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http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/queen.asp

Has court marshall ever been considered for sedition or treason?

When you take an oath faithfully swearing allegiance to Her Majesty, you do it.

Personally, I took no such oath, and the Queen means less than nothing to me. I don't dislike her, or the other Royals, but I've never felt that she was my Queen in any way.

I bothers me somewhat when my tax dollars go toward paying her/them for some kind of visit I could care less about. I wish we could cut the ties we have in terms of governance, including doing away with the positions of Governor General and the Provincial counterparts. And, while I'm on a roll, let's dump the Senate. And drop Coronation Street. We'd save tens of millions each year, and improve television.

What a disloyal twit. As a RMC grad, I'm horrified that this officer is allowed any contact with Cadets there.

Maybe, before he launched his "grievance," he should have checked his commissioning scroll to see who signed it, and thus, authorized his pay as an commissioned officer in the CF.

Don't send him to Afghanistan; he'll want to knock off work at 1600 every day. Besides, a stupid person, with such poor judgement, could get himself, and others, killed.

I suppose he can now be charged with disobedience of a lawful command, but why bother; just release him now - item 5 - "unfit for further service."

Does he swallow his principle or do the honourable thing and resign?
The court says it is not harassment
How can he reasonably keep working for the military?

I feel alot like jimbo. Swear an oath - keep it. We should have ditched the monarchy a long time ago but that is another issue. He is in a military whose Commander-in-Chief is the Queen. Don't like it? Leave!

It is what it is. If he is cashing his paychecks, he has to honor the wishes of his boss. If that is the queen then it is what it is.

His choice is to resign and get a job. Would you hire this person now that we see what kind of asshole he is. The military should hoof him ASAP.

By the way, how and why did he get such an idiotic name and he looks doltish judging by his picture.

He translated Harold Kenny into Irish Gaelic to come up with that unpronouncable mash.

So, 33 years and already a Captain. Movin right along. Nudder 200 odd years and he can expect to make Major General.

Interesting, I went to RRMC in the same year as him. I think he was in Cartier squadron (it has been a while). He was an exceptional student and won many of the top military and physical awards.

He seemed to be streamlined for senior rank. I had completely lost track of him. I wondered what happened to make him such a dweeb.

I swore an allegiance to the Queen, and to even remotely think of going back on it is treason to me(unless she shows me good reason to do so,such as treason on her part). I had a useless twit of an RSM try to tell me he was going to have my wings pulled,Sir,because I wasn't wearing headdress on a flightline. When I politely informed him that Queen Elizabeth II bestowed those wings upon me,and was the ONLY one who could remove them,he quickly backed down.Didn't realize some off us "old timers" know what loyalty is, and that all of our military ranks,privileges,etc,come down from the Queen, regardless of what some career twit military/political type may try to tell the civie sheeple.

whats with royalty anyway?

we're either descended from Adam & Eve or monkeys. neither of which were royals.

but a central locus of royalty is that BOTH parents must be royals, ALL 4 grandparents, ALL 8 great grandparents etc.

how is it mathematically possible for there to be 'royals'? how is that?

it could NOT have ever even started, lacking blue blood in either scenario, and working backwards we wind up with an entire planet full of 'royals'. so what is it o conservative fart catchers of the kwauyeen?

Royal - definition:

Someone whose great-to-the-nth granddaddy was really good a waving sharp objects.

Now, all you "democrats" that don't like acknowledging the rights of the monarchy to govern ought to shut your yobs before someone goes all "royal" on you.

:-)

Actions like this are just stepping stones on the route to getting rid of the monarchy. It takes time but you have to keep working at it. Even John Howard in Australia failed to get rid of this crap - but he moved one Australia one step closer to being (symbolically) their own people.

It took Ireland several hundred years and countless fights to get rid of the monarchy - and they eventually succeeded.

Sometimes you have to be on the inside to invoke change. For example, one of Ireland's greatest commanders, the Duke of Wellington, definitely pledged allegiance to the crown. He kicked Napoleon's butt and went on to become a member of British parliament and he fought tirelessly for Catholic emancipation in Ireland and for Irish independence. He made progress for Ireland. Our man here is doing the same thing - Canadians are our own people - not subject to some crown.

"Canadians are our own people - not subject to some crown."

ROTFLMFAO...thanks ccoon. That has to be the MOST moronic statement a pretend conservative has made in a long time. Tell that to the HRC's who want to control our thoughts. Tell that to the Lieberal/socialists/fascists/commies who want to destroy our way of life and institute destruction of our culture.Tell that to the duck hunter who has to register his shotgun. I could go on.Hopefully you get the point.We are NOT our "own" people.We are sheeple who let a "select few" guide us,and our kids,without the least miniscule thought or worry as to how this may be undermining any true feedom we have left.At least most of us are. Some of us still know the meaning of freedom,free speech,and individualism. Try it some time.You may enjoy it.

I'm surprised at the number of so-called conservatives here who harbour cheap dreams of abolishing the Queen, and therefore destroying the regimental heritage of our Armed Forces. There are tens of thousands of Canadians buried all over Europe who fought for Queen and Country, so get a little respect.

cconn, you're obviously clueless about the military and don't have much of a sense of ethics and integrity either. The man took an oath, one that is required if you want to wear our country's uniform. If you disagee with the oath, don't serve in the armed forces. Once that oath is taken, you obey it or resign - to do otherwise is to show an appalling lack of integrity, and for an officer that is just unacceptable. The armed forces do not do politics in this country. Period. This a**hat whom I refuse to consider a brother officer, is trying to break his oath while retaining the privilege of wearing the uniform. As far as I'm concerned, he has no integrity and should resign.

Whether or not anyone reading this agrees or disagrees with me - that's the way it is. No ifs ands or buts about it.

Integrity is indeed the key issue here.

All the half-baked comments about the monarchy in Canada are irrelevant to the central question:

Should a serving officer of the armed forces be free to question the legitimate, constitutional authority of the Head of State of his/her country?

Answer: no.

An officer with any personal integrity, who objected to that authority, should promptly resign his/her commission. Then, as a private citizen, he/she would be free to advocate whatever political changes he/she wants through constitutional means.

We're not getting the whole story here anyway; our captain's Hiberno-Gaelic name change implies some sort of silly ethnic bee in his bonnet. Still sore about the Highland clearances? Or has he discovered stale old Irish grievances to grumble about?

I have this discussion(argument)with my wife(100% German) all of the time. She cannot understand why I support the monarchy, considering that my father came from Italy, and my mother's family is Irish, Scottish and Micmac(200 years in the maritimes).

Well, here are the reasons why:

1. The British traditions upon which this country was built have given us the highest standard of living ever known to the human race.

2. 800 years of British common law have given the working class the fairest system of justice ever known to the human race.

3. If I wanted to live in a republic, I would move to the USA.

These are the traditions that this country was built upon, whether anyone likes it or not.

One other thing. That idiot swore an oath(like myself, and my two brothers). Either live up to your word, or get the f#$% out. Jerk off!

OMG! I actually agree with Anon, this isn't about the merits of having a monarchy but the fact that someone who swore an oath to Queen and country now has the audacity to question it. The CAF ain't Dr. Phil, put up or shut up. Little wonder he is hiding in academia, I doubt if anyone in the field would want him to "cover their six".

My old commission scroll (1973) was signed by the Minister of National Defence not the Queen. The intent of my oath was service to Nation of Canada symbolized in the person of the Queen.

Personally I can't wait to be rid of the Monarchy and establish a Republic where I get to vote for the executive & legislative branches of government seperately. My hope is that this will break the tryanny of the party system under which we now suffer.

"Personally I can't wait to be rid of the Monarchy and establish a Republic where I get to vote for the executive & legislative branches of government seperately. My hope is that this will break the tryanny of the party system under which we now suffer."

Dream on.

I am willing to bet that the "tyranny of the party system" in the Ersatz America that you feel Canada ought to be will only be exacerbated by improving the latitude for political hacks to run the country unchecked.

You need look no further than the Republican-Democrat stand-offs that routinely stall the political process in the Real America to our south.

The Queen thing is a non issue, why do people say they are upset about it?
The cost to Canada [still a member of the Commonwealth] is negligible.
We have so much money wasted by our governments that actually does take money out of our pockets, the Queen and GG should be way down the list.
Not everyone supports giving money to the Arts
Not everyone supports money to hockey arenas.
Not everyone supports money to immigrant communities
The Queen and the GG give a lot of Canadians a feel good sensation so lets focus on real problems.

The military is notoriously reluctant to confront this sort of thing.

During the preparations for the deployment of 1Fd Hospital to the 1st Gulf War two medics flatly refused to deploy to the theatre. Their CO had the right idea, he wanted to charge them and release them from the CF as soon as possible, however once the higher ups got wind of this they brushed it under the table and to the best of my knowledge the two got away with it. I presume there were career consequences but I can't say for sure.

The oath to the Queen is also a sensitive national unity issue.

"Canadians are our own people - not subject to some crown."

Canadians are subject to the Crown in right of Canada and to the Crown in right of each of the provinces, each of which is a native Canadian monarchy, not foreign. To say that should change is one thing; to say it is not so, however, is simply incorrect.

"800 years of British common law..."

ENGLISH common law. There is no such thing as "British" common law: Scots law is civil law.