DOES THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BELGIUM SUPPORT CRIME?

The Royal Family of Belgium: King Philippe, Queen Mathilde, and their children.

“It takes a million people to build up a good reputation, but it takes one stupid fool to destroy everything they have done,” sings the late Lucky Dube, South Africa’s reggae legend. This is the exact situation of the Royal Family of Belgium, as one of its ancestors, King Leopold II, was a greedy, ruthless ruler and a murderer.

Some women have given birth to monsters to rule this world. Apart from Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, etc., another evil man whose crimes against humanity shocked the world is King Leopold II. 

Born on 17 December 1865 in Brussels, the horrible crimes Leopold committed were swept under the carpet, but the hump in the carpet has exposed his heinous crimes to be seen by the whole world.

In the 1880s, when Europe was scrambling over the continent of Africa like ants stumbling upon a sugar source, Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. 

The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held vast natural mineral resources, including rubber, a commodity in high demand in late 19th-century industrial Europe.

King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800s.  On his throne in Brussels, Leopold gave orders to his commanding officer to “cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades, also their sexual members, and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross.”  

Leopold’s reign of terror wasn’t only the cutting off of the heads and hands of the innocent, helpless Congolese, but also flogging them to death, starving them into forced labor, holding children ransom, and burning villages as a punishment for those who failed to meet the rubber quotas set by the Belgian officers.

The disturbing part of this story is that after the death of Leopold II, his successors (the Belgian Royal Family) never took his crimes into account. Instead, he was hailed as a hero, with streets named after him and a statue built in his honor. 

That’s where the Royal Family went wrong because the dead can’t be mocked. There are many restless souls haunting people in their homes. There are houses where people can’t stay inside, all because of the horrible circumstances in which those people were murdered.

The lunatic King Leopold II's statue

Adolf Hitler killed over six million Jews. In Germany, streets named after him have been changed, but not in Belgium. The government has named many streets after the lunatic Leopold II, and many of his statues are all over Belgium. 

A country that doesn't support crime wouldn't do what the government did. The reason I say it clearly and loudly is that the Royal Family of Belgium supports crime.

The Fall of Apartheid: Lucky Dube on Music, Freedom, and His Role in South Africa's Liberation Struggle

Interview of Lucky Dube at Pole-Pole Festival on July 4th, 2004, (Belgium) By JOEL SAVAGE



Lucky Dube is, no doubt, one of the best reggae artists the world has ever produced. His strong dissemination of melodic messages about racism, exploitation, and oppression has won him acclamation all over the world. 


On July 4th, 2004, in Linkeroever-Antwerp, after playing live, he granted this exclusive interview to the Voice Magazine Belgian Correspondent. Joel Savage

 

TV: When you started music at a young age, did you ever dream that one day your music would be widely accepted by reggae fans worldwide today?

 

Lucky: Well, I have an idea. Really, this was a dream for me. I wanted it to be like that, even though I didn't have a clear vision of how big it could be. But I have an idea: I wanted the music to reach people everywhere in the world.

 

TV: Many fans think that you are another Peter Tosh in the field of reggae, with strong lyrics of liberation. How do you react to this credit?

 

Lucky: It's a great honour, really, because Peter Tosh was the greatest musician that ever lived, and so I respect him so much, and to be given the same stage as he is a great honour to me. I do really appreciate that.

 

TV: On one of your albums, "Soul Taker," there is a special track called "Teach the World". Please, what inspired you to write such a great song?

 

Lucky: Well, "Teach the World" started actually because when we go around, there are a lot of things that we see and people from different countries, different cultures, and everything. But only to find out that people don't know much about Africa. 

 

They have some misconceptions about Africa and just want people to teach each other. People in Africa must teach the outside world about their culture, beliefs, and everything, and want the outside world to teach Africa about its culture.

 

TV: You fought against apartheid in your songs. How did you feel ten years ago, to see apartheid falling like the Berlin Wall in 1989?

 

Lucky: It was great because it was the biggest dream I had at that time. So I was very happy when it finally happened. I knew I was part of it in some way. So I was very happy when it happened.

 

TV: You played in Washington, D.C., on September 20, 2000, with Joseph Hill's Culture. What was your experience with that group, since Joseph's message in the music is in line with yours?

 

Lucky: Well, it has been great with Joseph Hill. You know I have done many concerts with him. He is one of the good men in the music industry.

 

TV: Being a South African, you have visited many African countries. Have you ever visited war-torn countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia, since you have thousands of fans over there?

 

Lucky: Yes, we have visited those countries.

TV: That's great to hear that.

 

TV: Reggae in jail, reggae in church, everybody likes it. That's a true statement by you. But why is it that reggae music is given less attention than any other music? Is it because of its strong message?

 

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