Saturday, March 1, 2008

The Personal War of Prince Harry



Prince Harry of the United Kingdom has now returned to his Prisoner of War (POW) camp back in England. Having tried to do his duty in military service like any other citizen he was ambushed in a sneak attack by the American press who broke their cease-fire truce with a salvo in the form of a press leak. The terms of the truce with the British Royal family was to keep the military deployment of Prince Harry in Afghanistan silent until his deployment was completed.

I have deep sympathy for Prince Harry being denied the opportunity to continue doing his duty and service to his country just as his fellow citizens do. The real war for Prince Harry is not in Afghanistan or Iraq the real war is fighting against the political constraints of his royal birth and in being a POW of the public and the press. Seeing his predicament makes me want to lead an American cowboy rescue mission to extract him from his fate lest he should become a causality in his personal war. If he survives his personal war then he will deserve the highest honor a citizen of the United Kingdom can receive, the Victoria Cross.

Concerning the press, I have deep anger toward the press in general, specifically the press in the United States, who continue to violate honor, integrity, respect, common decency, and morality in the name of free speech. Speech without the boundaries of these things is not free speech at all, it is heinous.