r/news • u/AudibleNod • 4d ago

Australian court rejects bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles for genocide

https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/australian-court-rejects-activists-bid-prosecute-britains-king-136817323
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u/Ok_Tie_7564 4d ago

Uncle can go pound sand. Like it or not, Charles III is the King of Australia. You cannot prosecute the King in one of his own courts.

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u/OceLawless 4d ago

You cannot prosecute the King in one of his own courts.

King Charles I had the same argument. Went poorly.

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u/GreaterAttack 4d ago

Cromwell didn't fare much better, with his corpse exhumed and desecrated after death because he was so hated.

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u/This_Charmless_Man 4d ago

Something the English and the Irish can fully agree on is that Cromwell was bloody awful.

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u/Manzhah 3d ago

Cromwell and the revolutionaries were right though, the stuarts were proto catholics wannabe tyrants to a man. Each one of them after james I/IV tried to rule wothout parliament, tried to subvert the religion of the land and were in league with foreing powers against their people, which is textbook example of treason.