THE ROYAL BLOODLINE
When a human being has been involved in an accident and
loses a lot of blood, the most important thing that doctors try to ascertain in
order to save her/his life is the blood type. Apparently you can’t just dump
any type of blood on any given human being's vascular network, hence the
importance of every individual to know their blood type in an era where cars
are built for speed and a number of drivers
all over the world are smoking Swazi weed.
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| When gold surrounds the royals, know that poverty surrounds the poor. |
Science, in all its endeavors hasn’t been able to identify
a blood type that could be called the “royal bloodline”. Every self-respecting
scientist will tell you that a thing called royal blood type does not exist.
They will tell you that a royal bloodline is a myth. When asked if maybe in the
future it might be discovered within the vascular system of the human being,
they say no, it is not possible. They even go as far as confidently declaring
that there is nothing such as a royal gene. They say human beings are more or
less built in a similar fashion hence the reason that a thing like flue attacks
every human being in a similar manner, and that a bite from the relevant
mosquito makes us all suffer from malaria-fever in a similar fashion.
Actually that was ascertained
while proving that there is no superiority of nature between the white and the
black people. Actually it didn’t need to be proven that racism is just as
absurd as the idea of royalism. They do say there is a possibility that one of
the named blood types could be renamed royal blood type if the relevant decree
could see the light of day but because no one chooses what bloodline they are to
be born with, there is a high possibility that we might have all manner of
character ascending the throne. These characters would have to come from
different surnames as the blood type does not conform to last names, so the
whole next-on-the-throne nonsensical romance would go out the window.
So in trying to establish the legitimacy for a thing called
royalty, it becomes very hard to pinpoint a thing that renders a human being a
royal person. After having failed scientifically, then assuming that maybe
religiously we might find the bases for the thing. But as soon as we open the
bible we are met by an angry God who is reprimanding the Israelites by telling
them that, “yekelani lobunkhihlinga
bekufuna emakhosi ngoba atonigcilata” (stop the foolishness of asking to be
ruled by kings because kings will enslave you.) I will take the liberty of
assuming that God was talking in siSwati because there is nowhere in the bible
where the language of communication between God and the Israelites is
mentioned. He could have been talking Russian or Swahili for all we know. Some people claim that he might have been
speaking Hebrew; very unlikely but possible.
A KINGSHIP MAKER
Jean Bodin, a French
political philosopher, who couldn’t stomach the fact that the Pope could
practice his authority even on political matters, decided to do something about
the godlike powers of the papacy. He decided to formulate a theory called The
Divine Right of Kings. It is not clear whether he dusted off an old document
and did some creative editing or if he authored the theory from scratch, but
the final piece he presented was so good that it would have prompted the
monarch to reward him handsomely. Not to shift Bodin aside as a scammer because
very few people can claim to have turned human beings into Gods, but to say that
nowhere in known history has there been a narrative that maybe some angel came
from heaven and gave such a mandate to kings.
There is nowhere in history where it says Bodin either saw a
burning bush or even a burning candle, he didn’t carry a stick, never mind
turning the damn thing into a snake, but he walks right into public arena and
makes these fantastic claims. The reason the people did not shave his head,
give him ten and a quarter lashings, stick a pig’s tail between his buttocks
and send him packing in a northerly direction is because the document he was
carrying was from that day onward to render the Monarch as God on Earth.
The document was basically outlining the powers that the
king could practice from then onward. It asserted that the king was answerable
to no one but God. Actually even members
of the aristocracy would not dare question the king however unjust his conduct.
In no uncertain terms, it was also saying, “hands off the king”, to the church.
The document condemned to the wrath of being charged with
the offence of sacrilege to whoever tried to restrict the king’s powers or to
dethrone him. The offence of sacrilege
would be better understood as an equivalent to the suppression of terrorism Act
of Swaziland; as we continue to see movie-type-like sentences that ensures the incarceration and overall supervision of democracy activists for as long as close to a century.
Basically what sacrilege does is that it
renders all things and persons that have to do with the monarch as divine, and
anyone who dares question as cursed.
Divine being such a hard term to describe in physical terms, so whatever
the Monarch renders divine would basically be considered divine, regardless if
it is divine or not. If a peasant is found pissing against a wall and if such
behavior displeases the king, the king could render the wall divine and there
goes the peasant.
The parallel being that in Swaziland the king is above
the law and whoever is charged under the suppression of Terrorism act can rest
assured that the stigma of going against the royal divine will stick, the
king’s judiciary will surely convict and some other people wouldn't even want
to associate with him/her because s/he has dared the divine. In Swaziland you can be leafing through a
scripture that talks about freedom and you would be accused of being ‘in
possession of seditious material'.
It becomes hard then in present day of science and the micro-chip
that we still continue to consider some people as royal when we have no bases
to support the claim. In China too, they tried to give legitimacy to the monarchy by authoring the Heavenly Mandate philosophy. But they too failed to
really legitimize the monarchy, and only managed to establish a number of warring
dynasties.
Just over two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ was briefing
us on all manner of existence in heaven but by some miracle he fails to
remember to remind us about the other messengers of God which are the earthly kings and
the Queens. He does not even call them bagijimi (runners), to at least give us
some inkling that maybe the father considers these people relevant. So it becomes clear that the importance
purported by royals is forced upon the people until it becomes habit, and has
no bases to claim its legitimacy, either from heaven or from earth.
HOW TO ELECT AN IMPOSED GOVERNMENT
In two months or so, Swaziland will be partaking in elections
so fraud that with every election there are less and less observers, the number
of those that vote decreases, and the observer missions that are looking for hope in hell are unanimous on the
lack of democracy of the elections. The whole thing has become such a comedy show
that the registration is taken to people’s work places in order to force them
to register, and chiefs are reported to have threatened the people into
registering. Even after performing such shameful and desperate stunts, the
conclusion is that the scam has lost its initial shine, so the trick would be
either to upgrade the scam or present a new scam. But the problem is that with
a string of obviously-desperate acts, it is becoming clearer that Tinkhundla
regime is running old scams on a population that has become more awake to the scams
that enforce the repression.
Come election time, some will go and cast their vote. Some
will cast in gratitude to the MPs that have been allowed by the Elections Commission
to campaign with food and blankets. Some will cast in fear of the Chiefs that don’t
tolerate dissent. None will cast their vote because the election makes any meaningful
input in their lives. When it is all said and done, the number of voters will
be significantly low as has been the indication during registration.
When Mswati 111 opens parliament he won’t be an elected
member of the government but an imposed one. Being imposed as he is he will go
ahead and appoint other government members to further the imposition. He will
deliver a speech as if he was elected by the majority. But the question will
always be: What gives Mswati 111 the legitimacy to rule the Swazi people?
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