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To: Menehune56

Nah..more like Stalin or Mao....not even Hitler would ask people to do this and Hitler was nuts.


179 posted on 06/22/2012 5:35:52 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Yorlik803
You have to go back even farther...From the Roman historian Cassius Dio regarding Gaius Caligula Caesar

In order to provide him with funds, it had been voted earlier that all persons still living who had wished to leave anything to Tiberius should at their death bestow the same upon Gaius [Caligula] ; for, in order to appear to have the right to accept inheritances and receive such gifts in spite of the laws (inasmuch as he had at this time neither wife nor children), he caused a decree to be issued by the senate. 2 But at the time of which I am speaking he seized for himself, without any decree, absolutely all the property of those who had served as centurions and had after the triumph which his father celebrated left it somebody else than the emperor...For even if Gaius did permit some of the older people to live, yet by calling them his fathers, grandfathers, mothers, and grandmothers, he not only milked them while they lived but also inherited their property when they died.

Well he hasn't descended to outright confiscation and altering wills yet but it's only June.

208 posted on 06/23/2012 1:11:30 AM PDT by garbanzo (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine)
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