Frankie Boyle gets some good digs in.
“The British monarchy has become the embodiment of a British ideal, the idea that some people get more rights than others.”
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The Longest-Operating British Crime Family
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(Is the background sound really weird and variable on that video, or is it just me?)
That has always been the point of power. And it is always founded on violence. The British royal family may no longer need to do the violence in person, but that’s why they have armies and the police. After all, Mafia bosses don’t do their killing themselves, either.
Allison @2:
The Queen didn’t send, indeed couldn’t have sent, the British armed forces to Iraq. That was Tony Blair. You’re confusing the real Mafia bosses with the figureheads,
Allison@#2:
That has always been the point of power. And it is always founded on violence.
Coincidentally I have been listening to the audio book version of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish a book you neatly summarized.
@1 Probably an effort to make it harder to be found and copyrighted.
#1 and #5
Yes, I have the same problem, and yes, it’s probably a youtube copyright thing.