To truly understand my outrage at U2 front man, Bono, accepting knighthood from the queen of England, allow me to put it into historical context.
England calls herself the United Kingdom these days. It sounds better than the English Empire. "Empire" got a bad rap in the Star Wars trilogy so for international marketing every scam kingdom on earth now refers to itself as United, like the United Arab Emirates which is a collection of U.S.-hating mongrel sheikhdoms that have a population just over two million people but we kiss their asses just the same.
Bono with his hand up Tony Blair's ass.
England has killed a great many people in her history, England has looted and decimated many cultures and destroyed many languages and belief systems that she deemed to be inferior to her own.— The United States likes to tout itself foremost as a place of religious freedom in reaction to English repression, but in reality england miscalculated her own sons when it came to the Americas. England had a wonderful formula to maintain control over inferior people, but her own citizens, when left without proper supervision, realized they could just steal the land and franchises awarded to them by their King. To do this they had to spin their project to reflect something noble like freedom of religion and taxation without representation so that commoners might be willing to die for them. Our founding fathers, land owners and franchisees of the Crown crafted two of the most clever pieces of advertising copy every wrought, the Preamble to the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And it worked to gain the support of the working masses, the same ones who do the fighting and dying now.
This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2009.