Posted on 11/02/2022 12:48:18 PM PDT by Regulator
A little prelude to next week.
BTTP
Past is prologue...
A welcome sight it would be.
Let’s not count our chickens just yet, there’s still time for treachery…
Cromwell was a tyrant.
And every King isn’t?
Not quite.
He still had the Council of State to answer to.
A point I’ve been thinking about now with Lizard Cheney running around acting like she’s Queen of America, not the meaningless defeated by a landslide Traitor she is.
AMF works too.
LOLZ
That’s funny
And True
Cromwell was a tyrant in the eyes of the established elites, an epithet he actually didn’t deserve.
But everything he said in this speech was true. Interestingly, with the deposition of King Charles, and the dissolution of his Court, England entered into an economic boom, fueled by the free markets that replaced the monumentally corrupt system of royal prerogatives that had grown up over generations.
The Irish, of course, loathe his memory for his having rather violently put down the Irish-based attempt at restoring by force of arms the hegemony of Roman Catholicism in England, something that the English rank and file didn’t want at all. If the Irish hadn’t signed on to Papal intrigues, Irish history would have been a lot more peaceful, right to this day.
Yeah but he and the army controlled everything. The council of state knew what would happen to them if they didn’t go along with whatever he and the Roundheads wanted.
My direct namebearing ancestor boarded a ship in Bristol in 1649 and landed in Jamestown. That year was not a coincidence. Cromwell and the intolerant fanatical Puritan Roundheads who backed him are why my family became American. As Catholics, they knew better than to stay.
Cromwell wasn’t just a tyrant in the view of the elites. For example the other side in the civil war, the Cavaliers hated him. Pretty much anybody who wasn’t a Puritan such as Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Quakers and others were all oppressed under his tyrannical rule.
After all, these were the guys who banned maypoles. They banned football. They tried to ban celebrating Christmas. Eventually pretty much everybody had had it with these fanatical intolerant killjoys. When he died and his son “Tumbledown Dick” tried to take power, pretty much nobody was having any of it. They brought the king back.
God bless Oliver Cromwell!
Much more complicated than that!
Read
Cromwell was worse than a tyrant, he was a tyrant who thought he directed by God.
The decision to kill Charles I happened (according to Cromwell) because it was willed by God. Cromwell saw himself as the instrument of his creator and often delayed making decisions because he was looking for "signs from God" to confirm his decisions.
Whatever
I’ve read believe me. Its my family’s history.
He was a tyrant. The group he led were intolerant fanatics - just like their Puritan cousins in New England.
What Cromwell did to Ireland was heinous.
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