It’s what the mango people of banana republic ought
to tell the mango-juice suckers of today!
Somebody forwarded this to me and reading it made
me smile and think, not much has really changed with our leaders in
the last 400 years !
Quite like our own parliamentarians of today.
Wonder who will tell them what Oliver Cromwell told the British Parliament
way back in 1653.The only change is the discontinuance of ye olde
English !
Oliver Cromwell MP's speech on the dissolution
of the Rump of the Long Parliament, given to the House of Commons on 20
April 1653.
"It is high time for me to put an end to your
sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all
virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious
crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary
wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like
Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst
you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my
horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for
bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the
good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid
prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your
immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious
to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances
redress'd, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and
lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!"
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