It has become a Criminal Offense to express disapproval of the British Monarchy: It definitely shouldn’t come as a surprise that ordinary Britons demonstrating against the Crown during Queen Elizabeth II’s extravagant funeral procession were detained.

When a state has maintained a corrupt, inbred, and ruthless monarchy for generations, it is to be anticipated that arrests will be made, which is a significant infringement of the inherent right to peaceful protest. However, in the “West,” where I live, the arrests for peaceful protest were hardly mentioned in the media.