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“The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles record something equivalent, albeit more temporal:
“1125 A.D. In this year before Christmas King Henry sent from Normandy to
England and gave instructions that all moneyers … be deprived of their
members … Bishop Roger of Salisbury commanded them all to assemble at
Winchester by Christmas. When they came hither, they were then taken one by
one, and each deprived of the right hand and the testicles below. All this was
done in twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany, and was entirely justified
because they had ruined the whole country by the magnitude of their fraud
which they paid for in full.” – The Laud Chronicle (E)
Fortunately, history indicates that the public will eventually figure out that no matter how
beguiling the claims about currency management and taxation are, the gambit has been
mainly to greedily confiscate private earnings and wages.
You gotta wonder if they value their balls. I’m sure the girls do if they had to pay for them.
Chuckle