I feel bad for Prince Harry. I really do. His wife seems awful, and he’s now estranged from his family and stripped of his title. But his latest comment about the First Amendment is, as the British say, bollocks. After B-rate actress Meghan Markle sunk her claws into the younger prince a few years ago, his star has been steadily falling. This marks a low point. “I don’t want to start sort of going down the First Amendment route because that’s a huge subject and one in which I don’t understand because I’ve only been here a short period of time,” Harry said recently on a podcast called, appropriately enough, “Armchair Expert.” “But, you can find a loophole in anything. And you can capitalize or exploit what’s not said rather than uphold what is said.”“I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers,” he continued. Bonkers?? Let’s review. The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly. It forms the bedrock of our constitutional system of governance, and it’s become the gold standard for free societies around the world. SEE ALSO: Shameful: U.S. Taxpayers Funded Research That Aided Wuhan Lab Where COVID-19 Likely Originated We earned the right to institute these protections by defeating the British in one of the greatest military victories in world history. We kicked out Harry’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, George III, because he refused to grant the American colonists their basic God-given freedoms like freedom of speech. Now, over 200 years later, the United States is the greatest power the world has ever known. It’s more powerful than the British monarchy at its highest point, and it attracts immigrants from all over the world. In the United Kingdom, by contrast, there is no guarantee of the freedom of the press. The News Media Association reports that the government is constantly threatening to increase regulations on the press, and the “Independent Press Standards Organisation” already regulates press freedoms in the country. British citizens do not enjoy the same liberties we do, and their country has become increasingly dependent on big-government socialist policies. Taxes, regulation, and the welfare state are all massive, and British citizens are less free, and the country is less powerful as a result. SEE ALSO: College Professor Calls Police Racist, Gets Suspended, Blames “White Supremacy” Price Harry realizes none of this, of course. Like his great-grandfather, he seems to believe that “elites” like himself should be immune from criticism. Like all monarchs before him, he would rather the people be less free so that he can be more free. He wants to be able to exercise his power without fear of the accountability that the press represents. That’s the only reason anyone would call the First Amendment “bonkers.” It’s also worth noting that Harry admits that he doesn’t know anything about the First Amendment before proceeding to call it “bonkers.” Why do the elites think that anyone cares about what they think about things that even they themselves admit they know nothing about? And why do they feel compelled to speak about such things? Why couldn’t he have said, “I don’t really feel qualified to speak on that subject, being fairly new to this country, and out of respect for my new home and her citizens”? If this is the mindset of the British monarchs, they obviously haven’t changed much since George III. Top-down big-government control is their goal, and it’s clearer than ever why We the People rejected that system of governance in 1776.
