[Romulus]

The Tudors, beginning with Fat Hank, laid the foundations not for freedom but for the modern police state, including judicial murder, domestic spying, and unrelenting propaganda. Henry was a terrorist and social engineer on a massive scale.

[Oztrich Boy]

The Tudors, beginning with Fat Hank, laid the foundations not for freedom but for the modern police state, including judicial murder, domestic spying, and unrelenting propaganda.

On that definition the first police state was the Papal States from 1357 to 1870

How was Henry VIII responsible for that?