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Let Refugees Settle Italy’s Empty Spaces
NY Times ^ | November 4, 2015 | Beppe Severgnini

Posted on 11/04/2015 1:02:22 PM PST by C19fan

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To: C19fan

The elites are starting to think of the prols as experimental rats. It may be guillotine time.


21 posted on 11/04/2015 1:26:33 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan

The Romans gave plots of land to soldiers that had served honorably. They didn’t give land to the Carthaginians other than to bury them.

Carthaginians delenda est!


22 posted on 11/04/2015 1:28:47 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Paladin2

Italy has empty spaces?

How about the more remote areas of the Italian Alps?

Hate to waste all that rolling countryside in Tuscany.

Sicily might be a good compromise. All the jihadists have to do is throw the Mafia out.


23 posted on 11/04/2015 1:29:14 PM PST by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: C19fan
The agrarian law introduced by Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BCE, which included the privatisation of the ager publicus, gave a great impetus to land division through centuriation.

For his reward, Gracchus was deemed a traitor to his class, as the lands in question were being quietly stolen by Roman hierarchy for their own use. Eventually Senator Gracchus was murdered by the Senate and condemned by the people, who later erected statues to him around Rome, leaving offerings to them as if to a god.

Today, Gracchite is an epithet used by white supremacists to label white aristocrats who they see as race traitors. Since the 1930s, they come down to such as FDR, Adlai Stevenson, Nelson Rockefeller, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Bill Gates, and the Kennedys.

24 posted on 11/04/2015 1:34:48 PM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: C19fan

The author compared the Muslim hordes to centurions who were rewarded after twenty years of hard work for the republic or the empire. A better comparison would be to the invading Goths (real ones, not sad pale kids at the mall) who sacked Rome.


25 posted on 11/04/2015 1:45:02 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: C19fan
The ancient Romans used to reward their legionnaires with plots of land, through a system known as “centuriation.” The Romans adopted the system in the fourth century B.C., when Rome was still a vibrant republic. But it lasted for hundreds of years, involving former servicemen from all over the empire.

And how did that work out for the Roman Empire in the end?

26 posted on 11/04/2015 1:45:40 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: glorgau

"It was here. The battlefield was here. The Carthaginians defending the city were attacked by three Roman Legions. Carthaginians were proud and brave but they couldn't hold. They were massacred. Arab women stripped them of their tunics and their swords and lances. The soldiers lay naked in the sun, two thousand years ago; and I was here."

27 posted on 11/04/2015 1:47:36 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: FreeReign

..how about kicking out all the Sicilians and setting the migrants in Italy.

We could at least let them settle it mano a mano.


28 posted on 11/04/2015 1:48:55 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: samtheman

You’re right.

There is no temperature lower than absolute zero. This type of concept does not appply to a liberal. It’s like they are not 2-digit, or 1-digit IQs. It’s like they are into 3-digit negative IQs.


29 posted on 11/04/2015 1:50:55 PM PST by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: C19fan

Why not those empty cities in China?


30 posted on 11/04/2015 1:51:02 PM PST by OLDCU
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To: C19fan

This lunacy is all over the place lately.

I guess its a good thing that leftists are letting the mask drop and people can see clearly what they have in store for all of the rest of us.


31 posted on 11/04/2015 2:07:27 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Uncle Miltie

Exactly!


32 posted on 11/04/2015 2:09:12 PM PST by caww
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To: Paladin2

***Jihadis have NO interest in farming, nor in settling down.***

People who consider themselves WARRIORS disdain becoming farmers.


33 posted on 11/04/2015 2:23:06 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: C19fan

Is this dipwads home open to jihadists?


34 posted on 11/04/2015 2:48:19 PM PST by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: C19fan

There’s plenty of ‘empty’ spaces in the New York Times building - why don’t the elite liberals move some of these people into THEIR offices?

Oh, and they can support them too.


35 posted on 11/04/2015 3:40:38 PM PST by GOPJ (policy debates rather then journalists clowns posturing and mugging for their fellow journalistsMNJ.)
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To: FreeReign

OMW! What is that small mammal attacking his head?


36 posted on 11/04/2015 4:00:43 PM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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OMW! What is that small mammal attacking his head?


37 posted on 11/04/2015 4:00:44 PM PST by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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To: C19fan

Yeah, let’s destroy Italy.


38 posted on 11/04/2015 4:01:30 PM PST by riri (Obama's Amerika--Not a fun place.)
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To: C19fan

What about the empty spaces in, say, Saudi Arabia?


39 posted on 11/04/2015 4:05:13 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: C19fan

I hear Vesuvius has some space available!


40 posted on 11/04/2015 6:20:54 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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