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"American traitors: "Deterrence? Sorry, we are busy groveling and offering the necks of the American people so that WE might be taken .... last."

For some reason this brought to mind an old Greek folk story titled 'The Marmaromeno Basilia'(The Marble King) about the legendary Emperor Konstantinos Paleologos Dragatsis. As the story goes on May 29, 1453 the last great emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire vowed he would fight bravely to his death Muslim attacks upon the empire. Seeing the end is near, he threw off his purple royal cloak and lead fearlessly the few remaining men who could still fight in a last desperate attempt to push back the invaders, but the story says, he was taken away by Agios Georgos and the Archangel Gabriel right before he was killed. They brought him to the Golden Gate where they turned his body into marble with the promise that the day will arrive when Paleologos will come back to life and lead a victory against all their enemies and liberate Christian lands lost. In the song from above there is a verse that says "And about the Marble King, not even a word could be heard, but he is sung about as a fairy tale, told by the elders to the young." This is referring to the fact that after his death, Christian subjects under Muslim rule were forbidden to speak about the heroic Emperor Paleologo, if they did they were executed or put in prison because talking about him was seen as a form of rebellion. So Christians talked about their legendary king in code, making him into the character known as The Marble King and his legendary last stand into a folklore. It was in this form that his story was passed down from generation to generation his memory not forgotten but given hope to Christians from the Eastern Empire that they would be free once again .

But after reading this article it just makes me shake my head that after everything known about extremists, by their actions and history, there are still morons out there who won't think twice about appeasing them. On the one hand we have people who share the ideology of the legendary Emperor Paleologos about liberating lands lost and on the other have current world leaders want to give everything away. Amazing simply amazing.