As Queen Elizabeth
II opened the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia amid
a heavy security clampdown Friday, Her Majesty would no doubt have been happy that the
multilateral organisation is still an extension of ‘Old Blighty’ and not yet a
part of the New World.
Immigrants who
ventured across the Atlantic in search of green pastures are today increasingly
disillusioned by the culture of greed and promiscuity that has entrapped them
in a cycle of poverty.
Many have lost their homes, their savings and
the health benefits that would have given them the basis to build new lives.
Many of the captains of capitalism have lost
out or are behind bars for their sins. Fears of a fresh wave of economic woes haunt
the world.
They have waged wars against religions and
killed simply because they had the weapons and the means to do so.
They have found imaginary weapons of mass
destruction and plundered the resources of the poor including the best oil
fields in the world.
All this has been done in the name of
democracy under the guise of giving ordinary citizens the world over, their
sovereignty. The people have been encouraged to turn against their cultures, their
own people and their governments and to seek wealth and power instead.
Leaders of countries have been sprung from
power using assisted people’s power on the basis of responsibility to protect. However,
similar people’s power in the New World is being brutally suppressed as the
people seek to occupy the world and re-establish norms in governance and civil
life.
They are waging a war to conquer the world
and ensure that the diverse cultures and peoples that nourished the world over
millennia are erased and replaced with one that is decided by them for their
primary benefit.
It is true that the New World was discovered
by enterprising sea-farers of old. It is also true that they killed the
brown-skinned natives who could not match the muskets and cannons with their
bows and arrows. And farmed cattle and a six-gun culture of might is right.
It is also true that the forefathers of the
New World put an end to the slavery that oppressed and robbed human beings of
their dignity and designed a form of government that sought to enshrine the
value of human life.
However, today they seek to propagate a multitude
of new religions that have no direct relationship to any of the established
religions of the world. Many of them seek to denigrate the long established faiths
of the people of the world and amass wealth from the gullibility of the poor.
In a world that lacks ethical and moral
leadership based on established religious principles, multilateral institutions
such as the Commonwealth could help re-focus on principled norms that would
guide the affairs of nations where people could live with respect and dignity,
pursuing their chosen vocations and enriching the world once again with their
cultures.
The soft-spoken British Monarch who despite
being on the throne for over half a century continues to be a model for the
world in charm and grace, can heel her own government and discipline their
allies and give leadership to the Commonwealth as an organisation that truly reflects the needs and aspirations of its member countries. Thus, a day may yet dawn, when
the Commonwealth stands on its own despite the dictates of powerful entities, and little boys need no longer cry aloud about the nudity of the world’s emperors.
Her Majesty would no doubt be happy to ensure
that the Queen’s English will thus not be distorted to the point where in system-wide
consistency it reads, “The Comonwelth Heds of Guvunmunt Mii Ting.”
