Posted on 12/26/2023 6:34:35 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Oopps...should be quelle surprise!
The Spanish inquisition lasted until the 1800’s. Originally it was against Jews and Muslims, but then was against protestants.
Hilarious
The first Inquisition was against the Catharists in Southern France in the 1180’s. The result was the Albigensian massacre (”Kill them all. God will recognize his own”).
The Spanish Inquisition that you are referring to started in the 1470s and continued for well over four centuries until ended by Bonaparte in 1808. Here in “the New World”, it was started up in Mexico in 1570, well over a century after you claim it occurred:
“As Spain expanded into the Americas, so did the Inquisition, established in Mexico in 1570. In 1574, Lutherans were burned at the stake there, and the Inquisition came to Peru, where Protestants were likewise tortured and burned alive”
The United States and their Constitution was formed two centuries later by a populace that was 98% Protestant and utterly opposed to continuing oppression of the Roman Catholic “church” and its bludgeoning of anyone who dared question it. Thus the First Amendment and the Establishment Clause.
You can read all this at even a trivial site like History.com:
https://www.history.com/topics/religion/inquisition
They did an OK job. But they didn’t go into other things like the fact that the very first landing of Protestants in Florida - the Huguenot at St. Augustine - was occasioned by their massacre at Matanzas under the orders of the Spanish Naval commander in 1565. For the crime of being Protestants.
https://www.nps.gov/foma/learn/historyculture/the_massacre.htm
It is for this reason that the influx of Catholics into this country in large numbers in the 1840s was regarded with dread and revulsion by the almost 100% Protestant populace who had been the victims of these atrocities for 3 1/2 centuries.
So your timeline is rather ridiculousy constrained. The Spanish Catholics were the most vehement of the Inquisitors but not the only ones. It’s maybe understandable in the face of the Muslims, but to equate Lutherans with Muslims is ludicrous. And to let them settle in this country which was founded by and once almost monotonically Protestant is, um...insane.
At least for us WASPs.
And when Veritas first tried to give it to the FBI, they refused it thinking if they took it, they would be confirming it was real.
Then when they decided it was doing damage, they Swatted O’Keefe and claimed it was stolen property.
Because you know, the FBI is very big in the stolen diary recovery field.
Ashley Biden has had plenty of to come out and refute the allegations in the diary of sexual abuse she never did. If the diary were fake she would have said so, but she said its 100 percent legit so every allegation in that diary is real
That should be Project Veritas' defense.
If the FBI refused to accept it, then a reasonable person would conclude that it was not illegal to possess it, nor was there any investigative value to it.
Therefore, Project Veritas was free to use it as it saw fit. Otherwise, it would be entrapment by the FBI for refusing to accept it in the first place.
-PJ
IIRC, the diary was sent to Project Veritas.
O’Keefe smelled something, didn’t publish what he found, and gave the diary to law enforcement.
Deep State crooks tried to set up PV.
Despite not taking the bait, the FIB raided O’Keefe, his journalists and offices.
Government by Stasi.
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