Congo--Kinshasa
08-02-2007, 22:18
{OOC: Normally this goes without saying, but even so, I'll say it: This is 100% in character and does not in any way reflect my personal views. So to those who take offense to this post, I apologize, but know that this as, as previously said, solely in character. Thanks.}
Surrounded by sweet-talking sycophants who constantly tripped over themselves fawning for their dictator (many of them feigning adulation for the purpose of milking some of his considerable wealth), practically drooling with enthusiastic obsequiousness, President Mobutu Sese Seko surveyed the assembled parliamentarians with wary, watchful eyes, waiting for the exchanged murmurs of excitement to die down before rising with a flourish to speak. His presence was striking and flamboyant; with his multicolored, absolutely hideous (though none would dare say so to his face) abacost, he was impossible to miss.
"Fellow citizens," he said, his raspy voice perfectly audible amidst the total silence, "for years, the sinister forces of colonialism have concoted myriad plots and schemes to undermine African sovereignty, subvert traditional African values, and foment strife and discord among our people. Colonialists, through such subterfuges as Communism and globalization, among other foreign ideas, have attempted to impose their ideologies upon us to mold our minds to conform to their way of thinking. With the end of the Cold War, however, the ideological struggle has largely abated. Now, they strike with a new weapon: Homosexuality.
Homosexuality is a sickly abnormality and beastial perversion not indigenous to Africa. It is a foreign import, introduced to us by immoral Europeans for the sole purpose of subverting our cultural values, destroying traditional marriages, and preventing Africans from making more babies. It is a subtle, but no less satanic, method of 'population control' devised by racist neo-colonialists to reduce the population growth of black people to a minimum. As President of an African country, I will not concede our independence or our values, and I will brandish my sword to face this menace head-on. We will not all foreign scheme, including homosexuality, pervert or subvert our people. This problem must be nipped in the bud.
Therefore, I have asked Justice Minister Félix Vunduawe Tepe Mako to draft this bill, which I am signing into law by decree: the Public Morality Act stipulates that anyone caught in the act of sodomy or any other crime against nature, will be imprisoned for no less than three years. Let this be a lesson to the seditious forces among us that no force, least of all sexual deviancy, will succeed in disuniting or destroying our proud African people."
Mobutu gamely waved his cane to acknowledge the roar of thunderous approval coming from the parliamentarians, who all stood in unison and began enthusiastically applauding.
Surrounded by sweet-talking sycophants who constantly tripped over themselves fawning for their dictator (many of them feigning adulation for the purpose of milking some of his considerable wealth), practically drooling with enthusiastic obsequiousness, President Mobutu Sese Seko surveyed the assembled parliamentarians with wary, watchful eyes, waiting for the exchanged murmurs of excitement to die down before rising with a flourish to speak. His presence was striking and flamboyant; with his multicolored, absolutely hideous (though none would dare say so to his face) abacost, he was impossible to miss.
"Fellow citizens," he said, his raspy voice perfectly audible amidst the total silence, "for years, the sinister forces of colonialism have concoted myriad plots and schemes to undermine African sovereignty, subvert traditional African values, and foment strife and discord among our people. Colonialists, through such subterfuges as Communism and globalization, among other foreign ideas, have attempted to impose their ideologies upon us to mold our minds to conform to their way of thinking. With the end of the Cold War, however, the ideological struggle has largely abated. Now, they strike with a new weapon: Homosexuality.
Homosexuality is a sickly abnormality and beastial perversion not indigenous to Africa. It is a foreign import, introduced to us by immoral Europeans for the sole purpose of subverting our cultural values, destroying traditional marriages, and preventing Africans from making more babies. It is a subtle, but no less satanic, method of 'population control' devised by racist neo-colonialists to reduce the population growth of black people to a minimum. As President of an African country, I will not concede our independence or our values, and I will brandish my sword to face this menace head-on. We will not all foreign scheme, including homosexuality, pervert or subvert our people. This problem must be nipped in the bud.
Therefore, I have asked Justice Minister Félix Vunduawe Tepe Mako to draft this bill, which I am signing into law by decree: the Public Morality Act stipulates that anyone caught in the act of sodomy or any other crime against nature, will be imprisoned for no less than three years. Let this be a lesson to the seditious forces among us that no force, least of all sexual deviancy, will succeed in disuniting or destroying our proud African people."
Mobutu gamely waved his cane to acknowledge the roar of thunderous approval coming from the parliamentarians, who all stood in unison and began enthusiastically applauding.