Posted on 02/20/2017 4:24:38 PM PST by HarleyLady27
In 49 B.C., Julius Caesar, governor of Gaul, and his legion forded the Rubicon, the dividing line between Gaul and Italy, and marched on Rome, thus declaring civil war.
Rome was the last of the free cities that had existed throughout the Mediterranean. They had vanished and finally only Rome, a republic, remained. Her people were free citizens of the republic, not subjects of a single ruler. The Roman Republic of a thousand years ended with Caesar’s invasion and the Roman Empire and rule of emperors – actually dictators – began.
The founders of our republic drew in part from the republican pillars of Rome as well as those of Athens and also from the Magna Carta in forming our country. They recognized the critical necessity of these and other imperatives to the construction and continuance of a democratic republic.
Donald Trump has crossed the Rubicon and has declared war on the republic of the United States. His goal is singular: disassemble our republic and remake it to his desire.
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It is absolutely sedition, and the use of "clear and present danger" is enough of a threat that Mr. Coda should, at a minimum, receive a visit from the Secret Service.
ESAD?
You forget who you are talking about. Barack Hussein would ES and smile.
Trump has crossed the Rubicon, come what may, come what may. He’ll see Americans free forever more! No more lying fake activist news.
1776 - William Daniels as John Adams sings “Does Anybody See What I See?” One of my favorites, which I sort of paraphrased above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNS7Blr8giI
You mean democrats can’t be reasoned with.
This is fake news I like.
The Concord needs to recheck their history. Julius C. was stabbed to death by his buddies before he could clean-up the place, and the Roman Empire was just getting started. It took 400 more years for the Roman Government to fall when Civil Service employees finally exceeded the number of tax payers.
By that time, in the West, the barbarians ran the place anyway, and the Seat of the Roman Empire had been moved by the Emperor Constantine to the rich Eastern Empire in the 4th century, calling the place Constantinople. Guess when the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire ended? In 1453 AD Constantinople fell to the Muslim Ottoman Turks. The Ottoman Empire finally fell in 1918 to the British during WWI after Islamizing much of Europe.
The Romans retained a cultural and political identity for nearly 2000 years after Julius Cesar.
The point? One man can only influence history. Only God can determine the future. By the way Constantine Was the first Christian Emperor,and officially was the the religion of the Roman Empire from that time on in history,until destroyed by Islam. Is there a pattern here? Only great movements produce great changes quickly. They produce individuals that seem bigger than life, and then fall to the universal coup of death.
The Concord needs to recheck their history. Julius C. was stabbed to death by his buddies before he could clean-up the place, and the Roman Empire was just getting started. It took 400 more years for the Roman Government to fall when Civil Service employees finally exceeded the number of tax payers.
By that time, in the West, the barbarians ran the place anyway, and the Seat of the Roman Empire had been moved by the Emperor Constantine to the rich Eastern Empire in the 4th century, calling the place Constantinople. Guess when the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire ended? In 1453 AD Constantinople fell to the Muslim Ottoman Turks. The Ottoman Empire finally fell in 1918 to the British during WWI after Islamizing much of Europe.
The Romans retained a cultural and political identity for nearly 2000 years after Julius Cesar.
The point? One man can only influence history. Only God can determine the future. By the way Constantine Was the first Christian Emperor,and officially was the the religion of the Roman Empire from that time on in history,until destroyed by Islam. Is there a pattern here? Only great movements produce great changes quickly. They produce individuals that seem bigger than life, and then fall to the universal coup of death.
Et tu Brutus? It didn’t end well for the conspirators the first time around and it will not this time either.
>The Romans retained a cultural and political identity for nearly 2000 years after Julius Cesar.
It’s likely that they had Julius Cesar to thank for the longevity of the empire. Roman was headed for division and destruction before he reformed the empire and more importantly named Octavius as his successor. And while he wasn’t the first emperor he was the man who set the new system into motion.
The thing that most people don’t know how generally short of a time that civilizations flourish. Most last just 200-250 years while Rome in the west lasted 500 years as a republic and another 400 or so as a huge empire. Even longer if you include the eastern empire. By contrast there’s never been a Chinese dynasty that lasted longer than 300 years.
If you do not believe that why do you think farmers hire so many Illegals? I am not a liberal but that is an absolute fact. I Live in farming territory and they bus them in every year. WAKE UP.
As far as the Concord Monitor is concerned, they have proven to be a leftist rag for a long time.
I agree. If we didn't have so much snow we could spread it in the fields to help the hay grow.
Please don't blame the rest of us in New Hampshire for the nitwit who wrote it.
The period of the Kings lasted until approx 500 BC. So, that would be the earliest start of a republic with a logevity of 450 or so years.
The transition into empire was a bloody 20 year period of civil war.
The guy who wrote this sounds like Peewee Herman on LSD.
The founding of Rome is commonly held to be 750 BC or thereabouts. The author screws up his math in the first paragraph.
HHAHAHAHHA.. thanks HL27
Of COURSE he is the enemy.. to the left, the media, the globalists..
Haha. Trump broke his brain.
If he doesn’t know Roman history, then why should we listen to him? Rome was only 500 years old when Caesar brought his army with him. Caesar was a populist. And the civil war started because the rich elites cooked up a story he was planning to be king so they had an excuse to kill him.
“His goal is singular: disassemble our republic and remake it to his desire.”
When bureaucratic squatters come on to your property and build a squalid shanty town of stultifying regulations, you don’t talk about what color paint would make the shanties look more presentable, you evict the denizens and then bull-doze the whole mess flat.
The Rubicon WAS NOT the dividing line between Rome and Gaul. The Rubicon has always been entirely within Italy, the northern side just happened to be occupied by Gauls during the time of Caesar. But it was no more Gaul than East LA today is Mexico.
Despite that, there’s less wrong with his lead than with the rest of the story. I won’t dignify it by calling it an “article.” “Story” is more apropos.
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