No Kings?! The line of kings who rule Arabia has been continuous since Ibn Saud beheaded 40,000 of the opposition party as he slaughtered his way to power in the early 1930s, and most recently his country sliced and diced a journalist who entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul to pick up a marriage license.
During the same 1930s time frame, the American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to illegally expand and stack the Supreme Court. The American system of government held him in check.
Nothing but regime change, usually violent, holds kings in check.
In 1953 the democratically elected leader of Iran was overthrown by a CIA operation led by Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of Teddy, who installed a king, the shah of Iran. This came back to bite us in 1979 when the first ayatollah overthrew not just the shah but a secular nation-state and installed an Islamic Republic in its place.
That “republic” selects its ayatollahs in secrecy. A four-man “Assembly of Experts” selects each successive ayatollah, the acknowledged “supreme leader,” for life. The Assembly of Experts is in turn selected by an 88-man Guardian Council which is appointed by the sitting ayatollah. It is a closed system that “elects” the next ayatollah.
The ayatollah’s supreme function is to promulgate the destruction of Israel, the United States and with it, all of Western Civilization. To do so fulfills one school’s interpretation of the Quran. My own interpretation is that Muhammad’s original preaching was about Islam displacing all other religions on the Arabian Peninsula, which has already been accomplished, hence there is no need for more violence.
So, I agree with everyone who wishes for a time when there are no kings. Israel is currently destroying the trappings of kingly power in Iran –– the nuclear facilities in which the ayatollah has been gathering his kingly might.
What’s that, you say? There was a no-kings protest against the American president. I didn’t know that. That’s what elections are for, and we just had one. I voted for this. How did I come up with the “No Kings” title if I didn’t know about the protest? Why, I was walking along the seashore when I innocently happened upon an artistic arrangement of seashells, spelling “No” with brown shells and “Kings” with black shells.
Can I verify this, you ask? Of course I can!
You say there’s no ocean in West Texas? Of course there is!
Ask the FBI. It has lots of experience at painstakingly ferreting out truths and not rushin’ to collusions like yours.
Rex Redden
Fort Davis