{"id":2386,"date":"2014-01-20T14:39:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T19:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2023-08-07T18:56:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:56:44","slug":"23-deadly-detour-religious-persecution-the-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"23. Deadly Detour: Religious Persecution, the Police State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg231.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4041\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg23-1.png\" alt=\"To root out enemies of the state, Mary empowered the new High Commission (related to Star Chamber) with arbitrary discretion to do whatever it wanted. Secret informants, secret proceedings, the oath ex officio, and a growing number of torture warrants were used to extract confessions. Many refused, and demanded due process, only to be martyred.\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg23-1.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg23-1-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg23-1-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/pt04pg23-1-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/a>That would be the Smithfield &amp; Wesson Mk IV flamethrower, if I&#8217;m not mistaken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be the Smithfield &amp; Wesson Mk IV flamethrower, if I&#8217;m not mistaken&#8230; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-self-incrimination","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}