>James Heartfield wrote:
>
>>Making the case for De Sade over the Puritans, Shane Mage cites the
>>massacres at Drogheda...
>
>Was that, or was it not, characteristic of Cromwellian Puritanism? And
>why was that monster Sade never even accused of killing anyone?
>
>> ...the illegal execution of King Charles I as negatives...
>
>And wasn't that illegality as characteristic of Puritan conceptions
>of justice as the withcraft trials? And why was that monster Sade
>repeatedly imprisoned without any form of trial?
>
>> and De Sade's pamphlet against capital punishment (a noble against
>>capital punishment in revolutionary France - you don't say!) as a
>>positive.
>
>Were there any others written? Not, I wager, by anyone whom anyone
>here has ever head of. Perhaps Philippe E'galite' (ci-devant
>d'Orleans) had
>such thoughts, but only after his stupid nephew and Dumouriez had
>put paid to his own scheme to become a Revolutionary Monarch once
>his vote to cut off his cousin's head had cleared the way.
>
>>... On this side of the Atlantic...
>
>You mean this side of the Irish Sea, this side of Hadrian's Wall, and this
>side of La Manche
>
>>...we radicals still name our children Oliver...
>
>What kind of "radicals" (or should that be Radicals) go through their
>Calendar of Radical Saints to find an odious name like Oliver when fine
>names like Gerard (Winstanley) and John (Lilburne) are free for the asking?
>
>...and toast Cromwell for hacking Charles I's head off...
>
>Thereby making Charles II the most beloved King in English History.
>
>Shane Mage
>
>"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is
>and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going
>out in measures."
>
>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30
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