A Genuine Conspiracy Theory?

[qb_fox]

Thanks to steel_bonnet for finding this.

The basic and undisputable facts of this case are that on Monday last, at 10:42pm, Lord James of Black Heath stood up in the House Lords and said some very strange stuff indeed.

Blogger Charlie Stross picked up on it and wrote about it He really did say that stuff, it is recorded in Hansard, and if you like to judge

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[qb_fox]

I am likewise speechless.

Putting aside the Office of International Treasury Control, which is appears to be as weird and elaborate a hoax as you can imagine, and going back to just what Lord James said...

It reminds me of nothing so much as Lord Thomas de Berkeley on trial in November 1330.

You may have heard the story that, in 1327, King Edward II was murdered by having a red hot poker stuck up his arse. This was widely believed to be the truth at the time and is still reported as factual by most historians today.

Yet, there's pretty good reason (and evidence) to suppose that Edward was never murdered at all, that his death was faked, and he was smuggled away as a prisoner.

At his trial, Berkeley, in whose care the king the was placed said not only had never consented to, helped with or procured the kings death but "nor had he ever heard of his death until this present parliament".
That's an odd defence, since he was the man who sent the letters to inform the court of his king's death.
More so, since he was not fighting for his life, his overriding and successful defence being that he wasn't there when it happened.

So he basically stood up, in publicly recorded forum, and said "to my knowledge the king is alive". And that odd statement sat in the record, almost disregarded by chroniclers at the time, and the historians that followed for hundreds of years.

Do you not feel like we might just have had one of those moments?