If we stop defending her, we lose!
The Roman Empire didn’t “fall,” it dissipated. The Roman Civilisation declined rather more precipitously 3 centuries later when the Moslems severed the trade links with the Levant and ended the supply of papyrus. Literacy declined rapidly and with it everything else.
It’s worth defending to continue to stand against BO and any other BO like that comes along.
Except they are not removed at all from our wealth, but your bigger point is 100% correct. THUS this: www.iCongressnow.com
Just like the capitol city in The Hunger Games.
Not exactly true. Italy was not taxed for a considerable time, but simple Roman citizenship did not exclude one from taxation. In fact, the main reason given, even at the time, for Caracalla's Edict giving citizenship to all free men of the Empire was to expose them to taxes non-Romans had previously not been liable to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Antoniniana
He was exempt from the possibility of torture, and could under certain circumstances appeal judicial rulings to the Emperor.
True, but always in theory. Under the Empire, anybody the Emperor wanted tortured was tortured.
Citizenship was given to all in 212. Even if we take the author's 410, that 200 years. A causing B doesn't seem particularly likely.
Good post. Very chilling to see it all laid out there.
Read City of God by Augustine.
The barbarians are at the gates of St. Louis. But we have a barbarian resident in the white hut.....so for now we’re screwed
What republic?
And what would you do instead?
BTTT for later read.
/to work
All the Western nations are in some form of decline. Some more so than others, but the self-loathing & collapse of the Western nation-state as we have known it is coming.