Law and Order "The Coventry" (pizzagate)

submitted ago by gamepwn

http://lawandorder.wikia.com/wiki/The_Coventry?file=Dr_Huang_explains_Coventry.jpg

"The Coventry is a supposed organization that avenges pedophiles against victims who dare to name them to the police. Its name is invoked by pedophiles to silence their victims; if the victim threatens to go to the police or tell their parents, the pedophile claims that if the victim talks, the Coventry will kill them and their family. The victims - scared, impressionable children - almost always believe it."

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IIJOSEPHXII ago

Coventry was heavily firebombed by the Nazis in world war 2. It was the worst posting for firemen and conscientious objectors who wouldn't fight were put in the fire service and sent to Coventry. The term "sent to Coventry" passed into the vocabulary after the war to describe anyone who had been ostracised from a group or at a workplace.

Not saying that is where this comes from, but the threat of being sent to Coventry is often used to control dissenters.

subreddit_llama ago

Being "Sent to Coventry" is much older. During the English Civil War in the 1640s, Roundhead (Royalist) POWs were sent to Coventry, which was a Parliamentarian stronghold. They were pariahs and none of the locals would even acknowledge them. People would just ignore them - they were non-people. Being sent to Coventry is when nobody will talk to you, work with you, help you or acknowledge you. Seems quite similar what happened to many of their victims who tried to speak out.