World’s Most
Powerful Roman Catholic
Special Forces Army Hits the Streets
of the USA
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The Two Republics
– Rome and America
A.T. Jones wrote his magnum
opus regarding the prophetic
parallels between Two Republics
– Rome and America. Today a host
of writers are joining in,
demonstrating the striking parallels
between the two republics. First,
both began as republics, but then
became empires. In ancient Rome, when
Julius Caesar, “the greatest
Roman, “ and his battle –
and weather hardened Thirteenth
Legion crossed the Rubicon, a small
stream in the Apennine mountains,
there was no turning back. It would
now be civil war, and the republic
became an empire with an emperor.
Today it is recognized that
·
America has a Imperial Presidency
·
is now waging pre-emptive war,
·
has resurrected torture,
·
is rapidly removing all freedoms in
the name of security with its PATRIOT
Acts while assuring the nation that
it is maintaining its ancient
freedoms,
·
is operating a Pax Americana
just as Rome operated its Pax
Romana,
·
is employing mercenary armies that
now outnumber by tens of thousands
the regular troops in Iraq, just as
Rome’s military changed from a
proud army of Romans to a paid
army of Barbarians,
·
has a de facto Praetorian Guard with
Blackwater, USA, and
·
has a presidency asserting the
Unitary Executive Theory, which
essentially gives the executive
branch unchecked authority, with the
legislative and judicial branches
serving as truncated advisors,
·
is running unchecked wiretapping and
comprehensive surveillance on its
citizens, just as Rome’s frumentarii
and agents in rebus, commonly
called the curiosi, who would
be soldiers posing as citizens who
would speak ill of Caesar,
encouraging the unwitting citizen to
speak his mind, and then lead him off
to prison in chains,
·
Both emperor and president became the
sole war-making power,
·
with a House and Senate lacking the
will to resist the takeover, just as
Rome’s Senate operated in fear,
·
is removing ancient freedoms from
English Common Law such as Habeas
Corpus, with the Military Commissions
Act of 2006,
·
has barbarians by the millions
swarming across its borders,
·
is sending its suspected enemies to
nations beyond the frontiers of
civilization, such as Uzbekistan to
be tortured,
·
assures it Senate and House and
national citizenry that the ancient
liberties are being maintained even
as they are massively being taken
away, just as in ancient Rome the
outward trappings of the Republic
would be maintained to the very end,
though Rome had become an imperial
state,
·
is privatizing its military,
intelligence, spying, and prisons,
just as Rome did,
·
is using its Halliburton and
Wackenhut, and Independent Military
Contractors to swell the ranks of its
military efforts just as Rome used
the Barbarians in similar fashion.
Just as in time of
crisis the Romans would vote to
empower a dictator to lead them out
of crisis, even so the Senate and
House have been voting dictatorial
powers to the Commander in Chief, who
is asserting these powers, and giving
executive orders granting to himself
dictatorial power in time of crisis.
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