Heart of a Tyrant (1950s?)

[Music] [Music] in a coffee house that may not be too far away from where we are right now an honorable shap who remembers all the old stories about nasarudin haa visits with his friend burhan it is an early hour of the evening when the sounds of the city usually fall to a few quiet Echoes of the busy day [Music] affendi there is a crowd gathering in the Square someone is shouting at them from the wall oh it is harid you know harid offendy he comes in here sometimes now some of them are picking up rocks and sticks they're running off down the [Music] square my window my window is broken harid you are going to pay for it I'll pay for a cup of coffee if you get it fast that's all better stay out of the streets tonight there may be a riot down at the government house why do you do it harid all this violence what better way is there to deal with the dishonesty and corruption in our government and the do nothing officials who keep us a backward country there has been progress amid if you would open your eyes to it by our own labors and with American Aid we are building roads new schools new housing projects open your eyes I don't see anything good about the way things are going in our land and others are coming to agree with me and we're going to do something about what we don't like you'll see ah just you wait and see he has the heart of a tyrant pardon offendy amid he sees only what is wrong and bad about him unfortunately people listen to him and there is nobody around today like nasarudin hocha to make people realize that nothing good can come of a man who believes that violence is the way to solve every problem ban let me tell you about the HOA and an emperor who lived a life of violence the story is called the heart of a [Music] tyrant history tells us that the emperor tamaran would order a man boiled in oil or the heads of 10 slaves cut off without blinking an eye but these same records also show that there was in taman's Palace one man who by his humor and wisdom managed to keep the favor of the emperor this was nasarudin HOA what is this you bring me haer when I ask for an account of the palace finances the accounts are all written here s on this pancake a pancake pouer do you value your miserable life s you threatened to make me eat the accounts if they were not in order and since I trust you to do what you say more than I trust my own addition eat the accounts pancake that's very funny [Music] this was nasar Adine hocha in the years when he was in attendance at taman's court but as well as the hoer knew this Tyrant he was still sometimes shocked at the depth of the emperor's violent nature tamaran had been away from the palace for a week and then suddenly returned in the best of spirits the hocha asked if the emperor had had an enjoyable trip very enjoyable H last Monday a great fire broke out in the village I was visiting there were some lives lost I saw it all fancy one man lost his mother-in-law and really seemed to be upset on Tuesday a mad dog bit two men we burnt them with Hot Irons to prevent their going mad also they bellowed like buffalos on Wednesday Wednesday there was a wild storm all the crops were washed from the fields and all the food in the storehouses was ruined by the rain on Thursday one of my war elephants escaped and crushed five or six people in its path that kept me busy until [Music] evening on Friday a villager in a fit of frenzy murdered his own children that made me very angry I had the rasal put to death by slow torture on Saturday a large house fell with a crash men women and children lay buried under the ruins one could hear their screams all over the village on Sunday Sunday a woman hanged herself on a plum tree we went to see that too she left one little girl in a cradle in short HOA every day of the week we found something to amuse us the poor hochar utterly unnerved at these stories still managed to respond with with a touch of his wise humor s thank God you have come back so soon if you had stayed that another week not one stone would have remained upon another and even the court attendants could not help but laugh at the way the hocha recognized Taman for just what he was a violent man with the heart of a tyrant in that story of the hocha there is a lesson for us today the man who talks only of what is bad what is wrong and what is undone in our country is actually revealing his own violent nature his heart of a tyrant and if such a man is listened to if he gains power from unquestioning followers he could turn our country into a place where one stone does not remain upon another [Music]