Thanks Red Badger. He was the military leader supporting parliament against Charles I, then was appointed a de facto replacement for the monarch, then found parliament to be an obstacle... what's the problem? ;^)
Posted on 11/20/2023 12:33:16 PM PST by Red Badger
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place,
which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!..................
PinGGG!....................
most parts of my family, Cromwell is a dirty word.
Royalists?...................
That inflection point draws closer and closer.
If you look at the trial of Charles I, and the impeachment inquiries of Donald Trump, you will find many similarities. Charles I was right in that there was no English law that gave Parliament the power to try a King, let alone put him to death. Charles repeatedly tried to get them to provide him with the specific law by which they were proceeding with charges against him, and they refused to comply, because there was no such law on the books. They made it up as they went along...just like the Democrat impeachment Committees, and the DOJ have done with Donald Trump. When it came to the January 6th Committee, no Congressional member who was a Trump supporter, was allowed on the Committee. During the trial of Charles I, no one, especially no member of Parliament who supported the King was allowed in Westminster Hall during any of the sessions.
Great post!
Funny how a Puritan mixes Christian rhetoric with Greek mythology (referencing one of Hercules’ twelve labors).
Plenty of anti-Cromwell sentiment in Ireland still, particularly when they bring up the siege of Drogheda.
What Cromwell did in Ireland is not too different from what hamas did in Israel. If there’s a hell I hope old Ollie is at the bottom of it.
we’re mostly Irish...grudges go back generations...
Thanks Red Badger. He was the military leader supporting parliament against Charles I, then was appointed a de facto replacement for the monarch, then found parliament to be an obstacle... what's the problem? ;^)
Cromwell was a tyrant. He and the joyless religious fanatic Puritans who backed him are why my direct namebearing ancestor left England and landed in Jamestown in 1649.
We need a Cromwell.
He almost beat them here: “1634 Cromwell attempted to emigrate to Connecticut in America, but was prevented by the government from leaving.”
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