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Sep 10, 2022
Colorado Man
Florida Man got nuthin' on my boy Allan out there in Wheatridge.
‘LOOK OUT CHARLES!’
Colorado man claiming to be descendant of King of Wales vows to return to Britain and overthrow Prince Charles as heir to the throne
AN ECCENTRIC American says he will claim the British throne because of an obscure ancestral link.
Kooky Allan V Evans put a rambling ad in The Times insisting he will launch a bid for his "royal historical estate" in just thirty days time.
But the Queen need not worry just yet - as he has been kind enough to wait until after she dies before assuming the throne "out of greatest and most deepest respect".
The two-column advert says Mr Evans: "Shall further pursue an injustice of history by claiming by right the Throne and Sovereign Crown of Great Britain at Westminster, upon whence the sad future death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as he will not out of greatest and most deepest respect depose her in life for the great service and selfless sacrifice that she and her husband HRH Prince Philip has rendered to this great nation."
Mr Evans claims his ancestral links date back to the third century AD and that he is a descendent of Cunedda - an early Welsh leader in the 5th century, who was according to legend sent to the region to stop Irish and Pict incursions.
He alleges that he descends from John Evans Sr of Aberfraw Parish, Anglesey, who according to the advert "was politically assassinated and the last known King of Wales".
The last sovereign Prince of Wales was Llywelyn ap Gruffudd before Edward I conquered the region in the 13th century.
The ad claims to give "legal notice" of his intention to launch a claim in thirty days to "all said estate lands, assets, peerage titles, armorial bearings, Royal Titles, and the Royal Tithe and Crown of Wales."
It adds: "Moreover, that the said Allan V. Evans shall apply to claim his said Royal Estate at the Government Legal Office at 1 Kemble Street in London."
Her Majesty can rest easy however as Mr Evans will not launch his claim in her lifetime for her 'great service and self sacrifice'Credit: Getty Images
The ad says: "Take heed and rejoice, all Welshmen, Scots, Manx, all Britons, and all citizens of the great nation called Great Britain, that the light of freedom and egalitarism shall be promoted and promulgated, that democracy and all democratic values will be promoted and that Lady Britannia who has contributed so much to the culture and history of the world shall be renewed and made great once again.
"For the legend was not a myth but was indeed true, and more than a mere Tolkien story, that the men of the West are now returning and now is the time of the return of the King."
The Attorney General's Office said they had not yet received any claim from Mr Evans.
Website 13wmaz,com reported that in 2012 a man also called Allan V Evans from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, tried to claim 400 acres of land in Twiggs county, Georgia, USA, claiming that his ancestors lived there - but stating all his evidence was destroyed in a county courthouse fire in 1901.
Colorado man claiming to be descendant of King of Wales vows to return to Britain and overthrow Prince Charles as heir to the throne
AN ECCENTRIC American says he will claim the British throne because of an obscure ancestral link.
Kooky Allan V Evans put a rambling ad in The Times insisting he will launch a bid for his "royal historical estate" in just thirty days time.
But the Queen need not worry just yet - as he has been kind enough to wait until after she dies before assuming the throne "out of greatest and most deepest respect".
The two-column advert says Mr Evans: "Shall further pursue an injustice of history by claiming by right the Throne and Sovereign Crown of Great Britain at Westminster, upon whence the sad future death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as he will not out of greatest and most deepest respect depose her in life for the great service and selfless sacrifice that she and her husband HRH Prince Philip has rendered to this great nation."
Mr Evans claims his ancestral links date back to the third century AD and that he is a descendent of Cunedda - an early Welsh leader in the 5th century, who was according to legend sent to the region to stop Irish and Pict incursions.
He alleges that he descends from John Evans Sr of Aberfraw Parish, Anglesey, who according to the advert "was politically assassinated and the last known King of Wales".
The last sovereign Prince of Wales was Llywelyn ap Gruffudd before Edward I conquered the region in the 13th century.
The ad claims to give "legal notice" of his intention to launch a claim in thirty days to "all said estate lands, assets, peerage titles, armorial bearings, Royal Titles, and the Royal Tithe and Crown of Wales."
It adds: "Moreover, that the said Allan V. Evans shall apply to claim his said Royal Estate at the Government Legal Office at 1 Kemble Street in London."
Her Majesty can rest easy however as Mr Evans will not launch his claim in her lifetime for her 'great service and self sacrifice'Credit: Getty Images
The ad says: "Take heed and rejoice, all Welshmen, Scots, Manx, all Britons, and all citizens of the great nation called Great Britain, that the light of freedom and egalitarism shall be promoted and promulgated, that democracy and all democratic values will be promoted and that Lady Britannia who has contributed so much to the culture and history of the world shall be renewed and made great once again.
"For the legend was not a myth but was indeed true, and more than a mere Tolkien story, that the men of the West are now returning and now is the time of the return of the King."
The Attorney General's Office said they had not yet received any claim from Mr Evans.
Website 13wmaz,com reported that in 2012 a man also called Allan V Evans from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, tried to claim 400 acres of land in Twiggs county, Georgia, USA, claiming that his ancestors lived there - but stating all his evidence was destroyed in a county courthouse fire in 1901.
You do you, Allan.
Dec 30, 2009
My General Malaise
I've been wondering for a little over 10 years now what it is that gives me this feeling of unease. There's been something going on (several somethings is more probable), but I can't quite get my arms around it.
Today, there's a post by DougJ at Balloon Juice that gives me a real starting point. He links to a piece in The Atlantic by Chris Good, who writes that Repubs will run on the meme that everything Obama and the Dems are trying to do will end in disaster. There's nothing new in that of course; the wingnuts on both ends have been screaming about that kinda thing for years. What struck me is the phrase "untethered to verifiable fact".
Over the last 20 years or so, we've moved from a fairly well centralized info system (network TV and hometown newspapers) to a system that's fragmented down to a point where I can customize my "news" so that everythng I hear fits my own preconceptions. If I get a story that challenges my worldview, it's easy for me to find someone to rebut that story and help me pretend nothing's changed. I need that pacifier so I can spend as little time and effort as possible sorting thru the data and processing the information so I can get back to being stressed out over my job or my kids or my house or my car or my breakfast cereal or whatever else the marketing department is pushing on me this season.
I'd really like to find a way to wrap this up neatly, but I'm stumped again. I guess all I can say is that I think we get closer to the Big-T Truth by gathering the smaller bits of little-t truth as we go.
Today, there's a post by DougJ at Balloon Juice that gives me a real starting point. He links to a piece in The Atlantic by Chris Good, who writes that Repubs will run on the meme that everything Obama and the Dems are trying to do will end in disaster. There's nothing new in that of course; the wingnuts on both ends have been screaming about that kinda thing for years. What struck me is the phrase "untethered to verifiable fact".
Over the last 20 years or so, we've moved from a fairly well centralized info system (network TV and hometown newspapers) to a system that's fragmented down to a point where I can customize my "news" so that everythng I hear fits my own preconceptions. If I get a story that challenges my worldview, it's easy for me to find someone to rebut that story and help me pretend nothing's changed. I need that pacifier so I can spend as little time and effort as possible sorting thru the data and processing the information so I can get back to being stressed out over my job or my kids or my house or my car or my breakfast cereal or whatever else the marketing department is pushing on me this season.
I'd really like to find a way to wrap this up neatly, but I'm stumped again. I guess all I can say is that I think we get closer to the Big-T Truth by gathering the smaller bits of little-t truth as we go.
Oct 1, 2009
The Obama Problem
Some freak named John L Perry wrote an opinion piece "speculating" on what it would take to get military officers to stage a coup d'etat here in the US.
It was posted at newsmax.com for a short while yesterday, but by the time I came across the links on the various blogs I check every day, newsmax had taken it down and redirected the traffic to their main page. No disclaimer; no retraction; nuthin'.
Here's the full text:
Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’ 9/29/09 11:37 PM
By: John L. Perry
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the
“Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:
-Officers swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to “obey the orders of the president of the United States.”
-Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.
-They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.
-They can see that the economy — ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation — is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.
-They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.
-They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America’s troop strength is allowed to sag.
-They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.
-They can see the nation’s safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?
Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?
Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran’s nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes,
destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?
What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, “I’m not interested in victory”) that they will be denied troops they must have to win?
Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty?
Do they resign en masse?
Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America’s military leadership is lost in a fool’s fog.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared
responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would
replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the
president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a
Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal
responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.
John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two
presidents, is a regular columnist for Newsmax.com. Read John Perry's columns here.
© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
It was posted at newsmax.com for a short while yesterday, but by the time I came across the links on the various blogs I check every day, newsmax had taken it down and redirected the traffic to their main page. No disclaimer; no retraction; nuthin'.
Here's the full text:
Obama Risks a Domestic Military ‘Intervention’ 9/29/09 11:37 PM
By: John L. Perry
There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the
“Obama problem.” Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.
America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:
-Officers swear to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Unlike enlisted personnel, they do not swear to “obey the orders of the president of the United States.”
-Top military officers can see the Constitution they are sworn to defend being trampled as American institutions and enterprises are nationalized.
-They can see that Americans are increasingly alarmed that this nation, under President Barack Obama, may not even be recognizable as America by the 2012 election, in which he will surely seek continuation in office.
-They can see that the economy — ravaged by deficits, taxes, unemployment, and impending inflation — is financially reliant on foreign lender governments.
-They can see this president waging undeclared war on the intelligence community, without whose rigorous and independent functions the armed services are rendered blind in an ever-more hostile world overseas and at home.
-They can see the dismantling of defenses against missiles targeted at this nation by avowed enemies, even as America’s troop strength is allowed to sag.
-They can see the horror of major warfare erupting simultaneously in two, and possibly three, far-flung theaters before America can react in time.
-They can see the nation’s safety and their own military establishments and honor placed in jeopardy as never before.
So, if you are one of those observant military professionals, what do you do?
Wait until this president bungles into losing the war in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s arsenal of nuclear bombs falls into the hands of militant Islam?
Wait until Israel is forced to launch air strikes on Iran’s nuclear-bomb plants, and the Middle East explodes,
destabilizing or subjugating the Free World?
What happens if the generals Obama sent to win the Afghan war are told by this president (who now says, “I’m not interested in victory”) that they will be denied troops they must have to win?
Do they follow orders they cannot carry out, consistent with their oath of duty?
Do they resign en masse?
Or do they soldier on, hoping the 2010 congressional elections will reverse the situation? Do they dare gamble the national survival on such political whims?
Anyone who imagines that those thoughts are not weighing heavily on the intellect and conscience of America’s military leadership is lost in a fool’s fog.
Will the day come when patriotic general and flag officers sit down with the president, or with those who control him, and work out the national equivalent of a “family intervention,” with some form of limited, shared
responsibility?
Imagine a bloodless coup to restore and defend the Constitution through an interim administration that would do the serious business of governing and defending the nation. Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would
replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars. Having bonded with his twin teleprompters, the
president would be detailed for ceremonial speech-making.
Military intervention is what Obama’s exponentially accelerating agenda for “fundamental change” toward a
Marxist state is inviting upon America. A coup is not an ideal option, but Obama’s radical ideal is not acceptable or reversible.
Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don’t shrug and say, “We can always worry about that later.”
In the 2008 election, that was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal
responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.
John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two
presidents, is a regular columnist for Newsmax.com. Read John Perry's columns here.
© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
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