Has our government become so insensitive to corruption and out right theft of our freedoms that they are willing believe we the people are unaware of their intentions?
Does this short piece from the past have any revalance to what we see happening now with our leader and his progressive agenda? Is there really nothing new under the sun? Is history repeating itself?
You decide.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and writer who vainly tried to uphold republican principles in the final civil wars that destroyed the Roman …
Born: January 3, 106 BC, Arpinum, Rome
Died: December 7, 43 BC, Formia
And after he was executed Antony had his hands cut off and nailed to the senate wall where it stayed for years.
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