THE RECENT New York magazine revelations of the lavish travel junket that America's most openly MAGA "justic" Alito and his fascist flag flying wife took at the invitation of the putrid Princess Gloria von Turn und Taxis (Gloria von Tut) is the latest reason that we need drastic and far reaching court reform but it's only one facet of the part of the connections between America's Republican-fascists and the still very rich and decadent and very dangerous detritus of European royalty. You should read the linked to article if, like me, you let this reporting go during the last weeks of the campaign that has had us all sitting under a razor sharp sword. The revelations of that link to one of the three "justices" I said should be under immediate investigation for possible tax fraud and other law breaking if Kamala Harris wins tonight is just the beginning.
Here's an older must-read article from open Democracy about how the still dangerous royals and nobles of Europe are tied in with the neo-fascist wave that we are pushing against here.
Just as a sample.
While far-right leaders from Italy to Hungary position themselves as siding with the ‘grassroots’ against liberal elites, this is also a VIP-studded network: Princess Gloria – a friend of Steve Bannon, who plans to use her palace in Germany as a summer school for European populists – is not the only aristocrat involved.
openDemocracy reviewed the programmes for each of these events since 2004, and found about 100 politicians among the 700 people listed as speakers over the 15 years – along with an archduchess from Austria, a French prince, and a Portuguese duke.
“On both sides of the Atlantic”, noted Hillary Margolis, a researcher for the NGO Human Rights Watch, increasingly “politicians and lobbying groups misrepresent efforts to improve gender equality – including access to reproductive health and rights – as dangerous to children, families and so-called “traditional values”.
“There is now a real transatlantic movement on these issues”, added Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has designated the WCF an anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ for “pushing for restrictions to LGBT rights under the guise of the defense of the ‘natural family’”.
The WCF is key to this cross-border ultra-conservative organising, Beirich said, “bringing together organisations from predominantly Europe and North America, but also other regions, to strategise and push for their agenda”.
Joseph Grabowski, a WCF spokesperson, told openDemocracy this week that it disputes the SPLC’s ‘hate group’ designation and called it “an unfortunate slight for the countless Americans and the people around the world who hold the same views as we do on marriage, the nature of family and the right to life”.
No doubt there is far, far more to this than these two articles have documented. One could ask why an American "justice" is allowed to receive lavish gifts from these fascists and be knighted into any kind of foreign "knighthood" as Alito was. That a lot of this involves Catholics and Catholic institutions should be troubling for Catholics, Pope Francis has done more than any other pope to clean up at least some of the most well known of these "orders" but the question has to be asked why should they be allowed to exist as official Catholic entities. I wrote years and years ago about how John Paul II made the Aussie smut king and tabloid liar and world wide fascism promoter Rupert Murdoch just such a "papal knight" when he wasn't even Catholic. As someone who is still considered a Catholic the whole thing stinks. Such big name Catholics as the putrid Cardinal Raymond Burke is all in on it (I wonder if he and the princess share fashion secrets when they get together).
This is more of what I was talking about with white Catholics' fascism problem, considering the resources for financing neo-fascism these tiara and coronet headed thugs hold, it is something that should concern American and other democracies national security agencies, including those in Germany, France, Italy, etc. where those thugs operate from. Royalty and other such aristocratic designations should be ended, including stripping them of their property. While I might not agree with cutting their heads off on moral grounds, I can say that any American official who is in league with it should be impeached and investigated for possible crimes. Alito should be first on that list.
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