM -0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > > > > His own political ideas were different, as we can see from his > > > _Letters_ [there's a book with c.350 of them]. For example: > > > > > > Letter #52: (29 Nov 1943, to his son Christopher, who was at a > > > training camp in Manchester) > > > > > > My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy > > > (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of > > > control not whiskered men with bombs) - or to > > > 'unconstitutional' Monarchy. > > > > An anarchist who also likes monarchs? > > > > Maybe the reason he was a good storyteller was because he was hopelessly > > naive about reality? > > You do need to remember that with constitutional monarchs, like Great > Britain, there is a separation of the head of state and those with > political power. The Queen of England has virtually no power. The > advantage of this is that you can show full respect to the country, > personified by the queen, and full disrespect to the politician in charge.
Do you really think that is what he meant by " 'unconstitutional' Monarchy"? He specificially noted it was NOT a constitutional Monarchy, and you are talking about constitutional monarchies. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
