Why's the government doing this? Why now?

 I'm in the flow sort of, low-effort flow so I decided to knit this into the 'jestha 19' series too. A introspection on what it could turn out to be. Maybe I should write a poem on it too, haaah.

Why did the government decide to do it? Why now? Did they really think there was any evidence against the former royals? What was their gameplan after every thread of evidence had been forensically eliminated by an international group of spies an scientists? How could they ever justify the millions of dollars they spent trying to what in retrospect seemed like frame the former King and his rather sad and pathetic family?

Or was it a conspiracy, as some in the left had already begun suggesting, by the monarchists, trying to frame the family in a better light, turning a personal and national tragedy into an elevated risk hoping to gain sympathy points from it? Perhaps the government was really actually apologetic, and really wanted to get into the depth of what had happened and why? Maybe there was real desire for justice and rule of law? After all, if the most powerful and all-controlling family could meet such a fate, who could ever trust in the law of the land?

Was it possible as some of the kookier theorists had suggested that the unfufilled spirits of the former royals were haunting certain special people, and the only way to get rid of those ethereal beings was to bring the truth out to the world, and perhaps them as well? This couldn't have been one giant unending expensive and according to some rather pointless episode of Ghostbusters: Himalayas edition, could it?

How had the public bought it so easily? Were they really so repressed all they ever wanted was somebody to listen to their improbable theories and ridiculous tales, their personal issues and connections to power and wealth, and the plethora of conspiracy theories they surely were the only people to have every heard or thought of? Or was everybody on it, that it was a mass therapy, there was no real interest in figuring out the tragic massacre?

Why was the whole goddamn nation on it, and why was the international media interested in it too? Were there not enough going-ons happening in the country, the rapes and death threats against women, the hunger in the mid and far west, the abject poverty crop failure, total failure of governance, the simmering rebellion in the north-east and the complete collapse of whatever broken-down national healthcare system there was, that they needed to focus all their attention in a pointless clickbait tale? Or was this all a distraction, for people of power because they woudn't be accountable, and for the general public because they wanted to stop crying to sleep everyday, distract themselves from the real horror of the pathetic existence by distracting themselves with the level of vapid nonsense that had easily outdone Jersey Shore my several orders of magnitudes.

The stories that were taken seriously, promoted and given more attention, what was the actual criteria used to select them, had anybody followed the guidance on that? Or was it all based on how saucy of a story it would make, the splash it could create in the international media, that it was all basically a giant mass media campaign by the government? Were they really that smart? Or were they lucky donkeys?

Whose idea must it have been, when it was first brought up? How on earth was it not laughed out of the room? Who was the first bureaucrat who took it seriously, who was the first politician? Or is this a conspiracy too, everyone of those rotten assholes conspiring to keep robbing in the open while they put on a kabuki theater on for the world to watch?

Had the whole goddamn world gone mad?

What the hell was the plan anyway? What would they do with the winning plan, crown the top story-writer the winner, give him a prize for imagination, and turn it into a movie? Or publish it into a novel or a series of books and sell it to the rest of the world so they could pay for good hospitals and schools, sewage and food for those dying of hunger? Where was it going, where could it possibly go? Were the leaders not afraid of the consequences? Or had they given up all pretense of caring?