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| Kate checking out another killing machine |
The royal obsession with weapons and killing stuff shows no signs of slowing down. Our latest tax-funded appendage to the regal puppet show, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, or Kate, has shown a promising natural affinity for all things designed to end the lives of her fellow living creatures. She should fit in well.
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| Marriage and Military |
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| Harry: with a fucking big gun |
The royal family can seemingly not stop themselves from killing. Or, when not actively engaged with ending life, at least being caught in admiration for the cult of institutions or weapons designed for the purpose. Like a fetishised historiographical time capsule, the royals delight in shows of military willy-waving to a moist and husky British public, heightening the giddying effects of empire and rule. The sight of the young princes in military uniform, grimy and brave, showing the mettle of their pasture. Or, indeed, the sight of Prince Charles, humiliating himself before foreign dictators as he cuts some shoddy arms deal, or Prince William shooting deer and wild boar as a form of entertainment, or Prince Harry boasting of having killed "insurgents" in Afghanistan, while butching-up for some slobbering BBC coverage and drawing sycophantic nods of approval from the press, or Princess Kate roaming the countryside, looking for stuff to shoot. This is a fanatical, institutional cult of bellicosity and the xenophobic vestiges of an enfeebled mindset, imbricated upon centuries of empire-building.
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| Kate: with another fucking big gun |
The royal family, in military garb and ceremonial splendour, are unfolded from the cupboard, like the Sunday best, to act as a vertiable meme-machine, a propaganda weapon to remind us of the virtue of the British way, the unbreakable and imperishable British spirit, as a means to soften the troubled conscience as our corporate-backed governments continue to exploit the world and bully the weak, creating new killing fields, destabilising and destroying societies, and leaving whatever state assets remain to be exploited and pillaged for corporate profit.
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| Witchell, BBC Toady |