Posted on 07/16/2018 12:40:14 PM PDT by davikkm
After Caesar Augustus gained complete control in 27 B.C. and became the first Roman Emperor, he established the Praetorian Guard for his personal protection. Over the next three centuries, the Guard exploited its nexus to the seat of power for its own interest and aggrandizement. Most notably, the Praetorians schemed and interfered with Roman politics to the point of overthrowing emperors and proclaiming their successors.
In 193 A.D., Emperor Septimius Severus tried to disband the Praetorian Guard, but his reorganization of the Guard did not last as it regained power after his death. In 306 A.D., amidst turmoil among a tetrarchy of Roman emperors, the Praetorians turned to Maxentius and proclaimed him their emperor. In 312 A.D., Constantine the Great defeated Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge to gain control of the Western Roman Empire. After the death of Maxentius at the battle, Constantine put an end to the Praetorian Guard by destroying their barracks and dispatching their soldiers to the outskirts of the Roman Empire.
Flash forward to the early 21st century in the U.S. and we see a replay of this sordid Roman history repeating itself with the modern-day Praetorian Guard that holds sway within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to the 2016 presidential election, FBI and DOJ leaders sought to influence the election by favoring one presidential candidate (Hillary Clinton) and undermining her opponent (Donald Trump). They were so sure Clinton would be elected that they clumsily perverted justice to ensure that outcome.
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The FBI and DOJ need to be raided by forces loyal to President Trump. Sessions, Rosenstein, Mueller are enemies of America need to be taken into custody and spend their days listening to scaffolds being built outside their jail cells.
We can hope that a good house cleaning is going to happen and people are going to serve time.
The FBI and DOJ Praetorian Guard – The Beginning of the End.
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Good article. Good comparison. My memory is fuzzy at the moment. 20th century history eludes me for the time being.
But the USSR during its communist heydays and of course Hitler and the Nazis also had the equivalent of our modern day FBI/CIA.
Yep...P-guard and immigrants...Death knoll for any Republic...
Sorry but Sessions is no Constantine. BTW by 320 AD the Roman Empire was in severe trouble. It was no longer expanding and it was finding it very difficult to raise the revenue and the recruits to maintain the army. Constantine’s conversion had a practical and opportune aspect. Christians who were beginning to dominate the Italian peninsula viewed the Roman army as an instrument of terror, corruption and oppression. Most would not voluntarily serve in an institution they viewed as evil. By embracing Christianity, the Emperor Constantine lost no power and hoped to gain support for his government and army.
Any move against the swamp and the commie left will howl like banshees… But that's ok. I think it's about time we get this show on the road... Ether we're going to have a Constitutional Republic or we're not...!
Hitler had the SS and Stalin had the MKVD and earlier the Cheka.
Thanks.
We have domestic enemies like Comey, Sessions, and Brennan.
Hitler had his henchmen like Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Eichmann et al.
The Praetorians were an intelligence service.
Their main role was to collect information on threats to the emperor (ie. the state) and the people of Rome and politics.
No one would dare speak against them, both because of the secret information they controlled, their alliances, and the threat of being declared unpatriotic and in alliance with purported enemies
Sound familiar?
Not only did the Romans turn pussy but the barbarian tribes they had incorporated into the armies turned Christian.
Constantinople was the scene of many riots and killings of Christian vs Christian as obscure and arcane points of theological dispute and customs became the flash points for much of this discord.
Gibbon is great for his understanding and discussion in “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” which covers the era of Constantine and his successors.
The Good Guys in the rank and file would never let this happen. /s
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NKVD...they keep changing the names thinking the peasants will be fooled!
It will ever happen
In a well armed country like America the leftists will run out of secret policemen kicking in the doors of its citizens and the politicians who ordered such would have very short lifespans.
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