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Topic History of: UK Witch Hunts 1784-2014, unchanged in 230 years! Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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On February 13, 1784, Robert Burns’ father, William, died of ‘physical consumption and exhaustion’, after suffering bitter litigation with his landlord and with the legal/judicial system.
When one is truly a victin of our cruel semantic world, death may be seen as a blessed release. This is what his poet son wrote in his, 'Man Was Made To Mourn', "O Death! the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!"
In this era where men are living longer, old age may also be seen as a release from persecution and a possible defence against allegations from the past, but not so it appears in today's Salemville, Great Britain. Where even men in their Eighties are imprisoned on the basis of historical allegations. The crime alleged being a 'Crimen Exceptum' on the Inquisition’s list of those crimes for which due process must be suspended.
When to be accused means to be guilty and when even the testimony of criminals and perjurers must be accepted.
Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Ker Starmer, spoke straight from the 'Malleus Maleficarum', the code of practice for the earlier Inquisitions, when he declared that the position of ‘victims’ (those making the allegations) had to be strengthened over the rights of those being accused. One can read the actual paragraphs of the 'Malleus Maleficarum', which would have legalized his stance during the earlier inquisitions.