The INQUISITION Inside Totalitarian USI

The Inquisition in Spain was an offshoot of something much older that has cursed the world, all the way through history, since there have been religions that sought to purge themselves of other belief systems, within the religious realms of power and politics. Officially this is how the Inquisition began.

“The Catholic Church has a hierarchical structure with a central bureaucracy. In the early years of the church, there were several competing sects that called themselves Christian. But after the Emperor Constantine I (280?-337 CE) made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire and the local administrative structures were pulled together into one hierarchy centered in Rome, doctrinal arguments were settled by Church Councils, beginning with the Council of Nicea in 325 (which formulated the Nicean Creed). Those whose beliefs or practices deviated sufficiently from the orthodoxy of the councils now became the objects of efforts to bring them into the fold. Resistance often led to persecution.”

“..in the Middle Ages a permanent structure came into being to deal with the problem. Beginning in the 12th century, Church Councils required secular rulers to prosecute heretics.”

 In 1231, (just sixteen years after the signing of the Magna Carta, which should have voided for all time this heresy against all the laws pertaining to the rights of mankind)

“Pope Gregory IX published a decree which called for life imprisonment with salutary penance for the heretic who had confessed and repented and capital punishment for those who persisted.

The secular authorities were to carry out the execution. Pope Gregory relieved the bishops and archbishops of this obligation, and made it the duty of the Dominican Order, though many inquisitors were members of other orders or of the secular clergy. By the end of the decade the Inquisition had become a general institution in all lands under the purview of the Pope. By the end of the 13th centuries the Inquisition in each region had a bureaucracy to help in its function.”

“The judge, or inquisitor, could bring suit against anyone. The accused had to testify against himself/herself and not have the right to face and question his/her accuser. It was acceptable to take testimony from criminals, persons of bad reputation, excommunicated people, and heretics. The accused did not have (the) right to counsel, and blood relationship did not exempt one from the duty to testify against the accused. Sentences could not be appealed Sometimes inquisitors interrogated entire populations in their jurisdiction. The inquisitor questioned the accused in the presence of at least two witnesses.”

All of this just happens to be what TSA and NDAA are doing to the people of the planet today—under the guise of keeping the world safe from terrorism—in the same way that the Holy-Roman-Empire’s Inquisitions’ tried to protect their “flocks” from the evils of religious heresy by torturing and murdering anyone they chose to accuse of this supposedly unforgiveable CRIME. Israel must pay for this CRIME against humanity, just as the Roman Catholic Church was forced to terminate their twisted religious-practices; despite the fact that they did not renounce those practices until 1968.

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