To: marcos who wrote (10220 ) 9/6/1998 5:15:00 PM From: E. Charters Respond to
My ancestors did take their name from the Charters that were popular in England and France for suffrage movements to get their land and game usage rights into law. Before the Magna Carta of Jean I, le Roi du France et Angleterre, there were many Forest Charters. Many names from the second great Chartist movements of the 1500's whose aim was to end Royal government were chosen in sympathy with this movement. Chartism had its roots in Norman-Saxon England from 1100 AD on. The Norse wanted to subjugate by military force and edict and the people wanted to make reasonable deals on commerce, inheritance, land and taxation. Sound familiar? Tout pour la Roi ou some for the thief? A thief, interestingly enough was the saxon name for a soldier of a band of saxon soldiers of seven or less. Hence a band of thieves. Brigands were part of a larger war troop. All the terms for the Saxon army became epithets in our language. Hence anglo-saxon terms for sex and other bodily functions are now bad language. Say the same thing in french or latin and it's ok. Merde, fourer, pissant, vagina, conjugate. One way you are a peasant and get kicked off SI the other you are a scholar. We are brainwashed by the governments. And after each charter the Norman lawyers spent a hundred years watering it down to subjugate the people by statute. What is a statute. A law passed to allow the King to steal. Now the Magna Carta which is still precedent in Canadian Courts and is the British constitution and ergo the Canadian too, has not precepts that may be upheld in a court of law. All the freedoms have been take away. Once the clause where no kingsman by himself could be a witness unless corroborated by one other good man struck down temporarily all radar stoppages and police traffic arrests in England. It broke the Magna Carta. It was got around by an act of the house of commons. Too bad. They should have instituted civilian review of all such police only cases at the very least. The one other good man concept would have been upheld. It was obviously there to prevent corruption.
