Speaker 1: Who's dying today. It's the Queen. It's the Queen. Well, correction,
Speaker 1: she's not dying, she's she's dead, that lady dead. Yeah,
Speaker 1: very sad, obviously, very sad. Grieving podcast today, brought to
Speaker 1: you by It could happen here. It's all of us.
Speaker 1: It's it's me, it's Get, it's Chris, it's Robert, and
Speaker 1: it's the ghost of the Queen. We're talking about the Queen.
Speaker 1: She's dead. What's up with that? Yeah, she's real dead. Um,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen. You know. What I haven't seen that
Speaker 1: I'm disappointed of is a new version of the Monty
Speaker 1: Python Dead Parrot sketch involving her corpse and it's and
Speaker 1: it's fancy casket. Um, but that's still time, still time
Speaker 1: we can change that. Now. My question is, James, is
Speaker 1: that legal in the UK? Now? Absolutely not No, you
Speaker 1: will get so arrested, not even arrested. This is the
Speaker 1: first part people have just like I don't understand what
Speaker 1: the fund is wrong with people, but they have become
Speaker 1: volunteer cops to like defend a guy who's been credibly
Speaker 1: accused of pedophilia. And I am disappointed in us. Do
Speaker 1: not be policing your fellow people for exercising some of
Speaker 1: the very few rights at the conservative well because everybody
Speaker 1: has taken away from them. Actually, but yeah, you've only
Speaker 1: let yourself down. I'm disappointed. Yeah, they they they really
Speaker 1: really hating anyone who is not thrilled about the monarchy.
Speaker 1: The arresting people of having not my king signs. I
Speaker 1: see that Jetwood is taking it to the fascist state,
Speaker 1: which is great to see. But we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about the queen or former former queen. Um, I do
Speaker 1: want to do want a note that you know, the
Speaker 1: day the Queen died, a big wave of condolences came in,
Speaker 1: including from Domino's Pizza UK, which which if you understand,
Speaker 1: the Queen had a very deep relationship with Dominoes. So
Speaker 1: this this does mean a lot. Um they were they were,
Speaker 1: they were lovers. Among those who posted their condolences was
Speaker 1: Hamilton's West End. The the Britain r MT, which is
Speaker 1: like the British Railway unions, stopped their strike, which I
Speaker 1: think is the most pissed at coward thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: The union do. British Cycling suggested that people not go
Speaker 1: out for a bike ride during the time at the
Speaker 1: Queen's are you fucking serious? My god, they're literally she
Speaker 1: was six deal with including food. I think the funniest
Speaker 1: one was labs Rob posted, everyone is deeply saddened by
Speaker 1: the passing of her badesty in the Queen and we
Speaker 1: offer our sincere condolences to the royal family. We joined
Speaker 1: together with the people of the United Kingdom and all
Speaker 1: around the world and mourning her loss, which they then
Speaker 1: which they then deleted an hour later. If there's one
Speaker 1: thing that Mrs Rob is about, it's about people all
Speaker 1: over the world mourning the loss of monarchy. It's the
Speaker 1: main thing about it. So yeah, most of on Twitter
Speaker 1: was definitely it was definitely split between these companies posting
Speaker 1: how they're so sad that also a lot of people, uh,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty thrilled that the Queen died, because it's kind
Speaker 1: of funny because we were all shocked by the ninety
Speaker 1: five year old woman who died. She was so young.
Speaker 1: It's amazing she was. She was at an age that
Speaker 1: if you reversed her age and told me she had died,
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't have been surprised. Like she was at
Speaker 1: an age where like even if you flip the numbers.
Speaker 1: She's still old. Yeah, it's great to see the Telegraph
Speaker 1: today running a headline five mile q too few and
Speaker 1: it's the second coffin. We'll see horrible stories of suffering.
Speaker 1: This is a country where she said, will not be
Speaker 1: able to heat their homes this winter. It's a country
Speaker 1: good an explosion in food, insecurity, and this is what
Speaker 1: we're doing. It's like like the British like, okay, so
Speaker 1: the Crown did not call directly for a blood sacrifice.
Speaker 1: The British people are just bound and determined to have
Speaker 1: people die like that. They're lay They're like they're lining
Speaker 1: up in the streets to sacrifice themselves for the dead.
Speaker 1: I mean, magical things don't do us all that way.
Speaker 1: There's some people sharing up with not my King signs
Speaker 1: and getting assaulted by mobs. And for most people, like
Speaker 1: regular as people. Yeah, yeah, most people are not that concerned.
Speaker 1: Most people are not like it's just like the Turfs
Speaker 1: in Britain. There are like a small minority of people
Speaker 1: who do nothing but tweet right for the Guardian, who
Speaker 1: misrepresent the opinion to most British people who are not
Speaker 1: that concerned. But like a lot of these British people
Speaker 1: do show up in person and like shut down, like yes,
Speaker 1: it's certainly, it's not It is not the case that
Speaker 1: like there isn't widespread support for this kind of ship.
Speaker 1: It's just that it's it's not uniform. That's people who
Speaker 1: do speak The people who do speak up also tend
Speaker 1: to get arrested, which because it's just like it's it's
Speaker 1: sort of amazing. It's like, okay, Britain got industrial capitalism
Speaker 1: before like any other country on Earth, right, the bourgeoisie
Speaker 1: has one job. One job there. One job is to
Speaker 1: destroy feudalism. And they couldn't even the British couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: They had they had the largest head start of any
Speaker 1: country on Earth, and they couldn't do it. It's incredible,
Speaker 1: it's miraculous. They were co opted into these few elites
Speaker 1: through things that the Great Reform Acts, which which use
Speaker 1: property as a proxy for land or capitalist ap proxy
Speaker 1: for land, and it's worked remarkably well. And now we
Speaker 1: just do false consciousness ship like this, like how good
Speaker 1: is your false consciousness game? When people who can't heat
Speaker 1: their homes are sleeping on the street to say goodbye
Speaker 1: to presumably a billionaire who have a cat about them? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, who absolutely, who was not equipped emotionally
Speaker 1: to have ever cared about them, Who's soul would never
Speaker 1: have allowed her to care about them? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's like, you know, as as lots of people
Speaker 1: were romanticizing the monarchy and the Queen and doing their
Speaker 1: like performative mornings, obviously there was a wave of other
Speaker 1: people being like, hey, you know, the royal family is
Speaker 1: kind of kind of sucked up. You know, they've stolen
Speaker 1: billions of dollars and jewels from countries like India and
Speaker 1: across the South Africa. Um, they're continuing to benefit from
Speaker 1: Britain's history of colonialism. The earlier earlier this year, during
Speaker 1: the during the during the Queen's jubilee celebration, an old
Speaker 1: Kenyan revolutionary fighter used the used the the occasion to
Speaker 1: call for an explanation from the Queen for why she
Speaker 1: hasn't been compensated after being tortured with axes by British troops.
Speaker 1: People should look at the way Britain treated the Mau Mau.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have stuff on this. I have stuff on
Speaker 1: this later for this episode. Actually we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about that. Seventeen estimate found that the royal family is
Speaker 1: estimated to be worth eight eight billion dollars um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that's obviously not in straight up cash,
Speaker 1: which is one of the ways like people are talking about, Oh,
Speaker 1: Charles inherited half a billion, No, Charles billions of dollars.
Speaker 1: Like they own a lot of land. Yes, they owned
Speaker 1: a huge amount of land. Um. Charles has his own
Speaker 1: real estate empire that he like created while he was
Speaker 1: waiting for his mom to fucking croak um. And they
Speaker 1: also have like a fortune and really actually uncountable, like
Speaker 1: you have to think about their wealth like the Vatican,
Speaker 1: Like there's no actual way, Like it's functionally limitless money
Speaker 1: because so much of what they own is like priceless antiquities,
Speaker 1: many of which were stolen from other people. Yeah, any
Speaker 1: time to put angible number, and they're sort of their
Speaker 1: value And that's sort of what if you want to
Speaker 1: go to celebrity status, Yes, what is that fucking diamond
Speaker 1: in the goddamn crown worth? Right? Like there's no real
Speaker 1: way to appraise that. Yeah. Well, and and I want
Speaker 1: to point this out, like if they tried to sell
Speaker 1: the diamond almost certainly. What would happen is like the
Speaker 1: British people would give her three billion dollars and they
Speaker 1: give her the diamond back they funded, Yeah, they'd stopped
Speaker 1: doing the subsidies for heating that they've just started doing,
Speaker 1: and buy the diamond back. Here, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1: Let's le let's talk about the heating thing briefly, because
Speaker 1: I think uh. An anchor on BBC was discussing how
Speaker 1: news of the Queen's passing basically interrupted all other news
Speaker 1: in the UK, UM including statements being given on the
Speaker 1: price increase in energy bills and the rising cost of living,
Speaker 1: by stating that that those topics, that the topics of
Speaker 1: cost of living and the rising energy bills was quote insignificant.
Speaker 1: Now due to the gravity of this situation, we can
Speaker 1: we can insert this clip here. I have I have
Speaker 1: it saved for Daniel because it's just it's wild. Doctors
Speaker 1: in Scotland were concerned about the Queen's health coming um
Speaker 1: as liszt Trust was making a rather important statement concerning
Speaker 1: um the future of energy bills UM that of course insignificant.
Speaker 1: Now given the gravity of the situation we seem to
Speaker 1: be experiencing with her. Just an old lady died. She
Speaker 1: was not a very nice old lady. I've known old
Speaker 1: ladies who were nice that died and I was sad.
Speaker 1: I've known old ladies who are night and not nice
Speaker 1: that died, and I didn't really care in any case,
Speaker 1: Like it's it's not it's not a big deal because
Speaker 1: old people like, that's what human beings do when they
Speaker 1: reach ninety six, is they die a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: And it's it's okay, Like it's okay. Queen would see
Speaker 1: that of everything about her, it's fine. Queen Elizabeth was
Speaker 1: the longest reigning monarch in the history of Britain. Yeah,
Speaker 1: probably close to the longest. And like maybe Ramsey is
Speaker 1: the fucking second is up there, like years, you don't
Speaker 1: run into a lot of competition in terms of links.
Speaker 1: Seventy years thrown at nineteen fifty two. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: worth a lot of old ladies are going to die
Speaker 1: in Britain this winter because of the okay, And it's
Speaker 1: also worth knowing that the Queen tried to use a
Speaker 1: bunch of state poverty money that was emerged for schools,
Speaker 1: hospitals and low income families to pay bucking camp houses
Speaker 1: heating bill. Oh wow, uh yeah, that's that's wild. That's great. Well,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't want an old woman like that to be
Speaker 1: out of out in the rain. Because I believe the
Speaker 1: Crown is States, and I'll have to check this real quickly.
Speaker 1: I believe the Crown of States did evict people during
Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen pandemic, talking of old folks being kicked
Speaker 1: out into the rain and for for around two weeks
Speaker 1: after the Queen's death, basically all of Britain kind of
Speaker 1: grinds to a halt um. It's which which would honestly,
Speaker 1: one of the base parts about this is that this
Speaker 1: does potentially cost the UK economy billions of dollars because
Speaker 1: they just shut down for two weeks um. So this
Speaker 1: is like the equivalent of the boat getting stuck in
Speaker 1: the canal. Y. I do want to I do want
Speaker 1: to make a quick note for everybody. The longest reigning
Speaker 1: verifiable monarch, according to this Wikipedia page that I just skimmed,
Speaker 1: is so Boosa, the second of Swaziland, which was a
Speaker 1: British protectorate until nineteen sixty eight. He reigned from eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine to August of nineteen eighty two, two years.
Speaker 1: So you know what, Elizabeth, not that impressive. I am
Speaker 1: a sabooza. The second stand now absolute chat ship. The
Speaker 1: fact that he just snuffed it before he got to
Speaker 1: see a pot tight end very yeah, that is yeah, wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, it's looking at some of the evictions
Speaker 1: of krown of states done over the years, you can
Speaker 1: learn it's pretty heartbreaking ship. Well, luckily the Queen actually
Speaker 1: did not die in Buckingham Palace. She died in a
Speaker 1: castle in Scotland. That's great because Buckingham Palace is a
Speaker 1: hideous monument of trash. Like the castle she died, it
Speaker 1: looks pretty cool that a lot of the Yeah, one
Speaker 1: thing you're supposed to get with a monarchy is like
Speaker 1: really rad looking castles. It is like neat the castles
Speaker 1: are cool, except for Buckingham Palace, which looks like fucking tenements.
Speaker 1: Yeah so, but Buckingham Palace is a building that dares
Speaker 1: you to go steal back all of the wealth if
Speaker 1: they stole from you to build it. So the plan
Speaker 1: for if the Queen died in this Scottish castle was
Speaker 1: called Operation Unicorn, which is wild. What is the Unicorn?
Speaker 1: A ninety six year old woman dying is not a
Speaker 1: unicorn situation, operations squirrel or something more. How is the
Speaker 1: giving a couple of their third I don't get it,
Speaker 1: I I know. Um. So the plan for this type
Speaker 1: of thing is, so the queen died on last Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: It was announced the Friday following Friday morning. After the
Speaker 1: queen dies, Uh, they call Operation Unicorn. They then call
Speaker 1: they send like my emergency alerts to all the British leaders. Um. No,
Speaker 1: the new Prime Minister who is incredibly funny um, and
Speaker 1: you know, all of all these people are notified and
Speaker 1: then press press gets notified that next morning as as
Speaker 1: as they did. So staff members in the castles and
Speaker 1: palaces all got sent home. Um. All parliamentary business gets postponed. Uh,
Speaker 1: every everything, everything shuts down, which means all of the
Speaker 1: stuff they were working on on energy bills gets shut down,
Speaker 1: like they were working on trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: the funk they're gonna do for this percent cost increase.
Speaker 1: All that gets shut down until late September. Um. So
Speaker 1: that's that's cool. Um. But no, this is actually kind
Speaker 1: of a unique thing because because of how long Elizabeth
Speaker 1: rained the last death of a monarch was in the fifties,
Speaker 1: so it's it's been a while since this has happened,
Speaker 1: so everyone's kind of rusty. Like no, like if we
Speaker 1: aren't as prepared for this. If if it's okay, My
Speaker 1: my hope is that we get a couple of we
Speaker 1: get people get a lot of experience with dead British
Speaker 1: monarchs in the next decond. King Charles the Third, I
Speaker 1: don't think we'll be around for too long. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: seen that man's hands and it's maybe. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Every every time a monarch dies, it's kind of it's
Speaker 1: like a top down, rolling general strike. So if we
Speaker 1: get enough of them in a row, we can start
Speaker 1: doing serious damage capital. By the way, quick quick note
Speaker 1: about the Chad Sabooza, the second of Swazi Land died,
Speaker 1: died with a thousand grandchildren. Oh my god, Jesus, wow,
Speaker 1: man and always pictured shirtless. Elizabeth cannot compete. No, I'm
Speaker 1: fine without not being the case. Actually, I don't want
Speaker 1: to see any contetion. Yeah, and he probably wasn't racist
Speaker 1: to any of their partners, which actually can say about
Speaker 1: the real families. Here's a neat thing he and he
Speaker 1: took all control of all non or of all Swazi
Speaker 1: land and mineral rights from non Swazi interests that had
Speaker 1: gained control during colonialism and indigenized all of that, which
Speaker 1: is dope. So there you go, So boost of the
Speaker 1: motherfucking second. Yeah called a god king. I have to
Speaker 1: go and get injected with a small dose of a disease. Well,
Speaker 1: let everything but injected in that. Chris, Hey, Daniel's back,
Speaker 1: So let's take an ad break, um, and we'll be
Speaker 1: back to learn more about the queen. You know what
Speaker 1: else will give you a small dose to a disease?
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, Yes, these products and services, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll just say the Queen of England. But yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're back. So yeah, it's been a while since since
Speaker 1: the monarch died. Last time this happened in the fifties,
Speaker 1: mourners wore black arm bands to show respect for King George.
Speaker 1: That's the one who was like a big fan of Nazis, right,
Speaker 1: But I don't I don't think we're gonna see so
Speaker 1: I don't think that tradition is going to continue. I
Speaker 1: doubt we're gonna see a wave of black arm bands.
Speaker 1: If anyone was gonna do it. It would probably be
Speaker 1: the Anglos. Yeah, I I suppose so, yeah, it's uh
Speaker 1: oh yeah it was Edward Edward the eight who abdicated
Speaker 1: um and and then was replaced by the guy who
Speaker 1: you were talking about. Okay, that's the guy like nazis
Speaker 1: Edward the Eighth. So I'll all all all the UK
Speaker 1: flags are gonna be flown at at half masted until
Speaker 1: the day of the funeral, and then the day of
Speaker 1: the funeral is going to be a bank holiday as well.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty exciting. That's great. I hope that the
Speaker 1: poor get to eat sweetmeats or something. No, no, no, again,
Speaker 1: they're just they're just closing down almost all almost all businesses,
Speaker 1: almost all businesses in the okay will close. The stock
Speaker 1: Exchange is going to close um like on on. Following
Speaker 1: present Princess Diana's death in the late nineties, uh, Britain,
Speaker 1: business owners in Britain quote felt that they were quote
Speaker 1: forced to close their shops or canceled sporting sporting events
Speaker 1: the day of the funeral lest they feel the rage
Speaker 1: of the tear stained hordes outside unquote. Yeah, that's an
Speaker 1: incredible that is an incredibly funny way to talk about
Speaker 1: monarchist though, like thank you, thank you, thank you the
Speaker 1: Guardian for that amazing quote. It's unbelievable, I mean, and
Speaker 1: at least with Diana, it was actually sad, like she
Speaker 1: was a nice person who was badly treated in her
Speaker 1: life by the royal family and died tragically and young,
Speaker 1: as opposed to somebody who got everything they want from
Speaker 1: the day they were born and died at ninety. So
Speaker 1: then currently they are assembling the quote Ascension Council to
Speaker 1: formally declare Prince Charles the King, which he's he's already
Speaker 1: known as King Charles, but you know there's the whole
Speaker 1: separate formal process because he could pick another name. Still
Speaker 1: he says he's not. He says he's oh, he's he's confirmed.
Speaker 1: That good because kings, Kings Charles have a good history
Speaker 1: in the UK. They don't often get executed. So the
Speaker 1: Council will make the proclamation of ascension to be to
Speaker 1: be read on Proclamation day will be will be soon
Speaker 1: after the death um and that'll be somewhere somewhere in
Speaker 1: a London. How do they still have all the ship
Speaker 1: like there's so many weird ruals that they still do
Speaker 1: of both houses of Parliament are suspended are suspended until
Speaker 1: after the official state funeral um, and both and and
Speaker 1: all politicians have to wear new allegiance to the to
Speaker 1: the newly ascended monarch. This is really like genuinely the
Speaker 1: world's most pathetic ruling class. Like, oh my god, Jesus Christ,
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny. You have one job. Well, but also
Speaker 1: like back in the day before we had monarchs and capitalism,
Speaker 1: whenever you know, you had a new coronation, whenever there
Speaker 1: was something big that happened with the monarchy, the thing
Speaker 1: they would do is make sure everybody had a shipload
Speaker 1: of food and nice stuff. The king would give it away.
Speaker 1: It's all over the world. Cultures would do this, even
Speaker 1: you do. Yeah, it's what you do when you come
Speaker 1: to power, because they were at least that scared of
Speaker 1: the people where it's like, all right, I gotta like
Speaker 1: do something to ring in this rain good so they
Speaker 1: don't start to wonder, why do we have a king now?
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give him a bunch of fucking food
Speaker 1: And then they'll be like, oh, the king, he's the
Speaker 1: guy who gives us food every now and then. That's dope.
Speaker 1: It's amazing now that in the UK it's just like,
Speaker 1: all right, we've got a new monarch and the old
Speaker 1: one died, so you guys, a lot of you don't
Speaker 1: get to eat for a while. So King Charlie seventy
Speaker 1: three is the oldest person in British history to become king,
Speaker 1: which is I think a great side very unsabosi a
Speaker 1: second of him. And then we're also getting a new
Speaker 1: queen technically, uh, the Camella, the Duchess of Cornwall, which
Speaker 1: again all this sounds made up um is now is
Speaker 1: now the queen consort um. So that's exciting, that's thrilling.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm thrilled for Queen Camilla. It is the Duchess
Speaker 1: of Cornwall or so and Queen Elizbeth, Queen Elizabeth's coffin
Speaker 1: is is being prepared to lie in state, meaning it
Speaker 1: will be presented for the public to view so they
Speaker 1: can cry on the coffin, which is pretty cool, or
Speaker 1: crying near the coffin. They don't want the poorest to
Speaker 1: get too close. Meanwhile, so Booza the second turned Swazi
Speaker 1: Land into a major asbestos ex border, which Queen Elizabeth
Speaker 1: also never did. So wait, so when when when when
Speaker 1: the queen dies, do they like from like? Do they
Speaker 1: like preserve her from Aldehide or whatever? They've got some
Speaker 1: fancy they have some fancy ass ship because they were
Speaker 1: probably embalming er while she was alive, just as her
Speaker 1: limbs stopped working, squirting some in. The Queen's body will
Speaker 1: lie in state until the day of the funeral, shall
Speaker 1: then become a public holiday. There's at least a ten
Speaker 1: day morning period starting the day after her death, um,
Speaker 1: and then should be transported to win Westminster Abbey by
Speaker 1: gun carriage for the state funeral, and then after the
Speaker 1: funeral she'll be she'll be buried in the King George
Speaker 1: the Sixth Memorial Chapel. I believe her the body of
Speaker 1: her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year, will
Speaker 1: be moved from the vault that he's currently at to
Speaker 1: beneath the chapel to join here. That's pretty funny. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: I don't have nothing to say about that other than
Speaker 1: it's funny that they've just got that dude in a
Speaker 1: fucking freezer. It's really funny. The new coordination will cost
Speaker 1: billions of pounds. Oh good. That's a good because England's
Speaker 1: like doing great right now, They've got plenty of money
Speaker 1: for all the necessities. You know, everything's been well great,
Speaker 1: cost of livings really down, So it's it's a good
Speaker 1: idea to spend billions of dollars making a little death
Speaker 1: cult about this elderly woman. That's just like the last
Speaker 1: like big royal wedding costs between one point two billion
Speaker 1: and six billion pounds, which is quite quite the quite
Speaker 1: the spectrum there one two to six billion. That's like, huh,
Speaker 1: I feel at that point all money's fake. Like the
Speaker 1: cost of the coronation is expected to be similar, if
Speaker 1: not a little bit higher. Right, Yeah, you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta spend a lot of money on a coronation for
Speaker 1: fucking Charles. Uh, So that you can, because that's what
Speaker 1: real countries do. In two, that's very real country ship.
Speaker 1: Speaking of money, new currency is already being printed and
Speaker 1: in fact that that'll be cheap though, and in fact
Speaker 1: portraits of Charles have already been made on currency. There's
Speaker 1: like a reserve of money depicting the next king, just
Speaker 1: like it's being stored to like moving in from from
Speaker 1: when the queen died. It's like lots of this money saved.
Speaker 1: Just like how funny it would have been if, like
Speaker 1: six months before this happened, his seventy two year old
Speaker 1: ass had a heart attack. Have to like burn all
Speaker 1: that money, They got to burn all the Charles Bucks.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna be around long. Rice that Britain longer
Speaker 1: has the world's reserve currency, can you imagine? No, we
Speaker 1: we took on on this network, on our various shows.
Speaker 1: We we spent a lot of time digging into ugly
Speaker 1: aspects of American history and American culture. But let's all
Speaker 1: celebrate one thing that I'm legitimately proud of, which is
Speaker 1: that a long time ago people who were like that
Speaker 1: seems stupid to let those that family run everything. Why
Speaker 1: are we? Why are we doing that? Let's get those
Speaker 1: fuckers out of here. Um, at least we did that,
Speaker 1: although now a bunch of Americans are being fucking boot
Speaker 1: liquors too, and in Oregon and a bunch of other
Speaker 1: states we're putting in the flags at half staff, which, like,
Speaker 1: you don't not know why this country exists? This is
Speaker 1: the one based thing we did. Yeah, Like, like even
Speaker 1: the US, which I probably has the most murderous boorgeoisie
Speaker 1: in human history. At least we did our Burge revolution. Damnit.
Speaker 1: Like at least we destroyed feudalism. So now we're gonna
Speaker 1: move on to the next segment of the show, entitled
Speaker 1: An Incomplete List of the politicians, warmongers, generals and otherwise
Speaker 1: bastards who queenlis the second bestowed awards. So I have
Speaker 1: I have quite the collection of people here. Um, let's
Speaker 1: let's start with Palestine. So Shimon Perez served as Prime
Speaker 1: Minister of of of Israel. He got a Nobel Peace
Speaker 1: Prize in like the nineties for intern key steal that
Speaker 1: like failed in the long run to turn into a
Speaker 1: um assassinated. No, I don't think. I don't think I
Speaker 1: was the one who you could argue might have deserved
Speaker 1: an award. So he's he. But Perez is kind of
Speaker 1: known as more of like a peaceable leader. He's like
Speaker 1: compared to some of his like colleagues. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: it's specifically with like the various ethnic cleansings that they
Speaker 1: do in Palestine. Perez is kind of seen as like
Speaker 1: the the good guy. Um. And then in the mid
Speaker 1: nineties he was facing a major right wing backlash um
Speaker 1: in his home over over the peace deal with the
Speaker 1: Palestinians UM and in the middle of an election campaign
Speaker 1: which he was kind of losing, so during this time
Speaker 1: he unleashed Operation Grapes of Wrath, which caused four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand Lebanese to flee their homes, with almost eight hundred
Speaker 1: of them fleeing into a United Nations base in uh Kawana.
Speaker 1: I believe it's called UH in South and South Lebanon,
Speaker 1: and he didn't really stop there UH in order to
Speaker 1: kind of appease the right and Aldrezier calls it UH.
Speaker 1: In an attempt to shore up his military credentials before
Speaker 1: a general election, which he then lost to Benjamin net
Speaker 1: not Yahoo, he ordered the army to strike this U
Speaker 1: n A shelter, killing a hundred and two civilians, mostly
Speaker 1: women and children. UH. At the time of the attack,
Speaker 1: Perez said that in my opinion, everything was done according
Speaker 1: to clear logic and in a responsible way. I am
Speaker 1: at peace UM. Perez that the compound had been hit
Speaker 1: due to an incorrect targeting based on erroneous data, but
Speaker 1: the United Nations investigations found it unlikely that the shelling
Speaker 1: was unintentional because they were severing the area heavily beforehand.
Speaker 1: So he did, he did, He did this massacre, killed
Speaker 1: like a hundred a hundred people to boost his polls
Speaker 1: for the right wingers in this election. UM November two,
Speaker 1: as an eight, Queen Elizabeth awarded him with an honorary knighthood.
Speaker 1: He was knighted in the Grand Cross of the Order
Speaker 1: of St. Michael and St. George. And during his knighthood
Speaker 1: like that that day, Perez spoke to the Queen about
Speaker 1: the escalating Israeli Palestine conflict, saying that quote, the British
Speaker 1: learned from the Bible, and we learned from the British democracy.
Speaker 1: Earlier that year, I d F launched Operation hot Winter,
Speaker 1: a military campaign targeting the Gaza Strip in response to
Speaker 1: a series of Homoss rockets that killed one forty seven
Speaker 1: year old Israeli student um which that attack was in
Speaker 1: response to the IDs killing eight Home mass members earlier
Speaker 1: that month. But during during the ID s Operation Hot Winter,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten Palestinians were killed, fifty four of
Speaker 1: them were children. Uh. And then a month, just one
Speaker 1: month after Perez was knighted, the two Assanate Gazo War
Speaker 1: broke out, also known as the Gaza massacre and that
Speaker 1: was started by the IDF, who called it Operation cast
Speaker 1: lead a three week large scale military campaign in the
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip. The massacre resulted in uh in like one
Speaker 1: thousand and four hundred Palestinian deaths and thirteen Israeli deaths,
Speaker 1: four from friendly fire. Um, so it's just a massacre. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that that that was like a few weeks after
Speaker 1: after Queen Elizabeth knighted unighted the then president of of
Speaker 1: of of of Israel who previously served as the prim Sister,
Speaker 1: which is more of like a real rule. Um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on to more fun people. Nine eighty nine, Queen
Speaker 1: Elizabeth awarded Ronald Reagan with an honorary knighthood. Um. That's
Speaker 1: good now, thankfully. The way honorary knight Knighthood's work is
Speaker 1: you don't become a sir because sir is a title
Speaker 1: reserved for people from Britain. I'm not mistaken. You can't
Speaker 1: hold office in the United States if you are a knight.
Speaker 1: Oh I wouldn't. I think it's an old rule we have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I read something about that. Yeah, yeah, no, I think
Speaker 1: isn't it No, it's not on the constitution, but there's
Speaker 1: something about yeah, but it's a it's a even though
Speaker 1: you know you can't become a sir because you're not
Speaker 1: from Britain. Um you Okay, here we go. No title
Speaker 1: of nobility. This is Article one, Section nine, closet of
Speaker 1: the Constitution. Constitution. Yeah, no title of nobility shall be
Speaker 1: granted by the United States, and no person holding any
Speaker 1: office of profit or trust under them shall without the
Speaker 1: consent of the Congress, except of any President, volume in office,
Speaker 1: or title of any kind whatsoever, from any king, prince,
Speaker 1: or foreign state. Fascinating. Yeah. So, like again, the people
Speaker 1: who made this country, for all of their flaws, looked
Speaker 1: at the British monarchy and we're like, that's fucking nuts. Well,
Speaker 1: because because because Reagan was was night was received on
Speaker 1: airy knighthood. The one benefit he does get is that
Speaker 1: at dinner parties, Reagan was able to sit closer to
Speaker 1: the queen than the unknighted former presidents. That's good. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that we have to like, honestly, look again, I
Speaker 1: hate like like America flex shit, but I feel like
Speaker 1: any president of the US should be able to pull
Speaker 1: up Ryker style, flip a chair around, sit down next
Speaker 1: to you, and say, look, we've been pulling your ass
Speaker 1: out of the fire for the last century. Like, you
Speaker 1: don't get to fucking make me sit somewhere. I'm the
Speaker 1: president of the United States and you're a doddering old
Speaker 1: queen of a fucking third rate power. Um, I hate that.
Speaker 1: I just went like, full fucking whatever they're But honestly,
Speaker 1: that's fucking ridiculous. It's like like maybe maybe maybe the
Speaker 1: only country ever that the U s getst moral superiority.
Speaker 1: It's like, is the British Empire? Like, don't you don't
Speaker 1: like what? Seriously, lady unbelievable. One other president who was
Speaker 1: knighted was George H. W. Bush, who was knighted into
Speaker 1: the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Well,
Speaker 1: he did look like he could use one a lot
Speaker 1: of the time, where a rarely awarded top order of knighthoods.
Speaker 1: That's good. I'm glad he got that. Uh. British officials
Speaker 1: said that the knighthood marked the close relationship between the
Speaker 1: Republican president and Britain's conservative government, particularly during the Gulf War. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a real moment of of of iolan tragedy
Speaker 1: for the British royal family. They had they had to
Speaker 1: sit there and watch they were burned, conscripts alive, and
Speaker 1: they were really at risk. There. I'm gonna quote from
Speaker 1: the book Royal Babylon by English poet and activist Heathcote Williams. Quote.
Speaker 1: The fact that each US president's record, without exception, would
Speaker 1: earn them seats on the dock at Nuremberg or at
Speaker 1: the International Criminal Court on genocide charges doesn't deter the
Speaker 1: royal family from honoring them. For by an ironic twist,
Speaker 1: each US president morphs into George the Third, against whom
Speaker 1: their forebearers fought. Which is a nice and nice a
Speaker 1: nice little quote by by this this this English this
Speaker 1: English writer and the pretty good book Royal Babylon if
Speaker 1: you want to if you want to learn about how
Speaker 1: fucked up the monarchy is, Uh, this is a pretty
Speaker 1: a pretty fun book. Um, let's see who else who
Speaker 1: else should be? Uh? Who else should we? Let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about Norman Schwartz and Covs schwartzkof. Norman schwartzkof. He
Speaker 1: was the head of the He was the guy who
Speaker 1: actually like ran the Desert Storm campaign. Yes, he said
Speaker 1: that the dead iraqis quote warn't worth counting and among
Speaker 1: like casualties of war and that quote I want every
Speaker 1: Iraqi soldier bleeding from every orifice. Yeah, it's uh. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, Schwartzkov was a guy who fought in Vietnam
Speaker 1: and took the loss hard, and I think he a
Speaker 1: big part of why, A big part of what was
Speaker 1: going on with Desert Storm was a desire to quote
Speaker 1: unquote reclaim like our military pride by beating the ship
Speaker 1: out of a smaller country. Um. Which is not to
Speaker 1: say that like I don't believe there was Like Iraq
Speaker 1: had invaded a neighbor and occupied it. That's bad, something
Speaker 1: should have been done. But the whole, the whole like masturbatory.
Speaker 1: I want all of their fucking conscript soldiers, these like
Speaker 1: teenage kids to die. Is is like sick lunacy, as
Speaker 1: was the masturbation over the anywhere whatever. We don't need
Speaker 1: to talk about the Gulf War here. He was anyway,
Speaker 1: he was. He also received knighthood after all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: which is fun. Also, Elizabeth gave a knighthood to Colin
Speaker 1: Powell Um who facilitated, covered up, and justified many US
Speaker 1: war crimes in Vietnam. Hey, Hey, Garrison facilitated cover ups. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: most famously my Lie. Yes, the my Lie massacre is
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that he was that he was involved in.
Speaker 1: There were others. He also like that guy. I think
Speaker 1: he's like like the thing. I think it important. He
Speaker 1: is probably the one person on earth in the Bush
Speaker 1: administration who could have stopped the Iraq war if he
Speaker 1: wanted to. And he didn't. Like he he he knew
Speaker 1: that it was all bullshit, and he was like, nah,
Speaker 1: fuck it, let's do the gonna lie to the u
Speaker 1: N Quoting Powell, we burned down the thatched huts, starting
Speaker 1: the blaze with ronson and zippo. Latter's why were we
Speaker 1: torching house and destroying crops? Ho Chi Ming said that
Speaker 1: his people were like the sea in which guerrillas swarm.
Speaker 1: We tried to solve the problem by making the whole
Speaker 1: sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference
Speaker 1: does it make if you shot your enemy or starved
Speaker 1: him to death? So anyway, night night night, Colin Powell.
Speaker 1: So true, So true, Buddy Um probably the least problematic
Speaker 1: person among this list. In the Queen approved on an
Speaker 1: honorary knighthood to a former U s Secretary of State.
Speaker 1: Uh what Henry kiss kiss Anger kissing kissing gerl. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was. He was just kind of a functionary, very
Speaker 1: not not a big deal. We should probably, I think,
Speaker 1: I think that's how it's pronounced. He was. He was
Speaker 1: appointed an honor u night Commander in the Most Distinguished
Speaker 1: Order of St. Michael and St. George. Christ's so funny.
Speaker 1: We must applaud the British for for for for honoring
Speaker 1: the most popular American in China. It's a very progressive
Speaker 1: decision for her. Yes, Kissinger. Uh. I think a few
Speaker 1: of Kissinger's assistants also got uknighted. Uh, Brent scroll Croft
Speaker 1: scout Croft scout Croft, Um, he got he got knighted. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think people from the Iron contra drugs uh and
Speaker 1: arms affair stuff got knighted. Uh. There was a lot
Speaker 1: of like war criminal dudes got knighted in this in
Speaker 1: this like late nineties period. I wonder what was going
Speaker 1: on there. Also, Uh, j Edgar Hoover was was was
Speaker 1: knighted of h which is pretty funny. And then uh,
Speaker 1: the the economic uh financier who endorsed uh really bad
Speaker 1: derivatives to make the housing bubble kind of blow up
Speaker 1: a green Span another American. He also green Span like
Speaker 1: he's a horrible person. That that man, that man has
Speaker 1: killed more people than most generals. Like he has. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: yeah he is. He is pretty bad. Um. I think
Speaker 1: I think we can do an ad break and then
Speaker 1: James is going to join us again. Uh to finish
Speaker 1: up by talking about Ireland and Kenya. Um, because there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff in Ireland and Kenya. So anyway,
Speaker 1: do you know who won't receive a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth?
Speaker 1: That's these products and services, because it's going to say
Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth because she's too dead to dead. That's a joke.
Speaker 1: She can't give them a nighthead because she's dead. Here's
Speaker 1: the ads, very funny. Ah, we're back, and you know
Speaker 1: I need to keep the audience informed about important network
Speaker 1: business for cool Zone, so I want to let you
Speaker 1: all know that. As he was coming back from getting
Speaker 1: his shot, James texted us, all, Okay, I'll be on
Speaker 1: in one sex and there's a lot of jokes that
Speaker 1: we can make about that as as a network, and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make them, but I'm gonna urge
Speaker 1: you to make them yourself. In your own heart and
Speaker 1: head and then tweet them to James James is At
Speaker 1: James is At, I write, okay on Twitter, that's my
Speaker 1: Twitter handle, I wrote, okay, you can see a picture
Speaker 1: of me. That's anyway. Uh So we're not gonna talk
Speaker 1: about mainly mainly two places where British colonialism and imperialism
Speaker 1: had devastating effects under Queen Elizabeth and a few a few,
Speaker 1: uh pretty pretty evil people that that Elizabeth then also
Speaker 1: knighted of who we're doing, who were like directly doing
Speaker 1: this British colonialism. Uh, let's talk about kenyell a little bit.
Speaker 1: So during the nineteen fifties, British tried to get control
Speaker 1: of lands in Kenya that they that they had violently.
Speaker 1: They were trying to trying to keep control of land
Speaker 1: that they had previously stolen. Um. Native Kenyans fought back
Speaker 1: in the Mau Mau Uprising. Now has we've historians Historians
Speaker 1: have documented widespread torture by British forces, including crushing of
Speaker 1: testicles with pliers um and the internment of up to
Speaker 1: three d and twenty thousand people in concentration camps where
Speaker 1: they then endured a slavery starvation murder and rape, rape
Speaker 1: with blunt objects. Um. Meanwhile, one point five million Kenyans
Speaker 1: were confined to a network of detention camps and heavily
Speaker 1: patrolled villages, as documented by a historian Caroline Elkins in
Speaker 1: her Pulitzer wise winning Britain's Gulag. So this, this, this
Speaker 1: was all overseen by the queen as the head of state.
Speaker 1: And by the way, she was thirty one at this point.
Speaker 1: You don't you don't get to say, well, she just
Speaker 1: come and you know, I was just listening to her advisors.
Speaker 1: At thirty one years old. You are young, but you
Speaker 1: are old enough to not be complicit in a genocide. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially when you're the head of state. Like, come on,
Speaker 1: as the Queen of England, she had some leverage. She
Speaker 1: is not like, oh, you came at you worked, you
Speaker 1: were a tax collector in fucking South fucking Shire, England,
Speaker 1: and you happened to be in doing that job when
Speaker 1: the Mau mau. We're being suppressed. No, no, no, she was.
Speaker 1: She she she knew about stuff, what's going on. Was
Speaker 1: heavily involved because she was giving out like she was
Speaker 1: working with people who were doing pretty like agregious things. Um.
Speaker 1: According to Kenya's biggest newspaper, the Daily Nation. A British
Speaker 1: policeman named Ian Henderson was known in Kenya as the
Speaker 1: Torturer in Chief and was the kind of the the
Speaker 1: guy behind preparing a whole bunch of bogus evidence in
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifty three trial where say leading Mao Mao
Speaker 1: uprising figures were convicted, um, including the future first President
Speaker 1: of Independent Kenya now Queenlis. But the second honored Ian
Speaker 1: Henderson again the Torturer in Chief, with the George Medal,
Speaker 1: Britain's highest civilian award, in September of nineteen fifty four
Speaker 1: for his work in Kenya. So this is important. Like
Speaker 1: he wasn't military, he was just a policeman, which is
Speaker 1: why he gets a civilian award. Um. But like she
Speaker 1: knew what was going on was giving out individual police
Speaker 1: officers awards for their rules in crushing the crushing these
Speaker 1: uh independent uprisings. You know who never would have done
Speaker 1: that is supposed the second absolute clown. I I I
Speaker 1: do not know enough of the second. I don't know
Speaker 1: how he acquired one thousand grandchildren. I'm not gonna to
Speaker 1: be fair, there's probably some shady ship and Sabooza the
Speaker 1: Seconds Rain, but the main thing he was known for
Speaker 1: was taking back control of Swazi lens and ginous industries,
Speaker 1: being a good neighbor to the other African countries once
Speaker 1: they gained their independence, and of course exporting a shipload
Speaker 1: of asbestos. So and any any other notes on on Kenya. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so just before I do want to like just briefly
Speaker 1: raised their like elkins Um that it was that was
Speaker 1: a very unconventional and very good book for for young
Speaker 1: academic and she deserved that the credit for writing it.
Speaker 1: In the process of writing that book and then trying
Speaker 1: to write her second book, obviously she dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of backlash from rank her first book, she uncovered
Speaker 1: that Britain had hidden, classified, destroyed and refused to disclose
Speaker 1: a mountain of records about its colonial crimes in Kenya.
Speaker 1: And this is like an ongoing issue that goes on
Speaker 1: into the twenty teams that there were public records court
Speaker 1: cases about this, and it's so like we we can
Speaker 1: see this like it's wrong to say that this is
Speaker 1: like a just a relic of another era, right, Britain
Speaker 1: is has continued into this era, like the ideology of
Speaker 1: the government from then to now is actually distinguishable, right,
Speaker 1: it's it's near liberal conservatives. They have continued to hide
Speaker 1: rather than face justice for these crimes, right, rather than
Speaker 1: say sorry, rather than say what we did was wrong,
Speaker 1: they've tried to cover up this ship and like we
Speaker 1: we need to remember that when we talk about like
Speaker 1: this is not a crime of the past, he's an
Speaker 1: ongoing acts of genocide, of genocide denial that we keep doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I should mention. So I think we're talking on operations
Speaker 1: legacy as there are a bunch of different instances of
Speaker 1: the British government like destroying other records. One of the
Speaker 1: other fun things they were covered they've seen to have
Speaker 1: been covering up and we don't we don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what was in those records because again they were just
Speaker 1: like they were destroyed. Um. But one of the other
Speaker 1: things that was in this record is about a second
Speaker 1: time that that the UK put a bunch of people
Speaker 1: in concentration camps while Queen Elizabeth was president, which was
Speaker 1: they did this. They also did this in Malaysia, they
Speaker 1: put a million president. They did this. They did in
Speaker 1: the film was Sorry She was while she was clown President,
Speaker 1: which is to say, just to say, Queen, we're gonna
Speaker 1: actually be talking about Malaysia in justice sec that yeah
Speaker 1: so so uh. Ian Henderson, the torture in chief who
Speaker 1: received this award obviously had to leave Kenya shortly after
Speaker 1: the fifties because things happened um and then he he
Speaker 1: got he got moved to Bahrain um and during a
Speaker 1: wave of pro independence revolts in Bahrain in nineteen eight,
Speaker 1: Henderson was appointed the head of the Secret Police and
Speaker 1: served as so until nine um and over the course
Speaker 1: of his tenure he became known as the Butcher of Bahrain,
Speaker 1: quoting the Guardian quote. During his time, his men allegedly
Speaker 1: detained and tortured thousands of anti government activists. Their activities
Speaker 1: are said to have include did the ransacking of villages,
Speaker 1: sadistic sexual abuse, and using power drills to name prisoners.
Speaker 1: On many accuations, there have said to detain children without
Speaker 1: informing their parents, only to return them months later in
Speaker 1: body bags unquote. Yeah, and and the Barraine stuff. It's
Speaker 1: also worth mentioning like that never stopped Like no, I
Speaker 1: mean it stopped being him in charge, but like like
Speaker 1: it only stopped him being in charge. Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 1: and like in two thousand eleven, there's another revolution against
Speaker 1: like the Bahraini Baroni like monarchy, and I mean it
Speaker 1: ended essentially with the Saudia's role tanks across the border.
Speaker 1: But one of the things that happened was that the
Speaker 1: British helped like the Bariny government like hunt down dissidence.
Speaker 1: I just busted out my lecture on this hand slot
Speaker 1: park stuff. If we want to talk more about there
Speaker 1: were fifteen miles of files that they found hidden. I
Speaker 1: mean that that was that was also the case in Ireland,
Speaker 1: which was later the Odd File. I lose emails all
Speaker 1: the time, that's similar to fifteen miles of paperwork. So
Speaker 1: in nineteen four Ian Henderson was awarded by Queen Elizabeth
Speaker 1: with a CBE for services to British interests in Bahrain
Speaker 1: and UH. He also received a knighthood in the Most
Speaker 1: Excellent Order of the British Empire. So this this was
Speaker 1: after he was already known as the Butcher of Bahrain.
Speaker 1: This this is this, he's well into his tenure. He
Speaker 1: is torturing children, killing them, kidnapping them, maiming people, and
Speaker 1: that's when he gets knighthooded UH for his services to
Speaker 1: the British interests in Bahrain. Um. So, yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: Ian Henderson. Um. Now. During Henderson's time in Kenya uh,
Speaker 1: he was just a part of the small team that
Speaker 1: was developing a new form of counterinsurgency pseudo gangster tactics uh,
Speaker 1: kind of weaponizing like gang gang warfare for British interests. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other person who was of running this operation was
Speaker 1: an Englishman named Frank Kinson. Um so he in uh
Speaker 1: he he was also serving in Kenya UM and then
Speaker 1: on New Year's in nineteen fifty five, Kinson was awarded
Speaker 1: the British Military Cross in recognition of galleant and distinguished
Speaker 1: services in Kenya UM and three years later he gained
Speaker 1: a bar to that battle for his work in the
Speaker 1: UH Malaysian emergency quote unquote. So during Britain's brutal rule
Speaker 1: brutal war in Malaysia, um he he he played. He
Speaker 1: played a part in the concentration camps which Chris mentioned.
Speaker 1: The process was known as vigilization as they forced people
Speaker 1: into these concentration camps all over the course of a famine,
Speaker 1: and they were invading Malaysia to fund Britain's kind of
Speaker 1: post war reconstruction uh. So he he was in Kenya, Malaysia. UH.
Speaker 1: He also went to Bahrain, just like Henderson did. He
Speaker 1: went to Yemen, Aiden and Cyprus, all places where the
Speaker 1: British state is uh known for doing the widespread use
Speaker 1: of torture. Um. And then he went to north He
Speaker 1: went to Northern Ireland uh in not shocking turn of events. UM.
Speaker 1: He then was the professional head of the British Army
Speaker 1: during the Iraq War. Described Kitson as quote the son
Speaker 1: around which the planets revolved, saying that quote he very
Speaker 1: much set the tone for the operational style in Belfast. UM.
Speaker 1: The the notorious Military Reaction Force the m r F,
Speaker 1: which was accused of being behind a string of illegal
Speaker 1: shootings of Catholic teenagers in the early seventies, was based
Speaker 1: at Kitson's headquarters outside Belfast, and one of the units
Speaker 1: under his command was nicknamed Wittson's Private Army uh. Its
Speaker 1: official name was one Pea. And these were the people
Speaker 1: that did bloody Sunday um. So in nineteen seventy two
Speaker 1: in Dairy, fifteen thousand people gathered outside to protest against
Speaker 1: detention without trial. At ten past four, British paratroopers opened fire,
Speaker 1: twenty eight people were shot, some in the back as
Speaker 1: they fled. Fourteen people were killed, seven of whom were teenagers,
Speaker 1: and it was Kitson's private army who fired all one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight shots in Dairy during winter of nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy two. Uh. One of the victims are the first
Speaker 1: teenager named Kevin, seventeen years old. He was shot from
Speaker 1: behind while trying to crawl to safety. Um. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: Murphy massacre was at the same time as well. Like
Speaker 1: it's worth, people like these are very well documented things
Speaker 1: and people that people can read about that we don't
Speaker 1: need to describe in detail. But so nice England England
Speaker 1: Bad Elizabeth Queen. In nineteen seventy two, frank Kinson was
Speaker 1: knighted again same same year as the massacre, was knighted
Speaker 1: by the Queen for galleyant and distinguished service in Northern
Speaker 1: Ireland and was promoted to Commander of the Order of
Speaker 1: the British Empire UM. A few years later he became
Speaker 1: a major general and the quote night Commander of the
Speaker 1: Order of the Bath Again. What is it that he
Speaker 1: and former head of the CIA, George H. W. Bush
Speaker 1: got to hang out in their fancy club, though these
Speaker 1: people are so fucked up. So later later, Kitson served
Speaker 1: as Commander in Chief for the UK Land Forces from
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two to nineteen eighty five and was the
Speaker 1: aide Delak was the Aide de camp general to Queen
Speaker 1: Elizabeth direct directly to Queen Elizabeth from nineteen eighty three
Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty five. So yeah, that's uh, that's fun.
Speaker 1: It's worth noting that the Order of the Bath is
Speaker 1: like a I believe that some of those other honors,
Speaker 1: that Queen's honors that you've talked about, like selected by
Speaker 1: committee your prospect government. I'm not quite sure. The Order
Speaker 1: of the Bath is supposed to be like the personal
Speaker 1: the Queen's like specific selection. Yeah yeah, and the Sovereign
Speaker 1: is head of the Order of the Bath like it's
Speaker 1: like yours. It's the big it's the big diamond shape. Man,
Speaker 1: you're tortured so dreadfully. Well. I'd love to give you
Speaker 1: this fancy award for jamming screwdrivers into children, turning the board.
Speaker 1: Who do you do? Go off to go breathe another Corgi.
Speaker 1: That's the ghost of the Queen you have promised at
Speaker 1: the start of the episode. So Robert's basement. Throughout the
Speaker 1: two thousand's, Kinson remained a key advisor on US military
Speaker 1: strategy during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is
Speaker 1: much that the US has done which is also war
Speaker 1: crimes and torture in those wars, and which all we mentioned. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's there's a thing you'll get from insurgency nerds who
Speaker 1: were talking about the Mala like emergency quote unquote is
Speaker 1: like the one successful kind of insurgency, and that's just
Speaker 1: not true. Like they started again after they stopped in seconds.
Speaker 1: You can tell how well this went by the fact
Speaker 1: that that guy also was helping the US do a
Speaker 1: rock in Afghanistan, and the only thing he's ever managed
Speaker 1: to accomplish is killing an enormous number of people. He doesn't,
Speaker 1: it was just that he had dubs there. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was in all those countries. He was heavily involved in
Speaker 1: Aiden and Yemen, which led to two thousand deaths between
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two and nineteen seventy UM and and today
Speaker 1: British armies still continue the same the same process of
Speaker 1: of overseeing the bombing of Yemen. UM. So this isn't
Speaker 1: mean there's definitely no one the US is innocent of
Speaker 1: just oh no, we're the ones arming h we need
Speaker 1: to Saudi Coalition, whatever you want to call it. That's
Speaker 1: murdering people in Yemen. But I think the Britain doesn't
Speaker 1: have the capacity to to make as many bombs as
Speaker 1: the US is standing to Yem and I would doubt.
Speaker 1: But all of these processes and all of these people
Speaker 1: are still continuing the same colonialism and the same yes,
Speaker 1: all of the same oppression. Like this isn't like, this
Speaker 1: isn't like the past. It's it's an ongoing thing that
Speaker 1: the monarchy awards and perpetuates. They've had to downsize it
Speaker 1: a little bit because you know, it just doesn't work
Speaker 1: as well as it used to. And so the thing
Speaker 1: they decided to do to downsize it was stopped paying
Speaker 1: off the populace um and just start policing them harder.
Speaker 1: And but but the money has kept flowing to the Royals. Yes, yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: in the Malay emergency, that Britain did pioneer the use
Speaker 1: of Asian orange. So that's another gift that we've given
Speaker 1: to the people of the United States. Ah well, thank
Speaker 1: you James for that. Yeah, welcome anytime. It's that it's
Speaker 1: t cozy's with the Queen on it's stuff coolgies, you know.
Speaker 1: I want to suggest if you are looking for a
Speaker 1: way to properly mourn Queen Elizabeth Um, maybe check out
Speaker 1: the film Churchill The Hollywood Years. A truly exceptional movie.
Speaker 1: If you just type it into Google and look around
Speaker 1: on YouTube, you can find a full copy of it. Um.
Speaker 1: It features Christian Slater as Winston Churchill and Nev Campbell
Speaker 1: as the recently deceased Queen UM. And I don't know
Speaker 1: who it is that they got to play her father,
Speaker 1: the former king, but he's he's basically a portrayed as
Speaker 1: like a drunk and also like every time there's a
Speaker 1: big fancy party, he's just constantly staring at everyone's drinks
Speaker 1: because he's angry that they're drinking is champagne because he's
Speaker 1: a big fucking uh spinthrift Um. Very funny, very good
Speaker 1: send up of the royal family. Um. Also, Heinrich Himler
Speaker 1: conducts a Satanic wedding and by replacing a crucifix with
Speaker 1: a chicken. It's It's a good movie watch life just
Speaker 1: like in real life. I'll also recommend you check out
Speaker 1: the book Royal Babylon. I was able to get it
Speaker 1: a free copy online through great methods. Um So anyway,
Speaker 1: yeah that if you want a nice like poetic history
Speaker 1: of how the queen is sucked up and the monarchy sucks,
Speaker 1: Royal Babylon is a nice easy read. Did you get
Speaker 1: into the balls Lion Sisters as well? Did you do that? Now,
Speaker 1: these two people who were disabled, they are the Queen's cousins.
Speaker 1: They the royal family basically announced they were dead, but
Speaker 1: they weren't dead, and they lived in an institutional home
Speaker 1: for I think it was it was called the Royal
Speaker 1: Earth Word Institution for Mental Defectives and great. They lived
Speaker 1: there more or less anonymously, completely discerned by the family
Speaker 1: on a very small stipend until they died. And that
Speaker 1: is not a nice way to treat your cousins. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: this only spends in my opinion that, yeah, some monarchy
Speaker 1: is bad bad. Something about FUCO and boomerangs and colonialism
Speaker 1: abolished the monarchy. It's always okay to celebrate the death
Speaker 1: of a king or queen, Um, doesn't matter who they are,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how it happens. Um, it's bad for the
Speaker 1: concept of monarchy is the only thing more toxic than
Speaker 1: the concept of inherited wealth. Um, and both are deeply
Speaker 1: tied to each other. Uh, fuck the Queen and fuck
Speaker 1: all of her relatives except for the ones who give
Speaker 1: up their their positions in power. Those people are are cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't turn police people whose parents were killed by colonial
Speaker 1: regimes on. Yeah yeah, and over overthrow the government of Britain. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: we always this podcast from the beginning has been directly
Speaker 1: in favor of an insurrection against the crown. The one
Speaker 1: thing that you do have to hand it to the
Speaker 1: Queen for is seeing Liz Trust as Prime Minister and
Speaker 1: immediately dying, which is an appropriate response ritual suicide. And
Speaker 1: you know again, King Sibudho the second did destroy democracy
Speaker 1: in Swaziland, but then he replaced it with something that
Speaker 1: kind of sounds like democracy. And that's more than een
Speaker 1: Elizabeth did. We just started at point B something that
Speaker 1: kind of sounds like I know, I know what King
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stand in the future. All right, But well
Speaker 1: that's a T shirt I'll be getting you for Christmas.
Speaker 1: Thank you you to short, short lived King Charles the Third.
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