March 1, 1998
First, a news item of note: Associated Press, February, 28: Rebuffing the United States and Britain, the World Court ruled Friday that it has the authority to settle a dispute deadlocking a trial of two Libyans suspected of blowing up a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988... Libya has so far refused to turn over the men, and the U.S. and Britain argued that the World Court has no jurisdiction to hear Libya's case. But the judges voted 13 to 2 - with the American and Britain justices opposed - that they do have the authority to step in. The court, formally known as the International Court of Justice, will now focus on whether to lift the sanctions. If they are lifted, they could allow Libya to try the men at home, or at least turn them over for trial to a neutral country. Libya hailed Friday's ruling.
To knowledgeable observers, the above speaks for itself. If even a murderous thug like Kadafi can get the World Court to side with him against Britain and the U.S., it is proof positive that Britain and the U.S. are now totally isolated from the international community, and that their respective heads of state, the Queen and President Clinton, are regarded as pariah who represent a clear and present danger to international peace and security.
The world community has been slow to act, but it now realizes that both leaders care not one whit about the well-being of the planet, but are acting to save their own necks. Well, that works both ways. If you thumb your nose at the world, the world will thumb its nose back. The United States, in particular, is making a colossal mistake in aligning itself with Britain against the rest of the world. The truth about the Queen's role in Diana's murder will come out. Britain is about to enter a period of profound social upheaval. Wise American leadership would posthaste distance itself from the disaster to come. That Clinton has not done so demonstrates that he is now so obsessed with clinging to power that he can no longer make an effective determination as to where America's true national interest lie.
Strangely enough, I do not begrudge the Queen the right to act against Diana. If Diana had married Dodi, with her enormous popular appeal and with Fayed's wealth, she would have presented a direct challenge to the Windsor dynasty. However, the way for the Windsor's to blunt the Diana challenge was to rapidly modernize itself. Instead, the Queen choose the refuge of cowards: brute force, murder. In doing so, she signaled the world she was perfectly prepared to sacrifice the interests of the world to keep her corrupt crew in power. Likewise with Clinton. Clinton (and Her Majesty's representative, Blair) was so eager to rain the 1000 lb bombs on Iraq to deflect attention off the Lewinsky scandal it was obscene. Fortunately, the world community has finally opened its eyes. And how bitterly ironic that the West's former enemies, Russia and China, are saving the West from itself. They realize you just can't write off a billion Muslims just because you don't happen to like whom your former daughter in law is about to marry, or to keep your ass in power. Clinton and the Queen are like the couple on the Titanic, locked arm and arm, plunging towards their final doom. And they seem hellbent on dragging us down with them. Fortunately, powerful forces are combining that will thwart them. Reno and Starr here in the U.S., Fayed and a handful of honest journalists in Britain, coupled with an outraged international community that has now taken the blinders off, will combine to defeat them. Clinton and the Queen are about to be take a fall, and it can't happen soon enough for the security of our planet.
Another news item: William Doesn't Want to be King - LONDON (Reuters) - Fifteen-year-old Prince William has told his father Prince Charles he does not want to be king, a British Sunday newspaper reported. The tabloid People quoted senior palace aides as saying William, a schoolboy at Eton College, had become more resistant to the prospect of assuming the British throne since the death of his mother, Princess Diana, six months ago. William is second in line of succession to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, after Charles, 49. The People, in a front-page story, quoted a senior royal courtier as describing William as a frustrated young man. "When he looks at the Royal Family all he has seen in recent years is misery," the report said. "He has associated a lot of that misery with the institution that his mother was part of and father is still. That feeling is deep-seated and he gets angry and tearful about it."
Reading between the lines, it's obvious the real reason William is reluctant to assume the throne is because he knows he's in an impossible position. Remember, Diana said repeatedly that he was a bright, astute young man. If so, he must realize the truth about what really happen that fateful night (how could he not, with even the British papers openly talking about murder?). He must also realize that there is no way under present circumstances that he can be allowed to become King. Under any plausible scenario that you care to imagine - Diana killed on orders of the Queen, Diana killed by unknown forces deep within the British Establishment - the idea of a King William, angry, knowing the truth about his mother's death, and hellbent on revenge, is an anathema. It's no coincidence, you can be sure, that the day after Bobby Kennedy announced that, if elected President, he would reopen his brother's murder, he was gunned down. William surely knows that not only the throne, but his very life, is now at stake.
The only chance William has to assume the throne, and perhaps even stay
alive, is to align himself with Al Fayed against the Queen and his
father. The Queen is heading down and so are the Windsors.
If William sides with them, he will be destroyed also. By aligning
himself with Al Fayed, he can put a buffer against himself and the disaster
in store for the Windsors, and possibly erect a new monarchy on the ashes
of the old. This is a lot to put on someone so young, who truly doesn't
deserve to be put in this position. But if William is to stay alive
- literally - he is going to have to learn, on the job, and fast.