Press TV has conducted an interview with Charlie Veitch, activist and filmmaker, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: When we look at how much this has cost the people there in the UK in terms of the taxes given the economy which is officially in a recession, how do you think the effect is? What do people think especially the ones who were paid to have a day off and of course thinking, the queen that is, that these people are going to come out and support her 60 odd years on the thrown?
Veitch: The biggest price we’ll pay is the psychological propaganda price for still having — I just have to put my hand against my face in absolute shame that civilized, enlightened British people still believe in fairytales and Disney cartoons such as the royal family.
Here we are a country that spreads democracy around the Middle East by killing young men, and all these young men who give their lives have to swear allegiance to the Bible and to the queen. So they actually swear allegiance to a monarchy, a thousand-year-old monarchy that they’re going to kill people and die to spread democracy.
In terms of the actual financial cost of the celebration, seeing as money is created out of thin air in central banks anyway, it’s not so much a matter of the taxation or the revenue loss or the actual cost of the event because regardless if Britain is absolute bankrupt, they would still bankroll this 200 million pound celebration to ensure that British stays in patriotism, nationalism, we need to ensure that young, working class boys keep swearing allegiance to a monarchy.
It’s fear of change and modernism and holding on to tradition for, in my opinion, quite nefarious purposes in the ongoing British and American imperialism.
Press TV: When we look at the different sectors of society in the UK we can’t help but having a flashback regarding for example the student protest or other protests that have taken place in the tens of thousands. These people there in the UK support the queen given the times that their experiencing, it doesn’t quite make sense putting those two scenarios together.
Veitch: When you look at it from a Noam Chomsky intent of manufactured consent, we have nothing but very intelligent, psychologically manipulative propaganda maintaining the social hierarchy, maintaining the belief that if you work hard enough maybe one day you’ll be posh, maybe one day you can be a member of the aristocracy.
Of course, you will never be queen, you will never be king but this maintains the social order perfectly.
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