forsharry, part of the problem may have been that the URL was not "clickable."
Always be sure to put a space after the last letter/number in an URL or use the enter key, then readers can just click on it and go to the item. In your post they would have had to copy and paste it into the Address.
It is a good story, and eerily close to what would happen without the secular authority holding back the elders.
Blondie