It's the DEMONcrap Party that carries on! They impale your wallets and draw out all the bucks!
Posted on 10/12/2011 8:40:59 AM PDT by decimon
Long before Bram Stoker’s literary Dracula sparked a century-long, global obsession with vampires – both the torturing and tortured variety – a lavishly mustachioed Wallachian prince by the name of Vlad Dracula (r 1448, 1456-1462 and 1476) was making a name for himself by heroically repelling successive waves of Ottoman invaders.
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However, Dracula famously earned the post-mortem moniker “Ţepeş” (impaler) from his preferred form of execution: skewering. A wooden stake was carefully driven through the victim’s buttocks, emerging just below the shoulders. This diabolical method ingeniously (ie, cruelly) spared all the vital organs, meaning that the now writhing victim faced at least 48 hours of unimaginable suffering before death.
To be fair to poor Dracula, skewering defeated enemies was not unusual in medieval Europe. Vlad’s first cousin, Ştefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great), is said to have “impaled by the navel, diagonally, one on top of each other” 2,300 Turkish prisoners in 1473. And they sainted him!
Dracula’s legend as wily Ottoman scourge and bloodthirsty combatant was sealed in the spring of 1462 when, after repeated failed attempts to conquer the rebellious prince, an increasingly impatient Sultan Mehmed II raised and personally led an army of 90,000 troops into Wallachia. The momentum and morale of this impressive siege took a serious hit when they stumbled upon a bit of Dracula’s handiwork: a literal forest of stakes adorned with 20,000 men from Mehmed’s previous Ottoman army. Ţepeş’ forces, using disguises and guerrilla tactics, picked away at the Sultan’s demoralized forces, including a daring but unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Sultan himself, for months before they ultimately retreated.
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Dracula couldn’t have been all bad. He was doing this to muzzies.
BBC—blood suckers reporting on blood suckers.
Vlad demonstrated you can terrify and put the fear of God into a Muslim. All you have to do is impale 20,000 or so...
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oh sorry, i thought this was an ann coulter thread.
my bad.
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It's the DEMONcrap Party that carries on! They impale your wallets and draw out all the bucks!
true. and thanks to people like Vlad, the Islamic conquest of Europe, was delayed for over 500 years.
and 20,000 is still puny, compared to the 70 million Hindu and Buddhist victims of Islam, or the 115 million African victims.
Even communism is still in 2nd place to Islam, for death.
There was a good movie in the USA Network about “the true story of Dracula”.
Vlad the Impaler kicked some major jihadi butt!
Actually the Leftists have murdered close to 200 million people during the 20th century. The Leftists, secular, humanist age really took off with the French Revolution in 1789. Add more lives lost to the Left during the 19th century but I don’t have a number I can cite.
Actually, Vlad was an equal opportunity impaler.
He impaled domestic political opponents, German settlers in Transylvania and others. His primary opponents were the Turks, so he killed more of them.
Vlad was probably just as bad for his people as the Turks, but his solution to keeping the Koranimals out of his country worked.
Story has it he got the idea from being captured as a boy by the Turks himself, and you know what they do do boys.
I wonder if Sun Tzu would approve of Vlad’s methods?
do do = do to
I believe old Vlad had the turbans nailed to their heads to “strengthen their beliefs.” Then there’s the time the local folks were complaining about the beggars. Vlad invited them all to a great banquet then locked them in and set fire to the building.
Good times, good times...
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