Speaking Tudor - Hugh
(Recap) Amazing News! Modern science has developed the ability to bring people from the past to our time. It's a huge secret, of course, but I have discovered the method and brought four characters from HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER to 2010. In the coming weeks, you'll hear what they have to say about our time, their time, the best of times, and the worst of times.
Hugh Bellows here. I serve His Majesty, Henry Eight, and I will say from the start that your time is not for me. Folk today are soft and there is no clear sense of right and wrong. At the risk of offending, I will explain. At least a man is free to speak his mind in 2010 and will not be branded for it.
You have made an industry of dealing with criminals: police forces, attorneys, judges, courts, parole officers, bailbondsmen, social workers, and many more. Even your entertainment device, the t-and-v, is besotted with why criminals do what they do and what happens to them "in the system". You watch a killer do terrible things and applaud his cleverness even as you look forward to his arrest. And then what? Often they are locked away, which is good, but why are they not put to death in some public event, to serve as an example for others?
I believe that this fascination with crime began with the making and selling of books. Before men could read, they listened to their sovereign, who told them what the law would be. When books and papers and such became plentiful throughout the land, men began to think they could decide for themselves what a law should be. Now the law is a stew of all men's views and opinions, and as such, its purpose is blunted.
I say let your leader, the one you call President, say who will live and who will die. He will make mistakes, to be sure, but many men make many mistakes, or fail to act altogether. Which is worse?
Hugh Bellows here. I serve His Majesty, Henry Eight, and I will say from the start that your time is not for me. Folk today are soft and there is no clear sense of right and wrong. At the risk of offending, I will explain. At least a man is free to speak his mind in 2010 and will not be branded for it.
You have made an industry of dealing with criminals: police forces, attorneys, judges, courts, parole officers, bailbondsmen, social workers, and many more. Even your entertainment device, the t-and-v, is besotted with why criminals do what they do and what happens to them "in the system". You watch a killer do terrible things and applaud his cleverness even as you look forward to his arrest. And then what? Often they are locked away, which is good, but why are they not put to death in some public event, to serve as an example for others?
I believe that this fascination with crime began with the making and selling of books. Before men could read, they listened to their sovereign, who told them what the law would be. When books and papers and such became plentiful throughout the land, men began to think they could decide for themselves what a law should be. Now the law is a stew of all men's views and opinions, and as such, its purpose is blunted.
I say let your leader, the one you call President, say who will live and who will die. He will make mistakes, to be sure, but many men make many mistakes, or fail to act altogether. Which is worse?
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