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King Leopold and Charles Manson - mapoui - 11-28-2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium
Leopold II (9 April 1835 – 17 December 1909) reigned as the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and became known for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State as a private venture.
Born in Brussels as the second (but eldest surviving) son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans, he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for forty-four years until his death – the longest reign of any Belgian monarch. He died without surviving male issue and the current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor, Albert I.
Leopold became the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken on his own behalf. He used explorer Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 the colonial nations of Europe authorized his claim by committing the Congo Free State to improving the lives of the native inhabitants. From the beginning, however, Leopold essentially ignored these conditions. He ran the Congo using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal enrichment. He used great sums of the money from this exploitation for public and private construction projects in Belgium during this period. He donated the private buildings to the state before his death, to preserve them for Belgium.
Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo—initially by the collection of ivory—and after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s by forced labour from the native population to harvest and process rubber. Under his regime millions of the Congolese people died: modern estimates range from one million to fifteen million, with a consensus growing around 10 million. Human-rights abuses under his régime contributed significantly to these deaths. Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early twentieth century and the Belgian government ultimately forced Leopold to relinquish control of the colony to Belgian civil administration in 1908.
King Leopold and Charles Manson - mapoui - 11-28-2017
http://www.digitaljournal.com/blog/11297
King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800’s. The spoils of modern day Belgium owes much to the people of the Congo River Basin.
In a testament to the hideous brutality of the European colonial era and imperialism in its finest form, during the 1880s, when Europe was busy dividing up the continent of Africa like a vast chocolate cake, King Leopold II of Belgium laid personal claim to the largely uncharted Congo Free State. The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held a vast fortune in rubber plantations, a commodity in high demand in late 19th century industrial Europe.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/blog/11297#ixzz4zjnlmzie
King Leopold and Charles Manson - mapoui - 11-28-2017
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Manson
Charles Milles Manson (ne Maddox, November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal and cult leader who formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California in the late 1960s. Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971 he was found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, all of which were carried out at his instruction by members of the group. Manson was also convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths.
King Leopold and Charles Manson - timmyj51 - 11-28-2017
Make it a trio wid Desies/Rastas...bin purpetrating
GENOCIDE of 'Merican cricket fur decades!! :angry: :angry: :angry:
King Leopold and Charles Manson - ketchim - 11-28-2017
Beheading would have been good for Manson.
King Leopold and Charles Manson - mapoui - 11-28-2017
ketchim post=355186 Wrote:Beheading would have been good for Manson.
what about Leo :ohmy: :ohmy:
King Leopold and Charles Manson - timmyj51 - 11-28-2017
He crook in lap 'o luxury. Both done-n-gone.
Desies/Rastas continue on-n-on GENOCIDE of 'Merican
cricket... :ohmy: :ohmy: :ohmy:
King Leopold and Charles Manson - ketchim - 11-29-2017
Leopold was a King ....Manson was a drug induced hippie
from that era ~
King Leopold and Charles Manson - mapoui - 11-29-2017
ketchim post=355245 Wrote:Leopold was a King ....Manson was a drug induced hippie
from that era ~
MAN ITS THE NATURE OF THE PEOPLE THE BEHAVIOR OF THE TWO MEN EXPOSES. THEY CITE THOSE TWO AS EXTREME. MU ARGUMENT IS THAT THEY ARE NOT EXTREME IN THE LEAST. THEY ARE QUITE NORMAL FOR WHITE PEOPLE
Manson an ordinary Joe got caught before the CIA could scoop him up and make him into an assassin and a spy, or a torturer
Leo was a king..and he killed until he died. no one arrested him. or admonished him. or criticized him during his life time. they still have not done so. they simply expose what he has done but he remains an accepted figure in the house of european royalty
King Leopold and Charles Manson - ketchim - 11-29-2017
Kings were believed to have DIVINE RIGHT
do I have to explain everything to you : context and era ?
look, behave yuhself !
di·vine right of kings noun
the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God, not from their subjects,
from which it follows that rebellion is the worst of political crimes.
It was claimed in Britain by the earlier Stuarts
and associated with the absolutism of Louis XIV of France.