re: Four Arrested for Plotting to Kill the Queen

The truth is the UK can't afford to get rid of the Royal Family, the loss of tourism dollars alone would have a crippling effect on the economy. You laugh and in your elitist way (thinking you are your own little royalty) sneer, but British government studies have shown that getting rid of the Royals would be hideously expensive at best and a disaster at worst.

As for your declaration they are the most brutal empire to have ever existed... the British were by no means saints. They were also by no means the most brutal empire to ever bestride the globe. Within living memory the Japanese, Soviet, and Nazi regimes, one of whom actually had the decency to call itself an empire, were far worse. The Romans, while bringing the gift of civilization, were exceptionally brutal in how they brought that gift to those around them. Even the mildly benign Persian empire had its bad spells. And somewhere, lost in the tides of history, Genghis Khan and the Mongols wave hello.

Genuine, you've made very broad declarations about the Royals and the UK. When others responded in kind you got (to use a British phrase) your knickers in a bind. Frankly you do anti-Royalty sentiment a disservice every time you say something on the subject. Are you quite sure you aren't really an agent provocateur shoring up Royal support by making their opponents seem like ill tempered jackasses? If so, I congratulate you sir, you have accomplished your task in style.