Loss of Authority Quotes

Fox, the Quaker founder, dispatched Aldam to petition Oliver Cromwell for relief of the persecution of the Quakers. Cromwell at first maintained that he was unaware of these organized governmental persecutions so Aldam and another Quaker, Anthony Pearson, collected the writs of many Quakers who were in Jail. Aldam returned and presented these to Cromwell who, having his own political difficulties choose not to get involved as a substantial part of his political support saw Quakers as heretics. Aldam then removed his hat and rendered it into pieces uttering the quotation which might have been interpreted as a curse. Quakers had a concept of—see {611244} for another—“specific fore-seeing” which others might call prophesy. Shortly thereafter Cromwell was deposed.

The Russian autocrat found it hard to believe that peasants and merchants could have any rights at all as they did in England. He faulted the female ruler, the great Queen Elizabeth I. By modern standards Elizabeth had awesome power and the English People very little, but Elizabeth was relatively restrained in her use of power and paid attention to the effect of affairs of state had on the people." Ivan the Terrible

James was then the Duke of York. James’ brother, Charles II, wore the crown and he later would be forced to flee to France by the Parliamentary forces . The Duke understated the degree to which the Parliamentary forces were prepared to go in the days which English historians call the English Interregnum.

The relationship between the Embassy and the contractor was so twisted and corrupt that the contractor’s on site manager in Iraq threatened to have Richter killed if he continued to probe into the documents that would incriminate them. In the midst of a war zone where the contractor was responsible for providing armed security for the State department personnel—see the graphic—including Richter, it would have been very easy to arrange. Blackwater then arranged with the embassy to have Richter and another auditor/investigator expelled from Iraq so that they could not complete their entire investigation. The State Department began a complete investigation years later when the press discovered this memo and divulged it.