[Always A Marine]

I’m betting on history. The Praetorian Guard and Senators did in Caligula and Julius Caesar.

I'm betting on a different history -- The Burning of the Reichstag in 1933.

The smell of a major set up is in the air! Our own National Socialist president is flailing politically, and he desperately needs a crisis to change the focus and to quell dissent. All of a sudden we are hearing a steady drumbeat of warnings about a new threat of "right wing" and/or "racist" domestic terror groups. Why?

This is the perfect time for agents provocateur to do (or even just attempt) something horrible -- and blame it on us! In the aftermath, touching photos of firefighters cradling young victims will turn public opinion against "right wing hate speech" and a wave of manufactured revulsion will lend tacit approval to "emergency measures" to crack down on remaining political dissent. Then, we will be outlaws.

This is Mob Politics, folks. You heard it here...

[bert]

.....This is Mob Politics, folks......

I can agree with your version of history as precedent.