Posted on 12/01/2021 3:11:24 AM PST by Kaslin
On Oct. 14, 2021, a woman was acquitted of committing terrorist acts, 10-1 by a jury, in the British Supreme Court.
The accused was the first century Celtic queen, Boudica, who was tried under the Terrorism Act of 2000 in a mock trial called 'The Senate and People of Rome v. Boudica.
The Court rejected the charge that her actions were designed to influence the government of Rome and to advance a political or ideological cause, namely dissidence and secession. She was justified in using self-defense against a “a rotten and illegitimate Roman government.” The Court said she was free to leave without any stain on character, and that she would remain as a national symbol of an inspirational heroine.
The Celtic warrior Queen Boudica had long left the courtroom. After the death of her husband who had been a “client king” of the Romans who had invaded the country in 43 A.D., Boudica led the Iceni tribe in what is now East Anglia against the Roman occupiers, 60-61. She destroyed several towns -- Colchester, London, Verulamium (near St. Albans) and massacred more than 80,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons before ultimately being defeated by Roman general Paulinus. She died either by taking poison or from illness.
As the Court said, Boudica is a national symbol of an inspirational heroine, a priestess as well as a warrior, one of the great women warriors of history such Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, the Greek Amazons, and Queen Elizabeth I. Paradoxically, Boudica and her daughters are on display in a statue at the Thames Embankment in Central London, while general Paulinus stands at the entrance to the Roman baths in Bath, Somerset.
Another extraordinary, though physically non-violent, woman is also being honored in Paris. This is the star of stage, screen, and song,
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Upon her release her followers burned London to the ground.
Thank heaven, otherwise they'd have to throw this into the Thames! Note her great skill in that she controlled the 2 horses without any reins!
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