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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 06:19 PM
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This king of Swaziland sound like a real swell guy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Mswati_III

Mswati III (born Makhosetive on April 19, 1968) is the king of Swaziland. He succeeded his late father, Sobhuza II, in 1986.

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Today he is Africa's last absolute monarch. He rules by decree, and is strongly opposed to democratisation of his country, though he did restore the nation's parliament, which had been dissolved by his father.

Mswati's rule has been criticised for ignoring the growing problems of his subjects while lavishly spending his nation's wealth on his own personal comfort, including buying a fleet of royal limousines, a luxury jet that cost a quarter of the nation's annual budget, and building and renovating palaces to house his thirteen wives. He has also restricted civil and media freedom of speech. He placed all unmarried women under the chastity rite of "umchwasho" between 9 September 2001 and 19 August 2005 in an attempt to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS. He also banned sexual relations for Swazis under 18 years of age, but in 2005, this decree was lifted right before he married a 17 year old girl; who became his 13th wife.

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Faygo Kid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 06:28 PM
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1. Perfect GOP candidate. Family man, supply sider, and black, too.
This guy is everything "conservative" commentators like Fred Barnes, Robert Novak and Kate O'Beirne could gush over. And, banning sexual relations for underaged girls (except with him)? Perfect.
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 06:32 PM
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2. Why did I read this as Switzerland??
:scared: damn aging eyes.
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