Thursday, 17 July 2008
Invisible Belgium
Almost entirely unreported by newspapers and broadcasters based a short train ride from Brussels, there continues apace the neocon-backed Flemish secessionist movement with deep Nazi roots (like the neocons' friends in Bosnia, Kosovo and Denmark), which, in the cause of the anti-conservative "free" market and in order to destroy a social democracy based squarely on Catholic Social Teaching, wishes to destroy a state closely resembling the United Kingdom, historically our principal ally and trading partner on the Continent, and headed by a monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Why does nobody want to know?
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Being headed by the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha hardly makes it great.
ReplyDeleteThe last reigning (English born to boot) Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was a Nazi from the beginnings of the movement. Channel Four has shown the documentary about him a couple of times in the past few months.
Ferdinand of Bulgaria was on the side of the Central powers in World War I. Think he joined the alliance to get at Serbia for defeating him in the second Balkan war and making off with part of the territory he had got off the Turks in the first Balkan War.
(This is going to be interesting - who do you back here - Bulgaria or Serbia?).
Ferdinand's son Boris was a signatory to the Axis. To give Boris credit he helped save Bulgaria's Jews and it Hitler is alleged to have had him murdered for doing so.
His son, ex-king Simeon, of course is now private citizen and a former prime minister and is still active in the country's civic life. He is not interested however in restoring the monarchy having taken the oath to the Republic. He says his children, who are half Spanish and raised in Spain, are not interested in the crown. I think his "heir" is an officer in the Spanish army.
Anyway if you are against sepratism, then you must be against Belgium. Remember Belgium itself broke away from the Netherlands in 1831, inspired by the "July Revolution" in neighbouring France the year earlier.
Was that break away inspired by a pseudo-Jacobin agenda which established Louis Phillipe. We should be told!
As for the Belgians, it is up to them to decide what happens to their country. The Economist was advocating its dissolution a few months ago.
Maybe the Walloons will keep Albert whilst the Flems choose a member of the Habsburg dynasty to rule over them. Remember the roots of Belgium through the Union of Arras was based on loyalty to the House of Habsburg agianst the seditious, sepratist, treacherous forces of Willem van Nassau, Prince of Orange and his tinpot "Republic" in the North! - firstly in Madrid and then (after the Bourbons took over in Spain) in Vienna.
Then after being seized by Revolutionary France, being passed to the Hague in 1815.
"I William of Nassau, scion of German and ancient line, I dedicate myself to this land of mine, a prince am I undaunted of Orange ever free, to the king of Spain I have granted a lifetime's loyalty"
"From out of the tomb of slavery, has Belgium at last arisen free, and has by the is victory, gained her name, her flag, her dignity, for it is emblazoned on your banner glorious each day upholding your cause, your name, your king and your laws"