Should Our Children Be Made To Swear Allegiance To Our Beloved Monarch?

Question

In Order To Teach Them Respect For Their Social Betters?

Answer 1

Good Lord no, and her majesty has made it clear she is not in favour of such a thing either. It's the sort of thing they do in America and other places where they are basically insecure in their national identity. This is just another Brown distraction tactic, like his war on plastic bags and bloody bottled water!

Answer 2

No. I don't believe we or our children should have to pledge allegiance to a person at all for any reason.

I do believe that everyone should have to swear allegiance to our country though, it should be one of the things immigrants should do upon entry into the UK.

Answer 3

No way, it's an absolutely stupid idea, and nothing could be more certain to turn 17 year olds against something than to make them do it. I suspect a republican plot!

Answer 4

No way! She might be your 'beloved monarch' but don't presume to speak for the rest of us! She's just a free-loading, in-bred piece of scum as far as I'm concerned!

How can anybody with half a brain regard the queen as a 'social better'? She's the mother of one of the most dysfunctional families in the UK, the members of which have no respect for anybody but themselves - why the h**l should respect be given them?  

Them? Better?  You must be joking!!

Answer 5

The royals cannot be considered our social betters when you consider the scandals over the years,however an allegiance to the union jack and British values would be acceptable.

Answer 6

No.....it`s a silly idea.

Answer 7

Absolutely not!!!! I think this is an awful idea!!

I wouldn't do it

Answer 8

are there really social betters in the UK?  seriously.

like you're not as good as someone because of what class you are?

hmm...that's strange.

in the US, we pledge allegiance to our country.

in elementary school, every day we'd face the flag and recite:

i pledge allegiance

to the flag

of the united states of america

and to the republic

for which it stands

one nation

under God

invisible

with liberty and justice for all

or something like that.  =]

i think schoolchildren should just love their country and their queen.  and allegiance?  well that's sort of a bother.  it's not like the monarch is the one with the power, so it's sort of weird.

Answer 9

That's your job!  You think they are a good example on how to conduct themselves, they are a privileged socially dis functional family  flaunting their inherit wealth (not made or earned) while millions of people are starving.  And not an once of guilt from them.  How can they look at themselves in the mirror when they see the mass starvation of Innocent children?  They are vulgar and offensive.  The Queen is one of the richest women on the planet.  If she gave up half her wealth we could almost eradicate poverty overnight!  Oh but I'm forgetting were just mere subjects, like excrement on the end of their ridding boots.     For more articles like the one below go to www.thetruthseeker.co

Diana Sensation: ‘I Saw Hitmen Cause Crash’



Richard Palmer – Daily Express October 16, 2007

Two hitmen on a motorcycle shone a powerful flashlight at Princess Diana’s car before it crashed, her inquest was told yesterday.

Francois Levistre was driving in front of the Mercedes when it crashed, killing Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed.

He told the jury the bike stopped and the pillion passenger walked over to the wrecked car, inspected it then signalled like a referee when a boxer is out for the count.

The passenger, dressed like the rider all in black, then signalled that they needed to move quickly out of the Alma tunnel in Paris, the inquest in London heard.

Asked why he had not left his car to help those in the crash, Mr Levistre answered: “Fear.” Asked what he had been afraid of, he replied: “Just like I said, I thought they were hitmen.”

Mr Levistre, giving his evidence via video link from Paris, told how he saw the “major white flash” from the motorbike in his rear view mirror as the bike overtook Diana’s car.

The Mercedes began immediately careering across the road before crashing into the concrete pillars in the central reservation of the dual carriageway in the tunnel, he said.

He told the jury in court 73 at the Royal Courts of Justice it was like the bright flash from a speed camera.

“The light was as if you are caught by police radar,” he said. “The light was very powerful. It came into my car. The light was not directed towards me. It was directed towards the car which was behind.”

The inquest, which is expected to hear evidence for six months before deciding how Diana and Dodi died, heard that after the crash the self-employed businessman had performed tests with different kinds of lights in the Alma tunnel.

He concluded that the intensity of the flash was much greater than that produced by a normal photographer’s flash. He also told the court that he had not seen any photographers in the tunnel in the immediate aftermath of the crash.

Mr Levistre, 63, from Rennes in Normandy, told the inquest he was driving through the French capital in a rented black Ford Ka after spending the day in the city with his wife and 10-year-old son.

He entered the riverside expressway from a sliproad near the entrance to the Alma tunnel after midnight on August 31 1997. A second later he saw in his mirror the motorbike overtake the car behind him and then the bright flash.

“When I saw this light I looked through the mirror in my car,” he said. “There I saw the car going from left to right to left again within the pillars. And then the car had no lights any more. Everything was switched off.”

As he reached the end of the tunnel and viewed the mangled wreckage in his mirror, he brought his car to a halt but left the engine running. He was frightened, fearing it might have been a type of gangland hit.

“I thought it could be as in the south of France when you have gangs and bands fighting together,” he told the court.

“They were dressed in all black with helmets. And the passenger went to the car, looked into the car – because from my mirror I could see everything that was happening – and the passenger he made a gesture with his hands,” the witness said, demonstrating a sign to indicate that it was over.

He told how the passenger then signalled that they should move straight ahead out of the tunnel and got back on the bike before the pair sped off, staring at the car’s occupants as they went by.

Ian Burnett, QC for the coroner, asked him: “Was there any reason you didn’t get out of the car?”

“Fear,” replied Mr Levistre. “It’s just like I said to the magistrates before, I thought they were hitmen.”

Mr Levistre also said he saw a small white car in the tunnel, but maintained there was no contact between that and the Mercedes. He could not confirm it was a Fiat Uno.

The first he heard that the crash victims were Diana and Dodi was when he was watching the television news at 1pm the next afternoon.

He and his family did not immediately report what they had seen to the police because they were scared, he told the inquest.

“We were in the situation in which we thought these two motorcyclists had gone to kill the other people in the car. And we were just scared.”

He told the court that after the crash he had remained in his car for between two and five minutes before driving off without getting out.

When he saw television coverage of the crash, however, he decided to speak out.

“I could hear the word ‘paparazzi, paparazzi,’ but actually I knew that there were no photographers, I knew that there was nobody else up there,” he said.

By the time they arrived he had left the scene, according to his evidence. He got in touch with the Ritz Hotel, which passed his details on to police who soon asked him for an interview.

He reluctantly gave them a statement on September 1 1997 and in April 1998 he also gave a statement to Judge Herve Stephen, the examining magistrate leading the French investigation into the crash.

He told Mr Burnett that French police “looked down on him” when he gave his deposition.

During a long period of questioning Mr Burnett raised several examples where the witness had contradicted himself in statements he had given to police, magistrates and the media as well as yesterday’s inquest.

He had changed his story about whether he had seen the Mercedes actually hit the pillar and had also contradicted himself about the speed he was doing when he got onto the expressway, the court was told.

But Mr Levistre insisted that the French authorities had made up parts of his statements – which he had never read properly – in an attempt to discredit him and that what he had told the court yesterday was the truth.

Diana: Fiat Driver ‘Shot in Head’



Martin Evans – Daily Express July 9, 2007

James Andanson, who followed the Princess’s every move in the week before her death, was thought to have committed suicide when his burnt corpse was found in the wreckage of a car in the French countryside.

But now the fireman who discovered the body, Christophe Pelat, has said: “I saw him at close range and I’m absolutely convinced that he had been shot in the head, twice.”

The revelation threatens to blow apart the inquest on Diana, which will have another preliminary hearing today in the London High Court.

Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed, whose son Dodi, 42, died with Diana in a Paris crash, is now demanding that Mr Pelat be called to give evidence at the inquest – or at least that his account is heard.

Andanson, 54, has been one of the key figures in the mystery surrounding the fatal crash, which happened 10 years ago next month.

As a leading paparazzi photographer, he had spent weeks following the 36-year-old Princess, as her romance with Dodi blossomed .

Many who have studied the accident closely believe it was Andanson who was driving a white Fiat Uno which clipped Diana’s Mercedes seconds before the crash, as part of a complicated assassination plot.

Police are certain that Andanson, a millionaire, was a regular informer for both MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service, and French agencies. But he was never properly interviewed by the authorities, and less than three years after the tragedy, he was also found dead. His body, found in thick woodland near Montpellier, was so badly charred that it took police nearly a month before DNA and dental records confirmed his identity.

The official verdict was suicide. Now Mr Pelat, the first fire officer on the scene, has suggested he may have been murdered. His claim supports conspiracy theories that Andanson was himself assassinated by secret agents because he knew too much about the plot which killed Diana.

Asked by the Daily Express this week to expand on his extraordinary story, Mr Pelat, who still works as a fireman, said: “It is not my job to say any more to anybody except the official authorities.

“I deal with emergencies every day of the week and treat each one with equal importance.”

But he is believed to have given a TV interview in which he said he saw the bullet holes in Andanson’s head.

Mr Al Fayed now wants that evidence to be aired at the full inquests into Diana and Dodi’s deaths, later this year.

He is among those who believe that Diana and Dodi were murdered by the British security services because senior British royals, including Prince Philip, did not want Diana having a Muslim baby by Dodi.

And he is convinced that some of the paparazzi, including the driver of the white Fiat Uno, were MI6 agents whose mission was to stop the announcement of the couple’s engagement – and Diana’s pregnancy. Mr Pelat’s evidence could be vital in supporting these theories.

Andanson had been in Sardinia during the last week of August 1997, as Diana and Dodi enjoyed their last holiday together in the Mediter-ranean, and then returned to France on August 30.

Less than six hours after the fatal crash in Paris, and for reasons that have never been revealed, Andanson boa

Answer 10

no respect should be taught at home and used in ordinary day to day dealings with people.  they are hardly ever to meet the queen so it wont mean a thing to them

Answer 11

No they shouldn't this is just another crazy idea dreamt up by the Government and even the queen herself has said she is not happy with it

Answer 12

no way, that's the stupidist idea i've ever heard, it's not gonna make anyone care about it any more than they do now.

Answer 13

LOL no way!

The winsors cost the nation millions, so why would we be true to them

Respect begins in the home.

Answer 14

Yes.

Answer 15

An oath given under compulsion is surely meaningless?

Answer 16

werlll....it's extremely unlikely to have any effect. some schoolchildren will complain that it's stupid and have a rebellious attitude towards it...some won't care and it won't mean a thing to them.

as for "teachign respect"...it won't. how can a few lines of oath "teach" respect? it'll be just another dull ritual that teh school make you go through.