Brooks may be a conservative ratbag, Doug but this article seemed well
observed to me:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html
Bill
On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 11:10 am, Doug Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It was right well found, Robin.
>
> A lengthy look back, & then at where we are ow (I think there are a few
> more local PMs you might include…?).
>
> Bill: I wouldnt rally trust David Brooks as far as I could heave him, but…
>
> Doug
> > On May 16, 2017, at 6:48 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I kind of presumed as much, Robin about the majority of it. I
> thought
> > you had fiddled a bit to make the opening couplet. Amazing. Love 'him of
> > whom the word was moved'. Words move so oddly in the current term limited
> > elected monarch. David Brooks on New York Times points out the
> difficulties
> > 'trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies
> > beeping randomly in a jar'.
> >
> > Bill
> > On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 10:04 am, Robin Hamilton <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Not my words, Bill, but an actual Act of Parliament passed in the second
> >> year of
> >> the reign of Richard II.
> >>
> >> Didn't turn out real well for him either, did it?
> >>
> >> Came on it accidentally, and was quite disconcerted at how apposite it
> is
> >> to
> >> certain things being uttered by a current term-limited elected monarch.
> >>
> >> Next down the line: the Divine Right of Presidents -- "I was elected
> by
> >> the
> >> people, and the people are the Voice of God, so anyone who objects to
> what
> >> I do
> >> is committing blasphemy, and will be dealt with accordingly."
> >>
> >> Robin
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 17 May 2017 at 00:28 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Impressive accretion of moving words here, Robin.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 17 May 2017 at 6:20 am, Robin Hamilton <
> >>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Item, of Devisors of false News and of horrible and false Lyes
> >>>>
> >>>> of Prelates, Dukes, Earls, Barons, and other Nobles, and great
> >>>>
> >>>> Men of the Realm, and also of the Chancellor, Treasurer,
> >>>>
> >>>> Clerk of the Privy Seal, Steward of the King’s House, Justices
> >>>>
> >>>> of the one Bench or of the other, and of other great Officers of
> >>>>
> >>>> the Realm, of things which by the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles,
> >>>>
> >>>> and Officers aforesaid were never spoken, done, nor thought, in
> >>>>
> >>>> great Slander of the said Prelates, Lords, Nobles and Officers,
> >>>>
> >>>> whereby Debates and Discords might arise between the said
> >>>>
> >>>> Lords, or between the Lords and the Commons (which God
> >>>>
> >>>> forbid), and whereof great Peril and Mischief might come to
> >>>>
> >>>> all the Realm, and quick Subversion and Destruction of the
> >>>>
> >>>> said Realm if due remedy be not provided ; it is straitly de-
> >>>>
> >>>> fended upon grievous pain for to eschew the said Damages and
> >>>>
> >>>> Perils, that from henceforth none be so hardy to devise, speak,
> >>>>
> >>>> or to tell, any false News, Lyes, or other such false things, of
> >>>>
> >>>> Prelates, Lords, and of other aforesaid, whereof Discord or any
> >>>>
> >>>> Slander might arise within the same Realm, and he that doth
> >>>>
> >>>> the same shall incur and have the pain another time ordained
> >>>>
> >>>> thereof by the Statute of Westminster the first, which will, that
> >>>>
> >>>> he be taken and imprisoned till he have found him of whom the
> >>>>
> >>>> word was moved.
> >>>>
> >>>> 2 R. 2. st. 1. c. 5. [i.e. 1379]
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
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