Don't worry about them being published in the US. We are to busy hiding from killer cops and enjoying cat pictures. Who is Prince George anyway?

They want to give their children a childhood that is "free from harassment and surveillance"

I definitely think there should be some law to stop the harassment. Aren't there stalking laws?

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Don't worry about them being published in the US. We are to busy hiding from killer cops and enjoying cat pictures. Who is Prince George anyway?

I think it is a ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Prince_George

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"You grimy paparazzi". Estelle teaches the press to behave!
https://twitter.com/PrinsDanne/status/610097351596875776
Signed "Hagamannen".

US media firmly believe that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of ... the press" applies around the world. When they're trying to expose political corruption, that's good, but a 2-year-old ain't a politician. They also tend to forget that a certain amount of responsibility goes with it, and also that it doesn't say anything about anyone other than Congress making such a law. (It is generally held that no government at any level can do so, and people tend to forget that it doesn't apply to privacy agreements between private parties.)

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

i like that song by lady gaga

My opinion...as if you wish to hear it............

'Freedom of the press' has it's rightful place.
Currently, I think that some members of the press corps have corrupted it to mean they can say anything the damned well wish to, and in my opinion, that is not the original intent.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Feudal dynasties are a ridiculous thing in the modern world. Dismiss them.

Agreed. We should definitely throw them out of the country.

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Feudal dynasties are a ridiculous thing in the modern world. Dismiss them.

Agreed. We should definitely throw them out of the country.

Yes. Throw out national flags and other national symbols in all countries.
Forbid US presidents to say God Bless America.
Forbid Sweden citizens to celebrate midsummer and eating crayfish.

Rule Britannia (Royal Navy version).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voeo0Oiox-c

Free at last. Free at last!!!!!

Their side.

Photographer: 'Royals should release more photos'

Kensington Palace and Scotland Yard have both issued strongly worded statements accusing photographers of harassing Prince George.

The palace said some of the tactics used to capture images of the Prince were "increasingly dangerous".

The Metropolitan Police warned that photographers could face "armed intervention".

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Here we go, "Armed intervention" against unarmed civilians? Shades of USA.

Feudal dynasties are a ridiculous thing in the modern world. Dismiss them.

Agreed. We should definitely throw them out of the country.

And what do you replace them with, in most cases around the world, with expensive Presidents and many of them are criminals.

When one newspaper asked, a few years ago, "What would be the qualities you would like to see in a Head of State", the answers turned out to be almost an exact description of the Queen.

I think it would be very convenient to have a royal person or two around to attend state dinners, entertain foreign dignitaries and attend fundraisers for charitable events. I am sorry that our elected officials have to attend to their legislative duties and also serve as host/hostesses for our nation. It must be both exhausting and fattening. No wonder President Bush II spent so much time on the White House treadmill!!!

This is unacceptable behaviour for the Future King of England and his parents to be expected to have to endure.

The palace said a small number of media organisations, mostly in Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand and the US, had published photos of Prince George in "unacceptable circumstances".

However it said the "vast majority", and all UK publications, had refused.

Simple, arrest them and deport them.

Arrest who? Deport them where?

Am I to understand that you are proposing we "arrest and deport" all the UK publication houses - for heinously not publishing? For that is what you have said.

Or are you saying: The German, French, Italian, Australian, New Zealand and American publishers should be rounded up by their respective governments and deported - for heinously publishing? To - where? Not the UK. For that would be extradition, and the onus for producing any paperwork at this stage would be the United Kingdom's, surely?

Or perhaps you're saying, as Umpteenth Snark has already paraphrased for us - but with more eloquence than I and more admirable concern for the preservation of the family unit :-) To spare our future king... (would that be our future King Charles (and those responsible for bringing him into this world)? Or our future King George (etc))? from enduring further unacceptable circumstances, we should arrest and deport them from Britain?

In light of the following:

The palace said some of the tactics used to capture images of the Prince were "increasingly dangerous".

...I can see merit in this.

So where did you have in mind?

There are some methods to deal with this.

1) The most obvious. Stop going out in public.

2) Send out so many photos in press releases editors are sick of them.

3) Deploy technical measures to spoil unauthorized photos

4) Pick a lucky publication that doesn't use Paparazzi and they get to take nice official photographs close up and get to press with them first, making the grainy telephoto stuff second class junk. Oh and Paparazzi press have their press credentials revoked making them just ordinary private citizens.

5) Tell them some minister is boff'n his bimbo at hotel delta if they want some pictures better hurry before they draw the curtains. Everyone loves a sex scandal.

6) Demote the royals to ordinary, no one will be interested anymore.

7) Do the US thing, shoot first (with automatic weapons) ask questions later. (Oh that big telephoto looked like a rocket launcher.)

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I initially put this thread into the Cafe, knowing full well it wouldn't last long before it got moved to Politics.

You knew perfectly well that this would be a hot potato & it's not the 1st time you've done this. What were you thinking of? Another reason to denigrate the Politics board?

As for the anti monarchy brigade, you've stated that you will take on anyone that denigrates the royals & Great Britain. Fair do. However, where were your comments over the UK publication of the "Royal Heilnesses" disgrace?

I think you do this deliberately just to get a rise out of people. Down to you to prove this wrong!

I take it that as someone that is so against feudal dynasties i.e. Monarchies, that you will be renouncing y our Canadian citizenship shortly and be moving to the USA or elsewhere similar. You would not want to leave yourself open to thoughts of hypocrisy I am quite sure.

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I've seen where you've made this kind of post before. Poor. Very poor.

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We have a political democracy in Sweden. This means that there is no other source for public power but the people itself. All state functions answers to democratic legislations. No public office can be inherited or reserved for a person belonging to a certain social class. Except for one office - the head of state.

http://repf.se/in-english

Isn't it bizarre indeed?

Yes:)
Our king is head of state and also head (admiral) of the Swedish Royal Navy.

His son is a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy:)


Chris O’Neill and Prins Carl Philip Roadtrip:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ2Gk9-aI1M

What I fins so strange is, when it comes to the Malvinas, democratic vote is the gold standard, when it comes to a colony, monarchy is the gold standard.

Well seeing as a great number of posters here are anti establishment left wing types, which you always get on these type of forums, they would identify with this rabble wouldn't they. It has been around for some years now, is known about, and not taken very seriously as you would expect. Apart from which under 25's are well known to go through the "angry young man phase", vote Labour or UKIP, before they mature, grow up, get married, have kids, buy a house, and vote Tory.

But those times are changing. They're not buying houses. Many don't get married. Some will never have kids. But they are staying angry. A republic will happen. The only thing that will delay it will be war - and that's what it looks like we're being groomed for. It'll be a mistake, and it's already a mistake.

Republic

Advocacy of the replacement of the monarchy with a republic has been an imprisonable offence in law. The Treason Felony Act 1848 prohibits the advocacy of a republic in print. The penalty for such advocacy, even if the republic is to be set up by peaceful means, is lifetime imprisonment. This Act remains in force in the United Kingdom. However, under the Human Rights Act 1998, the Law Lords have held that although the Treason Felony Act remains on the statute books it must be interpreted so as to be compatible with the Human Rights Act, and therefore no longer prohibits peaceful republican activity.

Yes - that is one that will go