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               |  | Murder Was The 
Case: The Plot To Kill King Henry VIII   By Chris Oakley   Part 1     From the book A Monarchy Shattered: The Collapse of the 
British Empire, copyright 1978 Oxford Social Republic University Press:   
  To understand the world-historical chain of events which 
  eventually led to the downfall of the tyrannical monarchy that once oppressed 
  the English peoples, it is important to recall the monarchy’s reaction to the 
  discovery in 1517 of a secret plan to assassinate King Henry VIII, widely 
  acknowledged both in his own time and today to be among the most repressive of 
  Britain’s kings. Rather than make an honest effort to remedy the political and 
  social conditions responsible for engendering the plan, Henry and his minions 
  chose to engage in a bloody and cruel civil war against their own people, 
  lighting the match for the fires of resentment that would inevitably in the 
  decades to come burn down the house of murder and evil that once was the 
  British royal family. Henry VIII was a vicious and corrupt man, deserving not 
  only of the harsh fate he eventually met at the hands of the people but also 
  of the disapproving verdict history has issued against his era as ruler of 
  what is now the glorious British Social Republic. To him, the sacred trust of 
  governing Britain was just a toy to be used or discarded as he deemed fit; the 
  same was also true regarding his attitude towards the sacred custom of 
  marriage, which as Comrade Scargill has so aptly stated is the cornerstone in 
  the foundation of our great socialist state. This careless behavior rightly 
  enraged the masses and in a valiant attempt to save our nation from the plight 
  brought down on it by Henry, a laborer named Nathaniel Locksley who lived in 
  what we know today as London’s Savile Row district gathered other men of like 
  mind around him to prepare to strike a blow in defense of the masses against 
  the hated king. Unfortunately, one of those men would prove to be a Judas 
  and betray his comrades to the oppressive Henry VIII regime. This man was, 
  ironically, Nathaniel’s own brother Edward, a man who sold out the masses for 
  the sake of lining his own pockets with Henry VIII’s gold. In June of 1517 he 
  secretly went to Whitehall Palace(now the Hall of People’s Deputies) and told 
  the king that in exchange for financial reward he would reveal the full nature 
  of Nathaniel Locksley’s assassination plan. Henry VIII, never one to waste an 
  opportunity to spit on the will of the people, quickly accepted this devil’s 
  bargain and marshalled his forces to act upon the traitor’s information. Like swarms of locusts, the tyrant’s henchmen descended on 
  the working class neighborhoods of London, killing as many people as they 
  could lay their hands on. The streets ran red with blood and anyone who did 
  not yell "God save the King!" at the top of their lungs when they saw Henry 
  VIII’s foot soldiers coming was considered an enemy of the king and summarily 
  put to death. Nathaniel Locksley, to his everlasting credit, did not run from 
  the danger he faced at the hands of Henry’s thugs but met it with an 
  unshakable valor that serves as a breathtaking example of revolutionary 
  courage to us all; he singlehandedly fought a dozen or more of the king’s 
  minions and killed most of them before his own life was taken by a cruel sword 
  thrust through the back of his neck. It is because of courageous actions such 
  as this that a statue in Locksley’s honor now stands in the Museum of 
  Revolutionary Heroes in the heart of London. In the end, Edward Locksley’s betrayal of Nathaniel gained 
  him nothing other than the hangman’s noose; Henry VIII, as selfish and greedy 
  as he was brutal, never had any real intention of paying the blood money he 
  had promised the traitor. Indeed, Henry never kept his promises to anyone, not 
  even his marital vows-- and for this reason he is rightly hated by all decent 
  men and women today. Following the hanging, those who sought to free Britain 
  from the unjust rule of Henry VIII were forced to go into hiding in the 
  hinterlands lest they too should fall victim to the cruel king’s bloodlust...   From History of Western Culture: Vol. 3, Henry VIII to 
King George I of Virginia, copyright 1985 the Royal American Scholastic 
Press of New York City:   
  It is one of the striking ironies of the history of Western 
  civilization that the lone nation in the Western Hemisphere today governed by 
  a monarchy is a country that was originally founded as a dumping ground for 
  critics of the anti-royalist regime that seized power in the aftermath of the 
  English civil wars of the early and middle 16th century. Named 
  after Italian cartographer Amerigo Vespucci, who drew the earliest known maps 
  of the North American continent, what we today know as the United Kingdom of 
  America and Canada was viewed by Britain’s Protectorate regime as a convenient 
  spot in which to imprison those particularly troublesome dissidents who dared 
  speak out against the worst of the Protectorate’s excesses. At least such was the case after 1630; prior to that date, 
  much of the post-monarchy British government’s time and resources were 
  concentrated on suppressing the pro-royalists’ repeated efforts to restore the 
  Tudor dynasty to power in the second half of the 16th century. 
  Serious efforts to explore the North American seacoast didn’t even begin until 
  around the 1590s, nearly a decade after the last serious attempt to restore 
  Britain’s monarchy was crushed by the Protectorate. France and Spain could 
  have conceivably claimed the New World for themselves had not they too been 
  riddled with political turmoil as the anti-royalist ideology espoused by the 
  Locksleyites spread across the English Channel into continental Europe. Indeed, in some respects the Locksleyite political 
  philosophy was a precursor to the radical leftist ideologies of the 19th 
  and 20th centuries. Among other things it preached a doctrine of 
  fanatical hate toward the upper classes, a staple of modern-day extreme left 
  thought, and called for the elimination of any groups of individuals deemed to 
  be enemies of the state, another fundamental tenet of modern hard-line leftist 
  dogma. In the case of the Locksleyites themselves, that list of enemies 
  included Christians who objected to the Locksleyite regime’s suppression of 
  their religious practices. The initial response to these protestors was to have them 
  summarily beheaded. To call Locksleyite actions on this score hypocritical 
  only begins to scratch the surface of the moral rot that ran through the 
  post-monarchy British government at that time and still infests it to a 
  considerable extent today. The Locksleyites professed to abhor capital 
  punishment as an affront to the working classes and used that abhorrence as 
  one of the justifications for their rebellion against the Tudor dynasty, yet 
  they had no qualms about resorting to execution themselves  when 
  working-class Englishmen dared voice any objection to the Locksleyite regime’s 
  increasingly anti-religious policies. To uncover the truth about the full 
  extent about the wave of executions that claimed the lives of so many faithful 
  Protestants and Catholics may take generations, if not centuries, given the 
  rigid information control policies practiced by the present-day British 
  government, but anecdotal evidence suggests the death count reached well into 
  the thousands at the height of the Locksleyite-directed bloodbath. As late as 
  the year 1639, at which time the first exile camps for religious dissenters 
  were being established in the New England interior, hundreds of people were 
  still being put to death every month in London for offenses real or imagined 
  against the Locksley government. By 1705 the Catholic Church in England had effectively 
  ceased to exist and the Protestant Church had diminished to a handful of small 
  furtive cells operating mainly in the English countryside, where they could 
  more readily elude the ever-prying eyes of the authorities than in the 
  cities...   From the introduction to Winters Of Discontent: British 
Uprisings From The Locksleyite Rebellion To The Heseltine Insurgency, 
copyright 2002 British Liberty Press:   
  Since the collapse of the British Social Republic in 1998, 
  the full truth about the Locksleyite regime and its heirs has finally started 
  to emerge into the light of day, and as that truth is revealed many of the 
  most cherished beliefs about our nation’s history are crumbling into ruin like 
  the dungeons in which the Locksleyites once imprisoned their critics before 
  executing them. Far from being the valiant defenders of the downtrodden masses 
  they made themselves out to be, the men who overthrew  the British 
  monarchy were often more tyrannical than the rulers they professed to despise, 
  and those who inherited their mantle not only continued the Locksleyites’ 
  harsh policies but in many cases made them even more cruel than they’d been to 
  start with. Under what passed for a judicial system in the years after 
  the Lockleysites seized power in Britain, the flimsiest proof could be used to 
  justify imposing the harshest conceivable penalties on political dissidents; 
  in fact, the authors’ research over the course of writing this book has turned 
  up credible evidence that some of those put to death were executed with no 
  proof of their guilt whatsoever. We may never know precisely how many innocent 
  men and women perished at the Locksleyites’ hands; even a rough estimate of 
  such deaths is a tricky proposition at best given the vast gaps in our 
  nation’s historical record which have been caused by the BSR’s heavy-handed 
  censorship of any material or ideas not fully in concert with its ideology.
   While Henry VIII may indeed have been a harsh ruler, the 
  Locksleyites were not by any means justified in the atrocities they inflicted 
  on him following his overthrow and capture in 1523. The deposed Tudor monarch 
  was subjected to tortures beyond human imagining, and his family was forced to 
  endure all manner of indignities while under Locksleyite custody. Before he 
  was finally executed at the behest of a Locksleyite tribunal, Henry had been 
  broken in both body and spirit; had the king not been under constant guard by 
  his jailers, it’s quite likely he would have committed suicide before the 
  tribunal delivered its pre-determined verdict...   From Volume I of The Royal Canadian Military History 
Encyclopedia(6th Edition), copyright 2005 Royal Canadian 
Military Academy Press:   
  With their power base secured and their opposition crushed, 
  the Locksleyite rulers of Britain turned their eyes overseas in the search for 
  ways to expand their revolution and purge their homeland of "undesirable" 
  elements. At the same time that Britain began seriously undertaking 
  exploration of the North American coast to determine the possibility of using 
  that region as an exile colony to which banish dissenters, it was also 
  actively supporting anti-royalist insurgencies in France and Spain. Their 
  backing of the French and Spanish anti-royalist rebellions served a dual 
  purpose: in addition to spreading the Locksleyites’ ideology beyond Britain, 
  this backing kept the French and Spanish monarchies distracted from British 
  colonization efforts in North America. By 1640 anti-royalist movements had seized power in Spain 
  and Portugal and the French monarchy hovered on the verge of collapse; in 
  central Europe, the princes of the lands which today make up the 
  Austro-Bavarian Union watched nervously as the anti-monarchist and rigidly 
  secular philosophy the Locksleyites preached continued to extend ever deeper 
  into the continent. The princes’ anxiety would deepen after the British 
  invasion of Holland in 1644....   To Be Continued   
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