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This article ran in my local MSM newspaper!! Talks about blow back, NDAA, and the gov't USING GUN CONTROL to turn on citizens!
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Flashback... [ link to www.nytimes.com] What is Caesarism? our readers will ask. It is neither more nor less than a revival, for the government of modern States, of the doctrines and practices of the Roman Empire in its later and worst stages -- in the days not simply of AUGUSTUS and MARCUS ANTONINUS, but of NERO, and TIBERIUS, and CALIGULA. It is, in short, an absolute and irresponsible despotism, which nods for the display of its powers, not barbarous tribes struggling feebly into civilization, but the highly cultivated, refined communities, like Rome of the second century or France of to-day; and it is the opinion of the "Caesarists" that it flourishes best on soil that has been previously prepared, like that of Rome, by democratic excesses, failures and
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