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King Charles I did not know that his queen’s lady-in-waiting was having an affair with John Pym, an important parliamentarian of the day. She kept Pym well informed about what the king was up to. When the king fell out with Parliament over money, Pym had Charles followed, matters descended and the king ended up under arrest at Carisbrooke Castle, where he got stuck in a window while trying to escape. He was extricated, transported to London, and beheaded. With him no longer available to hand out under-the-table government contracts to his favourite knights, feudalism died on the vine, and the middle class became firmly in control.
Oliver Cromwell was chosen to take King Charles’ place. He didn’t like Catholics, and most Irish were Catholic. And so, he stole their land, forbade their religion, and reduced them to abject poverty. They tried to live on potatoes. But in the 1830s the potato crop was very bad, and by the mid-1840s it was struck by a blight that reduced the potato to a rotten mush. Two million starving, penniless, and diseased Irish peasants fled to a tiny village of 2,400 mainly native Indians. These Torontonians took them in and cared for them, and they all then set about building a mighty industrial complex, stealthily under the nose of the Americans. One of these was a transcontinental railway of steel trains that would stretch from sea to sea, climb steep mountains, and cross deep gorges; that would transport immigrants from Europe in the thousands to settle in four new western provinces, and in 1867 unite the land masses to formally create the Dominion of Canada.
But they left the power to declare war with a few mind-midgets whom they called hereditary monarchs, and then allowed that power to be grabbed by an evil madman who, allowed free reign, almost completely destroyed the progress of nearly 400 years, and laid nearly one hundred million of the Middle Class in early graves.
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