tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post3247826392045613764..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Cries for SecessionMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-75231284523410567442014-09-07T01:13:22.580-05:002014-09-07T01:13:22.580-05:00The term "nationalism" has so many diffe...The term "nationalism" has so many different meanings, you need to define you mean by it means before you can have a real discussion about it. Even I, a single person, use it in deferent ways. Depending on what I mean by the word, it can range from a curse word to a benign or positive force.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12141280937817413536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-40690727560925309912014-09-07T01:02:47.414-05:002014-09-07T01:02:47.414-05:00MM said "I would probably have favored the la...MM said "I would probably have favored the later Stuart policy of three kingdoms in personal union under the Crown rather than under one centralized government in London". That, I (at least mostly) agree with. The Acts of Union were a grave mistake. In America, if one state has bad laws, we can vote with our feet and move to another one. The Acts of Union destroyed that in the mother-country. If anything, perhaps England should have been broken up into England, Wales, and Cornwall. <br /><br />The Acts of Union might have even helped set the stage for the American Revolution: If Britain Didn't have a single Parliament, I would think it'd be less likely that Parliament would have asserted authority over the colonies and triggered the Revolution in the first place.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12141280937817413536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-57183604004634318132012-10-31T05:42:40.631-05:002012-10-31T05:42:40.631-05:00So, two years from now the abbreviation UK will di...So, two years from now the abbreviation UK will dissapear from all printed matter and digital works? What a shame!TANAKA8120https://www.blogger.com/profile/08169056478150976834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-37364706525861759362012-10-23T23:36:41.148-05:002012-10-23T23:36:41.148-05:00What about it? I don't know of even one town i...What about it? I don't know of even one town in the American south where a majority favor secession. It's a non-issue. On a legal level I would say that since the U.S. was formed as a voluntary union of states, any state would have the right to secede for any reason (or even no reason) at all. However, since the War Between the States the legal argument became irrelevant. The U.S. government and military made it very, very clear that the U.S. is "one and indivisible" as the pledge of allegiance states. They decided, it seems, to become like the Irish Republican Army: Once in, never out.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-66056352682221369732012-10-23T22:44:34.236-05:002012-10-23T22:44:34.236-05:00And what about 'Dixie'?And what about 'Dixie'?Will S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02714519301979594160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-87127804441160133942012-10-18T22:27:19.155-05:002012-10-18T22:27:19.155-05:00Nationalism is the only viable antidote to the int...Nationalism is the only viable antidote to the internationalism, multiculturalism and Political Correctness now poisoning our world. If anything, Eastern European countries are better at resisting the tide because of their experiences of Communism.<br /><br />Socialism has failed, yet people still think it can be made to work. While a country like Singapore, where a strict adherence to traditional values and non-PC rule, has proven a far better model to follow.David Votoupalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580606716887515975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-91111440850886909392012-10-18T09:29:46.001-05:002012-10-18T09:29:46.001-05:00The democratic man is consumed with unnecessary de...The democratic man is consumed with unnecessary desires. He does whatever he wants whenever he wants to do it. For him freedom is the supreme good but freedom is also slavery. (A paraphrase from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes).<br /><br />Indeed, there is nothing sacred for the democratic man.TANAKA8120https://www.blogger.com/profile/08169056478150976834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-6000737234593248292012-10-18T03:50:09.298-05:002012-10-18T03:50:09.298-05:00I have no problem with nationalism where most coun...I have no problem with nationalism where most countries go, but when it threatens existing monarchies I want nothing of it- and the "nationalism" of Scotland and Quebec is a fundamentally Jacobin creature, whereas Polish, Lithuanian or Ukrainian nationalism is of a conservative and Christian character.<br /><br />Secession movements in Baluchistan (the Khan of Kalat is active) and "south Yemen" (South Arabia, in which Sultan Ghalib II of Qu'aiti is active) may be promising from a monarchist perspective in overturning illegal acts.David Votoupalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580606716887515975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-62527439032635730952012-10-17T23:10:42.313-05:002012-10-17T23:10:42.313-05:00I was a bit hesitant to use the word "nationa...I was a bit hesitant to use the word "nationalism" but just decided to go with the flow on this one. Personally, I think a little nationalism is a healthy thing -I certainly prefer it 100x over the inter-nationalism of the EU, UN etc. Every country in Europe (save for maybe the really tiny ones) have regional differences but they still have more in common with those in the rest of their country than they do with anyone else. That is another worry I have, that if this sort of thing takes off there will be no end to it. There are separatists in France who might be encouraged by it.<br /><br />As for the hope of gaining Andorra or Rousillon, I have no doubt that if it came to open confrontation the Catalans wouldn't stand a chance against the French army. But they know that too and my worry would be that it would end up being decided by some EU bureaucrat who thinks re-drawing a map is a simple matter. Heck, they might have a socialist mentality about it: France has much more territory than Catalonia so it is therefore only "fair" to let the Catalans have some French land to make them a little bigger. <br /><br />Oh how I hate the EU...MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-27477883595123451902012-10-17T22:16:48.238-05:002012-10-17T22:16:48.238-05:00It is necessary to identify the kind of nationalis...It is necessary to identify the kind of nationalism present in all these movements however. It is not nationalism, but liberal seperatism. Why else would Scotland, Catalonia, or Flanders join the EU? To escape one "yoke" simply to join another? That is not nationalism, that is putting financial and personal interest above those of the nation, inasmuch as that nation exists. I for one do not believe there is such a thing as a Flemish, Catalonian, or Scottish nation, so much as there are Flemish, Catalonian, or Scottish peoples, who all benefit by serving their nations. For the Flemish I am divided between leaving them for Belgium or the Netherlands, but I have, from a French perspective, no issue with the status quo.<br />However, should Flanders become independent, I have no issue with moving in to grab Wallonia. Until then, if France can't have all of Belgium, I say it should stay independent.<br />Quebec I am also ambiguous about. I'd currently oppose Quebec's independence because I do not beleive it would benefit Quebec to live under the liberal/left groups that currently campaign for its succession.<br /><br />Though I have to say Catalonia would be pretty hard pressed to try and steal either Andorra or Rousillon from France. We're not that spineless!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-32379364472705618352012-10-17T18:40:01.059-05:002012-10-17T18:40:01.059-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ulf Jarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13809295086187092020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-54305482459027211322012-10-17T15:29:57.339-05:002012-10-17T15:29:57.339-05:00Would be better if Quebec becomes an independent c...Would be better if Quebec becomes an independent country with the Borbouns, HM Louis I of Kingdom of Quebec!Maxmatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976892761537693586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-2602661567241205272012-10-17T01:12:22.492-05:002012-10-17T01:12:22.492-05:00All well said. Interestingly there have always bee...All well said. Interestingly there have always been elements of te Flemish movement that want to reunite with the Netherlands, called "Orangists" (the NVA's Siegfried Bracke among them).<br /><br />Scotland and Quebec need independence from socialism, not independence from the UK and Canada. Quebec has in fact become a microcosm of the world since the 60s "hippie" revolution with its welfare culture, and that it seems to want to get everything easy from the centre.David Votoupalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10580606716887515975noreply@blogger.com