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over the head of every Canadian there hangs the pitiful remnants of an archaic structure, despotic by nature, and which presumes that some people are born better than our- selVes and our families. Just what is this structure whidrdares to presume sud'l a thing? It is none ot‘nerxthan /the "beloved" monarchy. ‘Ihat innocent“ face appearing rpm every _ bill and coin in the realm, hides but another more sinister face - the face. of human idolatry, whose creed proclaim the inequality of man and the rights of Sure to reign,even~if not to rule.

Mmardny, even that tempered by a constitution, has not changed since the days before the glorious ' Republican revolutions of the United States (1776) and France (1789) when Thomas Paine (who wished no higher title than "citizen" besth upon his name) wrote in Commm Sense: the evil of Monarchy we

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have added that of hereditary .succession; and as the first is a degrad— aticn and lessening of our- selves, so the secmd,

claimed as a matter of right,

is an insult and an imposi— tion on posterity. For all men being' originally equals no one by birth couldhave a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all Mare than 200 years after this was written, posterity still bears the brunt of this superstitious structure, this monument

to the ignorance of humanity:

We may still observe our fellows (andperhaps our- selves as well) bowing (genuflecting?) to a fellow human being, not for the greatness of any deed

that individual had per— formed for humankind, but rather because the ancestor of the man" or, woman of

"royal" title was more

brutal and barbaric than others and thus grabbed more power for himself, over the murdered bodies of others.

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Ch top of foolishness, we then add stupidity — the march and family are ' payed richly for absolutely no work of significance (at least none that a priv- ate citizen could not equally perform) and live free of charge in not one but several palaces. Thus the "royal" family is but the highest of welfare recipients, but unlike others to state aid, we do not degrade the monarch, but actually hmor her!

"It requires some talents to be a common mechanic; but to be a king requires only the animal figure of man - a sort of breathing automaton. r This sort of

superstition may last a few years more, but it cannot

long resist the awakened reason and interest of man." (Rights of Man, T. Paine) Do not misunderstand my position. I wish to see no harm come to Elizabeth Windsor (whom the crown worshippers call "Queen Eliz.") or her family. I merely cmtend that she, and they, should become private citizens. If a wish to preserve the ceremonial offices of king and queen,’ for ritual's sake, then why not elect a man and a woman who, by their exemplary lives, served humanity in a manner worthy of the honor of a people's cram. To be fair, this elected "monarch" should be selected

. the throne at present.

THE UNIVERSITY RIGHT

from any of the member— states of the Cormonwealth of Nations. For example, I nominate Mother Theresa of Calcutta, whose nobility far exceeds that of any of the so—called aristocracy occupying, or in line for, '1th for the very first time in the bloodstained history of kings and queens, the least barbaric shall reign and sovereignty shall be of the

People, who freely dioose upon whose head a crown shall rest.

:. Unless the monarchy be altered in the manner described above, and I don't foresee that it shall, then the whole damn institution should be scrapped, having rig place in a natim (or nations)

of FREE PEOPLE. Monarchy, it is argued, is a camection to a nation's history - but are not

the people, who comprise the nation, the greatest ccnnecticn with history themselves ? History is a people, it is their heart and their soul, and belongs to no crammed imposter.

let the only offices be elective, and the only titles be earned, and the only honors be bestowed for work well done! Never again may it be uttered in any corner of the earth: "long live the King (Queen)" but rather: "Eternally live the People! 1"

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