WATCH: Days of Judgement: Salem Witch Trials
The salem witch Trials stand as a warning that justice can always be miscarried, when authorities become determined to prosecute non-conformists, “deviants”, or political enemies. And especially when the general population supports these efforts.
Brian Levack
Between 1692 and 1693, in the small township of Salem, Massachusetts, over 200 people were accused of Witchcraft. Twenty of these people were executed: 19 hanged and one man pressed to death.
It is remembered, to this day, as the most infamous instance of mass hysteria in history. But is that all it was?
This documentary, produced to mark the tri-centenary, delves into the history, the social context, the politics of the time, and the possible motivations behind those who made the accusations. (It’s also a timely reminder of just how good the History Channel used to be, and just how far it has fallen).
It’s proven true, over time, that it is necessary to deny people’s humanity – to take that humanity away from your opponents – before you can do serious harm to them.
Stephen Nissenbaum
This Halloween, we present a story of fear eclipsing reason. Of hysteria as a tool of social control. And of the terrible price paid by those who dare to be sane in an insane world.
There are lessons here which society has yet to learn, and parallels to our modern world which cannot be denied.
And that, is truly frightening.
The greatness of these people consisted of the fact that they resisted untruth, and they kept their moral positions to the point of death. That’s what should be remembered.
Arhtur Miller
Days of Judgment: Salem Witch Trials was produced by The History Channel in 1992 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Salem Witch Trials. If you’re interested in obtaining a physical copy the worldcat.com online library has a list here
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Yeah, the world is run by an clan so evil its hard to tell the truth, because if told people simply denies it, wont hear it, thrust their head deeper into the sand, and yells lalalala to cover the words, how then to start. I know what I talk about, been scorn, kicked in the back by people whom I tought could handle it, to been ridiculed for saying it, but in all the years I have held back the real deal, we live in dark times, its infact pitch black, light, well, I see nothing, religion is been comporimised to oblivion, politics even more, and economicly we are in medivial times where scams replace more scams, and yet when I can prove, as others have, money is printed from thin air, franctinal banking created to it can be timed up to 9 times, and yet, yet, nothing happens, nothing.… Read more »
Our lives have been dominated by global crisis for the last 18 years. All of them are suspiciously ‘invisible’. First we were confronted with the supposedly global threat of an invisible terrorism and global terrorist network. That cost us a great deal in terms of civil liberties and expensive wars. Next came the global financial crisis which was equally invisible. Was it really a crisis or merely a localized drama that was turned into a global crisis? Given the chance Gordon Brown had a choice whether to back the people or back the a few rogue banks. He chose the banks and sentenced the masses to austerity and the largest transfer of wealth from the masses to the 0.001% that has continued to this day, Now we are confronted with yet another invisible Co2 induced climate crisis. To claim that all climate change everywhere whether it be a case of… Read more »
Smoke screens from the 1% to hide real crisis-es for the 99% like the secret high budgets of the CIA/ Mi6 / etc, the dismantling of Western industry towards China, the “friendly” Arab oil funded Islam promotion with their nuclear armed Pakistani irregulars, the cheap “refugee” labor/voter import scam.
To help tie up some totalitarian loose ends there is also apparently another invisible ‘Identity Crisis’ that needs to be addressed.
https://www.newsweek.com/2019/03/08/can-blockchain-finally-give-us-digital-privacy-we-deserve-1340689.html
A public/corporate partnership ID2020 has been established to address this so called identity crisis. It turns out that Big Tech will ally with Big Pharma and use blockchain technology in order to eventually chip everyone so governments can provide us with better services. In the same vein: Alexa is not a trial balloon surveillance device – its the personal assistant we apparently always wanted and needed.
Other than the usual suspects it is no great surprise to see the Rockerfeller Foundation are behind this new development.
https://id2020.org/alliance
https://www.biometricupdate.com/201909/id2020-and-partners-launch-program-to-provide-digital-id-with-vaccines
The Cold War ended in only 1989, at least from Russia’s perspective, which is only a few short years before the NATO crowd succeeded in identifying a replacement enemy. My point is that this global war is of a continuum.
Simon Hodges, When I finally discovered the truth about this about 10 years ago ” A human being has a value of around $400,000 in body parts. ” confirmed by Official EU Reports, I simply could not tell my ex (her family were from Serbia) I couldn’t tell my wife (we come from Lancashire). My heart was already broken.. Duringthe war in Yugoslavia..The US and British supplied and funded Kosovo Liberation Army, rounded up, the most beautiful teenage kids in the world, and executed them, just for their body parts, kept fresh and exported by a country we are not allowed to name…Used in British, European and American Hospitals – fresh young spare body parts… So I told a friend – a very Senior still active member of Our National Health Service, whilst literally crying just before Christmas. She said Tony, Please do not tell me any more. I can’t… Read more »
Tony
I have read reports on this. The same has also been reported to have happened in Syria. There are completely sick and evil people that walk amongst us, but when these logics find there way into the operating system itself then the whole system becomes inherently evil.
Simon
It is remembered, to this day, as the most infamous instance of mass hysteria in history.
In a decade or two it will be replaced with the 2019 CO2 mass hysteria. In places like Holland the ruling government has added a N2 hysteria.
In 2119 some will commemorate the Washington and London Two Eyes whistle blower trials. Those judges will also go into history, blots on their family names.
There are reasons to suspect that the story of Salem has been officially recorded with as much veracity as the story of 9/11 :
http://mileswmathis.com/salem.pdf
George, many thanks for a most enlightening Link, with Links within in it, from which this epigram might interest OffG readers:
” Humans are naturally zealous creatures, tending to overthink and oversell everything, except the truth. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovXRhic3O9I
Couldn’t resist putting this track up.
I rarely, if ever, praise the BBC, but back in the day Bragg’s ‘In Our Time’ series on Radio 4 was very good (particularly on science matters, imho). If interested here’s Bragg’s programme on the witch trials…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06pxp2z
Fear of chaos is fear of loss of control that projects itself onto flagged targets to be sacrificed instead of awakening responsibility for fear, in love of truth. Fear is for the most part a self-conflicted state – assigned to its symptoms as externally caused. Without such an ‘enemy’ would we have a ‘self’ in the kind and nature that we pesume? Fear does usurp reason in the heart – which is a heart and mind as one – when fear is hidden, unowned and projected away. Self-illusion defended against truth is fearful by definition. If the voice for fear is given worthship as power of protection, then truth is demonised and attacked wherever it ‘threatens’ to expose the lack of substance of deceits that become sin by their persistence. Control being willingly sought by the ignoring and overriding of relationship and communication. That IS the nature of a mental… Read more »
Witchcraft is rife in the world. There are witches everywhere. Everybody knows this. Everybody knows that Trump is a Kremlin agent. Everybody knows that Corbyn is a communist spy, terrorist and anti semite. Everybody knows that Iraq had WMD. Everybody knows that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. Everybody knows that Putin tried to murder Skripal and committed similar murders elsewhere. Everybody knows that Russia is rigging all the elections taking place across the world. Everybody knows that Assad gasses his own people whenever weapons inspectors visit his country. Everybody knows that Putin bombs every hospital he can find. Everybody knows that Venezuela is an evil dictatorship that starves its own people. Everybody knows that Hitler gassed gazillions of Jews. Everybody knows that we are all about to perish from Global Warming unless we all do as Greta tells us. Luckily we have a lot of witchfinders around to reveal all… Read more »
Did the Nazis not kill lots of European jews, then, Mark? The rest of your list quite rightly calls out ripe propaganda tosh. But no genocide of the jews? At all? Even if it was less than six million…? (About which I have no convincing evidence, and therefore no opinion. Maybe six million, maybe not. I only have the victors’ ‘news’ and official ‘history’ narratives to go on, so nothing trustworthy so far.)
I don’t know, Rhisiart. I only know that historically we’ve been lied to about everything else, so why not that as well? Some of these claims are obviously untrue. Others are just recycled WW1 propaganda. This sort of thing is as old as the hills. The Romans directed very similar propaganda campaigns against the Carthaginians and Ancient Britons, amongst others. Why wouldn’t they do that? People had to be fired up with atrocity stories to endure the hardships of the war. An expression of hatred for an enemy and a justification for their own actions during the war. During WW1 we had the Bayonetted Belgian Babies, the Raped Belgian Nuns, the Crucified Canadian Prisoners, the Human Bodies Turned Into Soap. In recent times we have had the Iraq Incubator Babies, the 100,000 genocided Kosovans, 9/11, the Syrian Gas Hoaxes, Skripal, Russiagate. You could go on forever with other examples. We… Read more »
Bla bla bla bla bla
Maybe six million, maybe not. I only have the victors’ ‘news’ and official ‘history’ narratives to go on, so nothing trustworthy so far.
It seems to me that the document below makes an absolutely overwhelming case for the real origin of the “six million” statistic. If some serious evidence were available for it being factually correct, that would be one thing, but in the absence of any such, I think this research essentially settles the question — wherever and whenever Jews are said to be suffering and dying, rightly or wrongly, the official number of victims is six million. Initially, it may have had some kind of numerological significance, but then became a traditional feature of propaganda discourse. The WW2 “holocaust” religion does not deviate from the traditional narrative, although the fact of the prior existence of that narrative has since been suppressed.
https://archive.org/details/SIXMILLIONOPENGATESByS.A.R.Lynch271
The statement ridiculed was that Hitler gassed gazillions of Jews. My understanding is that it is very much open to question how many Jews were gassed.
No OT holocaust debate here please
What is most annoying is the fact, that Hitler murdered far more non Jews, but it seems, that only Jews matter!Did you ever see a number of Slavic people he murdered, or Gypsies, no because only Jews matter!
@Rhisiart Gwilym I am shocked by Your raciest view! I think that 75 years after the Holocaust at least by now You should know better than to talk of “genocide of the jews” and “six million”. Your view is racialist for two reasons: 1) Among those many murdered by the Nazis the Holocaust defines only those, who had been murdered because of fanatic racialist delusion – and there is and was good reason to do so. But then You have also to mention the ½ million murdered Gipsies (or as we nowadays often say “Sinti and Roma”). So the only correct definition of the victims of the holocaust is to speak of ‘6 ½ million murdered humans’. 2) Your use of the word “jew” is totally racialist and you use it exactly the same as did the Nazis. a) But there is no ‘Jewish race’ or ‘the race of the… Read more »
Erm, no room in The Holocaust for other victims like mentally and physically disabled people, people known or suspected to be homosexual and POWs of enemy nations who also died in the concentration camps?
The total list of victims would balloon out to at least 10 million and an upper figure of 15 million. Not to mention those lynched by collaborators or who died from starvation or neglect in areas occupied by Nazi forces. Can we include, as an example, the 300,000 people (estimated) who starved to death in Greece in the winter of 1941/2 during Nazi occupation of that country?
@Jen
I don’t know what You mean.
Yes, yes, the Nazis murdered much more than those mentioned in the Holocaust. And this is exactly why I wrote: “Among those many murdered by the Nazis the Holocaust defines only those, who had been murdered because of fanatic racialist delusion …”.
And this is also why I didn’t criticise Rhisiart Gwilym, when he only mentioned those murdered by racialist delusion (“six million … jews”). He is correct insofar – and also me – as the “Holocaust” picks these victims out of the rest (possibly “10 million” or even more).
For more see (uploaded): http://s14.directupload.net/images/120703/k8b3pr7o.pdf
‘…the “Holocaust…”’
Which ‘Holocaust’? If you mean שׁוֹאַת יְהוּדֵי אֵירוֹפָּה then call it by its proper name, in English transliteration ‘the Shoah’ (capitalized), or we won’t know which culturally misappropriated English terminolgy you are referencing (c.f. النكبة, al-Nakbah).
@Robbobbobin Which ‘Holocaust’? Well, just read what I wrote above about the “Holocaust”. I wrote: “Among those many murdered by the Nazis the Holocaust defines only those, who had been murdered because of fanatic racialist delusion …” And, no: the word “Holocaust” is not “(an) English transliteration (of)‘the Shoah’” . Instead it is a word of ancient Greek and ancient Latin language. The Greek word ‘kalein’ stands for ‘burning’ and ‘holo’ stands for ‘all’. When in the classical ancient time West-Rome and East-Rome (later: “Byzantium”) took over the Christian religion they read in the Bible of sacrifices to god by burning animals. And although the non-Christian Romans and Greeks also knew sacrifices to gods by burning animals they only had the tradition to burn only parts of animals. So they called these sacrifices mentioned in the Bible ‘holo-kalein’, which is ‘burning all’ (of the animal). Then, since the 12th century… Read more »
Also not to mention the 12 million plus ethnic German residents of eastern Europe who were displaced, forcibly relocated,brutalised,raped murdered and abused after the war for the crime of being German,most of them from communities that had co-existed for hundreds of years with their Slavic neibours and who had nothing to do with the rise of national socialism in Germany
I’m sorry if you think I’m “raciest.”
I won’t take up too much space and hog the comments.
You may not think there is a Jewish race. You may even be right. But I do know that an awful lot of Jews, Israelis and Zionists would give you an argument on that point. They have gone to quite extreme lengths to prove the existence of one, with supposed unique DNA markers. Whether you are right or they are doesn’t seem all that important to me.
Though if there isn’t a Jewish race, or if races don’t exist as we’re often told, then presumably it’s difficult to be racist. You can’t have your cake and eat it.
Regarding the gypsies, figures of 700,000, 200,000, and even a million, are casually bandied about. It’s the same story. I don’t have a problem with much else of what you say.
John Michael Greer has a perceptive answer to the sort of deranged ‘logic’ that you lay out here Joerg. Me a racist/anti-semite indeed! LOL! A bit like Jeremy Corbyn is then? Hah! I could put you in touch with my jewish friends, or my half-African foster-son, if I thought such contact with actual reality might dissolve your delusionality, J. But – for the reasons which John Michael lays out so lucidly – I guess that’s a forlorn hope. Racist indeed! LOLOLOL! Back to the locked ward, Jeorg:
https://www.ecosophia.net/dancers-at-the-end-of-time-part-one-the-flight-from-reason/
That should be Joerg of course. Sorry to mangle your name, J? Your ‘reasoning’ is still completely up the creek, though. 🙂
“But there is no ‘Jewish race’ or ‘the race of the Jews’!”
So why is mitochondrial DNA such a big number for so many Orthodox Jews of varying degrees of fundamentalism, and many, many more less strictly orthodox Jews? Because you know better than them or because you know better than Rhisiart?
When it comes to disingenuously having your cake and eating it, what don’t you know about the perversions of the vicious mindfuckers and rapers of bodies politic in AIPAC and their fellow travellers?
A shaman has been arrested for marching to Moscow so he could exorcise the evil from Putin
Trouble is Putin’s goons got to him first
You can actually see the evil in Putin’s fat bloated face, i actually think hes possessed by vile evil, so the shaman couldn’t do his work and save Russia means Russia is finished
So yup you’re bang on the money about how bad Putin and his mate Assad are, total evil and scum
Crispy, you sure you’re on the right website? Were you looking for Breitbart ‘News’?
I’m not really sure what kind of site I’m on? It appears to be a emotionally left wing although it’s happy to give support to all kinds of nasty authoritarian regimes I’m sure of one thing, most of those who comment hear in such a negative way about their own government, without may i add any sanctions from said government, ie being arrested, tortured, bankrupt or persecuted, should think themselves lucky although i know they don’t, instead they’re busy creating a narrative that they actually live in some sort of fascist state I’d like to think off-guardian could and should run a series of articles about Putin’s Russian regime and how its clamping down on civil rights and political freedoms just so its readers can get a more complete picture about a country which is often upheld as some sort of leader of a new global order, which appears to… Read more »
Go on then, C: use your freedom to speak without persecution – which you’ll certainly find here (though you will get shot down in flames if you try hasbarollockser-style crap-rhetoric): “Putin’s Russian regime [oh that tell-tale meaning-free snarl-noise!] and how its [sic] clamping down on civil rights and political freedoms”. You mean the legitimately-elected government and president, do you; with their persistently-high public approval? (Vlad, anyway.) Do tell! Accurate, verifiable chapter and verse, please, with *reliable* sources linked. Detailed, objective evidence rules, OK! Just flatly regurgitating the false-memes with which we’ve all been gavaged by the West’s mediawhores and polwhores, as if they were self-evident ‘truths’, not requiring any evidential support, won’t cut it here, I’m afraid. Should say: I have zero illusions about the lillywhite rectitude of any practical politician engaged in running a big state. I operate on the principle that they all, without exception, have the stink… Read more »
PS: I wasn’t really recommending Breitbart ‘News’. I wouldn’t clear up my dog’s droppings with it, as it might contaminate my compost bin. Just thought, from the tone of your regurged slagging of Russia, that you might be more at home there.
what an excitable and very predictable chap you are, but then all one needs to do is read your comments,it’s sooooooo predictable,and that my friend is what real brainwashing does to people
I’ll get my coat!
If you could only break out of your little, and very noisy echo chamber you’d be able to very easily avail yourself of the facts about Putin and his regime
But people don’t want to, so its your problem not mine, oh and don’t encourage Corbyn to act like a tin pot version of Putin, Corbyn is bad enough as it is!
But since we’re dealing with confirmation bias here’s mine,try this beauty of an article its called,
‘Twelve reasons why Russia sucks’ by James Sunderland…enjoy😂
If you’re putting this stuff up as evidence C, I’ll take that as a ‘no’ to my request for the real thing, and assume that you’re not going to be serious about it. And yes, I did read the ridiculous Sunderland piece.
Strike one! Two more goes, and if they’re both as useless as your first effort, I’ll put you on my dade list: the posters whose names mean that I always just skip their inputs unread. Life’s too short to use any of it up on time-wasters.
DR. DADE, btw, acronyms the phrase: ‘Don’t Read. Don’t Answer, Don’t Engage: This practical surfer’s response to slagging time-wasters.
Over to you, sunshine! Let’s see your last couple of efforts before – as I suspect already – I have to drown you in Dr. Dade’s specific. :O)
Ooooh ‘DR DADE’ book me in for therapy! I couldn’t care less frankly,strike me out As for the link i did say it was confirmation bias did i not? and it did obviously have the effect i knew it would! But if you look at the 85 comments to said article you’ll become aware of a simple fact, most people, including Russians absolutely agree! now heres a little factoid according to a recent survey in Russia about 44% of young Russians would like to leave,WOW! i wonder why? The clue follows,see bellow,,wink,wink! Other recent surveys of those who’ve left said they absolutely wouldn’t want to go back, the reason, that fabulous chap Putin! RT International,you know that fantastic propaganda channel, question more and all of that, as long as its not about Russia, also has a documentary channel, i don’t know if you’ve ever watched it? But if you have… Read more »
‘Byeeeee C!
Crispy?Is that because your brain is fried?