Sultan: I’m releasing you because your king is so cool

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Based Frederick the Great quote

  The judicial colleges in all provinces may only be guided by this, and if they do not go straight through with justice without regard to person and rank, but set aside natural equity, they shall have to deal with HRH. For a judicial college that practices injustice is more dangerous and worse than a gang of thieves, from whom one can protect oneself, but from rogues who use the cloak of justice to carry out their evil passions, from these no man can beware. They are worse than the biggest scoundrels in the world and deserve a double punishment.

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• hexabs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Context?

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  • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Arnold_case

    The Miller Arnold case (German: Müller-Arnold-Fall) is a landmark 18th-century German court case and cause célèbre during the reign of Frederick II that raised issues relating to the concept of judicial independence. It is an example of the Kabinettsjustiz [de] (transl. cabinet justice) of Frederick II, as he personally intervened in a case which had already been adjudicated by the Prussian courts.[1]

    The case is named after the miller Christian Arnold who, together with his wife Rosine, pursued justice for an alleged upstream diversion of the water supply to his mill by a nobleman that rendered the mill inoperable. They lost all court cases that considered the matter, but when the couple turned to Frederick II, the king inter alia quashed the decisions of the Prussian courts, imprisoned some of the deciding judges, dismissed Maximilian von Fürst und Kupferberg [de], a leading figure in the administration of justice, and restored the mill and its water supply to the Arnolds.

    Outside of Prussia the interventions by the king were received positively. They were considered to be as an example of a just ruler that sided with the commoners against nobility. Catherine the Great is said to have called the king “Solomon of the North"[22][25] and sent to her senate a copy of the king’s protocol dated 11 December 1779.[26] Furthermore, it is claimed, that the Sultan of Morocco (probably Hassan I of Morocco) had all Prussian prisoners from his jails released without the usual ransom payment after he learned of the affair.[22] The Italian engraver Vincenzio Vangelisti positively immortalised the case and the king’s interventions with his copperplate etching “Balance de Frederic”.[26]

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  • Klear@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s it obvious? It couldn’t end in any other way.

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