So the Germans don't understand free speech, and nobody cares about all the idiots who wear Communist emblazoned gear.

Still a d*mnfool thing to do.

The little fool should have dressed up as one of Stalin’s commissars. Everyone would have laughed and called him witty.

Unless he also was using Uncle Joe's pipe. Then Harry would have had hell to pay from the anti-smoking Nazis...

Perhaps once Queen Elizabeth ends her reign it would be the appropriate time for our British cousins to put an end to the monarchy or at the very least the House of Windsor's claim to it.

I understand that I make this argument from a position of weakness, but is it really absolutely necessary for the entire world to have an loud opinion about every last little thing? This is a kid who's third in line to a sinecure. He could actually be a Nazi and, at best, tie for most vile of his family.

More proof that the inbreeding European aristocracy are cogenially unfit to rule in the modern world.

What purpose do 'royals' serve other than as a no-cost means of testing your guillotine to see that it is in good working order?

jd: A nation that elected GWB twice, and thank G-d for it, had better step a little lightly there.

OK, so how inbred is the royal family?

The people who are all in a lather over this are the biggest bunch of pansy-@$$ed losers...

The fact that they've soiled their silken undies over this, but were content to let Saddam and his progeny continue to rape, torture and pillage, that they didn't have to guts to do anything about Kosovo themselves, that they actually believe that their precious three minutes of silence actually means jack squat...

Wankers, every last one of them.

Roy,

The 'royal family' has only one job, representing the nation. It lasts 24/7 but it is only one job and it has very few real rules. This kid makes a nice chunk of change from the national treasury for no reason other than his being wheeled out from time to time to cut a ribbon here or christen a ship there. In exchange for getting well paid for a life mostly of indolent luxury, he has to mind his P's and Q's in ways which ordinary folk do not.

Can you imagine the flap if the Bush twins had gone to a Halloween party this past year in Nazi regalia? And, unlike Harry, they don't get a government check.

Bart:

No, only the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are on the civil list and are paid out of the treasury. The rest all support themselves or are dependent on the Queen's wealth. The Prince of Wales lives off his estates in Cornwall. Of all the arguments for abolishing the monarchy, saving money is the weakest.

I dunno if I can stand agreeing so much with David in one day.

So, a teenager displays bad taste. That's news?

Well, only because he's a prince.

Why should we have them? Well, Orrin says we'd be better off with them, and, particularly, this specific family.

I don't see it myself.

He should have shown that he was wearing a Che Guevarra t-shirt under the jacket, and then all would have been forgiven.

The Queen's wealth???????? His estates in Cornwall???? How did he get those, pray tell?

There is no serious distinction to be made between the Windsors and the Sopranos except the Sopranos actually do provide a service of some kind. All aristocracy is nothing more than an extortion racket and should have been eliminated a long time ago.

Bart:

Nice marxist analysis. I didn't realize you were in favour of expropriatng inherited wealth.

Peter,

The Landed Aristocracy of Europe got their wealth through means no different from that of your standard ordinary crime family. It isn't like a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffett or even a John D Rockefeller who actually did something to create wealth. All these liveried gangsters did was steal what belonged to other people, providing nothing in return.

Theft is theft and criminals and their families should not be allowed to profit from their crimes whether their names are Windsor or Gotti.

Ah, a marxist and a Jacobin.

It's kind of hard to call someone a Marxist, unless you mean Groucho, who believes that people who create stuff should get to keep the benefits of that creation. The Gates, Buffetts and Rockefellers actually did something of real value to get their respective piles. The Kennedys are a notable exception.

By contrast, the Hanovers, Windsors, Bourbons, Romanoffs etc did nothing to create wealth. All they did was murder other people or threaten to murder them if they didn't turn the wealth over. European royalty is little more than a protection racket. This is nothing you couldn't hear Mirabeau saying.

Not a Marxist, probably not a Jacobin, but certainly a sans-culotte.