burning witches doesn’t sound too radical.
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It obviously didn’t seem too radical at the time, when they were trying to escape their own Marina Abramovics in faggy Old London at the time.
It sent a pretty clear signal : don’t send your agents here, we have the cure ready and a GO.
You know they had to have a good reason to act in the way they did. They weren’t crazy, they were wise to what was up and they knew what had to be done.