D. Spencer Hines
2005-01-14 03:16:48 UTC
INCREDIBLY Stupid!
And just a few days before Holocaust Memorial Day.
Prince Harry is 20 years old and should know better.
He needs to pay a penance for this most serious blunder.
Cleaning out restrooms for the visitors at Auschwitz for a year would be
about right.
I certainly don't blame the Brits for being upset.
Can't you just imagine the outrage if one of the Bush daughters did
something this pig-ignorant and stupid?
Doesn't anyone in the Royal Household know what Harry is going to wear
and advise him as to how to avoid stupid blunders?
Did someone in fact do so -- and be ignored?
Does Harry have a valet, a tailor, a "costumer"?
DSH
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"'Visit Auschwitz, Harry'"
By SUN ONLINE REPORTER
"PRINCE Harry was today urged to visit Holocaust death camp Auschwitz
after pictures appeared in the Sun newspaper of him wearing a Nazi
uniform as a fancy dress costume.
The prince was urged to visit the death camp to see what was done by the
Nazi regime.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, one of the largest international Jewish
human rights organisations, issued a hard-hitting statement amid
worldwide anger over Harry's gaffe.
A picture of Harry wearing a white shirt emblazoned with the swastika
appears exclusively on the front page of today's Sun newspaper.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said it was outraged by his actions.
QUITE PROPERLY OUTRAGED. ---- DSH
"This was a shameful act displaying insensitivity for the victims, not
just for those soldiers of his own country who gave their lives to
defeat Nazism, but to the victims of the Holocaust who were the
principal victims of the Nazis," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and
founder of the centre.
"We strongly urge Prince Harry to accompany the British delegation on
January 27 to the Auschwitz death camp to commemorate 60 years since
liberation. There he will see the results of the hated symbol he so
foolishly and brazenly chose to wear."
That should only be the BEGINNING of his PENANCE. ---- DSH
Former royal press spokesman Dicky Arbiter called on the Prince to
broadcast a personal apology.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In this circumstance, with
Holocaust Memorial Day coming up very shortly, a written apology is not
enough.
"If he now wants to be considered an adult, he has got to behave like an
adult, and he has got to apologise in person, through radio and
television.
INDEED. BEHAVE LIKE A MAN. ---- DSH
"It is just not good enough to behave like that. We all know history,
and at 20 there is no excuse."
Former royal spokesman ... Dicky Arbiter
He said he felt sorry for the Prince of Wales.
"Once again he has been let down by his wayward son. Every time there
is some good, there is lots of bad. And it can$B!G(Bt go on.
"If he is old enough and seems fit enough to boogie at a party, then he
must be fit enough to go into the Army and that is where he needs to go
for some good hard-knocking discipline."
Andy Pike, from Unite Against Fascism, said: "Prince Harry has had a
very expensive education, is supposedly fit to be an officer serving in
his country$B!G(Bs armed forces and one would assume he is not a complete
idiot.
"One would be very surprised if he were not aware of the significance of
wearing the swastika and the amount of offence that would cause.
"We believe it will offend the whole of the Jewish community and many
others."
He called for the third in line to the throne to do more than apologise,
and "distance" himself from the Nazis.
"We don$B!G(Bt think that 'an apology' is enough. We would like to see
Harry distance himself from Nazi ideas of white supremacy, anti-semitism
and racism because he is a very influential figure."
Lord Janner, a former Labour MP and one-time president of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, said the Prince$B!G(Bs action was "totally wrong
and totally inappropriate".
He added: "I understand he has apologised and so he should.
"Britain stood alone against the Nazis and to dress as a Nazi was just
youthful stupidity.
"I think he should be disciplined. He should understand what he has
done and why it is so offensive.
"If he$B!G(Bd realised how offensive it was I don$B!G(Bt think he would have
done it."
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great
Britain, said: "The fact that the palace has issued an apology indicates
that this was a mistake by the Prince.
"But having being given, the apology should now be accepted."
A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews echoed the words
of Dr Romain, saying: "The board is pleased that he$B!G(Bs apologised for
the incident.
"It was clearly in bad taste, especially in the run up to Holocaust
Memorial Day on the 27th of this month, which the Royal Family will be
taking a leading role in commemorating."
The Queen is to commemorate the Holocaust and 60th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz by inviting survivors of the Nazi death camps
and British veterans who liberated them to a reception at St James$B!G(Bs
Palace.
With the Duke of Edinburgh, she will also attend the Holocaust Memorial
Day national commemoration at London$B!G(Bs Westminster Hall on January 27."
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D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor
And just a few days before Holocaust Memorial Day.
Prince Harry is 20 years old and should know better.
He needs to pay a penance for this most serious blunder.
Cleaning out restrooms for the visitors at Auschwitz for a year would be
about right.
I certainly don't blame the Brits for being upset.
Can't you just imagine the outrage if one of the Bush daughters did
something this pig-ignorant and stupid?
Doesn't anyone in the Royal Household know what Harry is going to wear
and advise him as to how to avoid stupid blunders?
Did someone in fact do so -- and be ignored?
Does Harry have a valet, a tailor, a "costumer"?
DSH
-----------------------
"'Visit Auschwitz, Harry'"
By SUN ONLINE REPORTER
"PRINCE Harry was today urged to visit Holocaust death camp Auschwitz
after pictures appeared in the Sun newspaper of him wearing a Nazi
uniform as a fancy dress costume.
The prince was urged to visit the death camp to see what was done by the
Nazi regime.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, one of the largest international Jewish
human rights organisations, issued a hard-hitting statement amid
worldwide anger over Harry's gaffe.
A picture of Harry wearing a white shirt emblazoned with the swastika
appears exclusively on the front page of today's Sun newspaper.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre said it was outraged by his actions.
QUITE PROPERLY OUTRAGED. ---- DSH
"This was a shameful act displaying insensitivity for the victims, not
just for those soldiers of his own country who gave their lives to
defeat Nazism, but to the victims of the Holocaust who were the
principal victims of the Nazis," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and
founder of the centre.
"We strongly urge Prince Harry to accompany the British delegation on
January 27 to the Auschwitz death camp to commemorate 60 years since
liberation. There he will see the results of the hated symbol he so
foolishly and brazenly chose to wear."
That should only be the BEGINNING of his PENANCE. ---- DSH
Former royal press spokesman Dicky Arbiter called on the Prince to
broadcast a personal apology.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "In this circumstance, with
Holocaust Memorial Day coming up very shortly, a written apology is not
enough.
"If he now wants to be considered an adult, he has got to behave like an
adult, and he has got to apologise in person, through radio and
television.
INDEED. BEHAVE LIKE A MAN. ---- DSH
"It is just not good enough to behave like that. We all know history,
and at 20 there is no excuse."
Former royal spokesman ... Dicky Arbiter
He said he felt sorry for the Prince of Wales.
"Once again he has been let down by his wayward son. Every time there
is some good, there is lots of bad. And it can$B!G(Bt go on.
"If he is old enough and seems fit enough to boogie at a party, then he
must be fit enough to go into the Army and that is where he needs to go
for some good hard-knocking discipline."
Andy Pike, from Unite Against Fascism, said: "Prince Harry has had a
very expensive education, is supposedly fit to be an officer serving in
his country$B!G(Bs armed forces and one would assume he is not a complete
idiot.
"One would be very surprised if he were not aware of the significance of
wearing the swastika and the amount of offence that would cause.
"We believe it will offend the whole of the Jewish community and many
others."
He called for the third in line to the throne to do more than apologise,
and "distance" himself from the Nazis.
"We don$B!G(Bt think that 'an apology' is enough. We would like to see
Harry distance himself from Nazi ideas of white supremacy, anti-semitism
and racism because he is a very influential figure."
Lord Janner, a former Labour MP and one-time president of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, said the Prince$B!G(Bs action was "totally wrong
and totally inappropriate".
He added: "I understand he has apologised and so he should.
"Britain stood alone against the Nazis and to dress as a Nazi was just
youthful stupidity.
"I think he should be disciplined. He should understand what he has
done and why it is so offensive.
"If he$B!G(Bd realised how offensive it was I don$B!G(Bt think he would have
done it."
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for the Reform Synagogues of Great
Britain, said: "The fact that the palace has issued an apology indicates
that this was a mistake by the Prince.
"But having being given, the apology should now be accepted."
A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews echoed the words
of Dr Romain, saying: "The board is pleased that he$B!G(Bs apologised for
the incident.
"It was clearly in bad taste, especially in the run up to Holocaust
Memorial Day on the 27th of this month, which the Royal Family will be
taking a leading role in commemorating."
The Queen is to commemorate the Holocaust and 60th anniversary of the
liberation of Auschwitz by inviting survivors of the Nazi death camps
and British veterans who liberated them to a reception at St James$B!G(Bs
Palace.
With the Duke of Edinburgh, she will also attend the Holocaust Memorial
Day national commemoration at London$B!G(Bs Westminster Hall on January 27."
----------------------------
D. Spencer Hines
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
Vires et Honor