67 BC - The tribune A. Gabinius passes his lex Gabinia. This gives a command to Gn. Pompeius Magnus, who is given unlimited imperium on water to fight against the growing pirate menace.
The Muslim menace is the 21st century equivalent of the pirate menace, is it not?
That was the beginning of the end of the Roman Republic, before it plunged into civil war from which Octavian emerged as the first Roman Emperor. From a liberty-loving people who hated kings the Romans eventually became a people who practised emperor-worship. Proof that a people who prefer security over liberty will eventually deserve neither.
If only we could all join together and extricate ourselves out of the disaster and dishonor of the wars that being America's poodle has involved us in.
But Cameron voted *for* the war and twisted the arms of the Tory front bench to do the same. He agreed with virtually everything New Labour did. He only said he would implement New Labour policies better than New Labour itself. And the Tories swallowed all that: hook, line and sinker.
The taste for military adventurism started with Blair over Bosnia. Its success whetted his appetite for military adventures.
Thatcher only got back what was snatched from Britain.
And now we have it: a Conservative government being more socialist than a socialist government and a socialist government led by a warmonger, getting away with it because people only go by labels and never look inside the package to examine the ingredients, too slow-witted to notice that the labels had been switched ...
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