Posted on 07/11/2014 3:38:23 AM PDT by markomalley
As is often bemoaned by scholars, genuine classical education in American schools is virtually non-existent. Whereas 100 years ago, university students learned Greek and Latin, today, remedial math and English instruction is the norm.
Yet, if people had a glimpse of Solon who lived approximately from 640-560 BCE, they would take to heart his warning about the "Signs of Dictatorship."
The power of hail and snow springs from a cloud,
and thunder from the fire of lightning.
Strong men destroy a city, and a tyrant
enslaves a people through their ignorance.
A ship once out of port is hard to capture:
know this now before it is too late.
Near the end of his life, Solon warned the citizens that Peisistratus, the general in the final war for Salamis and leader of northeastern Attica, was becoming tyrannical. Yet Solon's warnings were ignored -- in fact, the people dismissed them as the ravings of a madman. Solon responded with "[a] little time will show the citizens my madness. Yes, will show, when truth comes in our midst." And, indeed, he was proven correct when Peisistratus did show his true tyrannical colors.
Barack Hussein Obama consistently flouts American law, disregards the separation of powers, and seemingly could not care less about the swirling scandals surrounding him. As of May 2014 there have been 23 executive alterations of Obama's own Affordable Care Act. Chris Conover at Forbes highlights the egregious and unilateral changes to Obamacare when he explains that "[t]he Constitution and its carefully crafted system of checks and balances matters. If President Obama disagrees with a statutory provision enacted into law (and that he signed!), the proper course of action is to go back to Congress and get the law changed."
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How kind of you to call him by his first (albeit misspelled) name. Though the ‘q’ does give it a certain extra islamofascist feel.
‘zer0 ‘usually works for me or POSOTUS. But while addressing lefties I usually call him Barry Soetoro... It makes them nuts.
I agree with you. We can put nothing past this Evil man.
Democrat dictator wannabees are working from a plan... our side is whistling past the graveyard...
“The difference is that our Tyrant will be out of office in a couple of years”
Or less. :-)
Yet the cry goes unheeded once again. To even speak of him being a tyrant is politically incorrect. Remember, it was the Clintons, who once in office stated that only politically correct speech would be the norm, and since it is the left that has defined what that exactly is. We are cowed into compliance.
Wonder what other pre planned and paid for crisis’s are to come?
The q gives him his proper due.
He earned that.
“Trickle Down Tyranny, his signature practice which employs thousand of local tyrants to sow his Saul Alinsky practices everywhere, will begin to fade away.”
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I cannot imagine why you say that, I have seen freedom steadily erode for the seventy years I have lived, during that time the ratchet has only worked in one direction, toward ever increasing tyranny. What reason is there to believe that will change just because the current resident leaves office?
I’ve been wanting to do that full-page ad throughout the civilized world for about six years.
“We don’t like him either.”
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