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               |  | Murder Was The 
Case: The Plot To Kill King Henry VIII     By Chris Oakley   Part 2       From the introduction to Chapter 2 of A Monarchy 
Shattered: 
  The enemies of our glorious British Social Republic, in 
  particular the so-called United Kingdom of America and Canada, say that it was 
  wrong to use force with Henry VIII when it came time to hold him to account 
  for his crimes against our people. This line of thinking is at best absurd and 
  at worst an intolerable mockery of the suffering Henry VIII inflicted on the 
  masses during his reign as king of England. Only the vigorous and constant use 
  of extreme measures against this hideous tyrant could have properly punished 
  him for his crimes against the British peoples. When the great Nathaniel Locksley sought to free our 
  glorious land from Henry’s tyranny, his intention was to infiltrate himself 
  and a handful of trusted comrades into the ranks of Henry’s servants and then, 
  when the opportunity presented itself, slit his throat so that the evil 
  monarch might fall and die the way he had caused so many of his subjects to 
  do. His alternative course of action was to put poison in Henry’s 
  drink....which would have been a fitting end for the tyrant, particularly 
  seeing how he so thoroughly poisoned his own nation. It is one of the great 
  tragedies of human history that Nathaniel Locksley was betrayed by his brother 
  before he could put his plans into action; had he succeeded in eliminating the 
  monster Henry VIII, England specifically and the world as a whole would have 
  been far better off. As it was, Britain would have to wait six more long and 
  heartrending years before the Tudor cancer was finally cut out...   From the afterword to Winters of Discontent: 
  The Locksleyite 
  takeover of Britain was one of the great tragedies of our nation’s history. 
  When Nathaniel Locksley’s followers ousted the Tudors and imposed their own 
  even harsher brand of autocratic rule on the British people, it set the 
  pattern for more than four centuries of misery, oppression, violence, and 
  persecution. The Locksleyite regime made Britain one of the most hated 
  countries on earth, and its successors only put further black stains on the 
  British national reputation over the subsequent generations. From Oliver 
  Cromwell, whose campaign to crush a revolt against the Dutch anti-royalist 
  government spread terror and death across Holland, to George Grenville, who 
  tried to crush the United Kingdom of America and Canada in that nation’s 
  infancy through a policy of systematic genocide and repression, to Harry 
  Pollitt, directly responsible for the bloodiest war of the twentieth century, 
  all the way up to Nina Temple, the so-called "Black Widow of the British 
  Isles", those who inherited the Locksleyite ideology and tools for oppression 
  turned Europe into a charnel house and did untold damage to Western 
  civilization in the process. In this post-Social Republic era, every British citizen 
  over the age of twelve has the obligation to confront the hideous truth about 
  the Locksleyites and their ideological and spiritual heirs. This is 
  particularly true in regard to the Grenville regime’s brutal conduct of its 
  long war against the United Kingdom of America and Canada, a war in which the 
  most hideous excesses of cruelty and barbarism were justified with the 
  patently flimsy excuse that the Kingdom’s citizens were "reactionaries", to 
  use a word that has been invoked all too often in our lifetimes to tarnish 
  those who would dare utter the slightest criticism of the Social Republic 
  regime....   From the introduction to Chapter 4 of A People’s 
History of the United Kingdom of America and Canada, copyright 2001 
Republican University of Dublin Press: 
  The British government unwittingly sowed the first seeds of 
  its own eventual collapse when it established the penal colonies that would 
  later become the United Kingdom of America and Canada; the dissidents forcibly 
  exiled to those colonies, most of whom sought a restoration of the monarchy 
  that had been shattered when the Locksleyites took over Britain, began 
  secretly banding together to plan ways in which they might rid themselves of 
  their jailers. Though nearly a century would pass between the moment the 
  inmates of the British penal colonies in America first rose up against their 
  jailers and the day the Kingdom of America and the Principality of Canada 
  signed the historic Act of Union which established the United Kingdom of 
  America and Canada, portents that the British grip on the North American 
  continent was about to be broken could be easily seen early on if one only 
  took the time to look for them. A particularly dramatic example of these 
  portents came in 1715 with the assassination of the governor-general for the 
  Massachusetts Bay penal colony(now the city of Boston); his death sparked a 
  revolt among the colony’s inmates which, although it was crushed within 
  eighteen months, provided inspiration for the more successful uprising against 
  British rule that would be mounted some six-odd decades later. The Massachusetts Bay Rebellion(1715-1717) was a testing 
  ground for both the tactics used in the North American War of Liberation 
  (1777-1784) and the fighting men who would employ those tactics. It also saw 
  American political dissidents make the first explicit assertions of an 
  American identity separate from that of Britain. That idea was a powerful one, 
  and would shake Western civilization to its foundations in the decades after 
  the Massachusetts Bay Rebellion ended. The efforts of the British Social 
  Republic to quash the American independence movement would in the end prove to 
  have backfired to the tenth power; far from suppressing Americans’ desire to 
  break away from Britain, such repression only served to inflame that desire 
  and drive it underground. The American rebel armies’ achievement in freeing their 
  homeland-- and assisting Canadian pro-independence insurgents in expelling 
  British colonial authorities from Canada --is all the more remarkable 
  considering that in the early days of the North American War of Liberation the 
  rebels had almost no outside support...   From Chapter 2 of the book The Butcher of Europe: 
Cromwell’s 1644-47 Campaign In The Netherlands by Sir Pierre Trudeau, 
copyright 1977 the Royal Canadian Historical Institute: 
  Oliver Cromwell was one of the British Social Republic’s 
  most ruthless, effective, and willing agents during his years as a general in 
  their army. He was also one of the worst mass murderers of his day, perhaps of 
  all time; when his expeditionary force entered Holland in 1644 to aid Dutch 
  anti-royalist forces in suppressing a pro-royalist insurrection in that 
  country, it would be the start of an orgy of cruelty and bloodletting that 
  witnessed thousands of people perish under his sword before he was finally cut 
  down himself by musket fire at the Battle of Dusseldorf in 1652. During his three-year campaign to crush the royalist 
  insurgency in Holland, and his subsequent four-year war against the 
  principalities of what is today the Austro-Bavarian Union, Cromwell routinely 
  employed tactics that would under modern international law be regarded as war 
  crimes. He thought nothing of having civilians in the areas under his control 
  executed simply for giving him a dirty look; he allowed his troops to rape and 
  pillage almost at will; and in one of the most vicious examples of his 
  violence he ordered a defenseless farming  town near Rotterdam sacked in 
  1645 in retaliation for an ambush of one of hisarmy’s infantry patrols. Cromwell certainly wasn’t averse to shedding blood 
  personally to achieve his aims; the general is estimated to have killed 
  between 30 and 50 people by his own hand during his military expeditions in 
  continental Europe, and he is known to have directly participated in the 
  executions of two Dutch pro-royalist rebel leaders. At the time he was killed 
  in the Battle of Dusseldorf Cromwell had planned to have all the major royal 
  rulers in Austria, Bavaria, and other German-speaking regions of Europe 
  executed once their monarchies had been toppled. These rulers, not 
  surprisingly, resisted Cromwell’s armies to the last man; in so doing, they 
  handed the British Social Republic its only significant military defeat prior 
  to the North American War of Liberation....   From The Official History of the Royal American Army, 
volume 2, copyright 1974 the UKAC Ministry of Defense Archives: 
  Following the collapse of the Massachusetts Bay Rebellion, 
  the American independence movement went into the shadows, biding its time 
  until the right moment came to mount another uprising against the oppression 
  of the British Social Republic. That moment came in the late spring of 1777, 
  when Thomas Paine, a political prisoner detained at the British penal colony 
  in what is today New York City, led his fellow inmates to overthrow William 
  Howe, the colony’s tyrannical warden. Once Howe was overthrown, Paine and his 
  comrades seized the British arsenal in New York and sent messengers to Boston 
  to pass word of the uprising on to the prisoners there. The mutinies in New York and Boston constituted the first 
  blows in the North American War of Liberation; though the Grenville regime did 
  its best to put the genie back in the bottle, so to speak, news of the 
  insurrection spread like wildfire among the political prisoners in North 
  America, and within only a year after Warden Howe was overthrown the British 
  Army found itself engaged in a fierce guerrilla war with the descendants of 
  the original exiles sent over by the Locksleyite regime in the late 1600s....   From the visitors’ guide at the North American War of 
Liberation Museum in Boston, copyright 1991: 
  Boston played a critical role in the fight for UKAC 
  independence from the British Social Republic. One of the first major 
  uprisings against British rule in America took place in this city; later, 
  Boston served as the political heart of the American rebels’ struggle to free 
  themselves from the oppressive rule of the anti-royalist mob in London....   From Chapter 3 of A Monarchy Shattered: 
  The so-called North American War of Liberation constitutes 
  an unforgivable betrayal of the British Social Republic and everything she 
  stands for. Our chancellor at that time, George Grenville, understood this and 
  strived to avenge the American and Canadian rebels’ treachery, but his noble 
  efforts were tragically and intentionally sabotaged by traitors in his own 
  midst. It is a tragedy for the world as a whole and for our nation in 
  particular that Chancellor Grenville was prevented from crushing the 
  rebellion. Though the citizens of the UKAC may speak the same language 
  as our fellow countrymen, in every other respect they are the direct opposites 
  of and mortal enemies to the good people of Britain. The world will not know 
  peace again until this evil empire has wiped from the face of the earth once 
  and for all and its inhabitants placed once more under the sterling leadership 
  of the British Social Republic... Even when not waging military campaigns against us, the 
  UKAC has historically sought to attack our great Republic by every means 
  possible. After the North American War of Liberation ended, the American 
  royalist government and their Canadian puppets started to infiltrate spies 
  onto British soil in an attempt to inflame rebellion against our noble 
  leadership, and these attempts to provoke counterrevolutionary violence and 
  disorder under false pretenses continue to this very day. Also still going on 
  today: the anti-British propaganda campaign first instigated by the leaders of 
  the foul American uprising against our Republic’s rightful rule....   From The Official History Of The Royal American Army, 
volume 3: 
  The Army of the British Social Republic was notorious for 
  its vicious treatment of prisoners, and seldom was its brutality more evident 
  than during the North American War of Liberation. One out of every three rebel 
  soldiers killed during that war died in British army prison camps at the hands 
  of British troops who either intentionally tortured them to death or simply 
  let the prisoners succumb to starvation or disease; there was no such thing as 
  the Geneva Convention in those days, and even if there had been it’s unlikely 
  the Grenville regime would have obeyed it. Indeed, many of the British army’s 
  top generals openly encouraged their field commanders in North America to be 
  as cruel as possible to captured American and Canadian guerrillas. At least 
  one British army infantry colonel is known to have paid his troops bonuses for 
  every rebel soldier they bayoneted or clubbed to death... But perhaps there was no greater act of barbarism 
  perpetrated by Grenville’s legions against the American and Canadian rebels 
  than the sacking of William Penn’s "peace colony", Philadelphia(‘city of 
  brotherly love’), in June of 1779. Penn, a Quaker pacifist who had long 
  opposed the militaristic mindset of the Grenville regime, had founded the 
  "peace colony" as a refuge for those who shared his horror at the bloodthirsty 
  nature of the British Social Republic as a whole and the Grenville regime in 
  particular; thus, it was a special target for the wrath of the British 
  army....   To Be Continued   
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