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You're kidding, right, Paul? That's not just any king. That's Leopold II of Belgium - one of the single most horrific slave owners in history... /1
In 1885, Leopold was handed the 'Congo Free State' for his own personal rule, through the help of explorer Henry Morton Stanley. Ostensibly, it belonged to him, although his requested mission was to 'help' the locals. /2
In the 1890s, natural rubber became a highly prized commodity, and a mad scramble began to tap almost every available resource of the stuff. Locals were forced into labour, under penalty of torture, mutilation or death. /3
The local police, the Force Publique, were expected to cut the hands off anyone they shot dead, to prove that they hadn't been wasting ammunition. Quite often, to cover their tracks, they cut the hands off the living. /4
Torture, punishment and the destruction of villages were also tools used by local officials and their troops to keep the rubber flowing to customers in Europe. /5
Additionally it is thought that millions of Congolese died of introduced diseases, maltreatment and starvation - all at the hands of incompetent and brutal administrators, all to enrich *one* man. /6
Again, this is not on behalf of the Belgian nation. The Congo Free State' belonged to Leopold. He was the owner. He knew what was occurring, he saw the accounts. /7
In fact, such was the horror at was going on, that a report was prepared for the British, detailing atrocities. When it released, such was the uproar and shame that Leopold had to give up the Congo Free State in 1908, at the urging of the Belgian government. /8
Now, I know you're not too bright, Paul, but this is one amazing case of dumbfuckery. You picked the one monarch of the modern world most associated with the genocide of Africans as you little performative stunt. /9
If I thought that you ever acted in good faith, I'd recommend Adam Hochschild's 'King Leopold's Ghost' as a primer on what happened over the 23-odd years of the Congo Free State. /10 amazon.com/King-Leopolds-…
Right at the moment that the world is asking some serious questions about race, power and cycles of violence, here you are fronting for murderers and tyrants, treating kings as beyond reproach. What a fraud you are. /11
For everyone else, please consider donating to BLMUK, in the name of Paul Joseph Watson. /12 gofundme.com/f/ukblm-fund
Conversely, please consider donating to one of the many charities operating in the Congo, dealing with the legacy of Leopold's tyrannical rule. /FIN aidforafrica.org/?cat=102&type=…
PS. Aller te faire foutre!
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