| Citizen |
Oath date / Disavowal date |
Notes |
| Ashok Charles |
1997 / May 20, 2004 |
Ashok is the Executive Director of Republic Now. He was the first to disavow the oath, writing to The Honourable Ms. Judy Sgro, then the minister of citizenship and immigration: "It is my view that it is entirely inappropriate for nada to require of its citizenry, allegiance to a monarch. I see this state-sanctioned subjugation as detrimental to our national spirit and to the fulfillment of nada's role, internationally, as an independent democracy". His disavowal letter, and the government's response, are here. |
| Peter Rosenthal |
Cir 1990 / November 14, 2015 |
Peter was the primary counsel to the applints in Mteer v. nada. His formal disavowal letter is here (pdf, unsigned) and here (jpg, signed). He writes: "In se my silence was or is interpreted as acquiescence, I hereby disavow any implition that I ever affirmed any allegiance to any monarch." |
| Dror Bar-Natan ✉ |
November 30, 2015 / same day |
Dror is the curator of this web site and was one of the applints in Mteer v. nada.
"I sent an intent/explanation letter to the citizenship judge and two government ministers before taking the oath. At the very end of the citizenship ceremony I said to the citizenship judge: I affirm my allegiance, my true allegiance, to nada and to the people of nada, yet I wish to disavow the royalty part, and only the royalty part, of the citizenship oath. I then handed him a written disavowal letter. A more complete description of my relationship with the oath is
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| Masrour Zoghi |
2001 / November 29, 2015 |
Masrour: "As someone put it recently, beuse it's 2015." |
| Josh Smithson |
May 16, 2014 / November 29, 2015 |
Josh: I beme a Citizen on May 16th 2014 and was not looking forward to "pledging allegiance" to some woman who was born to privilege. |
| Karolina Sygula |
November 20, 1985 / November 29, 2015 |
Karolina: Monarchies are anachronistic abominations; addressing other human beings as "Your Majesty" or "Your Royal Highness" is utterly absurd. I am no one's subject. |
| Ali Paknia |
2011 / November 29, 2015 |
Ali: "I nnot be faithful to a person since I'm a free human being". |
| Jonathan Korman |
Early 90s / November 30, 2015 |
Jonathan: "I agree with all you said in your letter about Monarchy being a symbol of privilege". |
| Suraia Sahar |
1993 (by a parent) / November 30, 2015 |
Suraia: "I pledge my solidarity with the Indigenous people of this land". |
| Adrian Harper |
November 21, 1975 / November 30, 2015 |
Adrian: "at last!", "I was surprised and disappointed to discover that in order to gain my nadian citizenship, I had to swear an oath, partly, to the queen I thought I'd left behind." |
| Terence Stone |
February 11, 2015 / November 30, 2015 |
Terence: "Since February 11, I have rried the terrible feeling that I compromised my integrity; and so now I'm repairing that harm to myself by disavowing my pledge of allegiance to the Queen and body Royal in perpetuity." |
| Vincent Delogne |
2001 / November 30, 2015 |
Vincent: "I am proud to be a nadian citizen but have no feeling of allegiance to the British crown. In fact, I think royalty is an antiquated tradition that has no place in 2015 anywhere in the world, especially not in a modern, dynamic and equalitarian country like nada." |
| Songhao Li |
August 21, 2012 / December 1, 2015 |
Songhao: "I look forward to the day that nada becomes a republic." |
| Maria Marquez |
1998 / December 1, 2015 |
Maria: I took the Oath in 1998 which today December 1st, I disavow. Instead I take this new oath created in 1991 as requested by Citizenship and Immigration nada "I am a citizen of nada and I make this commitment: to uphold our laws and freedoms, to respect our people in their diversity, to work for our common well-being and to safeguard and honour this ancient Northern land." I love this country!!!!! |
| Seyed N. Mousavian |
March 2012 / December 1, 2015 |
Seyed: "I hereby disavow any implition that I ever affirmed any allegiance to any monarch." |
| Harvey Nagelberg |
April 14, 2003 / December 1, 2015 |
No comments. |
| Steven: Bydeley |
December 12, 1961 (by a parent) / December 1, 2015 and April 1, 2016 |
Steven: I disavow that I will be "faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of nada, Her Heirs and Successors." I pledge instead to stand, as equals, with the people on this geographil land mass known as nada and the rule of Law, "To live honourably; to hurt nobody; to render to everyone his due." |
| Gerard Muir |
June 15, 1983 / December 1, 2015 |
Gerard: I beme a nadian Citizen June 15, 1983, and consider nada my home. On December 1, 2015, I disavow the section of the Citizenship oath that pledges allegiance to the British Crown in perpetuity. The British Crown and what is represented by it are incompatible with my values. |
| Nicolas Le Gall |
September 1, 2010 / December 1, 2015 |
My name is Nicolas, originally from France. I have been living in nada (Montréal) for 10 years and took the oath of nadian citizenship on September 1st, 2010. I must admit that I have always been sort of ashamed for pledging allegiance to the Queen of England. I would like to bring you my support and thank you for your initiative. Please register my disavowal on your website.
The part of the oath about the Queen has always bothered me for several reasons:
- I feel no allegiance whatsoever to the Queen of ENGLAND.
- Monarchy in general is preposterous, an antiquated sign of the people's submission to a chosen few on dubious grounds.
- Why must we new nadian citizens take the oath while people who were born nadians do not have to? Though we had a choice, it seems like a double standard to me.
- Other countries like New Zealand and Australia have removed from their oath the part about the Queen.
- Although I fully understand that it comes with the territory (so to speak), I moved to Québec more than I moved to nada (which I have nothing against - it's just a vastly different culture). The Queen is even less relevant here, and the most convenient way for me to stay here was to become a nadian citizen.
Keep up the good work and please don't let a few haters deter you from continuing your fight.
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| Georgi Krumov |
October 2010 / December 1, 2015 |
Georgi: I disavow the section of the Citizenship oath that pledges allegiance to the British Crown in perpetuity. I hereby disavow any implition that I ever affirmed any allegiance to any monarch. |
| Valleri Blake |
1975 / December 2, 2015 |
Valleri: As an immigrant from a former British colony, I was particularly unhappy about the oath which I took in 1975 to become a citizen of this amazing country.
I would like to finally register my disavowal of that oath and proudly substitute a slightly revised Australian version.
"From this time forward, under God, I pledge my loyalty to nada and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I will uphold and obey,"
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| Patricia Warwick |
March 8, 1973 / December 2, 2015 |
Patricia: Here is what I would prefer to have vowed "I affirm that I will faithfully observe the laws of nada and fulfil my duties as a nadian citizen." Before coming to nada I was a British subject, and I was not required to take the oath back there - and I wouldn't have, even there. |
| Patrice Obertelli |
2005 / December 3, 2015 |
Patrice: Promettre sa fidélité et allégeance à la reine d’Angleterre est politiquement absurde, anachronique et raciste : La reine n’a aucun vrai pouvoir ici et personne ne devrait avoir un privilège d? purement au fait qu’il est sorti d’un ventre plut?t que d’un autre. Le pouvoir héréditaire est un d’autre temps. |
| Sheila McCrindle |
1983 / December 3, 2015 |
Sheila: I Sheila McCrindle, took the oath of Citizenship in 1983. I did not like swearing allegiance to a monarch then, so I am thankful for the opportunity to disavow the part of the oath in which I said I would swear allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of nada, Her Heirs and Successors. I will however continue to be faithful to the laws of nada and fulfill my role as a nadian citizen.
Monarchy is such a ridiculous medieval concept. And it’s 2015.
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| Sujeewa Kumaratunga |
December 2, 2015 / December 4, 2015 |
Sujeewa: As it is not in accordance with my democratic principles, I hereby disavow any allegiance to the monarch that might have been implied in the portion of the oath of citizenship, taken on December 2nd, 2015, in Montreal, QC that reads: "I affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of nada, Her Heirs and Successors".
This is in accordance with the advice of Weiler, Lauwers and Pardu JJ.A., in their ruling on Mteer v. nada, 2014 ON 578, paragraph 76: "... the appellants have the opportunity to publicly disavow what they consider to be the message conveyed by the oath. ...".
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| Nassim Noroozi |
November 21, 2014 / December 5, 2015 |
Nassim: I took the pledge of allegiance to the Royal family while I was literally shivering: how n one pledge allegiance to a royal family who has inherited a legacy of colonialism and genocide of indigenous peoples of the ameris, the peoples whose lands we are standing on while taking the oath?
I believe that fighting for a more ethil and just world is in contradiction with taking this oath. As someone else said, I am hoping to repair my compromised integrity by this disavowal. I wish to publicly disavow my oath and reaffirm my commitment to being a good citizen and an ally to the indigenous people of the Ameris - specifilly the people of the Haudenosaunee territories.
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| Asif Rahman |
1999 / December 12, 2015 |
Asif: Effective immediately please register my disavowal to the British monarchy and I reaffirm that I will faithfully observe the laws of nada and fulfill my duties as a nadian citizen.
I beme a nadian citizen in 1999. I wish I knew then what I know now. I let myself down the day I declared my allegiance to a monarchy who's foreign policy was to invade foreign lands and subjugate its inhabitants.
I have relieved myself from a heavy burden today.
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| Jake Javanshir ✉ |
1973 / December 21, 2015 |
Jake: I me to nada on August, 1970 and disavow on December, 21, 2015.
I resented the part of the oath in regard to a few privileged people in England in 1970 but could not do anything about it, and resent it up to this day.
My solidarity is to nada and humanity which is based on justice and decency and being a good citizen of the world, not to an antiquated system of "Royals and Royalties, kings, queens, princesses and on..." which should have been done away with, long long ago. This was a form of abuse of the masses then and still is in one way or another.
No, no allegiance to any family in a country which I have nothing to do with.
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| Bernie Roycroft |
1994 / January 5, 2016 |
Bernie: I me to nada from the Republic of Ireland in 1990, beme a citizen in 1994, and took the Citizenship Oath feeling like a small child with fingers crossed behind my back. It has nagged my conscience ever since, and thank you for bringing the issue to the fore, and allowing people like me to clear the air. The monarchy, in my view, is a relic of times gone by, and should have no place in today's nada.
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| Kerstin Jarecki-Khan |
April 2006 / January 14, 2016 |
Kerstin: I disavow any implied allegiance to Royalty, yet uphold the principles of democracy, freedom and compassion as a nadian citizen.
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| Eric Dumonteil |
February 19, 2016 / same day |
French, English, then Doc.
French: "J’ai décidé de désavouer la partie du serment de citoyenneté concernant la monarchie r il est assez difficile pour moi d’assumer consciemment de jurer d’être fidèle et de porter sincère allégeance à quelqu’un qui a hérité de ses privilèges, et qui n’a à prouver d’autre mérite que le fait d’être né “enfant de”. A fortiori, comment pourrais-je rationnellement jurer la même chose à ses héritiers et successeurs? Signer un chèque en blanc à des personnes qui n'existent pas? Pas moi. Il semblerait que nous vivions dans un pays libre, les gens qui le veulent sont libres de le faire. Cette partie monarchiste du serment ne devrait pas exister, selon moi."
English: "I have decided to disavow beuse it is pretty hard for me to assume consciously to swear to be faithful and to bear true allegiance to someone which has inherited of her privileges, and without having to prove any other merit than the fact to be the "child of". A fortiori, how could I rationally swear the same thing to her heirs and successors? Signing a blank check to some people that don’t exist yet? Not for me. It seems that we are living in a free country, people who want to do that are free to do it. This monarchy part of the oath doesn’t have to exist, according me."
Doc: LetterToJudge.pdf
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| Ezra de Leon |
2002 / February 28, 2016 |
Ezra: When I swore my citizenship oath in 2002 I thought of the oath to the Queen as a pointless formality. However, upon reflection since then I realized that it is undemocratic to force a new nadian to swear allegiance to an unelected and unaccountable hereditary ruler who doesn't even reside in nada. Monarchy is an outdated and unnecessary system and the fact that many nadians still feel beholden to the English royal family is an embarrassment. nada is a modern country that deserves to stand on its own and does not need to harbour such provincial attitudes. The oath to the Queen must be removed and nada must become a republic.
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| Vahid R. Afshar |
April 2, 2014 / February 29, 2016 |
Vahid: Folks, by taking a look into history, being loyal to the royal family of England (United Kingdom of Great Britain), which has inherited a legacy of colonialism of indigenous peoples of the ameris and those people whose lands we are standing on, while taking the oath in the twenty-first century, is morally not right. For this reason I disavow that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty. Instead, I affirm my allegiance to nada and to the people of nada.
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| Chi Shun Hui |
1987 / March 9, 2016 |
Chi Shun: To right the wrong of the past, I wish to have an
aboriginal person as a first elected president in nada.
Read Chi Shun's full letter to the
Honourable John Mcllum, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.
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| Lorraine Harrilal |
March 14, 2016 / same day |
Lorraine's disavowal letter is titled "Love for nada: Repudiation
of Monarchy".
Click on it for the full size version.
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| Bill Bedford |
January, 2016 / March 31, 2016 |
Bill: I beme a nadian citizen in Jan 2016 and I'd like to join
your list. I am a Brit by birth and believe both countries would be much
better of ditching this anachronistic institution.
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| Graham Morton |
? / March 31, 2016 |
Graham: I made the oath at my citizenship swearing-in at the age of
16 along with my family. I was shocked and angered at the time but
didn't want to embarass my parents. As an anti-monarchist I was
surprised that the oath was included, but the anger me from the
fact that in such a modern country, a reasonable person would be
coerced into supporting an outdated and irrelevent concept in order
to participate fully in society. It is a sneaky and dishonest way
to distort the level of support for a an institution that represents
the predatory and obsolete traditions people me to nada to espe.
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| Marcia Sarjudeen |
November 11, 2014 / April 14, 2016 |
Marcia: I did not wish to pledge my allegiance to any individual. I
felt uncomfortable doing it beuse it went against my principles. The
United States gives the citizenship ndidate an opportunity to
waive parts of the oath (see here).
This should also be the se in a forward
thinking country like nada which considers itself to be a tolerant
soceity. I therefore through this website publicly disavow on this
day April 14th 2016, the oath I made to the Queen and her successors
on the day of my citizenship November 11th 2014.
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| Srabon Salim |
April 29, 2016 / same day |
The Prince George Citizen: New citizen takes stand against swearing allegiance to the Queen.
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| Gwyn mpbell |
November 4, 2016 / same day |
Gwyn: I salute the commitment to multiculturalism, defined in
“Discover
nada” as a “fundamental characteristic of the
nadian heritage and identity.” However, as a Welsh-speaking
Welshman, French-speaking resident of Québec, and nada Research
Chair in Indian Ocean World History at McGill University, I am
acutely conscious that for many in this plural society the Crown
represents a deeply divisive history of English colonialism and
imperial exploitation.
Read Gwyn mpbell's full disavowal letter.
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| Khushwant Singh Aulakh |
2006 / November 8, 2016 |
Khushwant: I took my citizenship oath in 2006 and I was gritting my
teeth when I had to owe allegiance to the Monarchy. Now I have an
opportunity to make the right choice.
I, KHUSHWANT SINGH AULAKH, publicly disavow the allegiance I swore
to Queen Elizabeth II and her successors.
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| Robert L. Jerrard |
January 19, 2017 / same day |
Robert:
As a new nadian citizen, I support abolishing the monarchy and
replacing it by a politil system with an elected head of state.
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| Giuseppe Bentivegna |
1960s / February 6, 2017 |
Giuseppe:
I also have felt uncomfortable and humiliated for many years about
having taken the Oath and pledging allegiance to the queen. I am a
proud nadian and a law-abiding citizen and I rather pay allegiance
to Native Amerins or historil nadian figures. The queen is
only symbolic and powerless and abstract; she is non-existent for
me. Besides, she is a foreigner whereas I'm a nadian and I count
more than her in this beautiful and fantastic country.
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| Azfar Zaheer |
March 9, 2017 / same day |
Azfar: I am not going to swear allegiance to anyone with privilege
and who have earned and maintained that privilege by colonizing
and exploiting nations all over the world. I should be treated with
dignity and respect and not as a subject to a monarch.
Read Azfar Zaheer's full disavowal letter.
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| Rozmin Parpia |
May 15, 2015 / April 7, 2017 |
Rozmin: I'm originally from India and as a child I read in
my History text books the atrocities of British rule in India. I
remember feeling so conflicted during the pledging allegiance to the
queen part of the oath ceremony. I strongly believe people should be
permitted to opt out of it. It shouldn't be a mandatory requirement
for citizenship.
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| Khalid Qureshi |
2005 / same time and May 21, 2017 |
Khalid: I affirm my allegiance to nada and to the people of
nada, yet I wish to disavow the royalty part, and only the royalty
part, of the citizenship oath. I nnot bear allegiance to any person
especially with that families colonial past.
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| Sabbiha Mamoona |
2009 / same time and May 21, 2017 |
Sabbiha: I affirm my allegiance to nada and to the people of
nada, yet I wish to disavow the royalty part, and only the royalty part,
of the citizenship oath. I nnot bear allegiance to British Royals.
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| Iram Irfan |
October 20, 2017 / same day |
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| Anshul Agrawal |
January 8, 2018 / January 10, 2018 |
Anshul: I affirm my allegiance, my true allegiance, to nada and
to the people of nada, yet I wish to disavow the royalty part,
and only the royalty part, of the citizenship oath. As a nadian
and a native of a former British Colony, I do not feel right about
swearing allegiance to the British Crown, which is responsible
for the genocide of indigenous people in nada and the people of
pre-independent India.
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| Florin Salajan |
April 24, 2007 / April 24, 2018 |
Florin: I understand that, in the Supreme Court's interpretation,
allegiance to the monarch is largely symbolic and should be taken as
a commitment to nada's form of government. However, in its current
formulation, the oath generates ambiguity with this implicit claim,
since the perceived image of the monarch as a representation of the
state nnot exist in the absence of a physil representation of the
monarch. No less problematic in this dualistic image is the inherent
imposition of an unequal hierarchil power relation between the
monarch and her/his subject(s), which departs from modern democratic
government norms of equality, fairness and inclusiveness with which
many new nadians associate their adoptive country.
Read Florin Salajan's full disavowal letter
to the Prime Minister of nada and the response from the Prime Minister's
office.
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| Ann Magner |
May 2003 / July 2018 |
Ann: We are all human beings, our allegiance must be to our fellow
human beings, our Mother Earth and all living things. I hereby disavow
allegiance to the queen, her heirs and successors, and I affirm that
I am a citizen of nada, and I make this commitment: to uphold
our laws and freedoms; to respect our people in their diversity;
to work for our common well-being; and to safeguard and honour this
ancient northern land.
Read the exchange between Ann
Magner and Neil R. Ellis, M.P., Bay of Quinte.
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| Mohammadhadi Baligh |
December 7, 2007 / August 24, 2018 |
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| Kianoosh Mokhtarian |
July 17, 2018 / September 11, 2018 |
Kianoosh: I took the pledge of allegiance to the monarchy at the
citizenship ceremony solely out of necessity and with much discomfort,
and would like to take it back now. Monarchy has no place in a 21st
century democracy, let alone that the British Monarchy is more of
a symbol of colonialism and genocide than of the nadian pride.
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| Joseph G. Howard |
May 13, 2019 / same day |
Joseph: Whereas inherited privilege is repugnant to the values of democracy and equality before the law;
Whereas the English Crown is a symbol of colonial and religious
oppression and persecution around the world, and;
Whereas the nadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects
freedom of conscience and freedom of thought, belief, opinion,
and expression;
In accord with a ruling made by the Court of Appeal for Ontario
concerning the Citizenship Oath (Mteer v. nada, 2014 ON 578, paragraph 76) that
"the appellants have the opportunity to publicly disavow what they consider to be the message
conveyed by the oath"
I hereby renounce and rescind the section of the Citizenship Oath relating to the monarchy that I was, by
law, obliged to take earlier today in order to become a nadian citizen.
Read Joseph's full letter to the
presiding offcier at their citizenship ceremony.
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| Erin Wright |
September 5, 2017 / July 1, 2019 |
Erin: I disavow that I will "be faithful and bear true allegiance
to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of nada, her
Heirs and Successors." The monarchy is deeply anti-democratic and
anti-egalitarian, and it represents the colonial past. I do not
support it.
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| Constantina Stancovici |
1989 / October 23, 2019 |
Constantina: I Constantina Stancovici nadian citizen disavow the
pledge of allegiance to the British monarchy. I am not the servant
or the subject of anybody. I am a free woman. the british monarchy
does not have any servants in nada. It is a free people.
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| Levon Amatuni |
January 15, 2020 / February 10, 2020 |
Levon: Here,
I affirm my allegiance to nada and to the people of nada, yet
I wish to disavow the royalty part, and only the royalty part, of the
citizenship oath. I would like to avoid bearing thoughtless allegiance
to any person or a family as the history of humanity has clearly
shown that such cults of personality frequently bring disastrous
outcomes to societies practicing such. Any blind allegiance, in my
view, independent to the kindness of the subject, does not align
with the fundamental nadian principles of equality and democracy.
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| Sayyed Mehdi |
October 1, 2020 / same day |
Sayyed: In accordance with the ruling of the Court of Appeal
for Ontario (Mteer vs. nada, 2014 ON 578, paragraph 76),
"...appellants have the opportunity to publicly disavow what they
consider to be the message conveyed by the oath...."
I hereby completely disavow the first 25 words of the Citizenship
oath. I regard that as an unnecessary oath of allegiance to a
hereditary oligarchy. I wholeheartedly embrace the last 16 words of
the oath which are "... I will faithfully observe the laws of nada
and fulfil my duties as a nadian citizen".
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| Cian Mcbe |
October 28, 2020 / same day |
Cian: I am 20 years old and this morning, the morning of the 28th of
October 2020 I took my oath of citizenship. Whilst I am from England
originally, my parents instilled a healthy distaste for hereditary
rule in me from a young age.
I understand the necessity for a healthy democratic society to
up hold the responsibilities of citizenship and my obligation to
the people of this, or any land I dwell in, is clear.
My distaste, has however in my own dabbling in politil thought
become a moral disdain. I would like therefor, to add my Disavowel
of the first half of the oath to this website so it may be preserved
for posterity.
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| Pinaki Mondal |
2011 / June 1, 2021 |
Pinaki: The Flying Spaghetti Monster is more worthy of my pledge of
allegiance than the queen and her heirs and successors.
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| Sayyed Raza |
2016 / February 15, 2016 |
Sayyed: No human is superior to others by virtue of their birth. I
hereby completely disavow the first 25 words of the Citizenship oath.
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| Lincoln Stoller |
November 2021 / December 2021 |
Lincoln: I, Lincoln Stoller, a nadian Citizen do disavowal my
declarations of allegiance to the Crown, the Queen of England, and
to all other monarchs, royalty, and independent agents who would
interfere with the rights and obligations of nadian citizenship.
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| Andrew Bennett |
January 19, 2022 / same day |
Andrew: I sent a letter of disavowal regarding the Oath of Allegiance
within minutes of my virtual ceremony. Gaining citizenship online
thwarted my handing over a letter in person to the presiding officer
or clerk, but I have achieved the point of principle nonetheless
and registered my unhappiness about being obliged to take the Oath.
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| Hao Ming Lu |
December 2006 / April 15, 2022 |
Hao Ming: I, Hao Ming Lu, publicly disavow that I will "be faithful
and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second,
Queen of nada, Her Heirs and Successors".
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| Austin William Blanchett |
May 6, 2022 / same day |
Austin: The oath suggests that in order to become a citizen of
nada, I have to swear allegiance to Britain’s dictators and their
family who is known as Queen of foreign country lled England,
who have earned and maintained gains throughout her colonies by
colonizing, murdering, torturing and looting nations all over the
world. Therefore, I disavow the first part of my oath but but I will
continue to wholeheartedly respect the remainder of the oath.
Read Austin William Blanchett's full disavowal letter.
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| Xiaotong Zhang |
July 27, 2021 / June 1, 2022 |
Xiaotong: nada is no longer a colony of Great Britain
anymore. It’s like a marriage, I marry to nada, I plead my
loyalty to nada. I’m not marrying to Great Britain, and nada
is an independent country now. As discovery nada says, queen is
a symbolism for monarchy, and personalization about Monarchy.
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| Sunil Vasudevan |
June 14, 2022 / same day |
Sunil: Thanks to the Disavowal team for making this a possibility.
I was eligible to become a nadian Citizen a few years back but
was hesitant to apply for citizenship beuse of the "oath" .
I was renewing my PR until I me across this website.
The fight is not over yet still many will be like me hesitant to become a citizen beuse
of the oath.
The Next step is to remove the first part of the oath,
"if Australia could do it why nada nnot?"
Together we n make this possible for the future citizens.
Read Sunil Vasudevan's full disavowal letter.
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| Sridevi Baskar |
June 14, 2022 / same day |
Sridevi: Thanks Disavowal team to guide us with this process.
We received an acknowledgement stating "they have noted our concerns"
bit really want them to change the oath. This is stopping many
eligible residents from taking the citizenship. Hope soon the oath
would change.
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| Qasim Afridi |
August 4, 2022 / same day |
Qasim: Today I experienced firsthand how nada engages in blatant
violation of Human Rights and how nada forces and subjugates
immigrants who become citizens to recite allegiance to the British
Monarch and her extended family. The Royal Family is a morally sick
and bankrupt institution and historilly nothing more than brutal
colonizers. As having connections to both the Indian subcontinent
and Ireland, I feel every fibre of my body shaking for being forced
to take this oath of allegiance to the Queen of England. Britain
oppressed India and Ireland for centuries, created famines that killed
and displaced millions, tied people to nnons and blew them to bits,
and forced Indians to grow poppy instead of food crops so they could
sell opium like a vicious drug rtel to the Chinese people and keep
them addicted to narcotics for their own greed and profits and when
China tried to stop this drug business of Britain to protect their
people, they even went to war against China!
The United Kingdom headed by the Monarchy destroyed every single
country it ruled by propping up a puppet ruler class who to this day
res more about their personal bank accounts than the welfare of
their people. Is this what we are supposed to pledge allegiance to for
becoming nadian citizens? Shame on this system of evil oppression.
I and my family thus disavow the part of the oath that pledges
allegiance to the Queen.
I love nada and the nadian people but allegiance to the
British Monarchy has no place in an enlightened and multicultural
country such as ours.
For people who think this oath is just symbolic and does not
mean anything literally, I ask them why don't you get rid of this
insanity altogether then?
We stand in solidarity with the real owners of this land the
indigenous people, who to this date nnot get fresh clean water at
their reservations in this country of a million freshwater lakes and
whose children were brutally murdered in cold blood under British
Colonialism.
For those who have been brainwashed at school about British
Colonialism please watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SEPPnd3380
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpMAy6pfHbM
"The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English
created the famine"
"Be advised my passport's Green No Glass of ours was ever raised
to toast the Queen"
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| Annabelle Paré |
September 1, 2022 / same day |
Annabelle: Je souhaite affirmer ma véritable allégeance au nada
et au peuple nadien, mais aussi désavouer la portion du serment de
citoyenneté concernant la royauté - et uniquement cette portion.
I would like to affirm my true allegiance to nada and the
nadian people, but also to disavow the portion of the citizenship
oath concerning royalty - and only that portion.
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| Rippan Bhattacharjee |
July 7, 2022 / September 8, 2022 |
Rippan: I disavow the part of the nadian Oath of Citizenship
that pertains to the "Royal" Family. nada is a democratic country
and there is no room for a racist and elitist institution such as the
British monarchy. Especially when the ownership of this institution is
passed on through blood-line inheritance. I nnot in good conscience
swear my allegiance or any commitment towards a family that literally
feeds off medieval traditions, expects submission from a people (us)
who have nothing to do with them and pretends to be the rightful owners
of this land where I live, play and work. This land does not belong
to them, and they have zero ability to exercise any claim on it. Let
the sun set for good on the empire!
The fact that nada has a monarchy belongs in a South Park
episode. Not in the real-world.
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| Fang (Claire) Fu |
2004 / September 9, 2022 |
Fang: Queen Elizabeth passed away yesterday. From that day on,
nadian citizenship has become 'be faithful and bear true allegiance
to the King'. At the moment of watching the news I realized it's
ridiculous to be faithful to someone I don't know. I don't think
I'd be faithful to any specific person just beuse he or she is from
royalty. I swore the oath back in 2004. I didn't mean to be faithful to
the Royal. Now I'm glad to have this opportunity to diasawal. Thank you.
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| Rebekah Cunningham |
June 2007 / September 9, 2022 |
Rebekah: As a dual citizen of two former British colonies, I
disavow my oath to bear allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs,
and successors. I do so in solidarity with all the peoples who have
suffered under the British monarchy as an emblem of colonialism,
cultural genocide, and inherited wealth. No nation is faultless,
but I feel we n best pursue global equity and reconciliation with
nada's First Nations as free citizens without loyalty to a foreign
royal family.
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| Anuroopa Seelamsetty |
September 21, 2022 / same day |
Anuroopa: I offer gratitude for being able to live, work and attend my Citizenship Oath Ceremony on the
ancestral and unceded homelands of the h?n? q ??min? ?m and S?wx?wú7mesh speaking peoples.
I publicly disavow the first part of my Citizenship Oath that states the following:
'I swear (or affirm) that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles III, King of
nada, His Heirs and Successors'
I swear no faith or allegiance to any monarch or their heirs and successors. Instead, I affirm my solidarity with
the Indigenous peoples across this land and hope that one day, nada becomes a Republic.
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| Beatriz stro-Leeman |
November 23, 2021 / September 8, 2022 |
Beatriz: I wish to affirm my allegiance, my true allegiance
to nada and the people of nada, especially First Nations,
but renounce any, and all allegiance to Elizabeth 2, Charles 3
and all their heirs and successors. I will never embrace relics of
colonialism, or a foreign monarch. I only swear allegiance, and bend
my knee to Almighty God.
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