Unexpected defense of Richard III

Note to Joan: If the Ricardian Register (or was it the Bulletin?) still has its section on unusual or unexpected defenses/attacks on Richard, here's one you might be interested in:

http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/conspiracy-against-king-michael-hoffman.html

The author seems to be a conspiracy theorist and I don't agree with his view of Thomas More, but it's interesting nonetheless, and I'll take defenses of Richard where I can find them. Comments, anyone?

Carol

I mostly agree with his view of More and I'm no Catholic! but I do wonder about "the Cryptocracy" I could use some more detail on that, though I believe corrupt rich people have always sought to protect their interests at the expense of others. Now I would call it Corporatocracy, not sure if Hoffman means the equivalent of such back then or something more convoluted.
Nicole

~~~ Music is lots of sound waves coming toward us in a completely chaotic manner and somehow our brain receives that as something beautiful - Matthew Bellamy

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Date: Sat, 4 May 2013 17:41:20 +0000
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Note to Joan: If the Ricardian Register (or was it the Bulletin?) still has its section on unusual or unexpected defenses/attacks on Richard, here's one you might be interested in:



http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2013/04/conspiracy-against-king-michael-hoffman.html



The author seems to be a conspiracy theorist and I don't agree with his view of Thomas More, but it's interesting nonetheless, and I'll take defenses of Richard where I can find them. Comments, anyone?



Carol

From: justcarol67
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Subject: Unexpected defense of Richard III

> The author seems to be a conspiracy theorist and I don't agree with his
> view of Thomas More, but it's interesting nonetheless, and I'll take
> defenses of Richard where I can find them. Comments, anyone?

Oh dear - I don't think support coming from an anti-Semitic lunatic
Holocaust-denier can do Richard's cause anything but harm. What can it do
but make the antis - and even the neutral - think that anybody who says
Richard wasn't a child-murderer is as mad as the people who think the
Holocaust didn't happen?

Conspiracy theorists, are usually suspect in my books. I find them all to be tiresome and bigoted. They take some fact, a lot of fiction, and make a whole cloth of it.

On May 4, 2013, at 1:18 PM, "Claire M Jordan" <whitehound@...<mailto:whitehound@...>> wrote:



From: justcarol67
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Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:41 PM
Subject: Unexpected defense of Richard III

> The author seems to be a conspiracy theorist and I don't agree with his
> view of Thomas More, but it's interesting nonetheless, and I'll take
> defenses of Richard where I can find them. Comments, anyone?

Oh dear - I don't think support coming from an anti-Semitic lunatic
Holocaust-denier can do Richard's cause anything but harm. What can it do
but make the antis - and even the neutral - think that anybody who says
Richard wasn't a child-murderer is as mad as the people who think the
Holocaust didn't happen?

OK, now I see the Holocaust denier stuff, was not fully caffeinated when I first replied. Self-pitying too :-P
Nicole

~~~ Music is lots of sound waves coming toward us in a completely chaotic manner and somehow our brain receives that as something beautiful - Matthew Bellamy

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> Conspiracy theorists, are usually suspect in my books. I find them all to be tiresome and bigoted. They take some fact, a lot of fiction, and make a whole cloth of it.
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> On May 4, 2013, at 1:18 PM, "Claire M Jordan" <whitehound@...<mailto:whitehound@...>> wrote:
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> Subject: Unexpected defense of Richard III
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> > The author seems to be a conspiracy theorist and I don't agree with his
> > view of Thomas More, but it's interesting nonetheless, and I'll take
> > defenses of Richard where I can find them. Comments, anyone?
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> Oh dear - I don't think support coming from an anti-Semitic lunatic
> Holocaust-denier can do Richard's cause anything but harm. What can it do
> but make the antis - and even the neutral - think that anybody who says
> Richard wasn't a child-murderer is as mad as the people who think the
> Holocaust didn't happen?
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Claire wrote:
> Oh dear - I don't think support coming from an anti-Semitic lunatic
> Holocaust-denier can do Richard's cause anything but harm. What can it do but make the antis - and even the neutral - think that anybody who says Richard wasn't a child-murderer is as mad as the people who think the Holocaust didn't happen?
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Carol responds:

Uh-oh. I didn't know he was a holocaust denier. The last thing we need is support from the lunatic fringe. All I read was the article itself. Sorry I posted the link!

Carol

From: justcarol67
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Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: Unexpected defense of Richard III


> Uh-oh. I didn't know he was a holocaust denier. The last thing we need is
> support from the lunatic fringe. All I read was the article itself.

I think he must be, because if you pan away from the bit about Richard and
look at the links to previous articles at the side and top they are nearly
all anti-Semitic stuff - with really deranged, fantastical titles, a bit
like David Icke and his giant lizards but with added racism - and if
somebody is a foaming anti-Semite then "revisionist" nearly always means
"Holocause-denier".

I wonder if he knows Richard was the first English king to knight a Jew, who
was his faithful sidekick?

> Sorry I posted the link!

s'OK.