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Originally posted by TruthMagnet
What a sorry p.o.s. - trying to kill the Royals with NO plan and instead killing many of his fellow serfs...
Disgusting!!
My heart goes out for all the families who have been devestated by this pathetic psychotic.
However - he was probably on to the fact that the Dutch Royals are Scum of the Earth - and this is true...
As more people "wake up" to the looting going on World Wide I think we will see an increase in these sad attempts to "even the score"
Our true power comes in numbers - not in slimy (and ultimately untennable) lone assasination attempts...
As far as I know nobody knows why did he did this, so I don't think that "he was so disgusted with the whole concept of royalty" is more accurate than "he did not liked Thursdays".
Originally posted by Albertarocks
IMO he wanted to bring the world's attention to the fact that he was so disgusted with the whole concept of royalty because it's just so wrong, and that they're an elite group of corrupt, immoral, cruel slave masters who don't have a benevolent bone in their bodies.
Originally posted by Symer
reply to post by Albertarocks
I agree the concept of royalty is wrong, or at least the medieval version of it. Thankfully, royalty no longer works like that around here. It's purely symbolic these days.
Originally posted by Symer
I agree the concept of royalty is wrong, or at least the medieval version of it. Thankfully, royalty no longer works like that around here. It's purely symbolic these days.
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by jaamaan
Don't they have free, democratic elections in the Netherlands?
That should be enough.
Originally posted by Symer
reply to post by jaamaan
Well, their estimated net worth is reportedly in the billions and naturally they aren't parking all that money in a savings account somewhere.
So yes they have some power, like all (bigger) shareholders do. This has little to do with the concept of royalty Albertarocks was aggravated about, and which I was responding to.
Besides, I can't imagine the Queen being actively involved with Shells policy or even managing her own portfolio. I think they're merely investing their money in Dutch companies to support the Dutch economy, which I think is great.
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by jaamaan
Who has the power to change the law, the queen or the parliament?
If it is the parliament then they can change the laws to make the queen (or king) politically obsolete.
Originally posted by ChrisF231
reply to post by jaamaan
It dosent matter, in the NL as in the UK the Parliament and Prime Minister run the government not the monarch.
Maybe the NL monarch has more political power then in the UK but I can assure you that in the UK the monarch has very little if any political power, especially since the English Civil War.
Originally posted by Symer
reply to post by jaamaan
To change the structure of the government through owning stocks in a company you would need to corrupt 75% of all representatives in parliament. I believe a corruption of that scale would be unsustainable, especially if you're trying to implement huge changes without popular support.
No, it's actually the other way around. The parliament has the final say over the royals. And because we elect the members of parliament directly, through them, we can remove a king or queen from power and choose a new one.
remotely controlled cars, i tell ya remotely controlled cars, have seen that before in...blabla