Thursday, 26 June 2008

Sir Robert Mugabe?!?!

So apparently the Queen has finally stripped old Bob of his honorary knighthood as a "mark of revulsion" in response to the violence and outright violation of human rights in Zimbabwe.
Uh... it's taken her this long to revoke his knighthood??? Did she just forget about the fact that she'd knighted him some 14 years ago? I mean, during the last few elections, where international observers have reported violence and intimidation of non-ZanuPF supporters, did the Queen go: "Hmmm, nagging thought, nagging thought... did I knight him? I can't recall..."
Maybe someone was recently perusing the "Honorary Knight" tome from 14 years ago & suddenly went: "We knighted him?!" and ran off to remind the Queen of the rather embarrassing fact.
The following is an excerpt from the letter, informing Bob of his ex-knight status:
Mr Mugabe,
We regret to inform you that we have un-knighted you. You will no longer be referred to Sir Robert Mugabe, nor will you enjoy the privileges associated with the title.
Your membership to Arthur's Club House has been canceled, you will no longer be permitted to sit at the Round Table. Access to Merlin's Magical Bath House will no longer be free, Morgana's Massage Parlour will be off-limits and we will be sending someone over to collect your armour, sword, lance, horse, pageboy and squire.
While this incident gives us no pleasure, recent events have changed our disposition towards your knighthood status.
We are not trying to tell you how to run your country & we have even reserved judgement in the past, keeping quiet during previous times of violence, intimidation and election-rigging. In fact, we hardly even noticed that, we get so little coverage on the telly here.
But anyways, we have now decided to take a strong stance against your dicatorship by using intimidating words in the press and revoking your knighthood.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
Regards,
The Queen
(Of England)

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