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[ChairmanPoo]

Holy shit, so we get ANOTHER Carlist pretender? I thought they all died out. As if the vanilla Bourbons weren't bad enough

TBH its too bad that Napoleon lost the war and these assholes were restored.

By the way the last two crown-holders were notorious womanizers and all too fond of escorts. Odds are there are dozend of people like this Klinimax guy

[scriver]

I support restoration of the Eneko line to the throne of Greater Navarrespaña through their long lost heir Eneko Vasco Ainhoa Eneko.

That is to say, ChairmanPoo.

[TD1]

I second this proposal, and move that it be forwarded immediately unto the proper authorities.

[TD1]

Count Poo. Lord Poo. Duke Poo. All the poos.

[smjjames]

I'm glad we don't have to deal with that succession sillyness with royals over here.

[scriver]

"Which Kennedy will the democrats send up for president campaign this year?"

[smjjames]

Yeah, yeah, I know we have our version of political dynasties and near-royalty, but it's not the same thing as you're dealing with in Europe.

[Loud Whispers]

Yeah, yeah, I know we have our version of political dynasties and near-royalty, but it's not the same thing as you're dealing with in Europe.

Yeah your one is more boring. Like Venetian merchant dynasties but with none of the good art

[TD1]

Plus, your ones are elected leaders with much more vested power. At least we separate dynasty and power

[Loud Whispers]

Speaking of royal news, assassination plot to kill Queen in 81 by kiwi gunman made public

He didn't have a motive beyond being a total fuckin edgelord who chopped sparrows heads off because he could

[MetalSlimeHunt]

He didn't have a motive beyond being a total fuckin edgelord who chopped sparrows heads off because he could

Que?

In his memoirs Christopher Lewis claimed he never intended to assassinate the Queen, but merely to "scare her" into seeing the issues he believed were prevalent in New Zealand society.

This fits with his rifle being insufficient for the range of the shot.

Lewis and some of his friends had formed a breakaway group of the National Independent Guerrilla Army, to challenge those in power.

Normally I love learning about obscure terrorist groups, but I can't find anything on this one - neither the splinter nor the parent.

Eight years later, in 1995, Lewis was secretly exiled to Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf because of police fears for the Queen's safety during the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Auckland.

What the fuck? New Zealand, are you actually a secret police state? First you're covering up assassinations that might not be assassinations for PR, now you're secretly stranding people on islands?

Till his death Lewis blamed Burns - whom he called Jimmy the Weasel - the police informant who helped pin the murder charge on Lewis.

A coroner's inquest, and a reinvestigation of the Furlan case failed to clear Lewis of the murder or find any evidence to pin it on Burns, who was later found guilty of the murder of young mum Joanne McCarthy, whose killing was strikingly similar to Furlan's.

Hmm

The Christchurch woman, who did not want to be named, said doctors couldn't pin down what was wrong with him as his behaviour didn't match any psychiatric condition.

She described her son as an introvert, she said he resented his stepfather and by 13 or 14 his hormones had "gone mad" and she couldn't control him.

HMM

[Loud Whispers]

You think this coverup is a coverup of some kiwi mkultra shit? Or that the government were secretly Republicans?

The police informant who gave up Lewis' name was Travis Burns. Police gave him a new identity and a payout in exchange for the information and settled him into a safe house in Orewa.

I always think it's a massive dick move when news people tell everyone where the safe house of high risk targets are

Ok, looking further into the edgelord exile island I found this:

The four boys hadn't got far before being recaptured: no one escaped from Whakapakari.
Kiwis confirmed for best village in the country

[Baffler]

Edit:
Actually read the article, there are no jokes now. That's honestly pretty messed up.

[Sheb]

Lewis and some of his friends had formed a breakaway group of the National Independent Guerrilla Army, to challenge those in power.

Normally I love learning about obscure terrorist groups, but I can't find anything on this one - neither the splinter nor the parent.

They really called it the NIGA?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm not sure it even existed at this point, much less was unfortunately named.