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               |  | Murder Was The 
Case: The Plot To Kill King Henry VIII   By Chris Oakley Part 4       From Chapter 6 of A Monarchy Shattered: 
  It is an indescribable tragedy for the human race as a 
  whole and the British Social Republic in particular that our gallant soldiers 
  at Halifax were not able to defeat the barbaric Canadian rebel armies who 
  overran their garrisons. Had they won their glorious struggle, the world would 
  have been spared much if not all of the horror which has been inflicted on it 
  in recent years by the UKAC...   From a plaque outside the entrance to the Fort Harwick Royal 
National Historical Museum in Halifax: ON THIS SPOT IN SEPTEMBER OF THE YEAR 1780 CANADIAN MEN AND WOMEN WON A HISTORIC VICTORY IN THEIR LONG STRUGGLE TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM A CRUEL DICTATORSHIP   From the preface to the book The Trial And Execution Of 
King Henry VIII, copyright 2013 by Michigan Royal University Press:   
  Impartial justice was never a high priority for the court 
  system in Locksleyite Britain. In fact, in the case of the show trial of the 
  deposed King Henry VIII, the courts did everything that they possibly could to 
  rig the verdict against the defendant. Witnesses who might dispute the 
  credibility of the prosecution’s case against the fallen monarch were either 
  coerced into keeping silent, banned from the courtroom altogether, or(in some 
  extreme cases) even put to death and their corpses publicly displayed as a 
  warning to anyone who might be considering the idea of speaking out against 
  the oppressive policies and actions of the Locksleyite government...   From an exhibit at the British National Historic Archives: 
  This room is a re-creation of the courtroom in which the 
  deposed King King Henry VIII was tried and sentenced to death in 1523 for 
  supposed ‘crimes against the people of England’. Prior to the fall of the 
  British Social Republic, much of the truth about Henry’s trial and execution 
  was suppressed in order to keep the Locksleyite government in power...   From Chapter 9 of Winters of Our Discontent: 
  In the annals of Western jurisprudence there has seldom 
  been a greater miscarriage of justice than the show trial of King Henry VIII. 
  From the day the prosecution gave its opening statement to the day the deposed 
  monarch and his family were publicly hanged, no effort was made whatsoever to 
  provide Henry VIII with even the pretense of a fair hearing; in fact, the 
  tribunal sitting in judgement of the former king was specificially directed to 
  render a "guilty on all counts" verdict against him even if much of the 
  available evidence proved him innocent of the charges the Locksleyites had 
  leveled on him...   From the documentary Regicide: The State-Sponsored 
Murder Of King Henry VIII, copyright 2003 by the Royal American Public 
Broadcasting Network:   
  Henry’s trial lasted nine long, grueling days, during which 
  time he was subjected to physical and mental tortures which broke what was 
  left of his spirit. The Locksleyites were unmoved by his pleas for mercy-- in 
  fact, at least one of the members of the tribunal judging the deposed monarch 
  saw fit to view them as further evidence of Henry’s guilt. Anyone who was that 
  desperate to be spared, the judge in question reasoned, could only be trying 
  to avoid the punishment they deserved for their crimes...   From the home page of the website TudorRedemption.com: 
  Whatever self-serving propaganda the Locksleyites may use 
  to justify their cold-blooded slaughter of the last king of England, the stark 
  truth remains that when they overthrew King Henry VIII they robbed England of 
  its greatest leader and dealt a blow to civilization from which it is still 
  trying to recover. Henry VIII was a far better man than any of the 
  Locksleyites could ever hope to be, and the last bulwark of decency and honor 
  against the barbaric ideology of the Locksleyite thugs...   From a letter preserved in the archives of the Royal Canadian 
Foreign Affairs Chancellery and dated August 13th, 1802: 
  I am of the opinion that you are correct when you assert 
  that the time has come for our two kingdoms to unite with one another. Only by 
  standing together can America and Canada hope to fully safeguard themselves 
  and the civilized world against the menace of the British Social Republic...   From Chapter 13 of Winters Of Our Discontent: 
  The American and Canadian rebels’ victory in the North 
  American War of Liberation was a major shock to the system for the British 
  Social Republic. For the first time since Oliver Cromwell’s ill-fated attempt 
  to subjugate Austria and Bavaria the British Army had lost a war and the 
  ruling class in London was having trouble figuring out how to cope with it....   From McClaren’s History Reader, Volume 3: 
  In April of 1784 George Grenville, under growing pressure 
  from his cabinet at home and facing the annihilation of his armies in North 
  America, finally agreed to make peace with the American and Canadian rebels. 
  It was not a decision he wanted to make, but the increasing drain the North 
  American Liberation War was putting on the British Social Republic’s treasury 
  left him little other choice in the matter...   From a plaque near the entrance to the main banquet room at 
the Hotel Royale Geneve in Geneva, Switzerland: 
  In this room on the ninth of September, 1784, 
  representatives of the British Social Republic and delegates from the Kingdom 
  of America and the Principality of Canada met to sign the agreement that 
  officially ended the North American War of Liberation...   From McClaren’s History Reader, Volume 4: 
  In one sense, the end of the North American War of 
  Liberation also marked a beginning: concern over the possibility of a future 
  British government trying to regain control of America and Canada prompted 
  Pennsylvania governor-general Benjamin Franklin to publish a newspaper article 
  in the spring of 1785 calling for the two countries to form an alliance as a 
  self-defense measure; this proposal is widely regarded by historians as a 
  prototype for the Act of Union which created the United Kingdom of America and 
  Canada in 1807. Franklin, a survivor of the 1779 Philadelphia massacre, had 
  more reason than most to be worried about the possibility of future British 
  aggression against North America...   From a plaque outside the Benjamin Franklin Memorial Royal 
Library in Philadelphia: 
  On this site in May of 1787, Benjamin Franklin hosted a 
  meeting between representatives of the Kingdom of America and the Principality 
  of Canada to draft the first series of articles in what would later become the 
  1807 Act of Union...   From the documentary film Two Crowns, One Enemy: The 
Story Of The 1807 Act of Union, copyright 1957 by Boston Royal 
Historical Academy Films: 
  While a great many men and women played roles in shaping 
  the Act of Union that established what we know today as the United Kingdom of 
  America and Canada, few men had more profound early part in shaping that 
  historic document than Benjamin Franklin. The Pennsylvania royal 
  governor-general personally wrote at least five of the first ten articles in 
  the agreements that would two decades later form the Act’s nucleus...   From Regicide: 
  Ten days after the show trial against him was first 
  convened, King Henry VIII was dead, hanged alongside his family by the 
  anti-royalist Fanatics who had overthrown the British monarchy and reduced 
  Henry to a physically scarred and psychologically broken shell of a man. As 
  the tribunal judging him had previously been instructed to do, they found him 
  guilty on all counts and sentenced him to be executed for his alleged crimes 
  against the British people...His family had little time or opportunity to say 
  goodbye to him before they too were hanged...   From an exhibit at the Canadian Liberation Museum in Toronto: This cannon is one of twenty-one artillery pieces fired by 
the Royal Canadian Guard on June 28th, 1796 at ceremonies 
marking the opening of what is today the UKAC Royal Defense Academy...   From the Montreal Daily Mail of October 9th, 
1857:50-Year Anniversary 
Of Act Of Union To Be Observed Today At Grand Gala   To Be Continued   
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