The U.S. government is apparently unable to protect us from the aggressions and territorialities of this network of "It" conspirators of which Thomas is apparently a willing and wickedly snickering participant. As if we would ever want to hear from the Stricklands of the U.K. or Malta. We really could not care less about being exposed to their sinister intrigues. Only recently, in doing my geneaological research, have I discovered that the Stricklands in America may or may not be descended from Matthew Strickland who came to America in the 1600s. He was born at Sizergh Castle which was apparently the feudal headquarters of the Stricklands, but died at Lower Parish in Isle of Wight, Virginia. Oh, I didn't know that. I had no idea the Stricklands were anything but regular folks back in England. We just don't know these things here in America. It just doesn't matter. We do not have monarchy or aristocracy and could not care less about rebuilding that system over here.
The Stricklands who stayed in the UK and did not emigrate to America branch down to the Walter Strickland who married Barbara Huddleston Abney-Hastings, the 13th Countess of Loudon. Their son Michael emigrated to Australia and his heir is Simon, the 15th Earl of Loudon. Ok, so whatever. We don't know those people. It is sometimes amusing to hear about them on the news or read about them on Wikipedia but there is no personal acquaintance. We just have no idea.
Barbara is the one who is of Plantegenet descent, a family that has claims of being the true heirs of the English throne, as if history could ever be any different than it is now. Anyway, we are not in any way connected to the Plantegenets so we don't want to be hearing too much about that. We have our lives here in America and these distractions are just too much.
Thus there is no reason for myself to feel inferior to these Canadians — Dawn Saword, Linda Crawley, Rafael Carias, Michele. Just because they are Canadian, and feel themselves bound to pay homage to the British monarchy as Canadian Expats, that does not mean that their attacking me is going to change the course of history.
They will not be getting any medals, prizes or awards for being such ungracious bullies. Their opinions of me are not worth two cents when obviously all of them could also easily be buried in shame if all their friends and family were likewise induced to turn on them and deliver the goods. I am sure that I don't know the half of it.
